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The [[Marhleim Army Star Forces]] serve as the military arm of the [[Grand Duchy of Marlheim]].
 
The [[Marhleim Army Star Forces]] serve as the military arm of the [[Grand Duchy of Marlheim]].
 
* [[MARARSTAR]]: [[Marhleim Army Star Forces]] (Naval Fleet)
 
* [[MARARSTAR]]: [[Marhleim Army Star Forces]] (Naval Fleet)
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* [[GRYMOV]]: Gryadsh Movement Naval Forces (Auxiliary Reserve Guard)
 
* [[GRYMOV]]: Gryadsh Movement Naval Forces (Auxiliary Reserve Guard)
  
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== Description (Specifications) ==
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== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
 
This article actually covers three sets of Naval forces:
 
This article actually covers three sets of Naval forces:
 
* The Naval Forces of MARARSTAR (the Marlheim Army Starforce), the main Navy
 
* The Naval Forces of MARARSTAR (the Marlheim Army Starforce), the main Navy
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* The star forces of MINITOL's various intelligence and "justice" bureaux.
 
* The star forces of MINITOL's various intelligence and "justice" bureaux.
  
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=== Mission ===
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=== Goals (Mission) ===
 
No information yet available.  
 
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* Larger jump-capable ships include especially large contingents of Political and Security Police troops, to forestall the possibility of defections to other states.  This was especially true after the [[Petronk Mutiny]] in 1068, and the [[Bdaarikhar Incident]] in [[1099]].
 
* Larger jump-capable ships include especially large contingents of Political and Security Police troops, to forestall the possibility of defections to other states.  This was especially true after the [[Petronk Mutiny]] in 1068, and the [[Bdaarikhar Incident]] in [[1099]].
  
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== History & Background (Dossier) ==
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=== Rank & Grade (Hierarchy) ===
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== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
 
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====Ships in Service====
 
====Ships in Service====
 
The following is a list of Marlheim Army-Navy ships:
 
The following is a list of Marlheim Army-Navy ships:
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| [[Vdyank class Battle Rider]]        ||11 || 70,000 || 144       || Named after Colonel-Generals in MARLAR history.   
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| [[Jossto class Battle Rider Carrier]] ||11 || 350,000|| 32       || Jump-2.  Designed to carry six Riders - in practice, usually carries 4 
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| [[Belsh class Escort Carrier]]       || 11 || 35,000|| 80     || Each ''Belsh" carries 8-10 Escort Riders, which provide screens for Battle Riders in action 
 
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|-
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| [[Grzying class Battleship]] (Old) ||10 || 150,000|| 10       || Obsolete battleships, usually handed over to GRYMOV 
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| [[Bidarkadarnk class Scout Cruiser]]  ||11 || 10,000|| 320          || Provides scouting and covering forces for main fleets
 
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|-
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| [[Spul class Raider]]       ||11 || 80,000 || 40       ||  Designed primarily as a commerce raider 
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| [[Bosq class Screening Cruiser]]     ||10 || 20,000|| 80       ||  Older vessels, now primarily used as border patrols (with large MINITOL contingents).  The "[[Bdaarikhar Incident | Bdaarikhar]] was a member of this class.   
 
|-
 
|-
 
| [[Drag class Screening Cruiser]]    ||11 || 30,000|| 120       || Intended to serve as heavy close covering force for Riders.  Jump-2 drive   
 
| [[Drag class Screening Cruiser]]    ||11 || 30,000|| 120       || Intended to serve as heavy close covering force for Riders.  Jump-2 drive   
 
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| [[Bidarkadarnk class Scout Cruiser]]  ||11 || 10,000|| 320          ||  Provides scouting and covering forces for main fleets
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| [[Grzying class Battleship]] (Old) ||10 || 150,000|| 10       || Obsolete battleships, usually handed over to GRYMOV 
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| [[Jossto class Battle Rider Carrier]] ||11 || 350,000|| 32       ||  Jump-2.  Designed to carry six Riders - in practice, usually carries 4 
 
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| [[Bosq class Screening Cruiser]]     ||10 || 20,000|| 80       || Older vessels, now primarily used as border patrols (with large MINITOL contingents).  The "[[Bdaarikhar Incident | Bdaarikhar]] was a member of this class.    
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| [[Kranz class Raider Escort]]   || 11 || 5,000 || 160     ||     
 
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|-
 
| [[Pinq class Scout Cruiser]]     || 10 || 5,000 || 80     ||     
 
| [[Pinq class Scout Cruiser]]     || 10 || 5,000 || 80     ||     
 
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| [[Belsh class Escort Carrier]]      || 11 || 35,000|| 80     || Each ''Belsh" carries 8-10 Escort Riders, which provide screens for Battle Riders in action 
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| [[Spul class Raider]]       ||11 || 80,000 || 40       ||  Designed primarily as a [[Raider Vessel|commerce raider]] 
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| [[Vdyank class Battle Rider]]        ||11 || 70,000 || 144       || Named after Colonel-Generals in MARLAR history.   
 
