I already know that the Alliance Defence Force Council of Admirals is a 6 member committee representing the 6 largest navies in the Alliance. Is there any canon establishing which systems own those six navies?
Alliance Council of Admirals
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Good Question.
Alioth would have to be one founding system of the Alliance.
Gateway (Oltiqu in the old names) was one of the first to join the Alliance.
Indaol and Olgrea and Holiacan are also in the first batch of systems that joined the Alliance when Mic Turner was alive.
So that's 5 systems that are highly likely to be on the council.
In Mic Turner's day up to when he was killed by INRA in the Pleiades - the Alliance was only 30 systems, but I don't know that there is a list of which systems we're in.
By the start of 3300 we had 174, and we now rule more than 800.
If anyone has a credible source of info on the Council of Admirals, I'd like to add it to the Alliance history thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/365538-A-history-of-the-Alliance-from-in-game-sources
Alioth would have to be one founding system of the Alliance.
Gateway (Oltiqu in the old names) was one of the first to join the Alliance.
Indaol and Olgrea and Holiacan are also in the first batch of systems that joined the Alliance when Mic Turner was alive.
So that's 5 systems that are highly likely to be on the council.
In Mic Turner's day up to when he was killed by INRA in the Pleiades - the Alliance was only 30 systems, but I don't know that there is a list of which systems we're in.
By the start of 3300 we had 174, and we now rule more than 800.
If anyone has a credible source of info on the Council of Admirals, I'd like to add it to the Alliance history thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/365538-A-history-of-the-Alliance-from-in-game-sources
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I've always had the idea one of the Lave Cluster systems had a large enough population to rate an admiral on the council, possibly Leesti (5 billion), Zaonce (5.3 billion), or Lave itself (25 billion), but until they release some more info we'll never know.
I actually looked into this because I wanted to add it into my Alliance head canon I wrote up once: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/390195-A-Galpedia-Article-The-Alliance-Defence-Force
One does not rule over the Alliance. One suggests, one coordinates, one might even preside over a gathering of Alliance members. But to attempt to 'rule' over the Alliance... that would be like trying to 'rule' over a massive herd of hungry kittens tripping on catnip and onionhead.
Well, if population where an indicator of sizes of militaries where one might pull an admiral from, the 6 largest systems in the Alliance are:
-Lave
-He Bo
-G 123-16
-Alioth
-Esien Ming
-Vamm
All larger than 10 billion, and both Lave and He Bo have more than 20 billion. Other systems larger than 10 billion are LTT 13125, 78 Ursae Majoris, and Mullag.
-Lave
-He Bo
-G 123-16
-Alioth
-Esien Ming
-Vamm
All larger than 10 billion, and both Lave and He Bo have more than 20 billion. Other systems larger than 10 billion are LTT 13125, 78 Ursae Majoris, and Mullag.
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78 Ursae Majoris would be a pretty good call.
There was a lot of early action in 3300 there. I don't have details to hand, but there was some sort of war that AEDC and others of the Alliance helped swing.
Dunno about Mullag - I might be wrong here, but I think it's a bit of a "bandwagon" system. You know Leesti was brought into Aliance PowerPlay as a control system in Week 3 - but Mullag was much later.
So Leesti or Lave should be on the council. Definitely one of the Old Worlds systems needs a rep. AEDC and others have been pushing "Old Worlds for the Alliance" for a long time. It's been a project since the BGS went live in late 3299. In fact the AEDC home system Wolf 406 was chosen because it is strategically positioned between the Old Worlds and the Gateway-Alioth Alliance heartland. I hesitate to say "Lave on council" despite the population base, because of the whole Lave Radio Network debacle. LRN are an INDY organisation - not Alliance - so when they tried to take over Lave, they were strongly opposed by a number of Alliance groups, but they were also defended by other important Alliance groups too.
It actually caused a big rift in the Alliance CMDR base. Lots of forum noise.
Even CMDR Saool and I (who are reasonably good buddies) ended up on opposite sides of the fence and exchanged hot words.
It's funny how that perception continues to propagate.
To me the Alliance is very much like the Alliance CMDR base.
They can be fractious, divided into factions, each pushing their own agenda, suspicious of the motives of others Alliance groups.
But the 'disorganised hippies' is so far from the truth.
The Alliance groups are the most efficient, well organised, well resourced, well led organisations you will find anywhere.
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Would never be so gauche as to call them "disorganized hippies". Or even "hippies", for that matter. Indeed, many of the systems are highly efficient at the local level - which is the point.