munroburton wrote:Manticore and Grayson have both had their own Home Fleets for a while now without any difficulties(unless the long unmentioned RMN Second Fleet is where the Grayson Home Fleet sits in the Manticoran Alliance organisation).
Manticore has named formations after the locations they were assigned to in the past. Task Group Hancock-001 for instance.
How the GA will name its forces will depend on how they organise it. The RMN in particular has long experience telling it to keep its squadrons as homogenous as possible - but the combined political will of Elizabeth and Eloise seems to be pushing for a high degree of integration.
I doubt that's going to result in Mars-Ds running alongside Sag-Cs or Warlords joining RMN battlecruiser squadrons. More likely they'll try to keep squadrons together but use mixed task groups and task forces - at least, until and unless they all start using similar/identical future ship designs.
I agree that we're probably not going to see mixed divisions or squadrons, but task groups are a definite possibility. Personally, though, I think integration will come more on the level of personnel, once enough cross-training has gone around, a la Manticore and Grayson in the first Havenite war. Hand Honor a couple of Tourville's staff officers? Snag Abigail Hearns for Second Fleet's Ops officer?
As for naming conventions, though - as much as I adore the ongoing integration of Manticoran and Havenite society and the Grand Alliance makes me too happy for words, I do want them to maintain their identity as individual nations. I honestly do hope that Haven's equivalent of Home Fleet remains Capital Fleet, for instance, and that Second Fleet is maintained as a Havenite-led formation. The Grand Alliance is an amazing thing, but not at the cost of the star nations involved losing their identity.
