Queen Carina's Royal Fleet

This is an unofficial player group.

Queen Carina's Royal Fleet
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Historical Information

The Bretonian Armed Forces

Command Structure

The Bretonian Armed Forces have long been commanded by the admirals of the Admiralty Board, a group currently comprised of the three admirals of the planetary fleets of Cambridge, New London, and Leeds, and the eight admirals of the great fleets, who currently each command their regions from the decks of the great Dunkirks, the Essex, the Suffolk, the Norfolk, the York, the Derby, the Macduff, the Grimsby, and the Arc Royal. The group meets under the purview of the Monarch, who maintains a full third of the vote as veto power, on the Battleship Harlow.

Support and Supplies

Since its formation in the year 310, the Bowex shipping corporation has almost exclusively funded the BMM construction of BAF warships, and the nationalization of these two companies have historically increased the prosperity of the Bretonian public in comparison to the other Houses by reducing the strain placed on the public in the form of defense taxes

The Queen's Fleet

Position of the Queen

Preceding Carina I's rule, the monarch had long been an impartial observer of the Admiralty Board proceedings, maintaining a small defense force in Salisbury and providing the Battleship Harlow as neutral grounds for the politics of the Board. More recently, the Queen Carina has made movements to enlarge the Monarch's martial power, beginning with a general increase in the exercise of the veto, and then using her influence in the legislature

Legal Maneuvering

During the year 814 AS, Andrew Stuart, Knight of the Realm, published his manuscript "Lines of Supply and Trade Interdiction: A study of the Kusari war machine and its vulnerabilities," Which he spoke on during tours of multiple lecture circuits, and finaly in the Queen's Court. In September of 815, Carina became assured of support for Stuart's methods of asymetrical warfare, and issued him a royal mandate to organize a squadron of privateers to interdict Kusari Trade. This squadron was the first group of pilots who operated outside of Salisbury and answered only to the monarch.

Exasperated by the lack of success of the Admiralty Board's strategies, Richard Windsor, then a Vice Admiral of the Bretonian Armed Forces and a voting member of the Admiralty Board, pulled in favors among the gentry to push legislation granting him command of a handpicked fleet through the people's delegates and onto the Queen's desk, where she validated its somewhat illicit intentions. The Queen Carina's Own was formed, entirely independent of Board oversight, from among Windsor's loyalists. The QCO soon absorbed the privateer wing commanded by Andrew Stuart, and continued to successfully run strikes deep into Kusari space beyond the Tau patrols. After an extended struggle, the Board reasserted its control over the fleet, adding in another flottilla, the Queen Carina's Regulars, and instigating a triumvirate command structure consisting of the three commodores, with Windsor as liaison to the Board.

Although the Queen Carina's Own was originally drafted almost entirely from the gentry, and the Regulars were pulled from the official fleet and as such reflected the general socioeconomic distribution of Bretonia, there are no longer such distinctions of social class present, though there remains a friendly competition between the QCO 'bluebloods' and the Regulars.