User:Vertend/Wartorn

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Agreeing with your points and your reasonable estimate seems to be quite in line with my estimate of 32000 ships. With a bare minimum population of hundreds of billions and several hundreds of colonies with average population probably in the hundreds of millions it shouldn't be a trouble building, maintaining, refitting and replacing decomissioned ships and keeping a navy of 32000 ships. And the crew training and further training shouldn't be a hurdle at such a population.

Assuming that the 32000 ships consists of:


 * 37 Dreadnoughts
 * 30 Cruisers per for escort and screening. 4x for show the flag, piracy, slavers.
 * 5 Frigates per cruiser

So going by Normandy SR1 crew list she seems to have a crew of 30-50 depending (30 in ME1, 50 in ME2). And going by dialogue in ME2 cruisers seem to have a crew of 300. And the largest dreadnought, the Destiny Ascension, has a crew of 10000 and it is four times the size of the largest Alliance ship. And we also know the Geth dreadnought is 30% longer than the largest Alliance dreadnought. The Geth dreadnought is 1190 meters long so the largest Alliance dreadnought should be 915 meters long. Assuming the turian dreadnoughts are a full kilometer long and with same dimensions as Alliance dreadnoughts, they'd be 1.3 times larger in volume. So let's divide the 10000 Destiny Ascension crew by four to get 2500 crew members for the largest Alliance ship and multiply that with 1.3 and we will get 3250 crew members for a kilometer long turian dreadnought.

So now let's calculate the men and women it takes to crew 37 dreadnoughts, 5550 cruisers and 27750 frigates.

3250*37=120250 crew members for dreadnoughts, 5550*300=1665000 crew members for cruisers and 1387500 crew members for frigates. Now let's assume that turian deployments are third of a year long and three sets of crews serve on a ship while the other two are on leave twice as long as the deployment.

We'd get a total turian navy personnel of 9518250. That is nine and a half million. Which should be ridiculously easy for a species with a bare minimum of hundreds of billions in population and with a several hundred colonized planets with populations probably in the hundreds of millions to feed.

With a turian population of 400 billion, about every forty thousandth turian serves in the navy. For reference I calculated (with reserves calculated in) that about every 730th American serves in the US navy.