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| [[Vipnayalaylay class Rider Escort]]     || 11 || 2,500 || 1280     ||  Carried on ''Belsh" class carriers.     
 
| [[Vipnayalaylay class Rider Escort]]     || 11 || 2,500 || 1280     ||  Carried on ''Belsh" class carriers.     
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| [[Zupilfarhar class Rider Escort]]  || 10 || 2,000 || 320     ||     
 
| [[Zupilfarhar class Rider Escort]]  || 10 || 2,000 || 320     ||     
 
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| [[Kranz class Raider Escort]]   || 11 || 5,000 || 160     ||    
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| Light Figher Carrier         || 11 || 20,000|| 60     ||     
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| Light Figher Carrier     || 10 || 16,000|| 12     ||   
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| [[Light Figher Carrier]]  || 10 || 16,000|| 12     ||   
 
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| Fleet Tanker             || 11 || 20,000|| 100     ||     
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| [[Fleet Tanker]]     || 11 || 20,000|| 100     ||     
 
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| Tanker                     || 10 || 20,000|| 12     ||     
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| Assault Carrier             || 11 || 16,000|| 60     ||     
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| [[Assault Carrier]]     || 11 || 16,000|| 60     ||     
 
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| Heavy Auxiliary             || 11 || 12,000|| 50     ||     
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| [[Heavy Auxiliary]]     || 11 || 12,000|| 50     ||     
 
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| Light Auxiliary             || 11 || 2,000 || 90     ||     
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| [[Light Auxiliary]]     || 11 || 2,000 || 90     ||     
 
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| Patrol Escort             || 11 || 400   || 2000     ||     
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| [[Patrol Escort]]             || 11 || 400   || 2000     ||     
 
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| SDB                     || 11 || 1,200 || 1200     ||     
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| [[SDB]]                     || 11 || 1,200 || 1200     ||     
 
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| SDB                     || 10 || 1,200 || 200     ||     
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| Escort                     || 10 || 400   || 600     ||     
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| [[Escort]]                     || 10 || 400   || 600     ||     
 
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|-
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| Large Utility Transport     || 11 || 800   || 2000     ||     
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| [[Large Utility Transport]]     || 11 || 800   || 2000     ||     
 
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|-
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| Scout/Dispatch             || 10 || 800   || 200     ||     
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| [[Scout Vessel]]/[[Dispatch Ship]] || 10 || 800   || 200     ||     
 
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| Medium Utility Ship     || 11 || 400  || 2000     ||     
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| [[Medium Utility Ship]]     || 11 || 400  || 2000     ||     
 
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| Medium Utility Ship     || 10 || 400  || 1000     ||     
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| [[Medium Utility Ship]]     || 10 || 400  || 1000     ||     
 
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| Disp (RN)             || 11 || 200  || 60     ||     
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| [[Medical Ship|Disp (RN)]]     || 11 || 200  || 60     ||     
 
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| Small Utility Ship     || 10 ||200    || 200     ||     
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| [[Small Utility Ship]]     || 10 ||200    || 200     ||     
 
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| Patrol Vessel             || 11 ||100    || 120     ||     
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| [[Patrol Vessel]]             || 11 ||100    || 120     ||     
 
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|-
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| Dispatch Vessel             || 10 ||100    || 60     ||     
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| [[Vosh class Security Cruiser]]  || 11 ||10,000|| 200     || These vessels - manned by MINITOL crews - accompany Naval forces to prevent mutinies. See notes below.     
 
| [[Vosh class Security Cruiser]]  || 11 ||10,000|| 200     || These vessels - manned by MINITOL crews - accompany Naval forces to prevent mutinies. See notes below.     
 
