Solarian Naval Offices

## High Command

To the majority of civilian personnel, High Command is thought to be exclusively the Admiral of the Fleet. However, High Command refers to every position in Shield Base, including the Admiral of the Fleet and the various Office and Department Heads. Per Naval Regulation, no one in High Command can override the decision of a CO of any ship or formation, provided they are not breaking any laws or regulations. This prevents messy situations, especially with Capital Fleet.

## Offices

High Command is broken down into multiple Offices, each with their own distinct task. Each Office is headed by an Admiral, referred to as a Director, though it's not uncommon to see a Vice Admiral holding the position while the paperwork for promotion is pending. All Officers in charge of Departments are referred to as Department Heads and usually hold the rank of Vice Admiral, though Rear Admirals may command for the same reason as vice Admirals as Directors. All Directors are appointed by the Admiral of the Fleet from inside the Office itself. Offices are listed in order of size, not importance.

### Office of Personnel

The Office of Personnel handles all matters related to the individuals within the Navy. Promotions, pay, leave, enlistments, commissioning's, deaths, retirements, etc. The Office of Personnel is the single largest and busiest Office in the Navy and Vice Admiral Sarah Summers, the Earlessa of Chalice Bay, was given her title for how well she manages the ins and outs of personnel management, as well as how swiftly she rose to her position. Every officer that has ever held command has received their orders from this Office, though all except Fleet Admiral postings are written by a staffer and not the Earlessa herself. The Office of Personnel is the largest of the equivalent in the entire Solarian Military, due to the size of the Navy. The only position not managed by the Office of Personnel is that of the Admiral of the Fleet.

#### Department of Finance

A subservient Department of the Office of Personnel, the Department of Finance handles the pay of all Naval Personnel. The Department of Finance itself is almost the size of the Office of Personnel, making it the largest Department in the Navy.

#### Department of Housing

The Department of Housing is responsible for handling the housing of every spacer in the Navy not deployed aboard a ship or station. Any families are also managed by the Department, as they require housing as well. Officers on Half-Pay are entitled to housing if they are a Captain or above.

#### Department of Training

The Department of Training is responsible for the education and training of officers and crewmen, which gives it control over the Imperial Naval Academy, as well the various stations that contain Basic Training and training for a Spacer's Rating. All Officer Candidate Training Officers, or OCTOS, aboard a ship have to be certified by the Department. Every ship that receives Midshipmen/women (Middies) is required to have at least one OCTO certified Officer aboard. Though HMS Vidi is a Solarian Marine training site, it is run by the Department of Training, due to the nature of the site.

#### Department of the Judge Advocate General

The Department of the Judge Advocate General, or JAG for short, is the legal aspect of the Navy and handles all legal investigations and courts-martial for the Navy. Unlike every other Department and Office, JAG sends status reports to the Ministry of Law as well as Director Chalice Bay, due to the nature of the work done by JAG. The current JAG is Vice Admiral Alice Ortiz.

### Office of Ships

The Office of Ships manages every ship in the Navy, as well as ammunition, construction, scrapping, etc. the Office may be smaller than the Office of Personnel, in only by a hair, but they take up more server room in the Shield Base Mainframe, as the Office keeps a record of every ship that has ever been commissioned by the Solarian Navy, as well as Shield Fleet, to include registry numbers and current status.

#### Department of Resources

The Department of Resources manages the mining and scrapping of all ships in the Navy, as well as providing resources to R&D, shipbuilding, and Maintenance. The Department is also responsible for the planning, administration, and operational aspects of the Navy's supply train, controlling a fleet of freighters, ammunition ships, and repair ships. The Scientist-class Combat Repair Cruiser is actually under the purview of the Department of Resources.

#### Department of Design

Often referred to as R&D, the Department of Design does exactly that: Testing and overseeing projects for, and recommending deployment of, the development of new weapons, weapon systems, or loadouts for the Navy. Aside from Department Head and a handful of clerks, R&D is scattered across the Sol System, the majority of the personnel are located on Mars and in stations around the system, where testing can be done safely.

#### Department of Maintenance

The Department of Maintenance is responsible for the repair and routine maintenance of all ships in the Navy, as well as training all personnel responsible for Damage Control. The Head of this Department always comes from Damage Control on ships and stations. Personnel assigned to this Department are referred to as Yard Dogs. DepMain controls the Reserve Fleet and the Department Head is responsible for deciding which ships to re-commission and in what order, to meet the mission required by the orders from the Admiral of the Fleet.

#### Department of Shipbuilding

The Department of Shipbuilding is one of the most classified and secretive groups in the entire Navy, with a professional paranoia to match ONI. Manning the shipyards, the personnel assigned to the Department learn every aspect of every ship they build, or at least the part they work on. The Office of Personnel only assigns people to the Office of Ships for this reason, as the Office of Ships tends to assign people to this Department without a paper trail for the Office of Personnel, so that no one in the Office knows who the shipbuilders are. the Office of shipbuilding includes personnel trained in operation of a ship, to get the ship out of the builders and out to the station where the normal crew will take over. The Department Head is an AI known as Roland.

### Office of Naval Intelligence

The Office of Naval Intelligence, or ONI, is responsible for retrieving and using information on other star nations, including vessels, personnel, technology, and operations. ONI is the most compartmentalized and paranoid Office and, in all actuality, should be a Department. However, the importance of ONI, as well as the amount of information known, stored, and forgotten about, mandated Office status. The Director is Admiral Dame Julianna Gorska, OG. There is a direct two way flow of need-to-know information between ONI and the Special Investigation Service.

#### Department of Planning

The Department of Planning manages all operational analysis and design of the Navy. Every plan for every contingency was designed by DepPlan. Then-Captain, SG, Tylar Noche, actually spent three years in the Department in while waiting on a Ship Command.

#### Criminal Investigation Department

The Criminal Investigation Department, or CID, is the most feared Department of all Naval Personnel, as CID investigates felony crimes and serious violations of military law & Naval Regulation Code. CID operates autonomously from most Chain of Command and reports only to the Director of ONI, JAG, the Defense Minister and the Legal Minister. If the Admiral of the Fleet needs information from CID, it is relayed through the Director of ONI instead. As with all personnel assigned to the Department of Shipbuilding, CID Agents are assigned by the Director of ONI, not by the Office of Personnel, to protect their anonymity. CID Agents are required to hide their rank and can ignore standard military etiquette, within reason. No one of any rank is considered above a CID agent, except Admiral Gorska and Vice Admiral Ortiz. CID works alongside the SIS as needed.