trope-a-day
Worthy Opponent: Played straight quite often by the old guard of the Imperial Navy and Imperial Legions, who are known for feeling respect in the presence and nostalgia in the absence of their fellow professionals on the other side, who know how to fight honorably, in accordance with the Laws
worldbuilding
A commenter raises an interesting point with regard to fleet communications, which as we have seen in various places, tend to look like this: FROM: CS GRITFIST (FIELD FLEET RIMWARD) TO: FIELD FLEET RIMWARD COMMAND (CS ARMIGEROUS PROPERTARIAN) *** ROUTINE *** FLEET CONFIDENTIAL E256 *** OVERDUE FOLLOWUP REF: TASK GROUP R-4-118 REF: OVERDUE
Imperial Navy
“You’re adorable.” Her laughter rang through the bridge like the tinkle of ice on silver bells. “You worked so hard on that speech. I can tell. And you’ve been putting so much effort into trying to get it right. You’ve been cleansing populations left and right, and
starship
Rejoice, ye people, for my horrendously ugly diagram of the Marlinspike-class MAV is no more, Winchell Chung of Atomic Rockets having made a much better one, which he is kindly letting me use here, too. Go, ye, and check it out.
Marlinspike-class microgravity assault vehicle
So, since I’ve just described the nature of boarding actions, I might as well go ahead and describe the ship used to carry them out when necessary, the Marlinspike-class MAV. And yes, this does mean that it’s horrible diagram time again. …or rather not, because Winchell Chung of
military
“There are two types of boarding action: non-contested and contested. “The former is only moderately terrible: which is to say it is usually carried out in the course of routine inspections or interdictions, or after surrenders, and the starship being boarded has obligingly hove to when requested; one has been
trope-a-day
Space Navy: Well, yes, albeit crossed with Space Air Force. See any number of related tropes, including – probably especially – ÂStandard Sci-Fi Fleet. Even better, since there’s been a whole lot of articles about this written recently and not so recently on the blog, go here and scroll back as
trope-a-day
Space Mines: There are any number of practical problems with the general notion of minefields in space, including gravity making them clump up (meaning that your mines will need station-keeping drives), the difficulty of interdicting large three-dimensional volumes, the lack of choke points to mine and the tendency of those
Imperial Navy
From: Capt. Idris Mariseth, Flight Administrator To: Lt. Loric Kantinomeiros, Tactical (Security) Suboperations Subject: Proposals for future exercises Your proposal of 5/13, for inclusion in exercise designated ROARING EDGEWINDS, has been rejected for the following reasons: 1. Ancyran units are not trained in microgravity operations and space safety. 2.
Building the Imperial Navy
And now here we are at the last (sixth) part of Building the Imperial Navy (one; two; three; four; five), Force Management. In which we discuss matters relating to keeping the fleet in top fighting form, to wit: Personnel Policies, Logistics Concept, Level of Readiness (Afloat and Ashore), and Acquisition
Building the Imperial Navy
It’s part five of Building the Imperial Navy, it is. (Parts: one; two; three; four.) In this part, Force Size, we talk about the people and infrastructure behind the fleet: manning strategy, organic support functions, and shore infrastructure. So let’s begin: Manning Strategy In which we answer questions
Building the Imperial Navy
(First, a somewhat apologetic editorial note: I know there’s been a lot of worldbuilding and not much fiction here, relatively speaking, recently, and this will probably be the case for a little time to come. Sigh. Sorry. Things are a little difficult right here and now at Chez Moi,