The Imperial Starfleet Order of Battle outlined seven types of lines: attack, heavy attack, reconnaissance, pursuit, skirmish, troop and torpedo.Īttack and heavy attack lines aggressively engaged enemy starships in combat. The line was the most amorphous level of organization in the Starfleet. The Imperial Starfleet shaped four to twenty starships into lines, depending on the type of line. The most basic combat formation in the Imperial Navy was the line of battle, or simply a line, and the smallest organizational unit used for space combat. Commanding officers of ships, regardless of their line rank, always received the positional title of Captain. Officers commonly turned down impressive staff promotions in the hopes of receiving a ship command, although serving as a staff officer on a prominent starship, such as a squadron flagship, was often considered a fast track for promotion. Despite this, they were not the most common warship in the Navy: that was the Sienar Fleet Systems IPV-1 System Patrol Craft, a heavily-armed corvette. The most iconic commands of the Imperial Navy were the Imperial-class Star Destroyers, of which nearly 25,000 were built.

Achieving command of a starship, no matter its size, was point of pride in an officer's career.

1.7 Regional, oversector and strategic commandĪn individual command, a single starship, was the building block of the Imperial Starfleet.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Endor and Emperor Palpatine's death, the Navy Order of Battle broke down completely: the Imperial Navy split into smaller and smaller operational units as ambitious Moffs and Admirals seized control of parts of the fleet and set themselves up as warlords. Especially at the higher levels, many Navy formations like the Systems Force and the Sector Group were understrength throughout the Galactic Civil War. The Order of Battle reflected ideal combat formations and unit strengths, not operational realities. The Order of Battle was under the purview of the Navy's Flight Branch.

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