Air Force/Navy Depate.

[jammi]

To be honest, I don't agree with the faction on a conceptual level. The air force should be self-contained within the atmosphere of Libertonian planets. Your comparison to the Army Air Corps and the Fleet Air Arm doesn't really hold much water either.

The Army Air Corps provides transports for the short range movement of troops (Chinooks as opposed to Hercules') and fire support on land (proportionally 'short' range helicopters). The Fleet Air Arm provides transport/search & rescue and fighter cover for the Navy on the sea.

Real life examples hold no weight whatsoever, but if they did you'd be suggesting the Army Air Corps patrol the oceans. They're completely incompatible zones of operation. In Starlancer, the Alliance's space force was referred to as a Navy too.

The lore states that the armed forces of Liberty are the navy. The Air Force isn't referenced at all. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, but it does mean it has no place in space whatsoever. If the Air Force was intended to command the Navy's snub force, I'm sure there'd be something somewhere saying so.

Still, I wish you the best of luck with this.

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