Navy of the Grand Marshal
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| - | The ''' | + | The '''Fleet of the Grand Marshal''' was a breakaway force around a third as large as the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_Navy Imperial Navy]. It served as the invasion force during the [[Grand Marshal fanonical conflicts#Second_Battle_of_Hoth|Battle of Hoth]] and the [[Grand Marshal fanonical conflicts#Battles_of_Yavin|Battles of Yavin]] during the Grand Marshal's rise to power. |
| - | + | After his self-declaration that he was Galactic Emperor, as opposed to Ysanne Isard, he renamed his fleet the '''Grand Imperial Fleet of Aden'la Darasuum'''. | |
| - | + | Its primary functions were first to protect his base on Iego, then to invade and overrun Rebel forces on Hoth, Yavin, Anchorhead and to destroy the captured [[Grand Marshal fanonical locations|Death Star III]], renamed by the Rebels as the Hope Beacon. After that, the ships of the Fleet of Aden'la Darasuum were to orbit those planets and enforce Imperial rule there. | |
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==Key ships of the fleet== | ==Key ships of the fleet== | ||
| - | The | + | The Fleet of the Grand Marshal's primary capital ship was the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Venator-class_Star_Destroyer Venator-class Star Destroyer], and the main frigate was the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Acclamator_I-class_assault_ship Acclamator assault ship]. They were relatively light and fast as opposed to the Imperial-class ships and the Victory-class frigates. Another reason was because the Grand Marshal was short in money, and coukd not afford a massive fleet, wheter by purchase from [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Kuat_Drive_Yards Kuat Drive Yards] or bribery. |
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| - | + | The flagship of the Grand Marshal was a [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mandator_I-class_Star_Dreadnought Mandator-class Star Dreadnought], named the ''Vindicator'' by the Grand Marshal. This was representative of the great revenge he would unleash on the Rebel cause. | |
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==Organization== | ==Organization== | ||
| - | The | + | The Fleet of the Grand Marshal was a mixed-arms navy, showing strength in both capital ships, frigates and starfighters. This was demonstrated by the usage of smaller capital ships, namely the ''Venator''-class and opposed to the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Imperial_I-class_Star_Destroyer ''Imperial''-class star destroyer]. His tactic was to form a long line of broadside-firing ''Venators'', and |
===Command=== | ===Command=== | ||
Revision as of 04:01, 5 May 2006
The Fleet of the Grand Marshal was a breakaway force around a third as large as the Imperial Navy. It served as the invasion force during the Battle of Hoth and the Battles of Yavin during the Grand Marshal's rise to power.
After his self-declaration that he was Galactic Emperor, as opposed to Ysanne Isard, he renamed his fleet the Grand Imperial Fleet of Aden'la Darasuum.
Its primary functions were first to protect his base on Iego, then to invade and overrun Rebel forces on Hoth, Yavin, Anchorhead and to destroy the captured Death Star III, renamed by the Rebels as the Hope Beacon. After that, the ships of the Fleet of Aden'la Darasuum were to orbit those planets and enforce Imperial rule there.
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Key ships of the fleet
The Fleet of the Grand Marshal's primary capital ship was the Venator-class Star Destroyer, and the main frigate was the Acclamator assault ship. They were relatively light and fast as opposed to the Imperial-class ships and the Victory-class frigates. Another reason was because the Grand Marshal was short in money, and coukd not afford a massive fleet, wheter by purchase from Kuat Drive Yards or bribery.
The flagship of the Grand Marshal was a Mandator-class Star Dreadnought, named the Vindicator by the Grand Marshal. This was representative of the great revenge he would unleash on the Rebel cause.
Organization
The Fleet of the Grand Marshal was a mixed-arms navy, showing strength in both capital ships, frigates and starfighters. This was demonstrated by the usage of smaller capital ships, namely the Venator-class and opposed to the Imperial-class star destroyer. His tactic was to form a long line of broadside-firing Venators, and
Command
An individual command, a single starship, was the building block of the Imperial Starfleet. Achieving command of a starship, no matter its size, was point of pride in an officer's career. Officers commonly turned down impressive staff promotions in the hopes of receiving a ship command, although serving as a staff officer on a prominent starship, such as a squadron flagship, was often considered a fast track for promotion.
Line of battle
The most basic unit in the Imperial Navy was a line of battle, or simply a line. The Imperial Starfleet shaped four to twenty starships into lines, depending on the type of line. Commanded by a captain of the line, the line was the most amorphous level of organization in the Starfleet. The Imperial Starfleet Order of Battle outlined five types of lines: attack, heavy attack, reconnaissance, pursuit, and skirmish. Attack and heavy attack lines aggressively engaged enemy starships in combat, reconnaissance lines gathered intelligence of the disposition of enemy forces, pursuit lines chased and trapped retreating enemies, and skirmish lines harassed capital starships and engaged enemy picket lines.
In addition to the five types of lines, the Imperial Navy considered an Imperial-class Star Destroyer a line in itself. While an Imperial-class Star Destroyer may be able to act as an attack line and its compliment of starfighters as a skirmish line, the decision to give commanders the option to field a heavy cruiser as a line unto itself was more political than tactical. After a naval staff study suggested a Star Destroyer was the field equivalent of the smallest of naval squadrons, the Admiralty decided that, as there were more lines than squadrons, designating the Star Destroyer as a line unit would get them more Star Destroyers. The Admiralty's thinking prevailed.
