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 Each has about:
-  * 20 heavy cruisers most[[Admiral-class]]
+  * 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]]
+  * 160 Scout ships, mostly [[Vixen-class]]
   * about 3000  30 ton fighters
   * about 20000 10 ton fighters
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   * about 30 10 ton fighters.
+====Mothball fleets and obsolete ships====
+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%).
 ====Equipment====
-Everyone in the navy has a personal vacsuit armor as uniform.
+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.
-   * 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.
 ====Interaction====
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