• The stats and level of a militia/enemy/civilian are highly dependent on game progress, sector distance to the queen's palace and other factors. A militia created in Meduna with progress 100 vastly outclasses a militia created in Drassen with progress 5. If we want militia to carry over these stats, we have to essentially revamp the entire system, not only for militia, but for everyone. I do not want to do such a massive change right now.
• Manually outfitting militia with items. Managing the inventory of 64 mercs can already get tedious (even though I've made work easier for me by having their inventories as streamlined as possible). Additionally managing hundreds of militia... bah. Too much for me.
  Additionally, the UI work required isn't exactly tiny, either.
• Traits are closely interwoven with items. If we can't control what stats and items a militia gets, there is no point in deciding their traits.
• Apart from the money aspect, there isn't much reason to manually handle promotions instead of promoting militia asap. So this can't be set either.

Hmm, that's new. Do they also not appear in the sector?

I thought I had that problem too...with interrogated soldiers not being listed, but it seemed to fix itself soon. Perhaps it was shuffling militia between sectors or just zooming into tactical that did it, but eventually they were listed.

Excuse me if I'm annoying, but Russian names are quite odd.
First off, some of them aren't Russian, but Bulgarian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian Jewish and Caucasian. Is that intended? Just asking (I see no problem with it as it makes the game more realistic).

The term "Russian names" is probably misleading. Let's just say they are of slavic origin or from the former soviet republic. The names have been overhauled in GameDir 2329 by Elvis_A.
If you would like some specific name replaced please tell the name and the possible substitution. Telling the name alone won't help because we need to replace it with something better. We won't just remove it.

So instead of removing names which aren't wrong I'd propose to correct the ones that have been written incorrectly and add your new names to increase the number of names.

PMC mercenary are russian-like. While the description I made for Kerberus potentially allows any nationality, I feel that having them immediately stand out from the locals would be good. Additionally, this lets me show off how men and women can also have different surnames.

Some players probably remember the time where we still had only a handful of names for enemy/militia profiles and on every encounter we got some "Lachlan "Sir" Botticchio" or another which made me turn the feature off.

Especially since certain names have been adopted to other countries in their short form as a regular name.

I also don't think we should worry about obsolete names, short forms or any exact etnical conformity at all as long there no screaming typos.

2) It seems individual militia got problems hiring from Kerberus
I had 2 sectors full of trained militia in Drassen and all was working fine until i hired a elite militia from Kerberus, after 24 hours i got 2 new militia, the elite i ordered but also a green militia
consequently i got the error "not enough individual militia found in getidofunusedindividualmilitia"

However, be aware that the sti editor is really, really picky about colour conversions.