FT Ship Designations

Here's an alternative. My buddy sez:

According to the "official" Full Thrust background, the US goes to heck in a
handbasket shortly after the first female President is assassinated. Then for
some reason, we threw the Constitution out the window, and a military lead
government takes over, but has to call in British and Canadian troops to help
restore order. Next, a leap is made from a US military government to status as
a dominion of the British crown, under a lord governor. And yes, they make a
big deal about how the British monarch splits his time (equally) residing in
palaces located in England, Ontario, Vermont, and the NAC's largest colony on
some other planet.

Since the above is silly to the extreme, during the campaign I ran a while
back, I used my own slightly less silly version of events that had both HMS
and USS ship designations. This assumed an NAC government where the "C"

actually stood for confederation, something like our Articles of Confederation
which existed before the Constitution was written. Under the A of C, the US
military consisted of the sum of the state militias. Under the NAC in my
campaign, each member provided its share of ships, USS if from the US, and HMS
if from Britain or Canada. >>