The Star Empire of Manticore has recently undergone a truly massive increase of population with the addition of half of the former Silesian Confederacey (and probably some "independent" star nations in that cluster) and all those systems that joined from the Talbot Cluster. Don't think we have been told how much of Silesian both had Prolong and had significant numbers of the local system's populations had both access to and actually were given Prolong. It was fairley clear that the vast majority of the Talbot systems did NOT have Prolong available or affordable to their general public prior to joining SEM. Certainly some of them did but not for the majority of the population.
San Martin had Prolong available prior to it's capture by Haven but it is not clear if Prolong contineued to be general available while Haven was in control. Certainly when they were liberated and then joined SEM it would have become available again.
So, the very high figure of persons without prolong is probably good with the addition of all those systems which either did not have prior access and with the vast majority of those systems populations were already too old to start treatments.
However, even if SEM was providing massive programs to make Prolong available to the majority of it's newly aquired systems populations, it is going to be a while before that un-Prolonged population rises significantly. In the interm, your working population (including new military recruiters) for those systems are going to be in the position of Grayson where the leaderships and experienced adults are going to be having only a non-enhanced life span.
Then there is the question of where the Prolong is going to be comming from. The vast majority of the Manticore System's orbital manufacturing is GONE. What are the odds that the Production of Prolong (any version) had been in orbital facilities rather than on the surface of the planets? How many and how large would be any Prolong and other pharmacutical production that may have been started on ANY of the new Empire Member Systems either under direct government operation of as private industries encuraged by the Manticorian govenment to both put production locally into the new systems and provide for one of more new systems with both Prolong and other modern drugs that may not have been avialable prior to the joiing the Empire.
It is possible that SEM is going to have significant shortages of a lot of things like drugs- including Prolong- until it can reestablish the orbital manufacturing capacity unless it can purchase the drugs from other places. That presumes that other places, like Beowulf, Erewhon, IAE, various sources in Haven and systems scattered around but not controled by OFS/SL are able to ramp up production to meet the new demand.
