Royal Caledonian Expeditionary Service

The Royal Caledonian Expeditionary Service (RCES) is analogous to the Imperial Interstellar Scout Service. It is similar in many ways to the Imperial scouting body, although the Principality's internal communications are controlled by the Caledon Royal Mail, a separate, civil organization.

Missions and Organization

The RCES operates a fleet of small scouts and larger research vessels (many of the latter chartered from larger merchant firms, although a few are owned by the RCES) in four major operational areas:

RCES Caithness

Scouts at this station, based on Caithness, primarily maintain contact with the various Aslan systems to spinward.

RCES Annan

The station at Annan is responsible for exploration and research in the desolate and underexplored worlds to coreward. This station includes a large proportion of scientists and researchers.

RCES Victory

The scouts at this, the smallest of the frontier stations, provide contact and surveillance along the border with the Imperium.

RCES Culloden

This station patrols the systems to rimward, maintaining many expedient forward fueling and resupply bases - often small refinery tankers tucked in around gas giants - in the systems toward the rim to facilitate extended operations. In this operating area, anything goes; an RCES crew may be called upon to wax diplomatic with parties from the other states to rimward, shoot it out with a bandit ship, or rescue a Caledonian merchant - or sometimes several of the above at the same time.

RCES Rutherglen

This is the RCES' main training base.

RCES Glenelg

Based on Glenelg, this station is mainly concerned with keeping tabs on the Khan World League's reavers, and with providing logistic support to the RCES and Caledonian Special Service operation "Task Force "Y"".

Personnel

The RCES is a separate service, although its crews are drawn from the Navy (for operational duties) and various academic, commercial and scientific bodies for research personnel.

Ships

Caledonian scouts are frequently larger than "scout" vessels from other states; they're designed for higher endurance than most worlds' scout vessels.

Fairmile "G"-Class Scout - The versatile 200-ton Fairmile "G" class platform configured for scouting duty is the current maintay of the RCES. The "G Boat" is reliable, has good atmospheric flight and landing capabilities, has long "legs", and is much beloved by RCES crews.

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