Serving the Fleet is such an overbearing consideration in Inselburg that refusing to do it or being too good at it can be interesting, especially when we remember that there is probably just less than a dozen career officers in the whole country.
The political system of the fortress is in reality a secret, unacknowledged battleground for the various collegiums and their magisters, some of which wield the collegiate vows as threats against their own members. The collegiate magic will prove the undoing of the Vadenite democracy.