Fleet

Fleet was an Old Earth naval term that remained in common usage in Post Diaspora navies. As opposed to a Task Force, a fleet was usually a more permanent grouping of ships. Some fleets were permanently stationed in star systems, while others were more mobile and usually operated in an offensive capacity.
==Conventions==
If a fleet was in occupation of a star system, it would challenge other ships entering the system or approaching the planet. Otherwise it would leave such matters up to the local traffic control. ()
==Known Fleets==
===Royal Manticoran Navy===
Home Fleet 	Assigned to protect the Manticore System and acted as a reserve force for any fleet operating near a terminus of the Manticore Wormhole Junction
Second Fleet	A defensive fleet created to guard the Yeltsin's Star System after 1903 PD
Third Fleet 	
Created to protect the Trevor's Star System and its terminus of the Manticore Wormhole Junction during the Havenite-Manticoran Wars. Later reconstituted and reassigned in the Solarian-Manticoran War to protect the Sigma Draconis System and its terminus of the Manticoran Wormhole Junction.
Fifth Fleet 	Administrative organization responsible for fleet logistics.
Sixth Fleet 	An offensive force until conquest the Trevor's Star System during First Havenite-Manticoran War
Eighth Fleet	An offensive Allied force during Havenite-Manticoran Wars
Ninth Fleet 	Created to pacify and protect Manticoran territorial acquisitions in the former Silesian Confederacy.
Tenth Fleet 	Created to protect the Talbott Quadrant
===(People's) Republic of Haven Navy===
Capital Fleet	Assigned to protect the Haven System
First Fleet 	A major offensive and defensive force under Admiral Javier Giscard
Second Fleet 	A major offensive and defensive force under Admiral Lester Tourville
Third Fleet 	
Fifth Fleet 	A major offensive and defensive force under Admiral Genevieve Chin
Twelfth Fleet	A major offensive force assembled under Admiral Giscard to execute Operation Icarus, Operation Scylla, and the planned, but never executed Operation Bagration in the First Havenite-Manticoran War.
===Imperial Andermani Navy===
Home Fleet	Assigned to protect the New Berlin System
===Grayson Space Navy===
Home Fleet	Assigned to protect the Yeltsin's Star System
===Solarian League Navy===
Eleventh Fleet	Assembled to execute Operation Raging Justice against the Star Empire of Manticore, culminating in the Second Battle of Manticore.
===Beowulf System-Defense Force===
First Fleet	Primary and only fleet-level formation of the Beowulf System-Defense Force
===Combined Fleets===
Grand Fleet 	Allied offensive force assembled from ships of the Royal Manticoran Navy, Grayson Space Navy, Republic of Haven Navy, and Beowulf System-Defense Force in the Solarian-Manticoran War. Commanded by Fleet Admiral Honor Harrington, RMN.
Grayson-Manticoran Combined Fleet 	Joint multinational force assembled from ships of the Royal Manticoran Navy and Grayson Space Navy to counter the Masadan invasion of the Yeltsin's Star System in the First Battle of Yeltsin's Star.
Joint Navy Military Transport Command	Transport and supply command of the Manticoran Alliance in the First Havenite-Manticoran War.
===Other Fleets===
Rescue Fleet	Created after the end of Earth's Final War.
== References ==
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Category:Fleets