Confederacy of Amarkia Navy

The Navy of the Confederacy of Amarki is a series of Chivalric Orders that come together under a single command. Their Mission Statement is to act as the Sword and Shield of Amarkia and her Colonies; they have often extended this in practice to acting as the sword and shield of the Federation, a role they take some pride in. With an illustrious history stretching back over a century, they are experienced and talented starfarers, with an innate sense of three-dimensional navigation.

The fleet is not a purely military force, but leans very heavily in that direction. It is based around a heavy core of Riala battlecruisers, supported by Anacail frigates and Hebrinda-A cruisers as a vanguard and escort force with Mielab and Centaur-B frigates for scouting and skirmish duties. Cruisers and Rialas handle peacetime response, while frigates conduct policing and for Mielabs and Centaurs surveying duties.

Active Ship Classes

 * Riala-A battlecruiser
 * Hebrinda-A cruiser
 * Constitution-B cruiser
 * Centaur-B general purpose frigate
 * Anacail combat frigate
 * Mielab scout frigate

Retiring Classes

 * Brieca-A frigate
 * Calac-A frigate

Obsolete Classes

 * Riala battlecruiser
 * Hebrinda cruiser
 * Perciar cruiser
 * Brieca frigate
 * Calac frigate

Future

 * Lufroil-class heavy cruiser
 * Lisettia-class light cruiser
 * Riala Successor (3mt?)
 * Riala-B refit
 * Anacail-A
 * Mielab-A

Personnel
Officers in the CA-Navy are actually members of a series of Chivalric Orders. Those more familiar with a Starfleet arrangement would do well to consider them Divisions - the onboard Science Division for example, are all members of the Order of the Silver Torch. What Starfleet would consider the Command Division are the members of the Order of the Star and Circlet.

Ratings
Enlisted Ratings are held to not be proper members of the Knightly Orders, but rather retainers thereof. It is still an esteemed role within Amarkian culture, especially when in a spacegoing billet. These Ratings are divided into Spacers, Serjeants, and Masters, each with a number of grades between them.

Squires
Officers join the orders as Squires, which are junior officers in the parlance of other navies. There are three grades of Squire, of which the first is considered a cadet, the second an Enisgn, the third a Lieutenant JG. However, on Amarkian ships, they are almost only ever referred to simply as Squires, rather than by a specific grade.

Knights
The induction into the order as a full member is far more involved than a simple promotion to Lieutenant, and prospective members are put through gruelling inquisitions to ensure they are ready and capable. The position of Knight is a prized one, and Amarkian officers who have achieved this honour will exceptionally rarely ever do anything to jeopardise it. A Captain of the space-going Amarkian Fleet is properly a Knight-Commander, though outside of purely formal address Knight-Captain or, most commonly, simply Captain is valid.

Higher Ranks
To progress beyond this point, however, an officer is inducted into a second order. For starship officers, this is the Order of the Lileac, named for the Amarkian Orchid which is prized on their homeworld. These are the Admirals of the Amarkian fleet, of which there are only three grades, the higher of which is only held by the Head of State. However, there are a number of other orders for specific purposes. For instance, the Amarkian answer to the Shipyard Operations Command and the Ship Design Bureau is the Order of the Tower, whose officers are Castellans and High Castellans.

Specific Orders

 * Order of the Lileac - Flag Officers/Ops/Tac
 * Order of the Tower - Fleet Infrastructure
 * Order of the Star and Circlet - Command Division
 * Order of the Silver Torch - Science Division
 * Order of the Lion - Security Division
 * Order of the Knights Hospitaller - Medical Division
 * Order of the Girdle - Operations Division
 * Order of the Summit - Engineering Division
 * Order of the Scale - Intelligence Department
 * Order of the Arch - Design Department

Amarkian Contributions
Ships of the Confederacy of Amarkia Navy have represented the Federation alongside Starfleet in almost every battlefield thus far. From the grand campaign against the Ulith III Biophage where Admiral Aelin gave his life alongside those of many of his crew, through to the tumult of the Gabriel Expanse campaigns, CAS-N ships have stood in the breach. Their valour has proved invaluable, with the battle-proven design of first the Riala and then the Riala-A anchoring Federation forces through any hardship.

Major Worlds

 * Amarkia
 * Selindra
 * Tales Har
 * Leas Akaam

Colonies

 * Tal Hanar
 * 10 Miele
 * Gaiar Har
 * Delfriebh
 * Tiankaria
 * apprx 8 others

Shipyards
[1 x 3500kt, 1 x 2500kt, 2 x 1000kt] [2 x 700kt] [2 x 700kt, 2 x 500kt] [4 x 1000kt]
 * Amarkian Arsenal @ Amarkia
 * Maia Selin @ Selindra
 * Akoun Lariel @ Tales Har
 * Leas Akaam Yard @ Akaam

Infrastructure

 * Three Lilies Fall Enclave - A highly secretive facility near Leas Akaam that builds the Amarkian warp cores, with a line for ONA-IV-L Standards used by Centaur-B and new build Anacails, plus a line for the Yoyodyne Type-I Block-A used by the Mielab. Produces the TLF-III-L and -H warp cores for the Lisettia and Lufroil classes respectively.
 * The Lircab Armoury - A facility in orbit around Dzinghi VI that produces shield emitters, preparing Amarkian equivalents of the Mk V family. Produces the Lircab-T-III and Lircab-S-III navigational and main deflectors for the new Amarki cruisers.
 * Storms On High Enclave - A facility at Tales Har that produces the Model 83 phaser bank for all current Amarkian designs.
 * Wings Over Lironh Enclave - A facility in Amarkian lunar orbit that produces nacelles for all construction.
 * Order of Knights Hospitaller Selindra - A facility in Selindra orbit that produces all required medical equipment
 * Forgotten Winds Stir Enclave - A new warp core facility in Gaiar Har that is supplementing ONA-IV-L Standard production, but will also be the site for construction of new battlecruiser warp cores.

State of Emergency Assets
Recon
 * Order of Mainsails - Runabout squadron

Doctrine
 * Lironh Staff College

Diplomacy
 * Confederation Senate Delegation
 * Confederation Foreign Ministry
 * Confederation Public Affairs Ministry

Engineering
 * Engineering Team 1
 * Engineering Team 2
 * Engineering Team 3 (half)

Industry
 * Akieac Rose District, Amarkia
 * Vinuic Tulip District, Amarkia
 * Order of Staves, Tales Har Industrial Council
 * The Scar, Selindra

Military
 * Gendarmes
 * Amarkian Army

Spacelift
 * Personnel Transport Squadron