So In every other clans listing of their clusters they include Solahma units but in all the Field Manuals they never are listed for Clan Ghost Bear.
Has there even been a given reason? Or do they keep their solahma units off the rolls?
there has never been a given reason for the lack of Ghost Bear solomha units, but maybe it can be inferred why with the information we do have:
Field Manual Warden Clans states that all Clans have planetary militia units in addition to their listed forces, and these units contain the very bottom of the barrel troops
it also says that some Clans do not make a distinction between Provisional Garrison Clusters (PGCs) and Second-line units
in the specific write up for the Ghost Bears, it says their familial bonds tend to lead to entire units being transferred between commands, rather than individual warriors
with these bits of info in mind, we can make some guesses...
the Bears should have militia units (that are never listed, for any Clan) that will have solomha warriors in them
the Bears are one of (if not the only one) Clan that really does not differentiate between PGCs and Second Line units, so their solomha warriors are probably just mixed in there somewhere rather than making entire units just for them
that the Bears retain a sense of family among their warriors (enough that they prefer to transfer whole units rather than individual warriors between commands) also probably means that they look down on solomha warriors somewhat less than other Clans, and so don't feel the need to isolate them in their own units and reinforces the idea that their solomha warriors are probably just spread out among their Second Line and PGC forces (in fact, the novel
Roar of Honor has a new Trinary formed to defend Toffen, and one of the transferees is a solomha warrior...and I'm pretty sure they are meant to be a Front Line unit, although it's not necessarily following any real unit structure as laid out in the Field Manuals, more for plot)
In one of the newer field manuals the ghost bears have the same amount of clusters as both the wolf empire and jade falcons, which kinda bothered me. Ghost Bears have done nothing but wait for 40 years since the end of 2nd Dominion War. Then I realized they only have about half a dozen green clusters and they have no solhama clusters in their rolls.
Field Manual 3145 does kind of tell us why this is:
the Falcons expanded their forces quickly by recruiting from civilians and failed warriors, pretty much using them as cannon fodder (in vehicles and as infantry)
the Wolves expanded quickly by creating entire units made up of recruited locals in vehicle formations
hence all the green units in these two Clans, with a large portion of these new units being vehicle and infantry formations
the Bears had their production hurt badly in the 2nd Combine-Dominion War and because they are more a merger of IS and Clan, they can't simply demand increased military output from civilian focused factories...and since something like 20% of the touman is FRR natives, the Trueborns of the warrior caste are loathe to recruit tons more Freeborns in an effort to not "dilute" the warrior caste any more than it is...so they are relying on just the usual sibkos to expand the touman (albeit larger sibkos than normal)--the positive side to this is that the Bears probably maintain the strongest Mech forces and aren't relying on vehicles and infantry to prop up their numbers
