Sponsor
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Citizen-Class Volunteers or "Sponsors"
A Volunteer and a Sponsor are the same thing at different points in their life. A Volunteer is someone who has a CAP score of 6.5 or higher and is thus eligible to volunteer for service in the Confederacy, and has agreed to emigrate from Earth and take up service in the Confederacy.
In reality not everyone who has a qualifying CAP score will volunteer to leave everything they have ever known and take up service with a military organization run by aliens and computers, and not everyone who has volunteered will be extracted. A complicating factor is that, in areas and times with Earth First activity, it is not wise to advertise that you are a volunteer as this could prove to be fatal.
Sponsors are people who achieved a minimum CAP score of 6.5 or greater, have volunteered for Confederacy service, and have been extracted from Earth.
Story References
From Woolly Wilds by starfiend:
"Right. The rules. Sponsors own their concubines. Concubines are the slaves, primarily sex slaves, but slaves none-the-less, of their sponsors. They are property. Nothing more, nothing less. Property." Everybody's mouth dropped, but no-one could speak. "What that means in principle is that you three," he pointed at my mother and sisters, "have to become pregnant as fast as possible, and give birth to as many children as possible, with these three," now he pointed at the rest of us, "as the fathers." He held up his hand to forestall the arguments coming. "This is why I think the six of you should go back home now, unfortunately the AI won't allow it. You," he looked at me, "can exchange or release your concubines at any time. If you do it while we are in space, they have forty eight hours to be picked up by another sponsor, otherwise they die, unless they are pregnant. On a planet there is a better chance of being picked up, especially the women, but even there they could end up dead. On at least one colony planet they'd end up in a brothel with almost no way out. You can try and swap them with someone else, but since there are very few rules about what any sponsor does with their own property, and make no mistake about this, they are slaves, no more than property, they could still end up dead. You," he jabbed a finger at me, "Are responsible for anything they do. If they make a mistake, do something wrong, they will almost certainly die, but you," he jabbed again, "will be in trouble."
From Woolly Wilds by starfiend:
The Confederation is a very large group of alien races that," he paused for a moment, "well, lets just say they are expecting us as the only other fighters in the galaxy to save their asses. Unfortunately their help is very limited, and on the whole not all that useful. We can't stop the swarm. Not yet anyway. As such it's been decided to get as many higher CAP people off the planet and onto other planets to colonise and breed as fast as possible. Here is where it gets awkward. The Darjee, the only Confederation race that is willing to help us, along with their AI's, have set some rules about how this works, who can be extracted and who cannot. They are not very good rules, they're certainly not ideal and they're very definitely not fair, but maybe, one day, when we have time, we'll make them more humane. Until then however, these are the rules we are working to. These new colonies are as much about breeding new humans as they are about fighting the dickheads."
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