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NEW AREM STARFLEET
"At the Calling of the Void!"
The New Arem Starfleet serves as the Naval Service of the New Arem Armed Forces, responsible for conducting exoatmospheric warfare. For this task, the New Arem Starfleet operates a varied fleet of warships and fighters.
Built from the ruins of the Arem Exodus, the New Arem Starfleet has had to maintain a disproportionately large force in order to provide for the security of the New Arem Colonies.
In total, the New Arem Starfleet operates over 800 capital ships, a majority of which are vaunted Battle-Carriers. In total, the Starfleet is known to possess some 5,400 warships.
Organisation
The New Arem Starfleet is, on an operational and strategic level, split between numbered fleets and system defence fleets. The Numbered Fleets are known to be the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Fleets. In addition, the most famous System Defence Fleets are the Home Fleet, charged with protecting the Ren System including New Arem itself, and the Nimrod Defence Fleet, charged with protecting the Nimrod System and the vital Aremite Colony of Oulea.
These fleets are overseen by Fleet Command, which exercises control over fleet movements and overall coordination of New Arem exoatmospheric strategy. To do this, New Arem Space is divided into three Fleet Command Sectors, overseeing all Naval Forces in their designated sector. A Fleet Command Sector is overseen by an officer ranking no lower than Admiral.
Personnel
Personnel for the New Arem Starfleet are acquired through conscription. Every Aremite, upon turning 18, regardless of gender, must serve four years in the Armed Forces, with the Starfleet being one of the most common destinations. Officers are acquired through New Arem's various officer training facilities, located across New Arem space, though the largest and most well known facilities are on the vital world of Oulea.
Ship-Based Weaponry of the New Arem Starfleet
Chapter I: Missiles
Chapter Ia: Guided Missiles
The New Arem Starfleet operates three primary shipborne missiles. The Bolt Mk.XIX, the Spear Mk.XXII, and the Arrow Mk.VII.
The Bolt and Spear lines are different sizes of multirole missiles, with Bolt Missiles being the largest missiles in use on New Arem Ships. Capable of carrying a 50Mt Nuclear warhead, or three 10Mt Nuclear warheads, or a potent high explosive warhead. Bolt Missiles are launched from specialised Bolt Launch Cells. The Vengeance-class Battle-Carrier, New Arem’s frontline capital ship carries 24 such cells, with 70 missiles on board.
Spear Missiles are the general purpose missile of the New Arem Starfleet, launched from launch cells shared with the Arrow Missiles. Spear Missiles can carry multiple warheads, including a 10Mt Nuclear warhead, an EMP warhead, or a powerful high explosive warhead.
There are over 500 Spear Missiles carried aboard the Vengeance-class, fired from the ship’s 80 launch cells.
The Arrow series of missiles is the smallest of the bunch and carries a high explosive or shield penetrating warhead. The Vengeance-class carries over 3,000 such missiles, meant for overwhelming targets with a swarm of missiles. There is also an Arrow missile system launched from the Bolt tubes, the Archer, carrying 20 arrow missiles as a warhead, upon approach to its target, it unleashes the missiles that form its warhead.
Chapter Ib: Unguided Missiles
The New Arem Starfleet is known to operate only one type of unguided missile, the Mk.I Banshee, propelled by a downscaled Fusion Drive, allowing them to get up to extremely rapid speeds quickly. Their expense, however, has made them a rare sight in the New Arem Starfleet, often carried to target large fixed sites, such as space stations.
Chapter II: Kinetic Weapons
Chapter IIa: Electromagnetic Kinetics
Carried by most subcapital ships are powerful spinally mounted coilguns of several types and marks. There are three primary types: the Onager Light Coilgun, the Catapult Medium Coilgun, and the Trebuchet Heavy Coilgun. The most modern Onager Light Coilgun is the Onager Mk.IX, carried by most Starfleet Corvettes and Frigates. The Onager is capable of firing multiple types of projectile out of its 660mm bore. Projectiles include a tungsten slug with depleted uranium core, a 20Mt nuclear projectile, or three smaller slugs in rapid succession. In addition it can fire a package or indeed an experimental shield-penetrating round. Some vessels carry multiple Onagers in an Onager battery.
