Uh, to the SLDF, it was plenty martial... Admiral David Peterson was the only Admiral to command the entire SLDF...
And here's the paragraph out of the SL SB (back before WarShips became camel cased):
"NAVAL BASES
The Star League Navy had more than 15,000 warships, JumpShips, and DropShips. To build and service them required more than 500 orbiting naval bases, each a huge collection of shipyards, moorings, and housing for sailors. An AeroSpace Wing and two destroyers were assigned to defend each naval base. When the tensions reached a high level during the final decades of the Star League, a cruiser was added to ships protecting each base."