Imperial Navy
Imperial Navy
Also a faction in the game Battlefleet Gothic (lovingly referred to as BFG)
Rich, wealthy cowards Badass gentledudes from the Imperium that sit in their Fuck-Huge space ships drinking tea, while the men with balls of steel get their asses killed by the thousands millions. Their average day consists of A: pushing a button to blow up a fleet, or B: pushing a button to blow up a planet. Sometimes they send fighters or bombers down to help the Imperial Guard out, but most of the time they’re just used as a taxi service, like the modern day navy.
/tg/ has a hardon for female admirals/captains/masters of ordinance. Mainly for wiminz in uniform.
Would have exterminated all of the Emperor's enemies through simple numbers long ago if they did not waste time and resources making their warships look like flying cathedrals. Most of that is designed to ward off demons while traveling through warp you dolt. That's what Gellar Fields are for. You need both, dumbass; that's how hardcore brutal the Warp is. Even the Orks need to cover their "ships" in Teef and make them look like angry squigs so demons don't tear them in half.
Types of Ships
The Imperial Navy has four types of ships they hide their cowardly asses in. The main ships are battleships, cruisers, escorts, and fighters
Battleship
Supposedly rare, but every Grand Marshal and High Admiral has one to hide in.
- Retribution- Packing all gun batteries, the ship can destroy an entire continent in one broadside, but for some reason cannot destroy a hive city or fort with void shields...
- Emperor- The
super-carrier"standard" battleship of the 40k 'verse, the ship has multiple fighter decks and weapons batteries. Unfortunately, most commanders like to use this ship as a hideout, causing the lack of sufficient air support in the ground wars.
- Apocalypse- This ship packs lances and a Nova Cannon.
- Oberon- The mixed-breed bastard of the Imperial Navy. It has lances, fighter bays, and weapon batteries. Its a powerful ship...when fighting foes half its size.
- Nemesis- The super-carrier of the Imperial Navy. It has SIX flight decks, more than any other ship in the galaxy. But because of Rule of Cool, it is incredibly rare since the Navy captains prefer to get up close broadside their enemies.
Grand Cruiser
Backwater and frontier commanders use these when battleships aren't available. Basically an older type of cruiser that has more armour, but consequently lower speed.
- Vengeance, Exorcist, Avenger
Cruiser
Comes in three sizes and many different classes. Officers that wish to climb the chain of command start here, probably starting with an caseload of brown-nosing, followed by even more of it.
- Mars class
- Overlord, Gothic, Dictator, Dominator, Tyrant, Lunar, Dauntless Light Cruiser, Endurance Light Cruiser, Endeavor Light Cruiser, Defiant Light Cruiser
Ironclad
8 kilometer long battering rams
Escort
Used by the Lords of Terra to take their daughters to parties, balls, and any sort of social engagement. They are known to leave really large messes.
- Sword class
- Firestorm Frigate, Sword Frigate, Cobra Destroyer, Falchion Escort
Fighter
Reusable torpedoes
Armed Freighter (in the Battlefleet)
Ships bought, borrowed or stolen and then armed in the misguided attempt to boost the strength of a fleet in desperate need of ships
Important Details
Crews
Consists of either bridge officers or slaves. Each ship needs hundreds if not thousands of men to man the ship. Whenever the crew count gets low, the Imperial Navy sets up fake strip clubs on a planet claiming "Free Hookers" to lure in unsuspecting men (and the occasional woman). Once a future crewman steps in, he/she's knocked out, bound, gagged, and taken to the ship, where they'll slave away the rest of their soon-to-be-short existence doing everything needed to make flying through space and fighting in the void possible. Still, at least for the crew Sex is allowed, if for no other reason than the fact that ships will often be in space for long enough periods that natural means is a viable way of getting replacements. Here is an idea of how it works, right up to the roman armour, whips and beatings.
Travel
The ships of the Imperium travel through the Warp using what's called a warp drive to get to where they're going. However, this isn't your happy, fancy tunnel-of-light like in Star Wars, or everything-moves-fast Star Trek, it is an alternate dimension full of Chaos. In order to avoid being turned inside-out and getting raped by every daemon in the warp, the ships rely on whats called the Gellar Field to keep the furries, undesirables, and various other evil beings out of their ship when traveling through. They rely on a Navigator that uses the Empra as a beacon to safely navigate the Warp, hence the title "Navigator".
Notable Problems
These are problems some have with the Imperial Navy and their fluff....
Ship Size
No one is quite sure how big the ships really are. One story claims the Retribution-Class is a mere 3 kilometers long, while another says it is 9 kilometers and up to 20 kilometers.
Weapon Effects
If the weapons can annihilate a continent, why can't it destroy a mere hive?
Lack of Balls
It is well-known that most Imperial Navy Officers don't have em.
An Imperial Navy fleet is most effective when Inquisitors take it over. See Here.
Gallery
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The Lord Admiral's Love Shack
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The Grand Marshal's Summer Palace of PWNAGE
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Imagine how quick land battles would be if these things actually helped
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The Bullet-Catchers of the Navy
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Another demonstration of too much spare time
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