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 mostAdmiral-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

There are more than 100 000 frigate task forces. Patrol heavy task force is similar.

Each of the 83000 inhabited star systems has at least a Frigate task force assigned if nothing heavier.

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

Everyone in the navy has a personal vacsuit armor as uniform.

• A lot of navy personnel has switched to cybersuits There are 178 million in use with about 36 million more produced/year.
• Also many are switching to Monocrys Vacc Suits as interim measure, with about 104 million produced and 21 million more/year
• The rest of active duty and reserves have Nanoweave Vacc 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.