I am working on the background for a naval campaign and am having trouble sorting out how sector and subsector fleets are organized.
Many sources describe sector fleets as being the mainline Imperial Navy under direct Imperial control (i.e. a 1000 ship fleet) and subsector fleets as mostly far fewer and older ships under local control staffed by non-imperial crews (a batron, cruisers, and a gaggle of smaller ships). The Sector Fleet publication follows this ideal fairly closely, except that it shows subsector fleets being part of the regular imperial navy rather than under the control of some local noble.
Other sources, such as the Wiki entries for named and numbered fleets make it clear that a sector fleet is composed of the numbered fleets in a sector. This would mean the sector fleet exists only as a higher level command cadre with sector-wide support assets. In this organizational structure, the imperial nobility acts more in the role of advice and consent rather than active naval command.
I lean toward the second organizational structure as making the most sense to me, but I welcome any comments and suggestions that might help clarify my thinking.
Many sources describe sector fleets as being the mainline Imperial Navy under direct Imperial control (i.e. a 1000 ship fleet) and subsector fleets as mostly far fewer and older ships under local control staffed by non-imperial crews (a batron, cruisers, and a gaggle of smaller ships). The Sector Fleet publication follows this ideal fairly closely, except that it shows subsector fleets being part of the regular imperial navy rather than under the control of some local noble.
Other sources, such as the Wiki entries for named and numbered fleets make it clear that a sector fleet is composed of the numbered fleets in a sector. This would mean the sector fleet exists only as a higher level command cadre with sector-wide support assets. In this organizational structure, the imperial nobility acts more in the role of advice and consent rather than active naval command.
I lean toward the second organizational structure as making the most sense to me, but I welcome any comments and suggestions that might help clarify my thinking.