Is it reasonable to assume the humans that now populate Sirius know of and still follow the same names, motos and logos of the old militarys that we know today? For example is it fair to assume the Sirian people know of WW1, and therefore of the first tank. etc etc.
I think a RP excuse would be that before Sol, they would know since even today we know of what the Romans did etcand therefore militarys and historians would remember and keep records of them. So when they fled on the Sleeperships they took all the information they had with them right? Digital documents and files of everything humanity has ever known and experienced. Then on the trip and re-birth of humanity in Sirius, they would teach the past to the generations and re-organise the militarys such as the Bretonian Armed Forces, would keep the same logo, mottos etc. Such as
I'd say we know EEEEEEEEEVEEEEERYTHIIIIIIIING we know today plus a chunk of 300 years between today and the moemnt we left for Sirius.
More likely than not, we knew the reason why the Sol war started. I'm pretty sure it was just a manner of speech, where the commoner was just born into the war, like the Hundred Years war.
Yes, definitely. We would want to pass down our knowledge of the past from generation to generation.
If a colony ship was to be sent out. It would include data banks on every single event that is significant in human history.
Considering humanity now has a wealth of knowledge from after 1 A.D., as well as quite a bit from B.C., and that's without much written history or electronic history databases, I think it's safe to assume, given our technological capabilities, preserving information would be incredibly easy.
As Dab said - Data storage/preservation wouldn't be a problem in the 23th century when the Alliance left the Earth.
The sleeper ships should have no problem preserving 23+ centuries of human history and science three hundred years into the future if a 16GB USB drive today easily stores all of the English-language Wikipedia minus pictures and earlier revisions of the Wiki.