Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20161115005537

By far the largest branch of the Rin militum as a whole. Being both a defensive and offensive weapon while also transporting and training marines.

The Fleet at it's core is built around the Council or Lord High Admirals (Each Lord High Admiral rules over the naval assets of a galaxy/Segmentum within the empire. Around 30 of such Individuals exist) a lord High Admirals are the bureaucratic head of a Segmentum fleet and are only out ranked by a Grand Admiral (Who is in charge of a Segmentum Majorius. There are only 3 within the empire)

Each Segmentum is for all attends and purposes it's own region that acts on it's own and uses it's own assets for defense and offense. All fleets do depend on the forge worlds though, to replace losses and to build new ships.

A Segmentum is split into hundreds of provinces each with it's own Lord Admiral who comes in two types civil and militum. The Civil Lord Admirals rule over the peaceful regions of the empire while the militum Lord Admirals are on the front lines.

Solar Admirals are the first true 'combat' admirals being in charge of a solar fleet (A picket defense fleet) that patrol the empire defending any breaches within the border or just policing the empire.

Stellar Admirals are the offensive admirals of the empire and are put in charge of a battle group or fleet. Under them are Vice and Rear Admirals. (I'm done with ranks for the most part)

The navy is divided into 2 more classes of 'troops' being Petty Officers and Deck Hands. Petty officers are the NCO's of the fleet and most have been in service of the fleet for many decades (Most are also missing limbs of toes/fingers.) They also for the most part run the ship (Ship masters, Gun captains, Ration Captains, and Munition Captains.) Now deck hands are well the basic sailor nothing more needs to be said.

The fleet has two types of recruitment. They begin volunteers and impressment.

Now the fleet has it's own soldiers for boarding duty and the guarding of ports. They being the Imperial Marines. They come in two types, Classis and Navis, Classis are ship bound while the Navis guard ports and such.

The Fleet itself is divided into battle fleets and larger battle groups and finally Grand Fleets each making up thousands of ships and millions of Sailors. 