Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Septiim (section)

===Local Imperial Navy===

The Cloudburst Navy is highly concentrated, compared to the more diffuse Solar and even Ultima navies.  Given how far apart clusters of habitable stars in the Cloudburst Sector are (for whatever reason), this is a natural and unavoidable consequence for the Navy to deal with.  The Navy here finds itself thus in the unenviable situation of a Cruiser Captain outranking an SDF Battlecruiser Captain, which would normally be the other way around.  To compensate for this, and to clear up any ‘misunderstandings’ in the chain of command, the Imperial Navy has stationed a Commodore on the Waterscale space station in orbit over Septiim Secundus, where its flagship (an ancient Luna Cruiser) makes berth.  The Navy is also building, as fast as it can, to replenish and expand its forces in the inevitable event that another Glasian Migration occurs.  Ultimately, however, the naval force stationed in the Septiim system is bound to the command structure of the Cloudburst Sector, and its assets can be recalled to serve elsewhere in the sector at any time.

Based on the Waterscale Naval Anchorage platform, the Imperial Navy in Septiim coordinates its patrols and local warships with its own Astropath, plus another stationed on all ships over three kilometers in length.  In a system that was not routinely assaulted by aliens, that would be excessive.  In Septiim, it’s the cost of doing business.  The planets’ networks of ships and stations collect sensor data and share it with the SDF and the Daggers, as well as the tiny fleet (barely half a dozen escorts) of Solstice.  As the Navy is outgunned by the Daggers and SDF in the system, despite theoretically commanding most of the ships in the system at any time, the Navy provides a command and control function to the combined forces of Septiim.  Generally, the naval crews fly in from Coriolis, Nauphry, or Spindle instead of Septiim itself.  The ships of the Navy contingent can leave the Zone to fight or patrol elsewhere in the Sector as needed, but rarely do so unless ordered to directly by the Lord Sector Cloudburst or a higher authority.  Accordingly, the force allotment of the system is recorded separately from the general fleet composition.

''Septiim Contingent'': Luna cruiser, three Tyrant cruisers, six Claymore corvettes, four Sword frigates, one Mangonel pursuit cruiser, one Endurance light cruiser, two Cobra Missile destroyers, accordant fighter groups, single Starhawk bomber squad based on salvaged civilian transport.