The most modern Catapult Medium Coilgun is the Catapult Mk.VII, generally operated on Heavy Frigates and Destroyers, as well as some Light Cruisers. The Catapult has a larger bore and is capable of putting out more energy due to its longer overall length. Capable of firing standard slugs or nuclear rounds, the Catapult is also capable of firing sub-calibre rounds from its 1.8m bore.
The heaviest widely operational coilgun is the Trebuchet, with its most modern variant being the Trebuchet Mk.X. Carried in Cruisers as well as some capital ships of the Starfleet, its 6.4 metre bore allows for the deployment larger nuclear weapons. It can also accelerate fired projectiles to four percent of the speed of light.
In addition to powerful spinally mounted weapons, however, there are also smaller, turreted coilguns, such as the Lightning Mk.IV Turret, carrying two 15in light coilguns, or the Punisher Mk. IX with a duo of 10in rapid fire coilguns. They are carried to complement the spinally mounted guns and the chemical artillery in use on New Arem ships as well, especially its capital ships.
Chapter IIb: Chemical Kinetics
New Arem Starfleet Warships all carry a powerful array of chemical or conventional kinetic artillery. Coming in single, dual, triple, or quadruple mounts with light, medium or heavy configurations, we will go over the three configurations for now. For Light Artillery there is the Mk.XIV 155mm gun, capable of firing HE, sub-calibre, shaped charge, and 25Kt nuclear projectiles. Medium Artillery comes in the form of the Mk.VI 206mm guns, while heavy artillery comes in the form of 300mm Mk.IX guns.
Chapter III: Point Defence
The Starfleet’s ships are defended by a large array of point defence weaponry of three primary types: Missile, Electromagnetic kinetic, and chemical kinetic. The Primary Missile system is the Goaltender Mk.XIII, with variable launching pods with up to 100 small interceptor missiles. In addition to missiles, however, there are the Guardian Mk.IV 50mm Autocannons coming in dual turrets, as well as 70mm Rampart Mk.VII Rapid Fire Coilguns, also in dual mounts. Most Starfleet Ships have gun based weapons, while Goaltender missiles being operated alongside gun based weapons is a staple of New Arem Capital Ship point defence.
Chapter IV: Superweapons
The New Arem Starfleet also has access to a few “superweapons.”
The Immensely destructive Havoc Nuclear Device is a Fusion Device capable of cracking a planet open. Due to their expense and their sheer power, the New Arem Starfleet is only known to possess a limited number of Havoc devices, likely no more than 20.
Additionally, the New Arem Starfleet has access to the Mk.II Macron Emitter, mounted on the few Fortress-class Super Battle-Carriers.
Chapter V: Electronic Warfare
Many New Arem Warships have an electronic warfare suite, capable of defending against jamming attacks, and launching jamming attacks themselves. Though a capability that is not often used, the New Aremites do have several potent computer worms to unleash on opponents if necessary. These would be unlikely to cause permanent damage, but enough to weaken an opposing ship’s capability to fight, so that it would largely be unable to defend itself.
Vessels of the New Arem Starfleet
The New Arem Starfleet operates a varied fleet of ships built by a multitude of corporations across many worlds. The most important world for shipbuilding in New Arem is, however, the key world of Oulea, with its bountiful titanium and uranium deposits, it has become a key shipyard site for the Starfleet, and has seen many of its important command and control facilities relocate there from New Arem.
Ship Classes (WIP)
The Artemis-class Light Frigate, identification FFL, is the first warship to have been produced in New Arem Space after the fall. Coming in at 490m long, and weighing in at 0.63 million tonnes, the Artemis-class Light Frigate is the lightest frigate in Aremite service. Armed with a spinally mounted Onager Mk.VI (Mk.IX as refitted) as well as missiles and a point defence grid. Carrying a crew of 371 Starfleet personnel and 30 New Arem Marines, her crew requirements outstrip the requirements of other frigates due to its lesser automation. Though over 900 such frigates were built, only a limited amount remain in service today, perhaps no more than 200.
