Quote: Right the hidden/lost SL bases again and again and again...then 50 planets cut off from everything as Cray likes to say would have pop ulation problems, so again where are the soliders coming from???
More to the point, if they want hidden armies, then they need to do things better story wise.
With the Minnesota Tribe, they have the chance to do something, they have the time and they have the need. The WoB has roughly 20 to 30 years to do something and they are able to do it so wonderfully and so prefectly and so great etc...yet nothing is explain it's just expect to be believed and accpected.
Hmm, a 'hidden' planet in the IS is not ompletely cut off for a long time. I expect that after the 1st succession war, maybe 2nd, comstar exploration vessels were visiting these. At latest at the foundation of Explorer corps. What would that be, 100, 150 years of isolation? Not even a lot of people need to know of transportations, either, just think of the goods being shipped IS-wide, not too hard to hide excistance of 'funny' transoprts, especially for comstar.
I do not say these have manpower/production facilities/SL bases, but have a small population, maybe a mill or 2, that can support a division with R&R, food and such.
Also, an exodus like the unnamed were forced to do, brings problems like lack of farmers as noted. An already existing colony, even very marginal, has a better manpower and survival knowledge base.