Common Core:Nanotrasen Naval Structure

The Nanotrasen Navy

Being one of the largest spacefaring corporations in the Known Galaxy, NT has a naval arm of significant size, consisting of civilian and military craft fitted to perform a vast array of duties. The Blue-Space Navy is a bit of a play on words, combining the technologies of Bluespace with their voidcraft travel, but most signficantly, a Navy so vast they paint space their corporate color, blue.

Though there is a dispraportionate ratio of Civilian to Military spacecraft (partly due to Galactic Federal Law, partly due to logistics), the Nanotrasen Navy sits on a near-unlimited source of civilian spacecraft, producing them by the thousands continuously, only quickening in the growing Federation. Nanotrasen shipping vessels and Orbital Stations are constantly being manufactured to feed into the space-industrialization machine that is Nanotrasen.

When it comes to Military spacecraft, more particularily the larger vessels of Nanotrasen's Navy, there aren't a massive amount (not including very small patrol, scout, and strike crafts). This isn't to say that Nanotrasen's military-focused navy isn't big, because it is, it's not big when compared navies such as The Federation, however Nanotrasen is one of the few corporations to have a navy consisting of both small and large spacecraft, something most corporations aren't able to achieve (usually only having small spacecraft and a small handful of larger spacecraft at most).

Large Spacecraft

Here is a list of large spacecraft in the Nanotrasen Navy

Houndstooth-Class Corvette:

Complement of 960. No. Built - 120

Jackal-Class Frigate: A small vessel designed as an anti-ship patrol vessel. It is designed to have a low signature to avoid detection.

Complement of 1000. No. Built - 100

Warden-Class Destroyer: A capable ship of the line, designed as a backbone assault ship. Equipped with missiles, anti-ship turbolazers, and ballistic cannons. Equipped with a hangar bay for strike craft, as well as additional space for supernumaries such as Marines.

Complement of 6000. No. Built - 80

Sentinel-Class Cruiser: A patrol ship equipped with a turbolazer. Typically assigned to remote NT Stations as a guard vessel.

Complement of 6000. No. Built - 70

Apotheosis-Class Battleship: A patrol ship equipped with a turbolazer. Typically assigned to remote NT Stations as a guard vessel.

Complement of 6000. No. Built - 60

Zeitgeist-Class Juggernaut: The capital ships of the NT Navy, equipped with bluespace artillery.

Complement of 4000. No. Built - 20

P-Class Colossus: The experiment ships of the Nanotrasen Navy, equipped with some of the largest weapons ever constructed. The ships have only been tested once, where the main laser cannon was fired at a small extant planet. While the beam initially appeared to simply decimate the surface of the planet, 120 seconds of continuous fire (utilizing approximately 100QW of energy), the core eventually destablized itself, and the planet rendered itself into fragments.

Complement of 600. No. Built - 6

Naval Hierarchy

Ranks within the NT Navy mirror that of other navies within the Galactic Federation. **THESE ARE NOT RANKS HELD ON ORBITAL, SPACE, OR TERRESTRIAL STATIONS / COLONIES, ONLY ON NANOTRASEN MILITARY AND CIVILIAN SHIPS**

NANOTRASEN NAVAL RANKS

RATINGS/ENLISTED PERSONNEL
Ordinary Rate (OR)	New recruits to the Nanotrasen navy.
Able Rate (AR)	The entry level rank for all ratings who pass basic training.
Leading Rate (LR)	Ratings with at least two years of spacefaring experience. In charge of a small team.
Petty Officer (PO)	NCO. Typically the rank held by ratings with a department-specific qualification.
Chief Petty Officer (CPO)	A senior NCO.
Warrant Officer (WO)	Seniormost NCO.
OFFICERS	All officer candidates must pass a series of interviews and a fitness test. Successful candidates will then spend 6 months at the NanoTrasen Naval Academy, as Cadets.
Midshipman (Mid)	An officer in training, newly promoted to officership.
Ensign (Ens)	The first rank held by officers fresh out of NanoTrasen Naval Academy. He or She will be an Officer of the Watch.
Lieutenant (LT)	On larger ships, a senior OOW. On smaller ships, he or she will be the Executive Officer or a Department Head.
Lieutenant-Commander (LT Cdr)
Commander (Cdr)
Captain (Cpt)	Captain - The commander of a squadron of ships, or the Commanding Officer of a Capital Ship. It is also a rank held by commanders at CENTCOM for regional facilities or CENTCOM officers on-ship.
ADMIRALTY	Members of the Nanotrasen High Naval Command (NTHNC).
Commodore (Com)
Vice Admiral (VAdm)
Admiral (Adm)	Responsible for command of either a Fleet of vessels or an entire division. A senior CENTCOM position.
Grand Admiral (Gadm)
Fleet Admiral (Fadm)	The highest rank in the NTHNC.