Talk:Imperial Navy

message: I took a bit more out of the ISB and split the enlisted and officer training into two paragraphs. However, I do not have the other source (Cracken's Rebel Operatives) and thus do not have any data on the "Imperial Naval College" or the "Officer's School". Would Sparqman show up and explain a bit more about what was said on these subjects so a better data-fusion could be achieved, please do so. - Kazuaki Shimazaki 10:23, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: *The Imperial Naval College is mostly an aside mention as a sister school to the Imperial Academy as a secondary post-graduate school for work in naval combat and ship/fleet command. The Officer's School is actually from Planets of the Galaxy, a 1992 WEG book (should add to sources), and is a similar aside described as a school focused on preparing officer candidates. Kazuaki Shimazaki, you might be interested in applying your work to the Star Wars Wiki, where most of the Star Wars contributors from Wikipedia are migrating. --SparqMan 05:34, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes to the "Education" section 

message: I created a new link which I intend to use as a list of Imperial Navy personnel. I know it may not be complete, since we don't know everyone's name, but I did find some pages on Google that give names to some of the extras. I'm going to get it started and try to respond to this soon.- B-101 18:54, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Link

message: I know that there isn't a lot of consistent information available on the topic, but I think it would be useful to have some information on how the Navy was organized, the unit levels (sector groups, fleets, battlegroups, etc.). I wrote this, but realized that I didn't have the time at the moment to finish the section: "Based on several  Expanded Universe sources, it appears that the Imperial Navy used two methods of force deployment: sector and local defense, and roving patrols. It can also be assumed that a large segment of the Imperial Navy was devoted to defending and squelching rebellion in The Core" --SparqMan 06:51, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: I am removing "The ship prefix in the Imperial Navy is HIMS, His Imperial Majesty's Ship" from the article. I cannot find any canon or EU references to this prefix. The Imperial Navy generally used registry numbers, battle titles and ship names, but no prefix. Can anyone produce a source to support this claim? --SparqMan 20:43, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prefix 

message: Why does the first sentence say that the Imperial Navy is "more properly" the Imperial Starfleet? When did they call it that? If it's more proper to call it the Imperial Starfleet, why doesn't the title of this article reflect that, and just have "Imperial Navy" redirect to that? Don't get me wrong, I don't think we should do that; I think the "starfleet" bit should be removed from that first sentence and leave the starfleet stuff to the trekkies. But one or the other should be done, that's for sure. Anyone else? Kafziel 16:04, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's been a few days and nobody has voiced an opinion either way, so I'm going to take it out. If someone has a canonical reference to the Imperial Navy as "Starfleet", please let me know and, of course, feel free to put it back in. Kafziel 03:18, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Investigating further, this seems to be one of those things the EU is inconsistent on- Imperial Starfleet is more formal, but does not seem to be more correct than Imperial Navy; I'm borrowing from Wookiepedia's articl here. --maru  (talk) Contribs 05:06, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

text: The opening crawl of The Empire Strikes Back refers to it as the Imperial Starfleet, in the deleted scene from A New Hope Luke says that he'll never be recruited into the "Imperial Starfleet", in A New Hope Motti says to Tagge that the Alliance is "dangerous to your Starfleet, Commander, not to this battle station!". Is that canonical enough? --SparqMan 08:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good to me. I still don't think starfleet is "more proper", though. Especially since a fleet is just a part of the whole Navy (for example, the US Navy itself has five fleets, and each sector group in Star Wars contains several fleets). I will put the "starfleet" reference back, but without the "more properly". Sound reasonable? Kafziel 14:08, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Go for it. Some EU sources have made it seem as thought the Starfleet includes the auxiliary, marine, starfighter, and support elements, while the Navy is just the starships themselves. Also, while our navies generally use the term "fleet" to describe a subunit of a navy, using the term "starfleet" to describe all of the warships under the unified Imperial command structure is not inaccurate. --SparqMan 03:41, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starfleet? 

message: Should this article really be at this location?  Given that actual navies in the real world have been known as the "Imperial Navy," it seems completely bizarre to have the main article about a fictional space fleet which isn't even a navy. john k 03:27, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location