Spacefleet Enlisted

Looking for some explanation here. Many things in Star Frontiers were presented with an air of atmosphere and not a basis in fact. One of these areas I feel is most abused is the description of SpaceFleet Enlisted.<br /><br /><font size="2" face="TTE1C1D9C0t00"><font size="2" face="TTE1C1D9C0t00"><p align="LEFT">Although the officers of the Spacefleet represent some of the finest individuals in the Frontier, the same cannot be said for the crews of Spacefleet ships. The enlisted members of the fleet come from all walks of life. The fleet always is short of crew members, so the requirements for enlistment are not rigorous. No checking is done regarding a crew member's background or abilities; consequently, a</p>
<p align="LEFT">great amount of galactic riffraff has found a home in the crew's quarters of Spacefleet vessels.<br /><br /><font size="3">Now here is some guess work. Looking at the order of battle there were initially 47 ships (fighters and Militia not included) in Spacefleet in the First Sathar War. Roughly yielding a total of 2950 crew. Using 10% as officers we have 2655 enlisted now multiplying by 100 to cover space stations and ground crews and recruiters and administrative and logistics we have 265,500 enlisted members in Spacefleet (roughly).<br /><br />While a large number when looked at against the 16 inhabited systems and multiple planets this is less than .001 percent of the population (again very rough guess). <br /><br />So the question is how bad a reputation must Spacefleet have if they can only get the &quot;riffraff&quot; to jion?</font></p></font></font>