Rebelious Planets

[jimbob55]

Tracking the place that built the ships would be a more 'realistic' way to determine if the ships join the rebellion or not.
The StarFire based novel Insurrection gives some perspective on an interstellar civil war.
Most of the fleet is crewed by frontier world personnel. The frontier leaves the federation and politicians demand a millitary solution... large numbers of ships join the rebellion (regardless of where they are).

If such tracking were inmplimented and a major shipyard world rebelled it could take huge numbers of ships over to the enemy.... It would certainly make for an interesting event. In the novel whole systems rebelled, which would be harder to impliment. It would be a bit like the artificial intelligence government event in Civ call to power.