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What is Battle Fleet?
Called by many names, including the Multi-Dimensional Alliance and the Interdimensional Empire, the Fleet is a collection of carefully selected personnel from various dimensions who are vaguely unified against an enemy called the Deity Command. The Fleet's interests are wide-ranging and in addition to this war, the Fleet pursues scientific research.

Who leads the Fleet?
The Imperial Trio: the Goddess, the Black Lady, and the Grey Mage. The Black Lady, also known as Her Ladyship Admiral EmileAmai Piett in her "mortal" guise, is the overall commander of the Fleet and in charge of military affairs and Fleet objectives.

Who are the Deity Command?
To most of the Fleet's hundreds of members, they are merely the abstract concept of "the enemy." The DC is an organization dedicated to the regulation of certain rules of dimensional creation, maitenance, and destruction. The Three were once members of the DC. They were held in very high esteem there. Then they collectively developed philosophical differences with several of the DC's rules, broke the rules, and were punished. They then formed the Fleet to retaliate against the DC. Very few Fleet members ever come into contact with the enemy, who are all actualized deity-class dimensional beings. Fighting against them is a task for individuals who are uniquely powerful and specially trained for that purpose.

Wait a minute, gods? Can't gods do whatever they want? Why would gods need science and technology and humans at all?
Because even gods are bound by rules. In fact, they are bound by more rules than the average human. Many rules can be bent, but none can be broken, even by the Three. In a way, this is just a giant game, and all the mortals involved are merely pawns. At the same time, the mortals are necessary for victory. The Three cannot attack directly and must rely on these emissaries to fight the war for them.

How can I join the Fleet?
Most likely, you can't. Fleet membership is restricted to recruited individuals -- if you have someone of value to the Fleet, you are invited to join. The majority of Earth-bound humans have nothing to offer the Fleet, unless you are a high-level scientist or manisfestation of the Goddess. Even if you fall into one of these two groups, you still may not be invited. (It must be noted that on Earth, there exist more than one Goddess manifestation. Two are presently known. One is a Fleet member.)


Fleet Divisions

Navy - Galactic Navy - Space ("3d" or "unlimited") combat.
Army - Galactic Army - Planetary ("2d" or "limited") combat.
Comm - Communications - Information services and transmission.
Int - Intelligence Division - Infiltration and special ops.
Ops - Operations - Management and resources.
Eng - Engineering Corps - Construction and maintenance of the Fleet and all its weaponry.
Sci - Science Directorate - Development of new weapons and technology, pure research.
Med - Medical Corps - Health and well-being of the collective Fleet.
a** - Assassin Core - Assassinations, kidnappings, and specialized combat.
Sec - Security - Internal regulations and discipline, defense.
Tact - Tactics - Battle planning and interpretation.
Mag - Division of Magic - Magic-based skills and research.
Spe - Specialist Corps - Miscellaneous specialities.
Psy - Psychic Corps - Mental-based attacts, telekinesis, empathics, psychics.

There are a total of twenty ranks levels in the Fleet and three different terms of address for each. The term used depends on the Division and personal preference of the individual. When in doubt, it is acceptable to address an individual by their rank code, given on the left. All higher-ranking Fleet personnel are addressed as "sir" unless they specify otherwise.

