federation Fleet Command

The Federation Fleet Command (FFC) is an organisation that has hypothetical control over all Federation spacecraft assets, though in reality it acts a civil administrator for Fleet assets.

The FFC is responsible for maintaining certain aspects of the Fleet, particularly controlling the distribution of starships for use within the Federation, and also to advising construction facilities to the desired rates of production, and which models are wanted. Although all starships are overseen by the FFC, and can be called into their service, most vessels in the Federation do not operate for the FFC, rather they belong to various organisations, mostly to the associated branches of the FFC, predominantly the Federation Starship Organisation (FSO, coordinates civil uses of Starship assets within the Federation), the Federation Military command structures, and the remainder mostly ‘owned’ by various learning institutions and settlements. The FFC is important for allocating units between these organisations, and in times of crisis is responsible for coordinating all fleet assets (In war times the FFC can essentially operate in synchrony with the Federation Military).

Apart form these allocating roles the FFC is also responsible for managing the starship associated organisations which indirectly support the Fleet, most notably construction and maintenance facilities and manufacture and fuelling facilities. The FFC is also directly associated with the crew training facilities, and sources nearly all starship personnel. The FFC training facilities are non-military, military crews are drawn from Federation Military Facilities, and as such the FFC only forwards posts within its administration to all its qualified members rather than the military.

Although all ships are answerable to the FFC (even military vessels), their involvement with normal operations with ships is essentially nil, but they are obligated to provide Federation services to all vessels, these include rescue and assistance, summoning military support (as the FFC holds superiority over the Federation Military), and the maintenance of communication, navigation and sensor platform services. In all, although a starship may work for a University department, the FFC are obligated to maintain these services for this vessel regardless of whether it is operating for the wider Federation or not.

The FFC also oversees the maintenance of the Fleet and could demand of any ship to break with its original operation and to follow its orders, it also has the power to demand maintenance of all Fleet vessels. The FFC produces guidelines for suggested servicing schedules which are often followed rather than by Direct intervention from the FFC, though this organisation can make emergency requests for servicing say for recalling faulty components, which override their suggested scheduling.

The FFC’s central offices are within the FFC building on Athene, these direct goals within the whole Federation and asset management, there are regional offices on all Federation Homeworlds, which coordinate Fleet traffic and services in their quarters, there are also important offices in the Forge system which mostly deal with Fleet Construction and Maintenance.