But why is there need to (yet another) organization -with its extra helping of funding and bureaucrats- like NATTO? Great Justice is already is supposed to be the unified armed forces, with ships and men drawn from the factions; likewise with the Space Patrol and law enforcement.
They may be inefficient for the fenspace of 2022, but I would think that the most logical thing would be to increase their efficency, or even compeltely rework its srtucture, and not create a second organization, which on the surface is identical to GJ, to draw twice the resources.
A full demilitarization is not a good idea anyway; as happened with the Jenga catgirls, the post war period would have left a big percentage of groups unwilling to be unprotected -for good reasons, for paranoia, and for a combination ofthe two. But an alliance where the capacity of violence is on the hands of only a few select factions -and the more paranoid ones of the lot- is a recipe for disaster ont he long range. So the Convention, in the post war years, should have a very high priority on solving this matter. They need to find a balance between the freedons than are the heart of fenspace, the needs for defense, and the needs for a central control of the weapons.
This probably was the main topic in the first post war Con, Alphacon, but such a complex matter would not be settled so fast -for starters, every faction is going to have a very different view on the proper balance of power and military needs- so it will remain a hot topic for years. There is a reason the USA constitution took thirteen years of debates until it went into effect -and needed 27 amendments in the two centuries since.
They may be inefficient for the fenspace of 2022, but I would think that the most logical thing would be to increase their efficency, or even compeltely rework its srtucture, and not create a second organization, which on the surface is identical to GJ, to draw twice the resources.
A full demilitarization is not a good idea anyway; as happened with the Jenga catgirls, the post war period would have left a big percentage of groups unwilling to be unprotected -for good reasons, for paranoia, and for a combination ofthe two. But an alliance where the capacity of violence is on the hands of only a few select factions -and the more paranoid ones of the lot- is a recipe for disaster ont he long range. So the Convention, in the post war years, should have a very high priority on solving this matter. They need to find a balance between the freedons than are the heart of fenspace, the needs for defense, and the needs for a central control of the weapons.
This probably was the main topic in the first post war Con, Alphacon, but such a complex matter would not be settled so fast -for starters, every faction is going to have a very different view on the proper balance of power and military needs- so it will remain a hot topic for years. There is a reason the USA constitution took thirteen years of debates until it went into effect -and needed 27 amendments in the two centuries since.