Spacefleet
Earth's Spacefleet, known in the waning centuries of the Earth Empire as the Space Navy, (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"}) was a human-based organisation which existed from the early 26th century until the Earth Empire's fall in the 30th century, (PROSE: Love and War, Original Sin) persisting beyond its official end as an increasingly fractional Imperial Navy. (GAME: The Dark Path [+]Loading...["The Dark Path (novel)"]) It was also affiliated with the Earth Alliance. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)
The Spacefleet's most notable feat was combatting the Daleks during the Second Dalek War.
The Spacefleet operated a number of facilities, including boarding schools for children of members of the Spacefleet. One such school was operated on Mal Oreille. (PROSE: Biology Lesson on Mal Oreille)
In 2547, Admiral Isaac Summerfield and a fleet of ships encountered a Dalek fleet and fought at Bellatrix. In destroying the Daleks, the Admiral's ship, the Tisiphone, fell into a spatio-temporal rift, taking it back to Earth in 1963. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)
Following her father's disappearance (and apparent death) and her escape from foster families, Bernice Summerfield was enrolled in the Spacefleet Academy. She showed an aptitude for the life of a soldier within the Spacefleet, and might have made Section Leader, had it not been for her disciplinary record. (PROSE: Love and War, The Tunnels to Heaven) She escaped from the Spacefleet by bailing out of a troop ship in an escape pod on the way to Capella.
Ace joined the Spacefleet for three years after the battle with the Hoothi on the planet Heaven, becoming an explosives expert. She encountered a Spacefleet-created clone of Abslom Daak. (PROSE: Love and War, Deceit)
By the 29th century, the Earth Empire's military space-fleet was known as the "Space Navy", and was stocked with such vessels as the humongous Imperial dreadnaught Nova. Attending the Naval Academy was a pathway to finding employment as an officer in the Space Navy, as was the case with Lieutenant Erin Grant (born 3847), later a companion of Rollo, who served on the aforementioned Nova. The Navy's conflict with the Daleks continued even in this century, with Jody having lost many friends to them. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
By the mid-34th century, when the Earth Empire had been reduced to fractional "enclaves", its space-fleet was known as the Imperial Navy. ships classes included assault carrier, cruiser and destroyer. (PROSE: The Dark Path [+]Loading...["The Dark Path (novel)"])