The Aurora-class Heavy Frigate, Identification FFH, is one of the New Arem Starfleet's most common warships. Coming in at 535m long, and a weight of 1.3 million tonnes, the vessel is the heaviest frigate in New Arem Starfleet Service. She is crewed by 350 New Arem Starfleet personnel, and generally commanded by a Commander. She also carries a force of 20 New Arem Marines. She is armed with with a Catapult Mk.VI spinally mounted medium coilgun (refitted versions have Mk.VII guns as found on Starlight-class), as well as a suite of missiles and point defence weapons. There are some 950 such frigates.
The Starlight-class Heavy Frigate, identification FFH, is a newly designed Heavy Frigate design. Meant to supplement and eventually replace the Aurora-class, the 575m long Starlight-class weighs 200,000 tonnes less. Her design is a departure from traditional Aremite frigates, which a much more streamlined look. She also has heavier automation, and thus operates with a standard crew of 200 New Arem Starfleet Personnel, as well as a Marine contingent of 28 marines. Armed with a Catapult Mk.VII as standard, the frigate also boasts addtitional missile launchers and point defence weapons, as well as, uncommonly for a lighter warship, a Bolt Launching tube. There are 205 such Frigates in New Arem Starfleet Service. Starlight-class Frigates are commanded by an officer ranking Commander.
The Guardian-class Destroyer
The Hornet-class Battlecruiser, identification BC, is New Arem's largest capital ship not to carry fighters. A radical deviation from typical New Arem Capital Ship design, the ship follows the cruiser lineage of design. Coming in at 1,500m long and weighing 21 million tonnes, the Hornet is a very large and powerful ship. Armed with a duo of Trebuchet Mk.X Coilguns as the main weapons, as well as a point defence network and a series of missile tubes. Crewed by 1,600 Starfleet personnel and carrying 300 Marines. There are some 150 such vessels in service.
"At the Calling of the Void!"
The New Arem Starfleet serves as the Naval Service of the New Arem Armed Forces, responsible for conducting exoatmospheric warfare. For this task, the New Arem Starfleet operates a varied fleet of warships and fighters.
Built from the ruins of the Arem Exodus, the New Arem Starfleet has had to maintain a disproportionately large force in order to provide for the security of the New Arem Colonies.
In total, the New Arem Starfleet operates over 800 capital ships, a majority of which are vaunted Battle-Carriers. In total, the Starfleet is known to possess some 5,400 warships.
Organisation
The New Arem Starfleet is, on an operational and strategic level, split between numbered fleets and system defence fleets. The Numbered Fleets are known to be the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Fleets. In addition, the most famous System Defence Fleets are the Home Fleet, charged with protecting the Ren System including New Arem itself, and the Nimrod Defence Fleet, charged with protecting the Nimrod System and the vital Aremite Colony of Oulea.
These fleets are overseen by Fleet Command, which exercises control over fleet movements and overall coordination of New Arem exoatmospheric strategy. To do this, New Arem Space is divided into three Fleet Command Sectors, overseeing all Naval Forces in their designated sector. A Fleet Command Sector is overseen by an officer ranking no lower than Admiral.
Personnel
Personnel for the New Arem Starfleet are acquired through conscription. Every Aremite, upon turning 18, regardless of gender, must serve four years in the Armed Forces, with the Starfleet being one of the most common destinations. Officers are acquired through New Arem's various officer training facilities, located across New Arem space, though the largest and most well known facilities are on the vital world of Oulea.
Ship-Based Weaponry of the New Arem Starfleet
Chapter I: Missiles
Chapter Ia: Guided Missiles
The New Arem Starfleet operates three primary shipborne missiles. The Bolt Mk.XIX, the Spear Mk.XXII, and the Arrow Mk.VII.
