The Sirius Revolutionary Voice (Also known as The Mensheviks)

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K, about the sleeper ships:

The Alliance, knowing that they were doomed to lose to the Coalition, built five sleeper ships to continue humanity elsewhere. These were the Liberty, Bretonia, Kusari, Rheinland, and Hispania. The French were pissed that they didn't get a sleeper ship (in no small part because their navy had just been crushed), and constructed the Gallia in secret. The Five were launched, with the Gallia following them shortly thereafter. Not long after the Gallia left Sol, a breed of Nomads (not necessarily Sirius Nomads) arrived and destroyed the entire star system. I don't remember exactly where the two Colonial Remnant sleeper ships fit in, but they were prototype ships sent before any of the others.

All vanilla lore except for one little piece indicates that there were only five sleeper ships (the four original houses plus the Hispania). This fits in with how the Colonial Remnant had not yet arrived, nor had Gallia revealed itself. The -only- thing that said there were more sleeper ships was one little rumor from the bartender on Malta. That one said that there were eight ships, and that three were damaged.

Think about that for a second. A bartender on Malta knows the events 800 years ago when the word "Coalition" didn't mean anything to 99% of everyone. In my discussions with Praetyre, we concluded that the chances of him not just pulling your leg in an effort to get you to buy drinks were very small. Even if there -were- eight sleeper ships (which there now are) he would have no way of knowing about them that would not be indicated outside his one little rumor.

I'd also like to point out that the Coalition at large did not know about the Sleeper Ships in time to do much. Their field agents managed to infiltrate them, but a large-scale infiltration would be out of the question. A few Menshevik-leaning spies might have gotten on the ships (or replaced people scheduled to be on them- remember, everyone had a cryo-tube, it wasn't like a refugee boat or anything), but not many. Plus, they would only have been able to infiltrate the main five or possibly the Gallia- the other two may have left before the Coalition-Alliance war (check the CR lore). If they did infiltrate the Gallia, that would certainly explain why they're just appearing now- they would have hung out with Council until the way was cleared, at which point they would attempt to rejoin with the SCRA (who ever so conveniently sent an envoy to Council just a few weeks ago) and the remaining Coalition forces in Sirius.

Keep working at it, and feel free to ask questions. I do wonder what the SCRA think of this, though...

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