Organization ISC Navy

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ISC Navy
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Originally created from the combining of existing planetary defence fleets, local military contractors, mercenaries willing to join a formal military and purchasing new ships and equipment, the ISC Navy is charged with the defence of ISC space from all threats that may come from the rest of the Galaxy.

In recent years the ISC Navy has seen a massive increase in funding and prominence due to the ISC/Syndicate war, pushing the ISC into modernizing and increasing the ISC Naval forces. There has been a general move away from existing defence forces and onto specially designed and produced ships and weaponry.

Due to the nature of ISC space and membership, the physical and fiscal cost of the Navy is covered in a different way to those of Navies controlled by other governments. With less focus on individual defence and a strong sense of communal responsibility, the ISC Navy is much less regional in nature, with command officers and ships serving away from their home planets as much as they serve above them.

Now in a position to largely match the kind of raw manpower that Republic and Imperial Navies were known for, the ISC Navy still focuses on a mixture of automation and rapid response, forming a kind of hybrid style of the CIS and Rebel Alliance. But with the increase in manpower, manufacturing capabilities and credits, the decision was made to scale up the size of the standing fleets and ships in service.

Having started rather small by most definitions, the ISC Navy has scaled up to meet the increased needs of the ISC and it's peoples as it was always intended to do. With recent wars and even more political uncertainty in the wider Galaxy, the ISC Navy is sure to grow in size before peace once again reigns across the Galaxy.

Definitions
  • Three-Fold Fleets
    • The Three-Fold Fleets of the ISC are dedicated standing fleets of a standardized makeup used for three main purposes; Reinforcement, Interdiction and Pacification. Their first role is to Reinforce any Core Defence Force caught out of their depth in the face of enemy action, AMS Infections or other emergencies. Secondly, Interdiction, comes into play when Core Defence Forces and the Fleet in question wish to entrap enemies using interdiction fields for peacekeeping or war-time strategic reasons. Lastly, Pacification, is the role the Fleets are expected to fill the least often, being used to either liberate an ISC planet lost to either enemy occupation or AMS Infection reaching critical mass. By design, during peace-time, there are three of these fleets currently in active service, with the template to be rolled out further as needed.
  • Core Defence Forces
    • Core Defence Forces are similar to planetary defence fleets used by planets within the New Republic and FWA but adjusted in an attempt to relieve the pressure on individual planets needing to field and maintain a defence fleet on their own. ISC territory was broken up into "Cores" of planets and sectors, with the Core Defence Force for that area that being supported both by the central ISC government and the local governments within that "Core".
  • Specialists
    • Specialists is a term given to members of the ISC Naval forces that are given missions independent of fleets and Cores.
  • Dispersal of Command
    • The ISC Navy has named one of its more novel command decisions The Dispersal of Command and it is, in essence, rather simple. Commanding officers of the Three-Fold Fleets and the Core Defence Forces rotate which ship they command from on a regular, and randomized, basis. Rather than always being found on the largest class of ship as Imperial and Republic commanding officers once were, Fleet Admirals and Commanders do not stick to a ‘flagship’. This is an attempt to avoid an enemy being able to identify the location of the commanding officer and deliver a decapitating strike by destroying the command centre of the flagship.

Command Structure

  • Fleet Admirals
    • Fleet Admirals are the officers in overall command of the collection of ships that make up one of the ISC’s Three-Fold Fleets. Typically they can be served by multiple captains or, depending on their leadership style, delegate to commanders under their direct command. Currently there are only 3 Fleet Admirals, one for each of the Three-Fold Fleets currently in operation. With the commissioning and rolling out of each new Three-Fold Fleet, a Fleet Admiral will be selected from Commanders ready for promotion.
  • Commanders
    • Commanders are officers charged with overseeing a collection of Captains from various vessels and are typically granted command of either a section of one of the Three-Fold Fleets or the entirety of one of the Core Defence Forces. When other Cores are formed with the addition of more planets to the ISC, more Commanders will be raised from the pool of notable Captains to fill the command position created by another Core Defence Force being raised to defend said Core.
  • Captains
    • Captains are the lowest rank of commanding officer within the ISC Navy, serving as the commanding officer of either a single capital ship or a squadron of Starfighters. Captains are expected to maintain discipline within their commands and obey the orders of Commanders and Fleet Admirals they serve under; however they are typically given some leeway in how to follow these orders to ensure they have a chance to distinguish themselves and, in the case of bad orders, better protect those who serve under them.
  • NCOs
    • Non-Commissioned Officers are those charged with making sure that the orders given by the Captains are acted by the Ensigns, allowing the Captains (and those above them) to focus on the tactical and strategic implications of each action. The NCOs just make sure that the actions actually happen in a timely and efficient manner.
  • Ensigns
    • The “grunts” of the ISC navy that do the tasks that keep the ships flying, shooting and surviving return fire. As an institution based on merit of service, Ensigns have a very real chance of being promoted should they distinguish themselves.

Locations
  • Three-Fold Fleet Docks
    • Where the Three-Fold Fleets stay for refit, repairs and rest. As they are designed to be mobile response forces by nature, they may not spend a lot of time within these berths.
      • Christophsis
      • Mimban
      • Thyferra
  • ISC Cores

Order of Battle​

Three-Fold Fleets

Core Defense Forces

Misc
  • Standard Starfighter for Specialists - TE-34 Wing Fighter - For deployment of specialist forces both internally and externally, specifically chosen for their sensor suites and hyperdrive.
  • Creation approved by ISC President and Cabinet HERE
  • Revised 30/04/2022 to reflect changes to ISC military policy and hardware across several IC years.
 
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