Utter hogwash about Pilot 7s and so on.

I won't argue with your math, or your marvelous grasp of the rules.
I will merely say that your initial premise is total bilge. Has it
ever occurred to anyone that if one preson in ten were a member
of the Imperial Services, the economy would collapse? Let's get
realistic here for a minute, folks! It should be equally easy for
one of you rules lawyers/mathematicians out there to estimate the
size of an Imperial Sector Fleet, based on the data in the Reb Sourcebook.
>From that, we can make a decent estimate of the total military strength
of a sector; if there are 1e13 people in a sector, I find it hard to
believe that unless there is a state of open war/draft callup, there
would be more than a hundred million people per sector in the service.
(I have no book s in front of me now; this is an estimate.) I really
think that all of your numbers should be scaled down by, oh, four orders
of magnitude. And not including aging effects is cheating, not to mention
the fact that in a one-year service (Same Scouts, different rules) it's
much easier to get your tail shot off. Harrmph!

Oh, and if these posts were meant in fun, well, hahaha, very jocular.

(Can you tell I haven't seen my fiancee in two months? Knew you could.)

metlay