Jack of Harts

The Georgian Navy does not stand and fight like tanks at ten paces the way other navies do. They strike from the darkness and do not wield weapons that make them easy to find. They utterly lack heavy gravitic cannons, as well as the heavy capital lasers other navies use. Instead they fire torpedoes that move in slowly and carefully until achieving final attack range. Some carry one-shot gravitic cannons or laser emitters, while others have more standard gravitic or explosive warheads. All carry integral deflection grids and point defense networks that allow them to penetrate active defense grids. It is important to note that those Fleet 2300 warships they purchased were heavily refitted with torpedo launchers and heavier stealth systems rather than maintaining their standard armaments. This has done nothing to reduce the thoughts of other navies that the crews of Kings Bay are a squirrelly lot.

Kings Bay became the Confederation of Dixie’s second space launch facility, but it would not be the last. Every other State started their own space agency in time, built their own launch facilities, and flew their own ships into space. But Kings Bay had the best training facilities. It turns out that the best way to train people for flying through space in a tin can is to put them in a tin can beneath the ocean. Long-term cruises under those conditions helped Georgia prepare crews for space, and many of the early Confederation crews trained at Kings Bay. The other States would eventually build their own training programs, but Kings Bay is still home to the best training program and space launch facility in the Confederation. In their opinion. Florida disagrees on both points, as one would expect.

Kings Bay expanded their submarine fleet from a handful of big old Boomers during the Second Great Depression to dozens of smaller subs in the next century. The new subs lacked the vertical launch systems of the older Boomers, but carried torpedo-launched missiles with similar range to the old Tridents they replaced, in addition to standard anti-ship torpedoes. These much smaller submarines were cheaper to build and operate, especially since they used smaller micro-nuclear reactors in place of the massive reactor spaces of older submarines. They were a revolution in submarine technology, pressed into service by finite budgets that proved less and less capable of keeping up with the missions the old boats had to perform. Those technologies were cross-developed for use in space, tested on the submarines, and then used in Georgia’s first steps in their exploration of the Solar System. They launched from Georgia’s best launch facility. Kings Bay.