Rank -------- Navy ------------- Army -------------- Classed
C-7 - Grand Admiral ---- Grand General ---- Grand Master
C-6 - High Admiral ---- Surface Marshall ---- Level 6 Master
C-5 - Fleet Admiral ---- High General -------- Level 5 Master
C-4 - Admiral ----------- General ----------- Lever 4 Master
C-3 - Vice Admiral ----- Lt. General -------- Level 3 Master
C-2 - Rear Admiral ---- Major General ------ Level 2 Master
C-1 - Commodore ---- Brigadier General ---- Level 1 Master
O-7 - Line Captain ------ High Colonel ------- Level 6 Disciple
O-6 - Captain ----------- Colonel -------------- Level 5 Disciple
O-5 - Commander ----- Lt. Colonel ----------- Level 4 Disciple
O-4 - Lt. Commander ---- Major ------------- Level 3 Disciple
O-3 - Lieutenant ---------- Captain ----------- Level 2 Disciple
O-2 - Sub-Lieutenant ---- Lieutenant -------- Level 1 Disciple
O-1 - Ensign ---------- Second Lieutenant ---- Level 6 Squire
E-6 - Officer ----------- Master Sargeant ------ Level 5 Squire
E-5 - Sargeant ------------ Sargeant ---------- Level 4 Squire
E-4 - Corporal -------- Junior Sargeant ------- Level 3 Squire
E-3 - Crewman --------- Private ------------ Level 2 Squire
E-2 - Cadet -------------- Cadet -------------- Level 1 Squire
E-1 - Recruit ------------ Recruit -------------- Page

Note: Comm. is Commodore. Cmdr. is Commander.

alters

Elijah Trevor - Eng/Sci
Jean-Jacques Halard - Army/Sec
Markham Laurie - Int/Sec
Elisabeth Harriman - Ops/Army
Ishida Ashihei - Spe/Ops
Fraximus di Saltieri - Spe/Eng
Ximo Dalkyre - Spe/Eng
Adomital - Sec/Int
Jalloun Falali - Sec/a**
Brahim Falali - Sec/a**
James Tapping - Sec/Army
Shuuichi Kurata - Sci/Med
Kenichi Ishida - Sci/Int
Rustam Zakharov - Sci/Eng
Cerratine Adams - Sci/Eng
Yoshimitsu Tanaka - Ops/Int
Min'narkan'tanit Trant - Navy/Tact
Charles Aberdeen - Navy/Tact
Yamato Makoto - Navy/Ops
Milo Brannon - Navy/Ops
Emperial T. Atreides-Piett - Navy/Comm
Jamil Bahadur - Med/Sci
Isaac Quinn - Comm/Sec
Reidinger Rambaldi - Comm/Sci
Makoto Hyuga - Comm/Int
Verine Antipova - Comm/Int
Gen. Tuthau gian Fourdr - Army/Tact

Galactic Army

Director: Gen. Douglas MacArthur Hein
Deputy Director: Unlisted
Director of Army Tactics: Gen. Tuthau gian Fourdr

H. Gen. Maximilian Veers
Gen. Douglas MacArthur Hein

Intelligence Division

Director: Capt. Pavel Pavlovich Antipov
Assistant Director: Dr. Jonathan M
Deputy Director: Satosuke Kagawa
Section Chiefs: Comm. Tuthau gian Fourdr, Markham Laurie, unlisted

Comprising over twelve percent of the Fleet, the Intelligence Division is also known as the Fleet's Eyes. Intelligence personnel are frontline fighters who infiltrate the enemy and report back their findings. Emotional control is essential to Intelligence operatives, who must be able to pass lie detector tests and participate in enemy actions without ever revealing their identities. Many of them are sociopaths.

Just under 50% of Intelligence personnel are alters or trifectas. The Intelligence Division uses the Naval forms of address.

Capt. Pavel Pavlovich Antipov

Comm. Tuthau gian Fourdr

Satosuke Kagawa

Markham Laurie

Dr. Jonathan M

engineering

Director: V. Adm. Teliu Atrell-Ptarmigan
Deputy Director: Dr. Rustam Zakharov
Section Chiefs: Lt. Cmdr. Kensuke Nara, unlisted

V. Adm. Teliu Atrell-Ptarmigan

Lt. Cmdr. Kensuke Nara

Lt. Charles "Chuck" Truelove

Sub-Lt. Goemon Uehara

Talos Perdison

Officer Dirk Davenport

Crewman Elijah Trevor

Crewman Heinrich Dorfmann

med corps

Sally Veers
Carter Beckham

security

Jr. Sgt. Sylon Argesant
2nd. Lt. Josef Quinn

division of magic

Cecil Lavanchy
Davin Mallory
Rikard Prowley
Solomon Sharpe
Thank Wiseman