Imperial Navy of Canton River Delta

Imperial Navy Teikoku Kaigun
Active	March 11th, 1445 - present
Country	Canton River Delta
Allegiance	The Imperial Family Sakuri
Type	Navy
Role	Power projection, crisis response, and other defensive purposes
Size	659,399,256 active duty personnel 201,888 reserve personnel 508 active vessels
Part of	Prybourne National Board of Executives
Headquarters	Shibo Hotana
Nickname(s)	The Blue Dragon
Motto(s)	" Don't awake the dragon, or he will destroy all who challenge him. The one who defies the dragon, will not know peace ever again. "
Colors	Gold, Black, White
March	"Storm clouds gathering"
Mascot(s)	The Dragon
Commanders
The Black Admiral	Black Admiral Mitsue Okiku
Executor of War	TBA
Chief of Naval Operations	TBA
Insignia
flag
Jack
Pennant

The Imperial Navy, officaly known as the Teikoku Kaigun, is by far the largest branch of the Cantonese Armed Forces. It's main objective is to defend Canton, its allies, and project its power around the world. The Imperial Navy currently operates 508 vessels in active duty, which makes it the largest navy in the world speaking of pure numbers.

Roll

As the seaborne branch of the Imperial Armed Forces, the Imperial Navy has various roles. The institution has stated its 4 major roles as detailed below in umbrella terms.

• To prevent conflict both on regional and global level.
• In cooperation with the other armed Cantonese forces, act to eliminate, deter or defeat any threats against the Cantonse crown, its people or Canton's maritime interests, both in peace and war.
• To protect the economical, political and ideological interests of Canton.
• To provide humanitarian aid to regional and/or global catastrophes.

History

TBA

Modern Imperial Navy

Leaders

The Black Admiral

Name of the Black Admiral	In Office	Coat of Arms	Picture / Painting	Note
Nguyễn Tuyết Lan	TBA	100px		TBA
Nikolas Zapletal	TBA	100px		TBA
Dominik Neuhaeusser	TBA	100px		TBA
Song Chong-Yol	TBA	100px		TBA
Zeng Zan	TBA	100px		TBA
Lukáš Havlíček	TBA	100px		TBA
Yamaoka Hokichi	TBA	100px		TBA
Kiya Norihide	TBA	100px		TBA
Moto Teijo	TBA	100px		TBA
Aoki Aki	TBA	100px		TBA
Mitsue Okiku	TBA	100px		TBA

Equipment

The Imperial Navy features a broad varity of warfare vehicles. In total it operates 508 active vessels in duty, another 40 auxiliary ships and 3500 aircraft. In general the Imperial Navy is fairly modernized, due to the Modernization Act of 1996. The main reason of the previously mentioned act was that Canton had observed that their fleet, although still very numerous, was becoming outdated in comparison with foreign powers. While almost all active vessels are usable in combat, the Imperial Navy retains some ships predating the 1950's, purely to preserve cultural heritage. Every single one of the Navy's vessels are up to date constructed by W&S Corporation. All of the warship classes, their built year, the number of each respective class's active/retired/commisioned vessels, and more details are all found in this register.

Surface vessels

Patrol ships

The Hugana class

A patrol ship is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defense, border protection, search and rescue duties. As CRD has many unique environments, narrow waters, and the duty to protect GGR's seas too , they operate a wide and versatile variety of classes. The Imperial Navy has currently 81 patrol vessels in active service, divided into 5 classes. The Gugani class,the Cito class, the Dakani Sato class, the Hugana class and the Tawagana class. The first two are specialised in narrow water warfare, like rivers. The latter are more suitable for coastal defence and small to medium naval missions. The most remarkable among them, however, is certainly the Hugana class, because of its sheer size and ability to carry 1 aircraft.

Minesweepers

The Susiki class

Minesweepers are small to medium warships with as purpose to systematically detect and dismantle naval mines. Using various mechanisms to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clean for safe shipping and transport. There are 2 modes of operating an influence sweep: MSM and TSM. MSM sweeping acts on intelligence about a given mine, and produces the correct output to detonate the mine. If intelligence is absent, TSM sweeping dismantles mines directed at a certain course of a friendly ship. However, other mines might still remain. The Imperial Navy uses both techniques in their two classes. In total they operate 20 vessels, but due to the almost finished development of a new more advanced kind of ship, it is predicted this number will quickly decrease.

Minelayers

The Nemaisuki class

A minelayer or mineplanter is the nemesis of a minesweeper, instead of dismantling mines they deploy them. Minelayers vary considerably in size, from small coastal boats of several hundred tonnes to destroyer-like ships of several thousand tonnes of displacement.During the 1900's they were heavily used in Canton River Delta to prevent unwanted naval trespassers across their waters. However as a result of new technologies, mainly aerial minelaying, minelayers became largely obsolete. Of the once impressive fleet of minelayers, only 4 remain; they are preserved for cultural heritage and tradition. All of the current ships are from one single class named after a famous warhero of distant times: General Nemaisuki.

Corvettes

Corvettes are small warships, traditionally they are depicted as the smallest class of ships which still are accepted as proper naval vessels.

Ranks and insignia

The hierarchy of authority of the Teikoku Kaigun both within the navy and marine department, is divided into a total of 5 categories: Enlisted, petty officers, subaltern officers, chief officers and flag officers. The chain of command consists out of 2 parts, the non-commisioned (OR) and commisioned officers/sailors(OF). Enlisted are the lowest class, taking up OR-1 and OR-2. Petty officers are OR-3 up to OR-9. Subaltern officers are OF-1 and OF-2, chief officers OF-3 to OF-5, and flag officers OF-6 to OF-10. Navy officers either serve as line officer or staff corps officers.

TK Code	OF-10	OF-9	OF-8	OF-7	OF-6	OF-5	OF-4	OF-3	OF-2	OF-1			OF(D)
Canton River Delta Rank Insignia
Rank Title:	Admiral of the Fleet	Admiral	Vice admiral	Rear admiral	Commodore	Captain	Commander	Lieutenant commander	Lieutenant	Sub-Lieutenant	Midshipman		Officer Cadet
Abbreviation:	Adm. of the Fleet	Adm	VAdm	RAdm	Cdre	Capt	Cdr	Lt Cdr	Lt	Sub Lt / SLt	Mid		OC

Fleets

Imperial Navy fleets

Fleets	Status	Parent Command	Geographic Region	Nickname	Notes
The Blue Dragon	Active	Edo Home Command	Waters of the Pearl.	TBA	Responsible for naval defence of the nations Canton River Delta and Great Golden Raj. This is the original fleet of Edo, and has a rich history of warfare.
The Black Dragon	Active	Hagalaz Fleet Command	Hagalez ocean	TBA	Tasked with protection of the SU and their inner naval trade routes. Operates in cooperation with other SU states.
The White Dragon	Active	North-Eastern Fleet command	Eastern half of the Paisi ocean	TBA
The Orange Dragon	Active	Central Fleet Command	Rimidic and Sunadic ocean	TBA
The Yellow Dragon	Active	Southern Fleet command	Kaldaz ocean	TBA	TBA
The Green Dragon	Active	North-Western Fleet command	Western half of the paisi ocean	TBA	TBA
The Red Dragon	Non-active	Taika command	Global	The Red Dread	TBA