The Bolt and Spear lines are different sizes of multirole missiles, with Bolt Missiles being the largest missiles in use on New Arem Ships. Capable of carrying a 50Mt Nuclear warhead, or three 10Mt Nuclear warheads, or a potent high explosive warhead. Bolt Missiles are launched from specialised Bolt Launch Cells. The Vengeance-class Battle-Carrier, New Arem’s frontline capital ship carries 24 such cells, with 70 missiles on board.
Spear Missiles are the general purpose missile of the New Arem Starfleet, launched from launch cells shared with the Arrow Missiles. Spear Missiles can carry multiple warheads, including a 10Mt Nuclear warhead, an EMP warhead, or a powerful high explosive warhead.
There are over 500 Spear Missiles carried aboard the Vengeance-class, fired from the ship’s 80 launch cells.
The Arrow series of missiles is the smallest of the bunch and carries a high explosive or shield penetrating warhead. The Vengeance-class carries over 3,000 such missiles, meant for overwhelming targets with a swarm of missiles. There is also an Arrow missile system launched from the Bolt tubes, the Archer, carrying 20 arrow missiles as a warhead, upon approach to its target, it unleashes the missiles that form its warhead.
Chapter Ib: Unguided Missiles
The New Arem Starfleet is known to operate only one type of unguided missile, the Mk.I Banshee, propelled by a downscaled Fusion Drive, allowing them to get up to extremely rapid speeds quickly. Their expense, however, has made them a rare sight in the New Arem Starfleet, often carried to target large fixed sites, such as space stations.
Chapter II: Kinetic Weapons
Chapter IIa: Electromagnetic Kinetics
Carried by most subcapital ships are powerful spinally mounted coilguns of several types and marks. There are three primary types: the Onager Light Coilgun, the Catapult Medium Coilgun, and the Trebuchet Heavy Coilgun. The most modern Onager Light Coilgun is the Onager Mk.IX, carried by most Starfleet Corvettes and Frigates. The Onager is capable of firing multiple types of projectile out of its 660mm bore. Projectiles include a tungsten slug with depleted uranium core, a 20Mt nuclear projectile, or three smaller slugs in rapid succession. In addition it can fire a package or indeed an experimental shield-penetrating round. Some vessels carry multiple Onagers in an Onager battery.
The most modern Catapult Medium Coilgun is the Catapult Mk.VII, generally operated on Heavy Frigates and Destroyers, as well as some Light Cruisers. The Catapult has a larger bore and is capable of putting out more energy due to its longer overall length. Capable of firing standard slugs or nuclear rounds, the Catapult is also capable of firing sub-calibre rounds from its 1.8m bore.
The heaviest widely operational coilgun is the Trebuchet, with its most modern variant being the Trebuchet Mk.X. Carried in Cruisers as well as some capital ships of the Starfleet, its 6.4 metre bore allows for the deployment larger nuclear weapons. It can also accelerate fired projectiles to four percent of the speed of light.
In addition to powerful spinally mounted weapons, however, there are also smaller, turreted coilguns, such as the Lightning Mk.IV Turret, carrying two 15in light coilguns, or the Punisher Mk. IX with a duo of 10in rapid fire coilguns. They are carried to complement the spinally mounted guns and the chemical artillery in use on New Arem ships as well, especially its capital ships.
Chapter IIb: Chemical Kinetics
New Arem Starfleet Warships all carry a powerful array of chemical or conventional kinetic artillery. Coming in single, dual, triple, or quadruple mounts with light, medium or heavy configurations, we will go over the three configurations for now. For Light Artillery there is the Mk.XIV 155mm gun, capable of firing HE, sub-calibre, shaped charge, and 25Kt nuclear projectiles. Medium Artillery comes in the form of the Mk.VI 206mm guns, while heavy artillery comes in the form of 300mm Mk.IX guns.
