Peacekeeper Directorate

The Peacekeeper Directorate is the primary combat arm of the Harmony of Horizon. In times of active war it may be augmented by the Science Directorate and Public Safety Directorate.

While technically not a formal military institution, the Peacekeeper Directorate serves as the organized military of the Harmony of Horizon. The Peacekeeper Directorate operates in a half dozen numbered fleets centered around the powerful Five megaton Sanctuary pattern fleet tenders.

The Peacekeeper Directorate prefers to recruit directly from the Harmony's general public, with general crew often signed up for three year terms (with an additional initial six month training period) and it is often seen as a sign of prestige to have served one or more terms in the uniform of the Peacekeeper Directorate. Though this does tend to result in a fairly consistent churn in the Directorate's lower ranks.

Perhaps because of this the Peacekeeping Directorate is more selective with membership in its officer corps and most officers serve in the Peacekeeper Directorate for multiple decades. Most Peacekeeper officers are selected from those crew who have served their three year terms and having demonstrated exceptional ability and ambition have applied for the officer track. Once an officer recruit is accepted into the officer corps, the recruit will spend three years at the Peacekeeper wing of the Sanctuary Fleet Training Center, with the most promising officer recruits spending two terms at the Antaria Valley Advanced Cognition School for advanced training on Horizon itself.

Internally, the Peacekeeper Directorate is loosely divided into three separate branches: the officers and crew which serve aboard the fleet tenders and cruisers of the Expeditionary groups, those personnel which crew the Directorate's large number of small corvettes, and the men and women of the Peacekeeper Directorate's Ground Elements. Culturally, the Peacekeeper Directorate is considered the most professional of the Uniformed Spacegoing Services, and are often seen as stogy and arrogant by the other Directorates.

Active Ship Classes

 * Sanctuary Fleet Tender
 * Liberator Battle Cruiser
 * Solace Cruiser
 * Virtuoso Corvette - Deploy from Sanctuary Tenders

Phasing Out

 * Choreographer Fleet Tender
 * Dancer Corvette - Deploy from Choreographer Tenders

Introducing

 * Liberator-A refit program in progress
 * Believed to be prototyping two replacement possibilities for Alert-class vessels.
 * "Prodigy" second-line corvette to replace Dancer-class
 * "Wunderkind" first-line corvette
 * "Covenant" all-arounder cruiser

Segments
There are five Segments observed by the Peacekeeper Directorate. "Homeguard", around the capital, plus Coreward, Rimward, Spinward, and Tailwards. Each will have a similarly sized Expeditionary Group attached to defend it, with a sixth that can undergo maintenance at Harmony spacedock.

The Harmony is officially divided into five Segments: Core, Trailing, Spinward, Coreward, and Rimward

During peacetime each Segment has a full Peacekeeper Directorate Expeditionary fleet permanently assigned to it:
 * Core: 1st Peacekeeper Expeditionary Fleet
 * Trailing: 2nd Peacekeeper Expeditionary Fleet
 * Spinward:3rd Peacekeeper Expeditionary Fleet
 * Coreward:4th Peacekeeper Expeditionary Fleet
 * Rimward: 5th Peacekeeper Expeditionary Fleet

Expeditionary Groups
The Peacekeeper Directorate's doctrine sees the Directorate divided into a half dozen Expeditionary groups built around the massive Sanctuary Fleet Tenders, with Liberator battlecruisers, scientist pattern cruisers and dozens of corvettes attached to the Sanctuary flag ship. Each segment of the Harmony has an Expeditionary group permanently stationed as a defence fleet with the Divisions of the groups's Ground Elements stationed at the same bases as the fleet personnel.

There number of full expeditionary groups is being expanded to seven. They are now each able to be anchored by the immense Sanctuary class fleet tender, which has been steadily taken over from the last-generation Choreographer. Each full Expeditionary Group will contain a Sanctuary tender, a Choreographer, their attached corvettes, three Liberator battlecruisers, and a general cruiser.

Hull Markings
In order to distinguish the units and personnel of the Peacekeeper Directorate from the other Uniformed Spacegoing Services, the ships of the Peacekeeper Directorate are pained bright white with red highlights. Similarly, the uniforms of Directorate's officers and crew are the standard Harmony uniform in white and red.

Estimated Fleet Strength

 * 9 Sanctuary-class Fleet Tenders
 * 6 Choreographer-class Fleet Tenders
 * 20-24 Liberator cruisers
 * 80-90 Virtuoso corvettes
 * 50 Dancer corvettes