Power Projection Campaign Information

The campaign is planned to cover the period of 2185 to 2193, a year before the Siege of Sol begins. By this time, NAC fleet strength will have been vastly diminished with most of the major units being redeployed to cover core systems and Sol itself. Only the historians will be able to reflect on what NAC Fifth Fleet was able to accomplish during this period.

You represent the NAC Fifth Fleet Commander (C5F) and have the resources of the Fifth Fleet at your disposal. How the campaign will progress is completely up to you. You can do whatever you like within its boundaries, and plot developments may occur based upon your actions. The other space powers will be taking care of business as well, so to speak. They will have conflicts of their own, exploration and colonisation efforts, and plans of domination!

The NAC begin with 5 systems in this area of space. Chi Draconis (New Faslane), EQ Pegasi (Niagra Creek naval base), Sigma Draconis, GJ 1289, and GJ 1221.

Strategic turns are of one week each. Ships may travel up 8 light years in a single turn. Any ships that cannot complete an FTL jump in a single turn, are out of contact until they complete their jump in a subsequent turn.

Each ship is individually accounted for on SSDs in order that damage can be monitored. An Excel spreadsheet will be required to monitor the status of each ship. Ships are not instantly repaired and will have to return to base for repairs. Of course, damage control teams can repair ship board systems given sufficient time, but they cannot repair damage to armour or the ships hull. Ships with less than half their hull boxes (round up fractions) will take a month to repair. Greater than half will require two months. This time may be part of the annual four month downtime which a ship and crew require.

Each ship may be deployed for up to 8 months on active duty. Four months are required for resupply, maintenance, overhaul, training and operational work ups. For each month that a ship is late for annual maintenance, the more likely that systems will begin to permanently fail until such time as the ship receives maintenance. Failure is represented by threshold checks, and cannot be repaired by damage control teams. Up to two months will require a roll of 6. Three to four months is a roll of 5. Over four months is a roll of 4. This non repairable damage must be recorded on the relevant SSDs. For ease of play and record keeping, a ship may not be redeployed prior to completion of its downtime cycle.

NAC Fifth Fleet assets are initially deployed at Chi Draconis (New Faslane naval base) and EQ Pegasi (Niagra Creek naval base). Something to consider is the routine deployment of ships and tasks that need to be undertaken. Routine tasks to be considered include Patrols, Showing the flag missions, Fleet Exercises, and Cross training. Fleet Exercises are scheduled usually on a yearly basis with the next two being Everlight III with the NSL, and a visit from CruDesGru 13 "The Aggressors". Cross training and the regular exchange deployments with the NSL 12th Kampfgruppe occur on a three monthly basis.

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