The Fleet (TRS)
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Demographics
A few points of information are available concerning the demographics of the fleet. In "33", before the destruction of the Olympic Carrier, there were 5,251 survivors from Sagittaron and 49,998 total survivors. In "Home, Part I", the Laura Roslin faction left the Fleet with 18,000 individuals, of which 9,500 were Gemenons and 6,250 were Capricans. At that time the total population of the fleet was 47,857.
This isn't a lot to go on, but it can give us a general idea of the population breakdown of the fleet if we make a few assumptions for the purpose of argument.
- First, note that Gemenon and Caprica had more citizens in the Roslin Faction alone than Sagittaron had in the entire fleet. The twelve colonies are clearly not represented in equal proportion.
- Before the destruction of the Olympic Carrier, Sagittaron natives made up 10.50% of the fleet. Solely for the purpose of argument, we assume that the Olympic Carrier's population breakdown was identical to the rest of the fleet's and that Sagittaron continues to make up 10.50% of the fleet's total population.
- We can deal with the figures from the Roslin faction in several ways:
- ASSUMPTION 1: All Gemenons and Capricans jumped to Kobol with the Roslin Faction.
- Caprica: 6,250 persons (13.06%)
- Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
- Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
- Others: 27,081 (56.59%)
- ASSUMPTION 2: All Gemenons jumped to Kobol with the Roslin Faction, lured by the "Religion Card", but Caprican portion of the Roslin faction was representative of the fleet.
- Caprica: 28,204 persons (58.93%)
- Gemenon: 9,500 persons (19.85%)
- Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
- Others: 5,127 persons (10.72%)
- ASSUMPTION 3: Caprican and Gemenon portions of the Roslin faction were representative of the fleet.
- Caprica: 16,617 persons (34.72%)
- Gemenon: 25,258 persons (52.78%)
- Sagittaron: 5,026 persons (10.50%)
- Others: 956 (2.00%)
- Although it is plausible that the Caprican population is substantially larger than the other colonies, as Colonial Heavy 798 was in the vicinity when the attack began, and was the nucleus around which the fleet rallied, it is unlikely that the populations of each colony are grossly unequal, or else the Quorum of Twelve would be a very poor system of government. The likeliest scenario is therefore probably somewhere in between Assumptions 1 and 2, with nearly all of the Gemenon population (drawn by the "Religion card") and a large portion of the Caprican population leaving with Roslin.