Naval Influences
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Fictional space warfare tends to borrow elements from naval warfare. David Weber's Honorverse series of novels portrays several "space navies" such as the Royal Manticoran Navy, which imitate themes from Napoleonic-era naval warfare. The Federation Starfleet (Star Trek), Imperial Navy (Star Wars) and Earthforce ("Babylon 5") also use a naval-style rank structure and hierarchy. The former is based on the United States Navy and the Royal Navy. The United Nations Space Command in Halo fully retains all ranks of the United States armed forces, even the pay grade system. Naval ship classes such as frigate or destroyer are sometimes used as a marker to show how the craft are assembled and their designed purpose.
Some fictional universes have different implementations. The Colonial Fleet in Battlestar Galactica uses a mixture of army and navy ranks, and the Stargate universe has military spacecraft under the control of modern air forces, and uses air force ranks. In the Andromeda universe, officers of Systems Commonwealth ships follow naval ranking, but Lancers, soldiers analogous to Marines, use army ranks.
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