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| Large Utility Transport     || 10 ||800 || 600     ||  These ships serve a variety of roles - spy ships, intelligence-gathering vessels, and prison ships.     
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| [[Large Utility Transport]]   || 10 ||800 || 600     ||  These ships serve a variety of roles - spy ships, intelligence-gathering vessels, and prison ships.     
 
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| Courier                     || 11 ||100  ||32             ||  These courier vessels carry information between MINITOL branches around the Dutchy   
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| [[Courier Vessel]]              || 11 ||100  ||32             ||  These courier vessels carry information between MINITOL branches around the Dutchy   
 
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== [[World]]s & [[Sector]]s ([[Astrography]]) ==
 
== [[World]]s & [[Sector]]s ([[Astrography]]) ==
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This [[fleet]] can be primarily found in the following areas:
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This [[fleet]] can be primarily found in the following areas: <br>
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''[[Charted Space]]:''
 
* [[Reaver's Deep Sector]]
 
* [[Reaver's Deep Sector]]
 
** [[Ea Subsector]]
 
** [[Ea Subsector]]
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== References & Contributors (Sources) ==
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== References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) ==
 
{{Intermediate}}
 
{{Intermediate}}
 
{{Detail}}
 
{{Detail}}
 
{{Sources
 
{{Sources
 
|S1= [[Traveller Wiki Editorial Team]]
 
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|S2= Author: [[User:Mitchberg|Mitchberg]]
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|S2= Author & Contributor: [[User:Mitchberg|Mitchberg]]
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|S3= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]  
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|S3= Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]  
 
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Latest revision as of 13:45, 13 June 2019

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The Marhleim Army Star Forces serve as the military arm of the Grand Duchy of Marlheim.

Description (Specifications)[edit]

This article actually covers three sets of Naval forces:

  • The Naval Forces of MARARSTAR (the Marlheim Army Starforce), the main Navy
  • The star forces of GRYMOV's BORFOR "border" patrol and SECFOR capitol security force
  • The star forces of MINITOL's various intelligence and "justice" bureaux.

Goals (Mission)[edit]

No information yet available.

Strategy & Doctrine (Operations)[edit]

At TL-11, Marlheim subscribed whole-hog to the idea of the "Battle Rider" - as much for the utility of keeping battle units under close political and security control as for any tactical benefit (the two are inseparable under Marltonian military doctrine).

  • The various classes of "Scout" and "Screening" cruisers will usually jump into a fleet's target first, to screen the arrival and deployment of the Battle and Escort carriers. Any significant deployment includes GRYMOV and MINITOL vessels.
  • Larger jump-capable ships include especially large contingents of Political and Security Police troops, to forestall the possibility of defections to other states. This was especially true after the Petronk Mutiny in 1068, and the Bdaarikhar Incident in 1099.

Rank & Grade (Hierarchy)[edit]

No information yet available.

History & Background (Dossier)[edit]

No information yet available.

Tables of Organization (Organizational Structure)[edit]

No information yet available.

Representative Equipment & Classes[edit]

No information yet available.

Marhleim Army Star Force (MARARSTAR)[edit]

While the Marlheim Navy is quite large (for a relatively small state's star force), its record in battle has been fairly dismal.

Its few battles against Duncinaean, Aslan and Caledonian forces - mostly "border skirmishes" between light forces that the Grand Duchy has strongly disclaimed - have turned out badly for the Grand Duchy's Navy, with relatively heavy losses among fleets classified by observers as "very badly handled" in action.

Two theories exist:

  • Some naval theorists and political observers hypoethsize that it's dangerous to be too successful an officer in the Marlheim fleet; being well-regarded enough to arouse the paranoia of the Army Navy's political or secret police overseers can be deadly to the officer's career, and often to the officer.
  • Others speculate that the Marlheim fleet has sent small light-force fleets - patrol ships and escorts - with less-capable officers and poorly-trained crews to lull their potential opponents into a false sense of superiority; they're saving their best officers and ships, so the theory goes, for the "Real" war. In support of this theorists cite the fact that a large number of Duchy Navy casualties are in older TL–10 warships. The response: the Duchy deploys older ships forward to save its newer ones back at the Duchy's home worlds, where the bulk of the elite of the fleet is stationed, under close political and security control.
  • Referee's Note: Both are true. The fleet's newest ships are best crews are held in reserve strike forces - but being too capable and popular can still be dangerous for an officer.

