====== 13 -5 Fleet Exercise ======

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Description [wiki]       : A combined Union/member fleet exercise in (:sector) 13 -5
Image [image]            : :deominiusship.jpg
Forum [forum]*           : 2617, 2637
Type*                    : General
Characters [ref]*        : 
Factions [ref]*          : 
Locations [ref]*         : Sector 13 -5
Start Date [date]        : 2015-07-09
End Date [date]          : 2015-07-31
Related Stories [ref]*   : 
Story Teller [ref::user] : Mercury
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Story [ref]: [[]]
Faction [ref]*: Teprogrenaian Consensus, Astrian Colonial Authority, Sundarian Federation
Influence: 2
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Story [ref]: [[]]
Faction [ref]*: Veolian Commonwealth, Praetorian Empire
Influence: 3
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[[Characters~Standro]], minister of defence, announced a large-scale fleet exercise to maintain the general readiness of the Union Fleets, and to keep the forces in peak condition in the case of conflict. The exercise itself consisted of two parts, a deep space battle simulations and a system defence and orbital deployment exercise. The exercise took place in (:turn) 216, in (:sector) 13 -5, with several factions sending delegations and military units. The exercise also got its name from the location, seeing how most military has regular fleet exercises, the nickname was quickly taken over by most Union members to identify this much larger event.

The following Union members participated in the exercise:
  * The [[Factions~New Communist Imperium of the Rising Suns of Deominius]] sent a large carrier participating in the deep space battle simulation,
  * The [[Factions~Teprogrenaian Consensus]] has sent a Futui-class star destroyer participating in the deep space simulations with its superior broadside cannons,
  * The [[Factions~Praetorian Empire]] sends multiple units of its main fleet with improved scanning arrays and reconnaissance ships,
  * The [[Factions~Veolian Commonwealth]] sends two battlegroups to participate in the deep space simulations, as well as a battlegroup and a specialist infantry unit to participate in both system defence and orbital deployment trainings, next to the army units a small group of veolian officials is present to observe,
  * The [[Factions~Astrian Colonial Authority]] send three Arch Devil class cruisers and two full regiments of marines, with the army units comes a small group of officials,
  * The [[Factions~Sundarian Federation]] sends most of their reconnaisance vessels, together with two full squadrons of space capable fighters, together with a delegation of officials

Next to participation, the [[Veolian Commonwealth]], [[Praetorian Empire]] and [[Confederacy of Excaria]] assisted in piracy patrols during the exercise's run-up, main event, and return of the Union fleets.