Terran Starfleet

-Fleet Admiral Zambellas

-Grand Admiral Thrawn

The **Terran Starfleet** known as the **Terran Navy** and **Terran Space Force** is the naval and space branch of the Terran Alliance Armed Forces, and the only truly international branch. The Starfleet was formed initially with captured Separatist battleships and Star Destroyers loaned from the Republic, and grew over the Clone Wars with further captured ships. Following the completion of the Terran Star Forge in 2004, the Starfleet was able to build its own warships, and grew greatly in number over the following years.

## Background

The Terran Starfleet had its background when Terran individuals were brought aboard Republic warships to show them how starships worked, in anticipation of the day that the Terran Alliance would have starships of its own.

Following the end of the Terran campaign, leaders of the Terran Alliance made clear their wishes for the Terran Alliance to have its own Starfleet to allow the Alliance to defend itself from interstellar attack, to project Terran power beyond the solar system, and explore the Milky Way Galaxy.

## History

The Terran Starfleet unofficially began in early January of 1992, when sailors and some pilots from Terran navies and air forces personnel were asked to volunteer to serve as part of a future Terran Starfleet service.

The Starfleet was officially formed on January 18, 1992, with the signing and ratification of the Terran Accords. Initially, the Starfleet had 10 ships: 8 Venator class Star Destroyers gifted to the Alliance from the Republic, and two Lucrehulk class battleships captured from the Separatist Navy.

For the first year of the Terran involvement in the Clone Wars, most of the Starfleet was kept in Earth orbit, either remaining on guard duty or undergoing refits. Several Terran warships saw combat in the Andromeda Galaxy, but rarely more than three at a time. Between February 1992 and April 1994, the Terrans also captured 7 more warships from the Separatist Navy (1 Lucrehulk, 1 Providence, 2 Munificents, 3 Resuscants).

The Starfleet saw its first major taste of combat at the Battle of Coruscant, in which 12 of the 17 warships of the fleet took part, arriving as the first wave of reinforcements and carrying out nuclear attacks against the Separatist fleet.

In the following months, much of the Starfleet saw action in the Outer Rim Sieges. When the newly declared Emperor Palpatine enacted Order 66, the Starfleet did its best to rescue Jedi and Terran forces. A number of Republic ships were captured during this time, as well as a Separatist warship, and were all added to the fleet. Once all Terran forces had been rescued, the Starfleet rendezvoused near Teth before making the journey back to Earth.

Following the end of the Clone Wars and start of the Intergalactic Cold War, the Starfleet began putting all their efforts towards building more warships. Two warships were immediately put into construction on Earth, while all other efforts were put towards the construction of the Terran Star Forge.

When the Terran Star Forge was completed in 2004 and began operations, the Starfleet began growing in size very rapidly, with several dozen ships per year joining the fleet. By 2013, the Starfleet numbered over 300 warships, with a similar number of auxiliary vessels and transports also in service.

## Organization

### Administration

The Terran Starfleet was one of the services that operated under the jurisdiction of the Terran Joint Command. The Admiralty was a council of Admirals that oversaw the general actions of the Starfleet and saw that the orders of the Joint Command were carried out. Admirals and captains were then responsible for the actions of smaller fleets, task forces, and individual craft.

### Fleets

The Terran Starfleet was divided up into different fleets. Most of its fleets were identified by numbers, such as the 1st Fleet or the 3rd Fleet. Numbered fleets were used to explore the galaxy, defend outlying planets of the Alliance, and to wage war with hostile galactic and intergalactic powers. Each fleet was assigned under the leadership of a single Admiral or Fleet Admiral.

The largest fleet within the Starfleet was the Home Fleet, which was assigned specifically to the defense of Earth. During the Galactic Civil War, as much as half of the entire Starfleet's warships were assigned to the Home Fleet.

## Personnel

Personnel of the Terran Starfleet were drawn from every member of the Terran Alliance, making the Starfleet a truly international service. Both males and females of any species were allowed to join the Starfleet.

The Starfleet also used heavy numbers of droids produced at the Terran Star Forge to man their ships, they also have a handful of Marines inside of the ships to serve as a guard for the Starfleet Personnel and Starship crews in case of any attacks from the enemies, they were also allowed to partake in land assault and ground operations similar to their Army counterparts.

## Starships of the Terran Starfleet

### Capital Ships

The bulk of the Terran Starfleet's ship were capital ships. At the beginning of the Clone Wars, the fleet was mainly made of Venator class Star Destroyers and Lucrehulk class battleships, and was later supplemented by captured Providence class dreadnoughts, Resuscant class Destroyers, and Munificent class frigates.

Once the Terran Star Forge was completed, the Starfleet retired all Clone Wars era warships within three years, and shifted towards indigenously produced warships. The backbone of the fleet was comprised of Star Destroyers, including London and Baltimore class Star Destroyers. The Starfleet also made use of light and heavy cruisers, interdiction cruisers, battlecruisers, battleships, and starfighter carriers. One of them is the Repulse-class Battlecruiser. In 2013, the Starfleet commissioned the first Freedom class Super Star Destroyer.

