Comm ID: Hauptegefreiter Gerhard Barkhorn
To: Kriegsmarine Channel 1, Alleged Personnel
Subject: Military Organisation
If I may, as a humble servant of the Gottkanzler and a pilot in His Kriegsmarine, I would like to offer a small lesson in military organisation I have been teaching children at numerous military academies these past months.
The Gottkanzler is the commander in chief of the Rheinwehr, known to outsiders as the Rheinland Military. The Rheinwehr is split into two divisions, that of the Rheinheer (known to outsiders as the Rheinland Army), Kriegsmarine (known to outsiders as the Rheinland Starfleet).
The Rheinheer is headed by two Generalfeldmarshalls, who command the Northern and Southern Armies. Rheinheer personnel are not commonly seen publically off-planet, except in the cases of joint Rheinheer-Kriegsmarine parades, where the troopships may appear to showcase the glory of the Fatherland and the Gottkanzler.
The Kriegsmarine is headed by two Grosseadmirals, who command the Norhern and Southern Fleets. Our current two Grosseadmirals are Grosseadmiral Krieg and Grosseadmiral Hiltraud Kaiser.
The Rheinheer does not possess any battleships, save for the command ships and flagships RNC Cologne and the RNC Koblenz.
The Kriegsmarine does possess battleships, but they are restricted to those of Admiral rank and above. The most famous among our battleships are the flagships RNC Krieg and RNC Westphalia, though many others, both active and permanently stationed, including some in the New Berlin Special Defensive Fleet, are among our fleet, such as the RNC Westfalen, RNC Brooktorhafen, RNC Altenburg, RNC Watzmann and the RNC Neodonau.
All Kriegsmarine pilots are, by some of our most ancient and foundational regulations, required to present a [RM]- prefix in space callsigns. Rheinheer personnel are required to do the same, but only on planetary operations, and have different regulations regarding space vessels.
Regardless, unless you are a Bureau der Marineintelligence agent or a special, particularily marked case, such as that of the aforementioned Wesley Richter, you will have an [RM]- prefix in your ships callsign. If you do not, and you are not one of the above cases, you are not an officer of the Kriegsmarine.
On the matter of cruisers, current Kriegsmarine protocol dictates only Kapitans and above possess access.
On the matter of gunboats, Korvettekapitans and above have access to gunboats.
On the matter of snub ships, a small amount of ships were sold off during the reign of Kanzler Pryde, but records from that time are still existent and kept in our archives. Nowadays, only specially authorised mercenaries such as a certain ship named after a Bretonian breakfast treat or our own personnel are authorised to use snub ships.
So, if you individuals could provide the Gottkanzler's high servants information about how you had acquired your ships and how these strange protocol breaches have occured, I'm sure He and His servants would be grateful. An independent military is surely impossible, for the Kriegsmarine is all about service under the Gottkanzler, and this is done through His servants.
All Kriegsmarine are under Grosseadmiral Krieg and Grosseadmiral Kaiser's command.
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