FLEET Organisation

    If there is one aspect of the FLEET that is most glaringly obvious, one trait that forever marks them out from the Board at large, it is that the average FLEET officer will consider their classic traits of aloof coldness and cast-iron self control as normal and laudable. While discipline varies depending on unit commanders, it is noticeable and ever-present, and a military chain of command ensures everyone knows who they take orders from. FLEET cannot see why the Board have a problem with this, as it prevents dangerous uncertainty, and they get annoyed when their counterparts cannot resist showing off their anarchic nature.

Nevertheless, they remain practical. The fact remains that, as impressive as they look, FLEET consider themselves woefully underequipped for a planetary insurgency campaign. The ships available are invariably battlewagons first and troop transports second, leaving the organisation overgunned and undermanned...and leading many to wonder just what the hell kind of crazy operation the Goddess wants them for. This is usually when one of the Commodores starts mentioning "fire from heaven".

To attempt to put their assets to good use, FLEET have organised into dedicated command groups, each with specific responsibilities in and around Earth and overall command of the units they encompass, with attached dedicated support elements (Fighter Command, for example, has control over carrier vessels, while Strike Command's spectacular capital ships require an equally spectacular supply train and distant fuel refineries far out into the solar system). When offensive operations are ordered, all commands will come together to form an assault force drawn from available units. The scratch nature of most of these units, assembled as they are from whatever the Goddess could call in, still makes a FLEET formation worryingly tenuous. Communication difficulties and hardware mismatches prove a constant dilemma their specialists work hard with Board communications experts to resolve, but barring teaching every starship commander telepathy, they will remain an issue for the foreseeable future.

Come to think of it, that would explain why Commodore Haidan has been hanging around psionics labs so much lately.