Squadron
A squadron was the smallest independent operating unit in the Imperial Navy. Composed by several lines, a squadron was commanded by an admiral and ranged from 14 to 60 ships, depending upon the composition of the lines in the squadron. A squadron was the largest concentration of ships normally assigned to a single system. The Galactic Republic designated units of identical configuration as fleets. Those units were the total naval presence in a sector. Thus, the squadron was a useful measure of the growth of the Imperial military after the establishment of Emperor Palpatine's New Order.
Similar to lines, the Imperial Navy's Order of Battle designated four types of squadrons: light, heavy, battle, and bombard. Light squadrons patrolled areas known to be safe with two attack lines, a skirmish line and a reconnaissance line. Heavy squadrons engaged planetary systems that possessed known enemy presences, with either two heavy attack lines, an attack line and a reconnaissance line for situations where the enemy's position and composition was unknown, or with three heavy attack lines and a skirmish line for situations where the enemy was known to be defending a fixed asset. It was common to assign Victory-class Star Destroyers to the latter type of heavy squadron. Battle squadrons contained an Imperial-class Star Destroyer. In addition to the Star Destroyer, there were at least three lines, two attack lines and one pursuit line, for an average of 18 ships. The mere arrival of a battle squadron, and more importantly, an Imperial-class Star Destroyer, was often enough to put down a planetary revolt or scare off an armed space-threat. Bombard squadrons subjugated worlds in open rebellion that had developed planetary defenses including multilayered planetary shields and large planetary guns with four torpedo spheres, a skirmish line, and a pursuit line.
Systems force
A systems force combined several squadrons under the command of an admiral, referred to as a commodore while leading a systems force. These combined forces were responsible for Imperial Starfleet actions across multiple star systems. Rather than outline specific formations of system forces, the Imperial Starfleet Order of Battle lent flexibility to commodores to pool the whole of their naval resources and shape them as necessary missions required.
Force superiority pooled at least three battle squadrons and a light squadron. With a minimum of three Imperial-class Star Destroyers and nearly 90 other starships, force superiority's mission was to achieve space superiority, defined as, "the complete absence of hostile craft within the orbital space of controlled worlds, and no chronic enemy ship activity within the entire system."
Force escort protected crucial commercial shipments, economically essential space installations or facilities, and hunted down harassing pirates. With at least two heavy squadrons and two light squadrons, force escort was the most flexible of the force pools. Commodores used force escort to run a variety of missions, knowing well that their large starship count and organizational flexibility would allow for their completion. Where force superiority was given the maxim "always send enough", force escort bore the maxim "never send too much".
Force system engaged threats that force superiority could not successfully destroy. By swapping out the light squadron for a fourth battle squadron, a commodore could get enough force to ensure complete domination of a target area.
Fleet
Where all previous units were generally bound to specific system or set of systems, the Imperial Navy designated a fleet as a "sector resource", allowing it to operate on a sector-wide scale. A fleet was the smallest unit transferred between sectors. With such a large number of units, there were thousands of potential types of fleet alignments. Common fleet deployment types included superiority fleets, assault fleets, and bombard fleets. Other examples of alignments that a fleet might have taken included a deepdock fleet, support fleet, or ordinance fleet.
Superiority fleets maintained space superiority in sectors with "four or fewer world confirmed hostile to the New Order, and no more than 16 additional worlds with confirmed significant hostile elements", a superiority fleet was deployed. With six Imperial-class Star Destroyers and almost 400 other starships, a superiority fleet was presumed to be a sufficient force for relatively calm sectors.
Assault fleets transported huge numbers of Imperial Army and Navy troops to coordinate ground operations, while maintaining space superiority around the targeted systems. With two transport forces and two force escorts, an assault fleet engaged in massive planetary and system-wide ground campaigns.
Bombard fleets contained an average of 416 ships, allocated between two system bombards and two force escorts. Bombard fleets were assigned to sectors where the Empire had determined the probability of repressing the Rebellion in the sector to be less than even. System bombards were used when the Empire would rather completely destroy a world rather than see it fall into Rebel hands.
Sector group
A sector group was the sum total of Naval strength which the Empire expected to commit to a normal sector. A high admiral commanded a sector group, a title usually granted to the Moff who governed the sector. In sectors that were involved in constant and severe naval actions, the high admiral was a separate position from the Moff. A sector group could be expected to contain at least 2,400 ships, 24 of which were Star Destroyers (Imperial-class Star Destroyers were the norm, but some groups contained older model Star Destroyers), and another 1,600 combat starships.
Infantry units
Ships of the armada
Multi-purpose fighters
- ARC-170 Starfighter
- Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing
- Belbullab-22 Starfighter
- Skipray Blastboat
- TIE Advanced x1
- TIE Aggressor
- TIE Avenger
- TIE Defender
- TIE/fc Fighter
- TIE Fighter
- TIE Hunter
- TIE/rc Fighter
Scouts
- A-9 Vigilance Interceptor
- Alpha-3 Nimbus-class V-wing Starfighter
- Delta-7 Aethersprite-class Light Interceptor
- Eta-2 Actis-class Light Interceptor
- ISP-6 Shuttle Pod
- TIE Interceptor
- TIE Raptor
- TIE/rc Fighter
- TIE Scout
- TIE Vanguard
"Special"
Automated
Bombers
Transport ships/shuttles
Carriers/assault ships
Corvettes
Monitors
- [Pursuit-class light cruiser|Pursuit-class light cruiser]]
Frigates
Destroyers
Cruisers
Dreadnoughts
Battlestations
- Hope Beacon, called Death Star III while under Imperial control
