Galactic Alliance of Interstellar Peace Navy

The Galactic Alliance of Interstellar Peace Navy has operated since the GAIP's formation, serving as it's main method of power projection and military intervention. It is comprised of hundreds of thousands of warships of varying size and classes, ranging from small strike fighters to large battleships and dreadnoughts.

## Naval Conventions

### Class Name

The class name of a ship is derived from a particular topic in relation to the primary manufacturer’s species background. The table below outlined the topics that can be chosen from to decide on a name based on the ship’s type.

### Typical naming conventions

For Example: Australia Class Battlecruiser, Nebula class Cruiser.

### Types

The type of a ship is typically denoted from its role within the greater navy. For example, a ship classed as a destroyer type is denoted as one with high speed and agility, intended to engage enemy warships either alone or in numbers with a wide array of weapons.

### Primary Types

 Corvette/Frigate
 Destroyer
 Cruiser
 Carrier
 Battlecruiser
 Battleship
 Battlecarrier
 Supercarrier
 Dreadnought

There are cases where a ship will not have one of these primary classes, such as the Halberd class Siege Ship. In most of these cases, the class is indicative of what the ship is intended to fulfill, i.e., the Halberd class Siege Ship is intended to carryout prolonged bombardment operations against fortified and entrenched positions with precision plasma cannons, although it does rarely see use.

 Assault Ship
 Siege Ship
 Prowler

These types of ship will often have less strict or defined naming conventions, given their unique, specialized, or one-off purposes.

## Power Systems

General convention for GA warships is to employ faster speed and agility compared to any hostile force. Through years of research and innovation, fast cycling power systems, allowing for rapid recharging of shield and weapon systems within small time periods. These fast-cycling systems make EMP weaponry virtually useless against GA warships, since their systems will reboot and repower before significant damage can occur.

Speed is another attribute for GA warships to focus on. The fast-cycling power systems enable most warships to recharge shields and disabled systems rapidly and repower engines that have shut down. However, these systems do take up a large amount of space at times.

## Weaponry Conventions

The Galactic Alliance, given its focus on a cultural monopoly, and preserving its member state’s cultures and beliefs, opt to use precision energy weapons intended to strike with deadly accuracy and deliver crippling blows against targets from afar. The Galactic Alliance views most kinetic weapons as having too much potential collateral damage, or being too brutal to use, so a focus is placed on precision energy-based weapons. Most GA forces are aware of targets they’re going to be engaging, and as such, will pick to refit their warships with weapons most appropriate for exploiting known weaknesses. These weapons can range from several things, including the following:

* Plasma Lances
* Focused Energy Beams
* Guided Plasma Torpedoes
* Guided Plasma Missiles
* Drones
* CWIS Plasma Batteries
* Pulse Lasers

Given political ideologies and practices, the GA will often neglect kinetic weapons such as traditional naval guns, conventional explosive warheads, railguns, or magnetic accelerators in favor of directed energy weapons to facilitate precise targeting with as little collateral as possible. These precise strikes reflect the GA’s favoritism towards diplomacy by trying to minimize any potential damage that may be unintentionally caused by a military intervention. Plasma torpedoes, Focused Energy Beams and Plasma Lances are the favorited weapons of GA warships.

Many GA warships will use an onboard AI to fire-link or control their weapons, ensuring maximum precision when targeting moving hostile forces.

## Shielding Systems

GA warships prefer the use of ion shielding systems over all other available models. Ion shielding, whilst not as powerful as other systems, it is the easiest to power and operate efficiently. Ion shielding is effective against most forms of energy weapons, albeit not overtly effective against kinetic weapons (specifically mass drivers and railguns).

With the fast-cycling power systems discussed earlier, ion shielding systems can repower themselves even faster than they would normally, and GA warships can effectively tank energy weapon projectiles significantly longer than most third-party warships.

With their specialized power systems and ion shield arrays, onboard Ais can manually automatically shield systems to ensure maximum efficiency by diverting power to projectors in areas that are taking the most damage.

## Warships

The GAIPN used several different classes of warships, ranging in scale and firepower.