Duke Craig
SOC-12
Hi guys,
Check out this background information for the military in SM, Enjoy!
What is the cost of Military Units in Resource Units? (From T4 (I havn’t checked if T4 RU are the same as T5 RU))
If one Imperial Trooper costs Imperial Cr 150,000 to train, equip and deploy per year (Assumption)
Thus a 42 troop platoon costs 6.3MCr per year,
Thus a 125 troop company costs MCr 18.75 – 18.99 per year.
Incidently the 125 man company probably has around 225 total personnel and around 400-600 including spouses and dependants and various non-military contractors. So round out to 20MCr.
Thus a 625 man battalion costs MCr 93.75 -94.5 p.a. (close enough to 100 MCr)
One Resource Unit (T4 Pocket Empires)
Using Sylea Cr: 1 RU = 4919 MCr
52.05 battalions per Sylean Resource Unit
104 battalions per 2 Resource Units
Summarising 2 Resource Units buys:
ONE RU is 5,000 MCr in Year 0 (T4 Pocket Empires)
I think Pocket Empires is one of the best books in science fiction for fleshing out YTU.
I have used it to write a spreadsheet of the Spinward Marches to determine the amount of Resource Units created by each system economy in the Marches based on randomly generated resources, culture, infrastructure and population. This includes a dashboard to bring up any world in the marches on the front page and a dashboard on each page to quickly access each world in the subsector (INDIRECT is a very handy function in EXCEL once learned). However it is not canon so I’m not keen to share it.
It has shown some interesting things about the Marches which I’m happy to share.
First, The actual randomised populations of the Subsectors are often higher (or lower) than was estimated in Spinward Marches (CT). Some of the population values in the Spiward Marches (CT) are just plain wrong, for instance Trin’s Veil Estimated population = 111.3 billion (Spinward Marches CT). Actual Calculated Population = 38.6 billion.
Note that Actual Calculated Populations are only for the main world in the system, not including secondary worlds.
Second, the relative wealth of the subsectors of the Marches
Subsectors: Spinward Marches
Name Worlds Est Pop (billions) Actual Pop SRU
Chronor 24 3.682 9.5902E+09 5097.152
Querion 21 11.12 2.6864E+10 33.058
Darrian 29 23.36 2.4465E+10 1821.449
Five Sisters 25 1.845 1.0261E+09 71.189
Jewell 23 21.12 4.1028E+10 8907.582
Vilis 26 2.324 1.8580E+10 4729.467
Sword Worlds 28 33.73 1.5106E+10 3205.692
District 268 32 2.456 1.2387E+10 2251.191
Regina 32 165.6 7.9874E+10 7947.359
Lanth 27 3.358 7.8493E+08 55.901
Lunion 25 24.41 9.5902E+09 1130.174
Glisten 29 4.518 2.4721E+10 5722.257
Aramis 26 111.1 4.0867E+10 14831.885
Rhylanor 32 131.1 2.4465E+10 19254.829
Mora 26 221.1 5.3456E+10 26221.79
Trin's Veil 32 111.3 3.8682E+10 26729.398
Totals 437 872.123 4.2149E+11 128010.3
Note E+09 is billions
SRU is total produced Subsector RU
SRU is subsector resource units modified by finished goods trade with some assumptions such as the relative sizes of the pocket empires (for which I have generally used the number of worlds in the subsector). While this is not entirely accurate, trade is certainly decreased as distance increased beyond subsector distances.
AS you can see Mora and Trin’s Veil are the power houses of the SM, also Rhylanor and surprisingly Aramis. While Lanth, Querion and Five Sisters are relatively very poor.
Stay tuned for more.
Cheers!
Check out this background information for the military in SM, Enjoy!
What is the cost of Military Units in Resource Units? (From T4 (I havn’t checked if T4 RU are the same as T5 RU))
If one Imperial Trooper costs Imperial Cr 150,000 to train, equip and deploy per year (Assumption)
Thus a 42 troop platoon costs 6.3MCr per year,
Thus a 125 troop company costs MCr 18.75 – 18.99 per year.
Incidently the 125 man company probably has around 225 total personnel and around 400-600 including spouses and dependants and various non-military contractors. So round out to 20MCr.
Thus a 625 man battalion costs MCr 93.75 -94.5 p.a. (close enough to 100 MCr)
One Resource Unit (T4 Pocket Empires)
Using Sylea Cr: 1 RU = 4919 MCr
52.05 battalions per Sylean Resource Unit
104 battalions per 2 Resource Units
Summarising 2 Resource Units buys:
- 100 Battalions of Regular Infantry, or
- 50 Battalions of Armoured Cavalry, or
- 50 Battalions of Marines, or
- 25 Battalions of Elite Special Forces (armoured infantry or armoured cavalry).
ONE RU is 5,000 MCr in Year 0 (T4 Pocket Empires)
I think Pocket Empires is one of the best books in science fiction for fleshing out YTU.
I have used it to write a spreadsheet of the Spinward Marches to determine the amount of Resource Units created by each system economy in the Marches based on randomly generated resources, culture, infrastructure and population. This includes a dashboard to bring up any world in the marches on the front page and a dashboard on each page to quickly access each world in the subsector (INDIRECT is a very handy function in EXCEL once learned). However it is not canon so I’m not keen to share it.
It has shown some interesting things about the Marches which I’m happy to share.
First, The actual randomised populations of the Subsectors are often higher (or lower) than was estimated in Spinward Marches (CT). Some of the population values in the Spiward Marches (CT) are just plain wrong, for instance Trin’s Veil Estimated population = 111.3 billion (Spinward Marches CT). Actual Calculated Population = 38.6 billion.
Note that Actual Calculated Populations are only for the main world in the system, not including secondary worlds.
Second, the relative wealth of the subsectors of the Marches
Subsectors: Spinward Marches
Name Worlds Est Pop (billions) Actual Pop SRU
Chronor 24 3.682 9.5902E+09 5097.152
Querion 21 11.12 2.6864E+10 33.058
Darrian 29 23.36 2.4465E+10 1821.449
Five Sisters 25 1.845 1.0261E+09 71.189
Jewell 23 21.12 4.1028E+10 8907.582
Vilis 26 2.324 1.8580E+10 4729.467
Sword Worlds 28 33.73 1.5106E+10 3205.692
District 268 32 2.456 1.2387E+10 2251.191
Regina 32 165.6 7.9874E+10 7947.359
Lanth 27 3.358 7.8493E+08 55.901
Lunion 25 24.41 9.5902E+09 1130.174
Glisten 29 4.518 2.4721E+10 5722.257
Aramis 26 111.1 4.0867E+10 14831.885
Rhylanor 32 131.1 2.4465E+10 19254.829
Mora 26 221.1 5.3456E+10 26221.79
Trin's Veil 32 111.3 3.8682E+10 26729.398
Totals 437 872.123 4.2149E+11 128010.3
Note E+09 is billions
SRU is total produced Subsector RU
SRU is subsector resource units modified by finished goods trade with some assumptions such as the relative sizes of the pocket empires (for which I have generally used the number of worlds in the subsector). While this is not entirely accurate, trade is certainly decreased as distance increased beyond subsector distances.
AS you can see Mora and Trin’s Veil are the power houses of the SM, also Rhylanor and surprisingly Aramis. While Lanth, Querion and Five Sisters are relatively very poor.
Stay tuned for more.
Cheers!