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Imperium Naval Depots serve as focuses for naval efforts, supplying a fleet's every need, providing construction and repair facilities, and producing and testing experimental ship prototypes. A depot generally occupies an entire system. Facilities, material, and personnel are extensive enough to repair and resupply a large fraction of a sector fleet at any time. A depot may be isolated from outside contact for years at a time without serious setbacks. As depots cover large parts of a system, there is no distinction between orbital and surface berthing. | Imperium Naval Depots serve as focuses for naval efforts, supplying a fleet's every need, providing construction and repair facilities, and producing and testing experimental ship prototypes. A depot generally occupies an entire system. Facilities, material, and personnel are extensive enough to repair and resupply a large fraction of a sector fleet at any time. A depot may be isolated from outside contact for years at a time without serious setbacks. As depots cover large parts of a system, there is no distinction between orbital and surface berthing. | ||
| − | In peacetime, the main | + | In peacetime, the main functions of a depot are naval command, support, and planning; which includes the design and testing of ships. A large staff of naval architects (the cream of the area) and construction personnel are maintained at most depots. A Depot may operate a training fleet and academies, a mothball fleet, research, 'command and control' and other functions necessary to maintain the Imperium Navy. |
In wartime, depots serve as repair and resupply centers for fleets. In emergencies, the depot's construction yards can be pressed into service for full scale production of military ships. | In wartime, depots serve as repair and resupply centers for fleets. In emergencies, the depot's construction yards can be pressed into service for full scale production of military ships. | ||
Revision as of 13:22, 3 April 2014
Imperium Naval Depots serve as focuses for naval efforts, supplying a fleet's every need, providing construction and repair facilities, and producing and testing experimental ship prototypes. A depot generally occupies an entire system. Facilities, material, and personnel are extensive enough to repair and resupply a large fraction of a sector fleet at any time. A depot may be isolated from outside contact for years at a time without serious setbacks. As depots cover large parts of a system, there is no distinction between orbital and surface berthing.
In peacetime, the main functions of a depot are naval command, support, and planning; which includes the design and testing of ships. A large staff of naval architects (the cream of the area) and construction personnel are maintained at most depots. A Depot may operate a training fleet and academies, a mothball fleet, research, 'command and control' and other functions necessary to maintain the Imperium Navy.
In wartime, depots serve as repair and resupply centers for fleets. In emergencies, the depot's construction yards can be pressed into service for full scale production of military ships.
Since a depot is obviously a very sensitive installation, security is tight. An extensive array of both entry and exit codes are employed to insure no unauthorized vessels enter or leave the system. Contingents of marines and system defense boats are stationed throughout the system, and are constantly ready for action.
Typically, there is usually no more than one naval depot per sector, placed in systems where they will be close enough to the expected action to be useful, but far enough back to insure that they will not be captured.
Depot Services
Each Imperial navy depot is built around providing all the requirements of the Imperial fleets of the sector.
Repairs and Maintenance
A major focus for each naval depot is the maintenance of the navy's starships. Ships are brought to the depot for periodic inspection, annual overhauls, upgrades and installation of new equipment, and repair of damage incurred in the course of operations. In peace time, routine maintenance services are a valuable activity; in time of war, the service is invaluable.
Depots keep on hand a stock of repair and replacement parts that would be unavailable at any one place anywhere else in the Imperium and have the ability to fabricated or invent parts as needed.
Personnel Services
Depots are a natural assignment for large numbers of naval personnel. All skills that the navy needs are required at a depot. Support services, administration, dependent support, housing, recreation, and technical services are all needed on a continuing bases at the depot.
Training
Each depot is naturally given the task of providing training for military personnel. Because of the many different services a depot provides, it is uniquely suited to training personnel for those services. As a result, a depot maintains an extensive training establishment, providing in-depth training for all aspects of starship technology.
In addition to basic skills training, the depot maintains a training fleet and adversary squadron for both tactical and strategic starship combat training.
Research & Development
Each depot maintains a large scale research and development office. New ship systems and full ship designs are the usual focus. Work includes reverse engineering foreign ship designs and systems.
