Spacecraft

> "Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft." - *Nathan Myhrvold, American Author & Inventor*
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Most spacecraft or **Vimana** are not build for atmosphere entry, making them "crash" upon trying to land on the surface. When Travel to a planet's surface is required, **Space Elevators** or **low orbit "SSTO" vehicels** are used instead. While older engines such as **methane/oxygen engines** are still used in intrastellar travel, FTL travel is conducted by the nuclear fusion-fission powered Aeolus Drive, which has a maximum range of **8,1** lightyears or **2,5** parsec, resulting in the creation of “Arms” that extend from Sol to connect only the stars that are within this range of eachother, this limit can potentially be extended to **20** ly using the experimental **Grosvenor Drive-Extensors**, but this is expensive and uncommon. **Silicon–Germanium** *(SiGe)***, Magnesium diboride, Tralphium (He-3), Tellurium, River Sand, SNGs, Tantalum, Lithium, PGMs** *(Platinoids such as **Platinum**, **Osmium**, **Palladium** or **Iridium**)***, Zirconium, Hafnium, Xenon, Argon, Deuterium and Tritium** are considered the most vital chemicals & metals for the spacecraft industry.

## Known ranks

### Astral Force ranks

* Grandcommander - "*Supereme General"*
* Commander-General - "*General"*, leads a Constellation.
* Rear Commander - Commanding officer of a Squadron or a Craftdock.
* Pilot-Commander - Leads a Spacecraft.
* First Pilot - Second in Command.
* Flight Engineer - Mission Specialist, assisting the Pilot and Commander.
* Officer-Commander
* Officer-Designate
* Astral-Commandant - "*Major"*
* Captain
* Senior Lieutenant
* Junior Lieutenant
* General-Sergeant
* Major Sergeant
* Operator-Sergeant - Qualified to perform highly complex technical duties.
* Staff Sergeant
* Senior Astrogator
* Astrogator -First Class-
* Junior Astrogator

### Enlisted ranks

* General-Executor - Head of a Espatier Division.
* Executive-Commander - Leads a Espatier Squad
* Espatier - sometimes refered to as "Space Marines".
* Dragoner - Also called a "*Lancer"* or "*Dragoon"*. Combatmecha specialist.
* Astrotrooper - "*Private"*
* Recruit

### Exploration

* Director-General - Head of the Survey Command Service
* Director Deputy - Heads a Exploration Theater
* Surveyor-General - heads a Surveyor a science/survey spacecraft.

### Other titled crew of a Spacecraft

* Specialist-Operator- Technical experts
* Payload-Operator- Takes care of any cargo
* Marshal-Inspector - The "Big Boss", only large spacecrafts have a Marshal-Inspector on board. They work very closely with StellaSec. The Marshal's are trained on **Xuesen**, the capital of the Moon.
* Inspector - Makes sure that the UCSS Rules are keept.

### UCSS Forces in the Solar System

##### Service Roles & Missions

* CSS Sun Constellation
	+ Patrol major commercial orbits
	+ Convoy escort
	+ Patrol orbits of actively mined NEOs MBOs, KBOs and other potentially dangerous objects
	+ Operate and Maintain Navigation Lasers in Terran, Martian, Main Belt, Jovian and Chronian orbits
	+ Power Projection in orbital space of Main Belt and Saturn
	+ UCSS Solar Espatier Corps
		- Space Expeditionary Force
			* Mobile Fleet Contingent (Combined Arms)
		- Peacekeeping Zone Contingent
			* Space Force internal security
		- Spacecraft security/boarding parties
			* Security contingent at nav-laser installations
		- Inspection Team security
			* Nuclear spacecraft inspection teams

* Planetary Peacekeeping Zones
	+ Zone Venus/Mercury
		- L1 Space Sunshades Defence Force

* + Zone Earth/Luna
		- Space Elevators
			* Samoa Space Elevator (Tāfuna nearest Port)
			* Tahiti Space Elevator (Papeʻete nearest Port)
			* Kilimanjaro Space Elevator
			* Kenya Space Elevator
			* Quito Space Elevator
			* Bélabo Space Elevator
			* Rwenzori Space Elevator
			* Opara Space Elevator
			* Wahgi Space Elevator
			* Ibagué Space Elevator
			* Bogotá Space Elevator
			* Qullaw Space Elevator
			* Libreville Space Elevator
			* Veragua Space Elevator
			* Talamanca Space Elevator
			* Borneo Space Elevator
			* Bukidnon Space Elevator
			* Bangui Space Elevator

* Zone Luna
	+ Space Elevators
		- Shackleton Space Elevator
	+ Tabgha Base
		- Gateway I
		- Gateway II
		- Gateway III
			* Armstrong City Military Base

* Zone Mars
	+ Space Elevators
		- Phobos Space Elevator
		- Olympus Mons Space Elevator
		- Pavonis Space Elevator
		- Elysium Mons Space Elevator
	+ Deimos Defense Complex

* Mars/Earth Patrol-Cyclers "Asteroid Raiders"
	+ CSS Vigil
	+ CSS Cheyenne
	+ CSS El Paso

* Zone Jupiter
	+ Callisto Defense Complex
	+ UCSS Ganymede Peacekeeping Force (UCSSFIGAN)

* Zone Saturn
	+ Mission HQ Titan
		- Solar First Responser
		- Mobile Squadron Chronos
	+ Mission Command Enceladus
		- Uranus Crews
		- Neptune Crews

* Commercial Peacekeeping Zones (COM-PEZ)
	+ Luna
		- Gagarinsk Civilian Guard
		- Takamagahara Security
	+ Main Asteroid Belt
		- Mission Command Juno
			* Escort Squadrons

## Known Constellations

The **UCSS Astral Forces** is divided into three primary constellations. Several smaller constellations also operate as part of the main constellation were required:

## Known UCSS Vimana Classes

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology-critical\_element