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The Roudland Space Force

The Roudland Space Force is the branch of the Roudland Military that deals with the defence of Roudland and the pursuit of its aims in the arena of space. To do this it employs a fleet of armed military spacecraft, literally hundreds of satellites, a ballistic missile protection system and several orbiting installations. Its expressed aim is to ‘further Roudland’s interests, whether on earth, in orbit of the earth or in wider space’. The Roudland Space Force was created from the Roudland Spacefleet, which itself was not a branch of the military per se, but a splinter of the Roudland Air Force. The Spacefleet was renamed and given its own branch of the military when the administration flooded money into the relatively overlooked area of space combat in the days and months following the Southern Gulf War. The war, in which almost half the Roudland space fleet was lost, proved that without adequate direction and funding, a space force was worthless, and nothing more than, in the words of a famous Kegmenistani commentator ‘an enormously priced lame duck’. To this end, the Roudland National Space Command Authority (NASCA) was set up, and with it was established the newly christened Roudland Space Force.

The Space Force comprises, at the present time, 4 Retribution Class Command Cruisers, 11 Vengeance Class Battleships, 3 Monitor Class Assault Carriers, 6 Serenity Class Maintenance Vessels, 1 Conciliator Class Test Ship. The fleet is supported by two large space docks, Atlantia Dock and Caprica Dock, as well as the three SMART command platforms, Einstein, Newton and Darwin.

Atlantia Class Space Docks

The Atlantia Class Space Docks were commissioned out of necessity; supporting a fleet as large as Roudland currently has was impossible for the small ‘Roston Station’ that was in place before the Southern Gulf War (and which was subsequently scrapped). The two docks are the hubs of the Roudland fleet, and are capable of supporting a full battlegroup as well as maintaining them and providing adequate fire support if engagements should take place near to them. Atlantia is in geosynchronous orbit above the Retroit Metropolitan Area, and Caprica is in orbit above the Scott Islands (a Roudland Territory off the coast of McGranaghanataria) in the South Sea.

Both docks have over 5,500 crew, as well as a compliment of 4,000 Orbital Marines, and have been designed to support the maintenance of up to 6 ships simultaneously if needed. The docks are similar in shape to an egg crate, with six large docks connected by a support network of walkways and living quarters. On top of the docks there are both runways similar to those of a seaborne aircraft carrier, as well as gun decks, missile tubes and flak batteries. The CICs of the docks are located deep within the ‘egg crate’ part of the dock, and not on the surface.

The stations serve as the home bases of the fleet and are also an important stepping stone in Roudland’s efforts to place a military base on the surface of the moon.

Crew: 5,500

Troops Stationed: 4,000

Primary Weapons: 450 66in Rail Guns, 25 ‘Big Mother Blue’ 96in Anti-Capital Ship Rail Guns, 1 Pivoting MajoRail Anti-Capital Ship Cannon

Secondary Weapons: 900 Quad Barrelled 25mm AA Batteries, 60 ‘Envoy’ Missile Batteries

On-Board Fighter Compliment: 100 Viper Mk7, 25 OMBF-30 ‘Comet’