Depot Fleets
Each naval depot has three dedicated fleets of ships assigned to it. Unlike the Regular Fleets, these are specialized ships build for specific purposes. For command purposes, every ship in the Depot is assigned a fleet. However, in some cases, Regular/Reserve Fleet infrastructure and support can be based from a depot rather than a starport naval base.
Training Fleet
The training fleet consists of at least one example of each ship commonly found in the sector fleets. These ships are used for the training of naval personnel in all manner of situations.
The Training Fleet also contains a number of adversary squadrons to act as an opposition force for the training exercises. The squadrons usually consist of either converted or custom built ships to mimic the foreign ship most likely to be encountered in the sector. The adversary squadrons of depot training fleets are generally considered to be the best trained and most effective squadrons in the Imperial Navy.
Security Fleet
The depot's security fleet has the mission of defense of the Depot from all possible dangers. The security fleet maintains a collection of System Defense Boats, early warning ships, and squads of battleships and/or monitors. In times of heightened security, the security fleet can also call upon the training fleet and adversarial squadrons for additional support.
Mothball Fleet
The depot is used for the storage of obsolete or obsolescent government and naval vessels that cannot be economically operated, but which retain some value for the moment. As starship classes are retired from service, some transfer to the Reserve fleets or Colonial fleets while others are stored until a use for them can be found, like attrition replacements during war, or until they are scrapped. Because a depot encompasses an entire system and is under the complete control of the Navy, it is an ideal secure storage location for such ships.
In addition to the retired ship classes, vessels considered too damaged to repair are also brought to the depot for processing.
Ships not undergoing active repair and refit are put into ordinary, powered down and sealed against the environments. These ships are placed in holding berths or left in a stable orbit around an out of the way moon or small planet. These ships can be returned to service after a period of preparation (usually a couple of weeks).
Ships too damaged, decrepit, or simply unwanted are turned over to the cannibalization squadron, where the ship is stripped of any remaining useful parts and the remaining hulks are cut apart for scrap or used as targets for live fire exercises.
The mothball fleet also consists of a large number of non-combat ships, specialized in the maintenance of ships under the control of the Depot.
Depots of the Imperium
Imperial depots are traditionally named for the sector in which they are placed; for example, the Imperial depot in Corridor sector is named Depot/Corridor
| Name | UWP | Base | Remarks | Rebellion Allegiance | Gas Giant? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depot ( Deneb 1613) | A100644-G | D | Na Ni Va | No | |
| Depot ( Corridor 1511) | A686354-F | D | Lo Ga | - | G |
| Depot ( Vland 2728) | A594677-9 | D | Ag Ni | Vl | |
| Depot ( Lishun 1219) | D788367-7 | D | Lo Ni | - | |
| Depot ( Antares 2021) | B544556-C | D | Ag Ni | An | |
| Depot ( Gushemege 3016) | A3406AB-E | D | Ni Po De | St | |
| Depot ( Dagudashaag 3121) | A310244-D | D | Lo Ni | Im | |
| Depot ( Core 1518) | A86A422-F | D | Ni Wa | Im | |
| Depot ( Fornast 1811) | A878210-A | D | Lo Ni | Im | |
| Depot ( Ley 1420) | A453532-A | D | Ni Po | Im | |
| Depot ( Ilelish 1022) | B362558-C | D | Ni | Il | |
| Depot ( Zarushagaar 1920) | A6888CF-6 | D | - | ||
| Depot ( Massilia 0301) | B78A777-C | D | Wa Ri | Im | |
| Depot ( Delphi 0832) | A583447-A | D | Ni | Ma | |
| Depot ( Delphi 1205) | A787200-A | D | Ni | Ma | G |
| Depot ( Daibei 0326) | A9B9520-F | D | Ni | Da | G |
| Depot ( Diaspora 2018) | C000765-D | D | As Na | - | |
| Depot ( Old Expanses 1213) | A00055A-F | D | As Ni | So | |
| Depot ( Solomani Rim 1911) | A00066D-F | D | As Ni Na | So |
Allegiance Abbreviations: - = No continuing control, An =Antares, Da = Daibei, II = Ilelish, Im = Imperial, Ma = Margaret. No = Norris, So = Solomani. St = Strephon, VI = Vland
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