A typical major system has 1-2 Secondary fleets assigned from the empire. They are usually augmented by few Cruiser taskforces and several Frigate task forces.

The system defense forces tend to have 20-200 Victory-class local defense cruisers as core, those might be supported by a 100-1000 Deimos-class corvettes, 1000-10 000 Panther fighters and 10 000-100 000 Assegai fighters.

About a third have one of the Cruiser taskforces from navy assigned, the remaining have several Frigate task forces.

The system defense forces tend to have 1-10 Victory-class local defense cruisers as core, those might be supported by a 5-50 Deimos-class corvettes, 50-500 Panther fighters and 500-5000 Assegai fighters.

All of these have at least one of the navy Frigate task forces or the corresponding patrol Heavy task forces

These might have a single Victory-class local defense cruiser as core, but most likely not. There are likely 2-10 Deimos-class corvettes, 20-100 Panther fighters and 200-1000 Assegai fighters.

Larger colonies are likely to have one of the patrol Light task forces though the majority do not have any forces currently.

The increasing number of the patrol light task forces has increased the proportion of the colonies that do have such lately.

Most do not have any local defense forces, though some might have 2-10 Panther or 2-100 Assegai fighters. An increasing number are getting these fighter forces as the imperium transfers Nightgaunts and Lancers to local forces.

Many system defense forces have received old imperial gear to augment them. So any of the above fighter forces might have any of following:

• Local fighters upgraded to Nightgaunts instead of Assegais, this is specially likely in the more important systems. Also some imperial
• The heavy fighter numbers augmented by Lancers
• An increasing number of Meteors are also in local force use. Though some pilots grumble about upgrading to fighters where the production date might well be 150 years in past but they are a genuine upgrade in capacity compared to the equally ancient Assegai they mostly replace.

Anson-class scouts are everywhere in local forces. The imperiusm has sold/transferred about a million Ansons to local forces and there were about another million there already.

Any of the imperial forces can be moves away if needed elsewhere, thus it is even fairly likely to see a Tertiary system occasionally with no imperial forces and the larger systems with less than indicated number.