Editing Elven Imperial Fleet (section)

==Membership==
The EIF is made up of [[elves]], exclusively, though trusted non-elf hirelings such as [[hadozee]] may be employed by individual ships as mercenaries who formally exist outside of the Fleet's recognized chain of command. Whilst officially open to any of the diffuse elf subraces, in practice the majority of Fleet members tend to be [[High Elf]] and [[Gray Elf]], with a distinct minority of [[Wood Elf]] and Wild Elf members. The [[Drow]] are denied membership because, well, they hate all the other elven races, and the other subraces largely join depending on how common they are and how well they take to the practice of spelljamming at all. In official lore, only the [[Aquatic Elf]] subrace is not found crewing spelljammers, and that's because their need for regular immersion in water makes spelljamming too much of a hassle. Fans have been known to ignore this and create unique water-filled spelljammers crewed by aquatic elves.

Membership in the EIF is lifelong, and recruits are encouraged to think of the Navy as an enormous, Sphere-spanning family. Ships usually prefer to recruit younger elves over older ones, and there is a distinct bias towards spacer-born elves over groundlings.