See: Captains' Council.
There were twelve families in Traveler I under Captain Thorkild Erling. When a ship becomes overcrowded, its young crew members found a new one. After three hundred years, there are over thirty ships, including Traveler III, each carrying an exogamous tribe of about fifteen hundred. Each captain is elected from within a single family. Wives join their husbands' ships. The President of the Captains' Councils is always the Captain of the Traveler, currently Traveler Thorkild Helmuth.
An entire sub-series could have been written about Nomadic history.
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Kaor, Paul!
Arrangements like these makes me frustrated, because they don't really make sense if FTL is practical (for reasons you already know). But they do make sense if STL is assumed--but this is just one of the flaws I find with the Psychotechnic series. One I suspect Anderson himself would agree with.
Ad astra! Sean
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