Bretonian Armed Forces

[BAF Admiralty Board]

Information Board

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Command Structure

The Bretonian Armed Forces have long been commanded by the admirals of the Admiralty Board, a group currently comprised of the four admirals of the planetary fleets of Cambridge, Carlisle, New London, and Sprague and the ten admirals of the great fleets, who currently each command their regions.

The group formerly met under the purview of the Monarch, who maintained a full third of the vote as well as veto power. The Admiral of the Fleet has replaced the Monarch's position on the Admiralty Board, and therefore now enjoys the voting and veto privileges previously enjoyed by the Monarch.

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Support and Supplies, and Trading Restrictions

Since its formation in the year 310, the Bowex shipping corporation has almost exclusively funded the BMM construction of BAF warships, and the nationalization of these two companies have historically increased the prosperity of the Bretonian public in comparison to the other Houses by reducing the strain placed on the public in the form of defense taxes.

Exemptions to trading restrictions are granted by the Bretonian Police Authority, but there is an application process, and a fee. Violators of this embargo shall simply drop their cargo, or be destroyed.

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Position of the Queen

Queen Carina for a time enlarged the Monarch's martial power, beginning with a general increase in the exercise of the veto, using her influence in the legislature, and exercising direct command authority over Her personal Guard, the Royal Fleet. In time, Queen Carina's Royal Fleet surpassed in strength any other Bretonian Armed Forces Military unit.

Today, the Queen is the figurehead behind the Armed Forces, and the Minister of Defense, and through him Parliament, in word and deed controls the Armed Forces.

However, the traditionalist streak in the Armed Forces is a wide one, and because of this, the Crown does in fact still wield tremendous power over the Royalists in Parliament, and over the Officer's Corps of the Armed Forces.

The Motto of the Bretonian Armed Forces remains:

"Carina, Regina, Imperatrix!"
Carina, Queen and Empress.

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The Privateers

During the year 814 AS, Andrew Stuart, Knight of the Realm, published his manuscript "Lines of Supply and Trade Interdiction: A study of the Kusari war machine and its vulnerabilities," Which he spoke on during tours of multiple lecture circuits, and finally in the Queen's Court. In September of 815, Carina became assured of support for Stuart's methods of asymmetrical warfare, and issued him a royal mandate to organize a squadron of privateers to interdict Kusari Trade.

The privateer wing formerly commanded by Andrew Stuart successfully ran strikes deep into Kusari space beyond the Tau patrols. However, with his disappearance, the Privateers, while remaining as a force, have fewer resources than they once had. However, Sir Jack Fraser now commands this group of disparate, and desperate men, behind the lines in Kusari, to do their lot for Queen and country. A country that cannot acknowledge their existence in the interests of political expediency. Sir Jack Fraser is currently on a bender.

The Privateers, due to the end of the war with Gallia, have officially been disbanded, with their letters of Marque declared void.

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Sections of the Armed Forces

Queen Carina's Academy

Provides Snubcraft training to all BAF Ensigns. All officers are occasionally assigned to the Academy.

Admiral of the Fleet: Michelle O'Brian
Fleet Captain: Harold Sommerville

Affiliated Secondary Fleets

Bretonian Merchant Navy
Bretonian Royal Fleet and Bretonian Auxiliary Fleet

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