Chapter III: Point Defence
The Starfleet’s ships are defended by a large array of point defence weaponry of three primary types: Missile, Electromagnetic kinetic, and chemical kinetic. The Primary Missile system is the Goaltender Mk.XIII, with variable launching pods with up to 100 small interceptor missiles. In addition to missiles, however, there are the Guardian Mk.IV 50mm Autocannons coming in dual turrets, as well as 70mm Rampart Mk.VII Rapid Fire Coilguns, also in dual mounts. Most Starfleet Ships have gun based weapons, while Goaltender missiles being operated alongside gun based weapons is a staple of New Arem Capital Ship point defence.
Chapter IV: Superweapons
The New Arem Starfleet also has access to a few “superweapons.”
The Immensely destructive Havoc Nuclear Device is a Fusion Device capable of cracking a planet open. Due to their expense and their sheer power, the New Arem Starfleet is only known to possess a limited number of Havoc devices, likely no more than 20.
Additionally, the New Arem Starfleet has access to the Mk.II Macron Emitter, mounted on the few Fortress-class Super Battle-Carriers.
Chapter V: Electronic Warfare
Many New Arem Warships have an electronic warfare suite, capable of defending against jamming attacks, and launching jamming attacks themselves. Though a capability that is not often used, the New Aremites do have several potent computer worms to unleash on opponents if necessary. These would be unlikely to cause permanent damage, but enough to weaken an opposing ship’s capability to fight, so that it would largely be unable to defend itself.
Vessels of the New Arem Starfleet
The New Arem Starfleet operates a varied fleet of ships built by a multitude of corporations across many worlds. The most important world for shipbuilding in New Arem is, however, the key world of Oulea, with its bountiful titanium and uranium deposits, it has become a key shipyard site for the Starfleet, and has seen many of its important command and control facilities relocate there from New Arem.
Ship Classes (WIP)
The Artemis-class Light Frigate, identification FFL, is the first warship to have been produced in New Arem Space after the fall. Coming in at 490m long, and weighing in at 0.63 million tonnes, the Artemis-class Light Frigate is the lightest frigate in Aremite service. Armed with a spinally mounted Onager Mk.VI (Mk.IX as refitted) as well as missiles and a point defence grid. Carrying a crew of 371 Starfleet personnel and 30 New Arem Marines, her crew requirements outstrip the requirements of other frigates due to its lesser automation. Though over 900 such frigates were built, only a limited amount remain in service today, perhaps no more than 200.
The Aurora-class Heavy Frigate, Identification FFH, is one of the New Arem Starfleet's most common warships. Coming in at 535m long, and a weight of 1.3 million tonnes, the vessel is the heaviest frigate in New Arem Starfleet Service. She is crewed by 350 New Arem Starfleet personnel, and generally commanded by a Commander. She also carries a force of 20 New Arem Marines. She is armed with with a Catapult Mk.VI spinally mounted medium coilgun (refitted versions have Mk.VII guns as found on Starlight-class), as well as a suite of missiles and point defence weapons. There are some 950 such frigates.
The Starlight-class Heavy Frigate, identification FFH, is a newly designed Heavy Frigate design. Meant to supplement and eventually replace the Aurora-class, the 575m long Starlight-class weighs 200,000 tonnes less. Her design is a departure from traditional Aremite frigates, which a much more streamlined look. She also has heavier automation, and thus operates with a standard crew of 200 New Arem Starfleet Personnel, as well as a Marine contingent of 28 marines. Armed with a Catapult Mk.VII as standard, the frigate also boasts addtitional missile launchers and point defence weapons, as well as, uncommonly for a lighter warship, a Bolt Launching tube. There are 205 such Frigates in New Arem Starfleet Service. Starlight-class Frigates are commanded by an officer ranking Commander.
The Guardian-class Destroyer
The Hornet-class Battlecruiser, identification BC, is New Arem's largest capital ship not to carry fighters. A radical deviation from typical New Arem Capital Ship design, the ship follows the cruiser lineage of design. Coming in at 1,500m long and weighing 21 million tonnes, the Hornet is a very large and powerful ship. Armed with a duo of Trebuchet Mk.X Coilguns as the main weapons, as well as a point defence network and a series of missile tubes. Crewed by 1,600 Starfleet personnel and carrying 300 Marines. There are some 150 such vessels in service.
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