Galactic Council Space Fleet

The Galactic Council Space Fleet, officially known as the Space Exploration and Protection Fleet of the Galactic Council of Planets and their Dependencies and abbreviated GCSF, was an interplanetary military alliance in the Kronian Multiverse that was part of the Galactic Council and formed its primary military wing.

Originally founded solely on the basis of protecting civillian and trade spacecraft from being attacked by the Space Pirates as part of the Galactic Council's Charter, the Space Fleet has since become a military organisation and the largest wing of the military-industrial complex of the Council. It was involved in the Estronian Civil War on behalf of the Galactic Council Estronian Peacekeeping Operation (GCEPO) and managed to defeat the Space Pirates during a significantly heavy raid on Azzilati convoys to Kubran.

History
When the Galactic Council was founded, the founding members pledged their allegiance to several common goals, one of which was peace and free trade between the members. The downside of the free trade agreement, though, meant that Space Pirates had free reign to intervene in trade routes and raid trading and civillian spacecraft.

Thusly, the founding members recognised the need for a defense fleet strong enough to counteract the forces of the Space Pirates. Using the Titan-I Battleship as a basis for other battleship designs, the Arcturus Magna Shipworks and other shipyards started working on military-grade vessels designed specifically to take down enemy spacecraft.

The resulting space fleet was headquartered in Starport-I, a large space station constructed specifically for the purpose of housing multiple large battleships at once.

When the Estronian Civil War threatened to escalate from being a conflict on Estron alone to being a galactic conflict, the Galactic Council ordered the Space Fleet to blockade Estron and prevent any spacecraft from entering or leaving the space around Estron. In the resulting Battle of Estron between the Space Fleet and forces that were working to take over Estron, the fleet took considerable losses, and had to revise its strategy.

As a result, Acritus, the supreme commander of the Arcturan Space Fleet and then-supreme commander of the Council's fleet as well, made a speech in which he laid out a doctrine by which the Space Fleet would expand in a way to more efficiently be able to project power upon the member planets of the Council.

Not long after the speech, though, the Nui Tower of Time collapsed, resulting in the Universal Paralysis. Shortly afterwards, forces of the Temporal Empire raided Arcturus Magna and forced the Galactic Council to surrender itself, also surrendering the Space Fleet along with it.

Since then, the Space Fleet has been put on non-active and Starport-I is no longer in use as an official military base.

Organisation
The Space Fleet would deploy the fleets of individual member planets at the request of a majority of the membership of the Galactic Council on a voluntary basis. As such, a single member planet cannot send its space fleet to another member planet in the name of the Galactic Council unless the Council has explicitly given its permission to do so. Still, if a member planet refused to partake in a Fleet operation, its wishes would be honoured unless the Galactic Council issued a binding decision to collectively intervene.

The High Command of the Galactic Council Space Fleet (abbreviated SFHC or just HC) consists of the Supreme Commanders of the individual member planets and a Supreme Commander (SC) of the Galactic Council Space Fleet. The Supreme Commander is elected by a simple majority vote amongst the other Supreme Commanders, and is currently Acritus.

If a member planet would violate guidelines set by the Charter of the Galactic Council, the Space Fleet not only has a right to intervene, but a duty to do so, as per the Charter. This means that, should any member planet declare secession without prior notice and without consent from its own population, the Galactic Council Space Fleet would intervene on behalf of the population of the planet and on behalf of the Galactic Council.

Operations
The Space Fleet, being the primary spacefaring wing of the Galactic Council, has been involved in numerous operations. The most notable are:
 * The Estronian Civil War and the resulting blockade;
 * The Space Pirates raiding trade routes;
 * The defense of the Galactic Council system and making sure that every member planet honours the agreements set forth by the Charter.

Trivia

 * The Galactic Council Space Fleet was inspired by Starfleet from the Star Trek TV and film series, as well as by the Imperial fleet seen in the Star Wars series. The ship designs were inspired by the ship designs of the Earth Defense Forces from Space Battleship Yamato (primarily the Yamato itself).