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Federation Starfleet
Unit Information
Active:	2161 - Present
Allegiance:	United Federation of Planets
Branch:	Naval Force
Type:	Space Service
Role:	Peaceful exploration Federation defense Scientific research Diplomacy Humanitarian aid Peacekeeping
Motto:	Ex Astris, Scientia ("From the Stars, Knowledge")
OOC Command Staff
OOC Division Head:	Frankie
Command Staff
CinC:	Admiral Admiral Kerry Malone
Directors & Liaison
Source

The Federation Starfleet, also known simply as Starfleet, is the exploratory and defensive force of the United Federation of Planets. Starfleet's function is to explore unknown territory on the behalf of the Federation government, to defend the Federation and its allies from threats, to further Federation policies and interests throughout interstellar space, and, when applicable, to initiate first contact with newly-discovered worlds and to engage in diplomatic negotiations on the behalf of the Federation.

Starfleet Command

With an organization as large and wide-spread as Starfleet, a definite hierarchy exists in the Chain of Command from the new trainee to the starship captains, to the fleet commanders, all the way up to a centralized command staff which itself is headed by a single senior officer. Though Starfleet's command can be traced up to one officer, it takes the entirety of the Starfleet Command Division to actually run the massive and innumerable resources and ventures of Starfleet.

Starfleet is headed by the Commander of Starfleet (or more commonly Commander, Starfleet for short), who is generally nominated by the President of the Federation and confirmed by both the Federation Council and the Starfleet Admiralty Board. The next in line of command is the Chief of Staff of Starfleet, who is appointed by the Commander, Starfleet and likewise confirmed by the Admiralty Board, and is generally tasked with overseeing and managing the Staff & Admiralty throughout Starfleet and is tasked with managing the various divisions and departments at Starfleet Command.

At this point the Chain of Command diverges between active Fleet assets, which are commanded by the individual Fleet Captains headed by the Chief of Starfleet Operations, and all non-Fleet operations resources, which are commanded by their respective Division Directors or Heads under the direction of the Starfleet Chief of Staff. Naturally, there is considerable overlapping between them, and so effective working relationships are expected and encouraged between the section Commanders to ensure the smooth running of Starfleet as a whole.

The whole entity of Starfleet Command, is often referred to as "The Admiralty", which is a term derived from older naval times, where a country's naval command was referred to as the Admiralty. Whilst you do not need to be a flag officer to serve in the Admiralty, you will be known as an Admiralty officer.

Starfleet Command as an entity is split between two locations. The primary command offices are located at Starfleet Tower in the Starfleet Campus in San Fransisco, shared with the Academy. This is where the offices of various heads of department can be found, along with the CinC's office, the Chief of Staff's office, and various meeting suites.

The Operational command facilities for Starfleet Command are actually housed on Starbase One, in orbit around Earth. This is the main drydock and starport facility for Earth, where all visiting Starships are berthed. This super station co-ordinates all Starfleet activity across the cosmos. There are auxilary offices for the CinC, Chief of Staff and the other Senior Division Heads, should they need to be used.

The Marine Corps has offices in the Starfleet Campus, as do other agencies, but not within Starfleet Tower itself.

There are emergency facilites for Starfleet Command in the event of loss or disaster. One is in Australia, and there are other underground facilities on the core worlds of the Federation - with designated 'succession' officers in place to assume command of Starfleet should the primary facilites fall, and the appointed heads killed or incapacitated. For example, should Earth fall, all Starfleet command and control would go to the secure facility on Alpha Centauri.

Chain of Command

• Commander, Starfleet
  • Chief of Starfleet Operations
    • Task Force Commanders
      • Starship/Starbase Commanding Officers
  • Chief of Staff of Starfleet
    • Starfleet Division Commanders
      • Liasons/Support Staff

Starfleet Chief's of Staff (SCS)

The Starfleet Chief's of Staff are an advisory body, chaired by the Commander, Starfleet. This body are responsible for the oversight and management of the entire Fleet plus subsidary organisations.

The members of this body are:

• Commander, Starfleet (Chair)
• Chief of Staff of Starfleet
• Director of the Office of Military Operations
• Director of the Office of Defensive Operations
• Director of the Office of Science and Exploration

Starfleet Fleet Structure

At present, Starfleet is comprised of multiple Task Force's, which form Starfleet as a whole.

Individual Task Forces are given numerical designations, from which all smaller formation structures base their own numerical designations upon, based on the order of their formation, which often times will also conform to a general regional location as the need for more taskforces can be proportional to the amount of territory Starfleet needs to cover. This, however, is usually coincidental and is by no means an operational policy.

So, Starfleet is considered the 1st Fleet, which would have the designation (1) while a Task Force within 1st Fleet would have a subsequent numerical designation, such as (1.1). A Task Group within a Task Force would share it's parent formation's designation with the added subsequent number, such as (1.1.1). Smaller formations such as Strike or Patrol Groups do not use numerical designations, but rather just their Group names as they are too small to be deployed too far from the parent group in most cases.

Below are the standard Formation guidelines of internal Fleet structures, though quite often situations will require that some exceptions be made to accommodate the circumstances.

Each formation, with the exception of Flotilla/Patrol must be commanded by either a Fleet Captain or a Flag officer. A Flotilla/Patrol may be commanded by a Captain or Commander, depending on size of formation and size/classes of vessels.

Ranks & Uniforms

• Starfleet Rank Pips
• Starfleet Issue Uniforms