I just discovered this thread because I'm building a campaign with Snord's Irregulars. Lots of good ideas about the character and her history. The argument about military people being too busy to raise a family - cited by mr Pardoe as the reason for adoption - is wrong. After all these years there's been a clear picture of a military man's life in the BT universe and it doesn't differ from the life of a modern military man in that 99% of it is dead time out of fighting. A planetary campaign lasts for 1-2 months while going to and from the site of battle and the waiting time before and after it accounts for the rest of the year. Garrison contracts or similar duty is more dead time of 9 to 5. A BT merc or regular soldier have ample time and opportunity to raise a family since most of the time they do nothing but regular work of the 9 to 5 kind. When a regular goes to war, the dependents stay behind with a supporting structure in place and the time of absence is brief - as such things are reckoned in-universe. When a merc goes to war or is en route to the next posting or battle, the dependents are carried along and again, there's a supporting structure in place for it. There are numerous examples in canon of mercs having families and of this thing being the rule rather than the exception.
In the case of Snord's Irregulars there are even more perks, like the fact that the unit has two planets with ready supporting structures where they can park their dependents and have a life - those being Clinton and Outreach. For all these reasons, the argument about a soldier being unable to raise a family in the BT universe doesn;t hold up.