Ships in Service[edit]

The following is a list of Marlheim Army-Navy ships:

Class TL Tonnage Number in Service Remarks
Belsh class Escort Carrier 11 35,000 80 Each Belsh" carries 8-10 Escort Riders, which provide screens for Battle Riders in action
Bidarkadarnk class Scout Cruiser 11 10,000 320 Provides scouting and covering forces for main fleets
Bosq class Screening Cruiser 10 20,000 80 Older vessels, now primarily used as border patrols (with large MINITOL contingents). The " Bdaarikhar was a member of this class.
Drag class Screening Cruiser 11 30,000 120 Intended to serve as heavy close covering force for Riders. Jump-2 drive
Grzying class Battleship (Old) 10 150,000 10 Obsolete battleships, usually handed over to GRYMOV
Jossto class Battle Rider Carrier 11 350,000 32 Jump-2. Designed to carry six Riders - in practice, usually carries 4
Kranz class Raider Escort 11 5,000 160
Pinq class Scout Cruiser 10 5,000 80
Spul class Raider 11 80,000 40 Designed primarily as a commerce raider
Vdyank class Battle Rider 11 70,000 144 Named after Colonel-Generals in MARLAR history.
Vipnayalaylay class Rider Escort 11 2,500 1280 Carried on Belsh" class carriers.
Zupilfarhar class Rider Escort 10 2,000 320
Class TL Tonnage Number in Service Remarks
Monitors 10 100,000 20
Monitors 11 50,000 60
Light Figher Carrier 11 20,000 60
Light Figher Carrier 10 16,000 12
Fleet Tanker 11 20,000 100
Tanker 10 20,000 12
Assault Carrier 11 16,000 60
Heavy Auxiliary 11 12,000 50
Light Auxiliary 11 2,000 90
Patrol Escort 11 400 2000
SDB 11 1,200 1200
SDB 10 1,200 200
Escort 10 400 600
Large Utility Transport 11 800 2000
Scout Vessel/Dispatch Ship 10 800 200
Medium Utility Ship 11 400 2000
Medium Utility Ship 10 400 1000
Disp (RN) 11 200 60
Small Utility Ship 10 200 200
Patrol Vessel 11 100 120
Dispatch Vessel 10 100 60

Secret Police (MINITOL) Ships[edit]

The vessels in this fleet provide service as noted below to the Marhleim Secret Police:

Ships[edit]

Class Tech Level Tons Number in Service Remarks
Vosh class Security Cruiser 11 10,000 200 These vessels - manned by MINITOL crews - accompany Naval forces to prevent mutinies. See notes below.
Large Utility Transport 10 800 600 These ships serve a variety of roles - spy ships, intelligence-gathering vessels, and prison ships.
Courier Vessel 11 100 32 These courier vessels carry information between MINITOL branches around the Dutchy

Notes[edit]

The Vosh class security cruisers are rather lightly armed for their size against "enemy" warships. They are instead intended to serve as insurance against mutinies, defections and other insurrections on MARARSTAR and GRYMOV ships. The vessels include large "Marine" detachments equipped to board and pacify mutinous vessels (via entrances kept secret from the vessel's crews), and . More importantly, special MINITOL officers aboard these cruisers have access to the transponders that will detonate nuclear scuttling charges secreted aboard ships deemed to be mutinous or defecting. Thus, a Vosh may be mismatched in a battle against, say, a Caledonian destroyer - but is capable of vaporizing a Marhleim Battle Rider carrier and everything aboard it with the turn of eight keys by eight officers aboard the Vosh.

Gryadsh Movement (GRYMOV) Naval Forces[edit]

The following starships serve the GRYMOV's political ends.

Class Tech Level Tons Number in Service Notes
Grzying class Battleship (Old) 10 15,000 40 These obsolete battleships are all detailed to guard the Capitol.
Stenka class Security Vessel 11 400 2000 These ships patrol the border zones. They are analogous, in some ways, to the Imperial Scouts - but their focus is almost entirely inward.
Light Security Vessel 10 400 1000 These ships patrol the border zones.
Dispatch Vessel 10 100 60 Typical dispatch "courier" ship, analogous to an X-Boat.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)[edit]

This fleet can be primarily found in the following areas:
Charted Space:

Headquarters Data[edit]

The following mainworlds is the primary headquarters of this fleet:

  1. Marlheim (Reaver's Deep 1230).

World Listing: 1105[edit]

This fleet often patrols the following systems and worlds:

No world articles for Marhleim Army Star Forces


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