[CmmdrRosh]

"Officially" told numbers to actual numbers, the STARIS wants to keep a constant watch on everything the IS world does... A constant balance between the IS cores and how much is told to the public...

A majority of the pilots were cadets representatives candidates that didn't quite make the cut for a personal IS to be announced.

Not like it mattered for them anyways, as they can cloak the true form of their IS armor. (This would also be used to explain how in the world Charlotte was able to conceal her breasts...yay cloaking technology of absurdity!)

I was going to have later Tabane Shinonono comment on that near the end, that she feels like Alfred Nobel and his creation of dynamite... How much would she like to see her own inventions used to blow each other up over petty conflicts...And why is uses that "GENKI" personality of hers...