Space navy
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A space navy is a fictional military service arm tasked with waging battle in or exploring space. A staple of space navies in science fiction settings is that they follow blue-water naval traditions and use vessels for similar roles. Space navies are common settings for military science fiction works, and other forms of space opera.
[edit] Fictional space navies
- Star Trek (1966) - Starfleet
- Space Battleship Yamato (1974) - Earth Defense Force
- CoDominium (1976) - CoDominium Navy
- Star Wars (1977) - Imperial Navy
- Legend of the Galactic Heroes (1982) - Space navies were operated by the Galactic Empire and the Free Planets Alliance.
- The Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982) - U.N. Spacy
- Robotech (1985) - Robotech Defense Force
- Ender's Game (1985) - International Fleet
- Vorkosigan Saga (1986) - Barrayaran Imperial Military Service
- Warhammer 40,000 (1987) - Imperial Navy
- Wing Commander (1990) - Terran Confederation Navy
- Babylon 5 (1993) - EarthForce
- Exosquad (1993) - Exofleet
- Honorverse (1993) - Various space navies including the Royal Manticoran Navy, the People's Navy, the Grayson Space Navy, the Elysian Space Navy, the Imperial Andermani Navy, and the Solarian League Navy.
- Seafort Saga (1994) - United Nations Naval Service
- Space: Above and Beyond (1995) - In this TV series the U.S. Navy was operating a fleet of starships.
- Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (2000) - Argosy (part of the High Guard)
- Halo (2001) - UNSC Navy
- Battlestar Galactica (2003) - Colonial Fleet
- Star Wreck (2005) - The P-Fleet