Does Bretonia perform Conscription?

[jammi]

The militias are ground-based on Leeds. All space ships are part of the regular military.

Surely some patriotic and quickly trained civilian pilots could be organized into a scout wing?

See Bowex. We've been using our ExSec and Clydesdale wings as a Bretonian militia. We've been having a good rate of success, working throughout Bretonia and on the shipping lanes between Houses. The RP of a corporate militia is actually really fun, and makes sense seeing as we're a nationalised corporation with a large private security force.

Also, conscription was discussed in the Bretonian Parliament when players still posted in it, and overturned by a large majority. Conscription really wouldn't do much good, seeing as it'd be the same as trying to conscript fighter-jet pilots today - it takes too long and it's too expensive to conscript a normal guy to fly a ship.

On the other hand, it would make sense if all eligible Bretonian citizens with flight experience were drafted into the BAF. Of course, protected trades would be exempt from this - nationalised groups such as BMM and Bowex - perhaps Planetform too. Only problem with this would be the huge adverse affect this could have on groups like IMG and Gateway, seeing as all their Bretonian escorts would get conscripted. Not really ideal, from a fairplay point of view.

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