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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
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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,
worldbuilding
Asked in a G+ comment: How common is it for individuals to own full up dreadnought or super-dreadnought class warships? Am I correct in thinking that individually owned and operated cruiser and frigate class warships are commonplace? Actually… not very common at all. (Even for corporations and other coadunations, even.
Building the Imperial Navy
This is the third part of our six-part series on Building the Imperial Navy (first here; second here), in which we extend the strategic goals we made in the second part by defining the Navy’s role relative to the other parts of the Imperial Military Service, and define in
Building the Imperial Navy
But that ain’t all! This is the second part of our six-part series on Building the Imperial Navy (first part here), in which we extend the strategic assumptions – regarding the security environment and the resources available to meet them – we made in that part into the actual outcomes the
Building the Imperial Navy
So, up next for you, the first in our six-part series on Building the Imperial Navy, using the model outlined by David Weber and Christopher Weuve in various places, such as the afterword to House of Steel. For the details of the model, see the diagram at right. In this
Imperial Navy
So, as a preamble to other naval posts, let me take a moment to post some notes on the internal organization of the Imperial Navy that I’ll be referring to later. At the top, you have the Second Lord of the Admiralty, whose function is – in conjunction with the
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Short Range Shotgun: Averted. Flipping the switch on either standard model of slugthrower (pistol or carbine, turning it into a shotgun-analog, sawed-off and regular respectively, by firing multiple flechettes in rapid succession while flaring the fields at the end of the mass driver to achieve spread), or firing canister shot