How Many Ships?

Steve Higginbotham posted a rebuttal of the planetary invasion concept based
on the Striker budgetary levels.  Well, let's face it--Striker does not
correspond well with our only other 'official' data point, which is the
Fifth Frontier War game and the battalion counts derived from it which are
published in the Rebeliion Sourcebook.  We've seen the same problem with
regard to numbers of merchant ships in existence.

What can I say?  I'm completely puzzled, and I'm open to any suggestions
on either of these matters that anyone would like to make.  Metlay?

Rob Dean