Star Rangers

Uniform: White base, with blue elements.

Is the “senior service” with the most pull and personnel. They are considered the most important part for defense of the empire.

Mission: Defend the space of the empire

Total personnel: about 700 million.
Wartime personnel: about 1.4 billion after the activation of the mothball fleets.
Local support: The non imperial local naval forces amount to about 120 million people with about 180 million in wartime.

Use the Other/specialist training with normally one of the star ship packages as base. The extra training package is most often something technical.

Navy personnel are about half and half deployed in on the star ships and the support bases.

They operate mostly in and around the major systems, except when doing deployment exercises.

Navy normally uses “Spaceman” for all privates and all NCOs are normally called just “Chief” and the commander of a starship is always “Captain” aboard their own ship and usually just “Lieutenant” or “Commander” outside. All admirals regardless of rank are usually just “Admiral”. Full ranks are only used in very official situations like commendations and similar, or when the full rank matters.

Most of the navy ships are assigned to fleets or task forces.

Fleets 1-10 are primary fleets and fleets 11-12 are in mid conversion to primary fleets.

Have

• 2 Empire-class battleships
• 1 Viking-class assault ship
• 1 Continent-Class carrier
• 2 Command Class Communication ships
• 20 Sword-class heavy cruisers
• 80 Tiger-class frigates
• 160 Vixen-class scout ships
• about 5000 Hornet 30 ton fighters
• about 30000 Typhoon 10 ton fighters

Fleets 13-403

Each of the 174 primary systems has at least one fleet assigned.

Each has about:

• 20 heavy cruisers most Admiral-class
• 6 Alliance-Class carriers
• 2 Command Class Communication ships
• 30 Warrior-Class Assault ships
• 80 Tsunami-class Light cruisers.
• 160 Scout ships, mostly Vixen-class
• about 3000 30 ton fighters
• about 20000 10 ton fighters

There are about 7000 of these

These mostly protect secondary systems.

• 2 heavy cruisers mostAdmiral-class
• 1 Thor-Class carrier
• 2 Warrior-Class Assault ships
• Increasing number has: 1 Command Class Communication ship
• 8 Light cruisers/Frigates
• 16 scout ships
• about 500 30 ton fighters
• about 3000 10 ton fighters

About 1000 of the frigate taskforces have been converted to primary frigate taskforces and more than 200 more are converted each year.

• 2 Tiger-class Frigates
• 1 Tarot-class carrier
• 2 Ranger-Class assault ships
• 4 Vixen-class scout ships
• about 60 30 ton fighters
• about 300 10 ton fighters.

There are almost 60 000 frigate task forces. The 50 000 Patrol heavy task forces are similar.

Each of the 83000 inhabited star systems has at least a Frigate task force assigned if nothing heavier, though a lot of those frigate task forces are patrol heavy task forces.

• 2 Frigates
• 1 Nebula-class carrier
• 2 Ranger-Class assault ships
• 4 scout ships
• about 6 30 ton fighters
• about 30 10 ton fighters.

The Navy does not want to get rid of any large ships it has as the build time for such is so long.

As example the build time for a Sword-class heavy cruiser from ready parts is normally about 200 days, but expected to go down slowly as the same size Admiral-class cruisers only too about 100 days to assemble towards the end of their production run. The the time to produce parts for the sword class is longer at about 340 days, the Admiral-class was also much more optimized in parts production at that point with only 78 day average parts production time.

It is much faster to upgrade existing ships, but you get less effect of course.

The same does not really apply to things like fighters as a single construction line can churn out dozens of fighters in a day.

Thus the Navy plan is that in a big crises they will man the Ragnarok-class and Trinity-class first fleet cruisers and use them to bolster the local defense forces, thus freeing most the more modern ships for other operations. The idea is to cover the gap in time between hostilities starting and until new emergency construction will start rolling out.

They are thus moth-balled for that reason. The moth-balling is done by removing anything that does not like vacuum, applying plenty of vacuum-proof oils to everything and then opening them to space in huge parking spaces in major systems. Every year a small number goes through a period of reactivating and rearming and then they are used to train Naval reserves and after that they are moth-balled again.

About 85% of the Ragnarok-class heavy cruisers ever produced are in mothballs. About 5% were lost/scrapped in service. About 10% were in too bad shape to warrant reactivation and those have been used for many things including: Target drones, Training facilities for naval ratings, Museum ships and more. Trinity-class ships saw more wear in use and only about 75% of all ever produced are in moth-balls, as about 10% were lost and 15% were in too bad shape.

The mothballing of the smaller Constellation-class frigates is more an attempt to get enough light forces that in an event of crises all colonies and such would get at least some cover. Of these much smaller percentages are in mothballs.

Some of the obsolete forces soldier on. Like almost all the Ansons that have not been lost are still in active service or transferred to local defense forces. Though in not too long future some of them will likely be moth-balled as survey reserve.

Most of the fighters, drop ships and military shuttles being taken from imperial service are either scrapped(if worn out, about 30%) or transferred to Local defense forces(about 70%).

About half the navy has switched to ultralight cybersuits with about 358 million in use and 71 million more/year. The rest of active duty and reserves have Nanoweave Vac Suits.

Army

• Lots of army troops serve on navy ships as marines so interactions are fairly common.

Survey

• There is normally very little interaction, as Survey operates mostly in areas where the navy does not.

Postal service

• Postal service also work as naval couriers so there is a fair bit of interaction.

Marshals

• Though they operate mostly in same systems, there is very little interaction except when marshals investigate some crime within navy.

Patrol

• There is normally very little interaction, as Patrol operates mostly in areas where the navy does not.

Science and Environment

• Navy and the Science and Environment have very little interaction.

Safety

• Navy and Safety have very little interaction.

Education and public information

• Navy and the Education and public information have very little interaction.

Weapon control

• Navy and the Weapon control have very little interaction.

Treasury

• Navy and the Treasury have very little interaction.

Palace guard

• Navy and the Palace guard have very little interaction.

Rangers

• Rangers and the navy have very little interaction, operating mostly in different places.

Special Tactics and Reconnaissance

• Like all other services navy offers assistance when asked.

Local forces:

• Navy often trains with the local naval forces, but have very little interaction with others.