### Auxiliary ships

The Terran Starfleet made use of auxiliary ships for transport and other non combat roles, include Consular crass cruisers, Accalamator class troop transports, and William F Halsey assault ships.

### Space carriers

Space Fighter carriers or Starfighter carriers is a type of Aircraft carrier but in space, just like Aircraft carriers they are capable of accommodate more troops and fighters which they used in combat. They served as game changers for Terran Starfleet since they can send more fighter and bomber reinforcements to the Allied troops.

#### Fighter and Bombers

*Main article: Starfighters*

The Terran Starfleet took great pride in its fleet air arm. Initially, the Starfleet made use of Z-95, Y-Wing, V-Wing, and ARC-170 fighters given to them by the Republic. Later on in the Clone Wars, the Starfleet developed space capable variants of atmospheric & space fighters and bombers with, including the SF-15 Space Eagle built in the early 1990s, Su-36 Flanker, SFA-18 Hornet, SA-10 Warthog, SF-20 Tigershark, and SB-1B Lancer.

By the time of the Galactic Civil War, the Starfleet had retired almost all of the fighters and bombers given to them by the Republic. They had also introduced a variety of new fighters and bombers (SF-23, F-42, Su-49, Mirage 5000, Tu-800, and B-3). Each Terran fighter variant in service was superior to almost every TIE fighter model used by the Galactic Empire, their only real disadvantage being their lower numbers. Yet they were also superior in most respects to Rebel fighters, and with superior numbers. The majority of these fighters and bombers have VTOL (vertical take-off and landing)/STOVL (short take-off and vertical landing) capabilities. The TA also later acquired the T-65 X-Wing blueprints from the Rebellion, and began building their own X-Wings.

The Starfleet not only prided itself on having excellent starfighters, but also excellent pilots. Terran pilots were generally agreed upon to have much better training than the majority of Imperial or Rebel pilots.

In the years after the Galactic Civil War, the Starfleet maintained its existing fighter fleet before beginning to introduce new starfighters designs in the 2030s. By the time of the Grysk War in 2041, the Alliance had introduced three new fighter designs: the SF-39 Mustang (designed to replace the SF-15, SFA-18, and the Su-36), the F-3 Zero (designed to replace the SF-23) and the J-25.

## Gallery

### Capital ships

London-class Star Destroyer (Imagine if this was Victory-class but larger)Baltimore-class but slightly larger than London-classRepulse-class Battlecruiser, one of the most capable ship used by the Terran Navy.A Freedom-class Super Star DestroyerArgus-class Starfighter carrier, A carrier served for space combatTAS Enterprise, a massive single ship class of Super Star Destroyer designed to destroy entire fleets.
### Space fighters and bombers

SF-15S Space Eagle, A Space variant of F-15 Eagle except it has VTOL/STOVL landing capabilities and it is combat proven for it's Space superiority.SF/A-18 Space Hornet, A Space fighter VTOL/STOVL variant of Marine F/A-18C/D classic Hornet and Navy F/A-18E/F Super HornetSF-23 Black Widow III, A Space Superiority variant of the rejected YF-23 Black Widow IISU-36 Flanker, A space variant of Flanker family sometimes referred as J-19 for the Chinese.SU-49, based on the rejected SU-47 Berkut but better.Dassault Mirage 5000, A Space variant of Mirage 2000, with elements of the ARC-170SF-50, A Space variant of FA-50 the cheapest but more effective Space Fighter of Terran Starfleet,SF-20 Tigershark, Space variant of F-20 Tigershark.X-Wing- A Rebel built starfighter bought by the Terran AllianceSA-10 Warthog, A Space variant of A-10 Thunderbolt ground-attack jet.B-3 Raider, A Terran Space bomber.TU-800 based on PAK-DA Stealth Bomber,SB-1B Space Bomber, based on the B1 bomber used by the United States Air Force and capable of dropping thousands of pounds of ordinances on terrestrial targets and enemy starships.SF-39 Mustang II, a multirole starfighter to replace the Clone Wars era starfightersMitsubish F-3 Zero, a space superiority fighter designed to replace the SF-23 Black WidowThe Shenyang J-25 is a Multirole fighter and interceptor of the Terran Starfleet, which was in service in 2040s-present.
## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*
* *The Terran Alliance Strikes Back*

## Trivia

* The images of the Starfighters such as SF-15S Space Eagle is based on a fighter jet from the Robotech/Macross series and based on a fictional design by Shōji Kawamori for the Patlabor second movie, who also created the Macross series, the SF/A-18 was based on F/A-181 Black Wasp II from ARMA 3 and the SF-23 Black Widow III was based on YF-23 from Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown game.

## Also See:

* Terran Alliance
	+ Terran Army