Wet Navy
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The wet navy or blue water navy was the aquatic WarShips, called like this to distinguish them from the Blackwater or space WarShips.
A Silverback coastal cutter.
History
The Blue Water warships were as old as the navigation itself. Even after the mankind extended to the stars, they were still useful, specially in mostly aquatic planets, patrolling their waters against the aquatic pirates and providing artillery support in the nearby coasts. These WarShips, sometimes bigger than the space Warships and with more weaponry, range from the little patrol ship lightly armed to the biggest cruisers and aircraft carriers. They have several advantages than explains their continued existance: first of all, are much less expensive than the space WarShips, and easier to mantain, even after the loss of advanced technology of the Succession Wars. As example, in the 30th century, the Lyran Commonwealth have more than twenty blue water 60,000 cruisers of Jormungand-class through their space, three of them only in their capital Tharkad.[1] However, their disadvantages are also important: obviously, they cannot be easily moved from a planet to other, having to be cut in parts, mounting them again in the planet of destiny, or be built in place, and are very vulnerable to space attacks. Anyway, the blue water combat was a key part in the defense of many planets, and a very reputed Mercenary unit, Kraken Unleashed was dedicated to the aquatic, amphibious and underwater warfare, with much success.[2]
Classed of Bluewater WarShips
- Jormungand-Class Bluewater cruiser
- Argo-Class sumergible carrier
- MeabhHeavy cruiser
- Silverfin coastal cutter.
- Luftenburg supercarrier.