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[[As You Know|As we all know]], [[Space Is an Ocean]]. So naturally, what does [[The Federation]] do when it needs someone to defend it in space? Why, it turns to its '''Space Navy'''. A Space Navy has a [[Standard Sci-Fi Fleet]] naturally enough, which probably includes at least one class of [[Cool Starship]]. Likely it will have an arm of [[Space Marine|space marines]]. But it has more. It has the same sort of atmosphere of a real navy. It has organization and [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|obstructive bureaucrats]]. It has tradition and [[The Hero|famous names]]. It might even have in-jokes, perhaps the same ones as when a given writer was in the navy (apparently these are very old jokes by now). Naturally the heroes will likely be part of a [[Command Roster]], for this is what they have on a Space Navy.
See also [[Space Sailing]].
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* The Colonial Fleet, or [[Endangered Species|what's left of it]], in both ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'' series.
** In the reimagined series, the concept is actually deconstructed to a point. Pre-Cylon attack, the trope is played deadly straight, but once the series starts the "fleet" has been reduced to a single military [[Cool Ship]] (and the requisite fighters aboard). Scenes on the Battlestar are still played straight, but in general the series has a very different tone than most space navy shows.
* The Daedalus-class battlecruisers operated by the United States in the [[Stargate Verse]] both averts it and plays it straight. On one hand, the ship is operated by the United States Air Force, and the rank structure is the same (so the equivalent of [[The Captain]] is in fact a colonel). On the other hand, the ships have the same "USS" prefix as commissioned Naval ships, although [[Fanon]] held for a while that the prefix was "USAFV" (United States Air Force Vessel, by analogy with USAV, United States Army Vessel; "USAFS", the actual designation for a USAF
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' most prominently featured [[We Will Use Wiki Words in the Future|EarthForce]], which most (but not all) of the human characters were members of {{spoiler|[[The War of Earthly Aggression|until]] [[Wham! Episode|mid-Season 3]].}}
* ''[[Space: Above and Beyond]]'' featured the US Navy in this role, along with the implied participation of several other nations' space navies in Earth's war against the Chigs. We see a few representatives of the other militaries, but the Americans take the center role in the show (given that the show centers around an American [[Space Marine|Marine Corps]] squadron, this is [[Justified]].)
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== Tabletop RPG ==
* ''[[Spelljammer]]'' ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' campaign setting has Imperial Elven Navy infested by [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|obstructive bureaucrats]] vs. hodgepodge [[Our Orcs Are Different|Scro]] fleet as major forces; [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture|Shou]] and some other groundling empires has their own fleets too.
* There are several examples of a
* The ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' [[Gaiden Game|spin-off]] ''[[Battlefleet Gothic]]'' is all about this, and despite being set in the 41st Millennium has a very Age of Sail feel to things - tactics concern broadsides, line formations, and crossing the enemy's T, and the hordes of crewmen [[We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future|manually loading]] [[Schizo-Tech|the plasma cannons]] were probably [[Press-Ganged]] from the last planet the ship visited.
* Partly averted in ''[[Transhuman Space]],'' where the USA's military space presence is the ambit of the ''Air Force,'' and thus many traditional "ships in space" tropes are averted.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'' has not only a
** There's an element of [[Truth in Television]] to this, as some countries here on Earth have been known to go back and forth on whether their naval aviation assets should be operated by the Navy proper, seconded from the Air Force or a separate entity altogether. Britain in particular has a tradition of this sort of thing stretching back nearly as long as there have been British military aeroplanes; see [[Useful Notes/The UK Armed Forces|The UK Armed Forces]] for details.
* The Systems Alliance navy from ''[[Mass Effect]]''.
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