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Difference between pages "Ambassador Class" and "Starfleet Flag Officers"

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{{Icons|bfc|fed|sf}}'''Starfleet Flag Officers''' are the senior-most Starfleet officers, so-named for the old Earth naval tradition of hoisting a command flag to designate the lead ship in a group of ships, the flagship. Flag Officers in Starfleet command groups of ships (from task groups to entire fleets) and important starbases, and also serve in staff roles at various levels of the Starfleet hierarchy. There are five flag officer ranks.
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| displayName = '''''Ambassador'' Class'''
| name = Ambassador
| affiliation = United Federation of Planets
| operator = Starfleet
| status = Retired
| role = *Deep-Space Exploration
*Diplomatic Envoy
*Multirole Capital Ship
| type = Heavy Cruiser
| precedingClass = Excelsior
| succeedingClass = Galaxy
| dateEntered = 2330
| productionEnd = 2358
| retired = 2400
| expectedDuration = 100 years
| expectedRefit = 8 years
| timeResupply = 4 years
| crewComplement = 750
| emergencyCap = 3200
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| width = 320 meters
| diameter =
| height = 125 meters
| decks = 31
| propulsionSystem = Matter/Antimatter-powered warp drive
| cruiseSpeed = Warp 6.2
| maxSpeed = Warp 8.9
| emergencySpeed = Warp 9.4 (12 hours)
| energyWeapons = *10x Type-X Phaser Arrays
| torpLaunchers = *1 Forward
*1 aft
| torpPayload = *200 Photon Torpedoes
| shields = Multi-Layered Shielding System
| dockingfacilities =
| shuttleBays = 2
| shuttles = 15
| runabouts = 2
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'''''Ambassador''-class heavy cruisers''' are venerable workhorses for Starfleet. Originally designated as explorers, they have since been pulled back from most frontline operations and serve capably as diplomatic, scientific, and tactical platforms for duties within Federation space. For their time, they were revolutionary, and they still remain quite powerful for their size.


=== Science and Exploration ===
==Fleet Admiral==
The ''Ambassador''-class starship was intended to be as revolutionary to the exploration of space as the Constitution was in her time; an order of magnitude more capable than the ''Excelsior''-class ships serving as Starfleet’s premiere exploratory vessels in the 2330s. Indeed, this class was the first to be designated as an explorer rather than as a cruiser, given that she was designed to undertake true five-year unsupported missions outside of Federation space.
[[File:Kirsten Clancy.png|alt=Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy|thumb|236x236px|Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy is the current Commander, Starfleet, and one of the few fleet admirals on active duty.]]
Fleet Admiral is the highest rank in Starfleet, held by an extremely select few, including the Commander-in-Chief, the Chief of Starfleet Operations, the Starfleet Chief of Staff, and the most senior commanders of the most important Numbered Fleets. Promotion to this rank requires a nomination by the President of the United Federation of Planets and confirmation by the Federation Council. As a matter of course, only members of the Command Division are ever promoted to this rank. As a ''title'', "fleet admiral" can also refer to an admiral in command of a fleet, and so it is often used to refer to admirals and vice admirals.<gallery>
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{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable Fleet Admirals
!Name
!Position
!Species
!Status
|-
|[[ma:Kirsten_Clancy|Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy]]
|Commander-in-Chief, Starfleet
|[[Human]]
|Canon
|-
|[[bfms_char:13085|Fleet Admiral Teylas Ramar]]
|Commander, Fourth Fleet
|[[Bolian]]
|Member
|-
|[[bfms_char:13717|Fleet Admiral Elizabeth Wolf]]
|Flag Officer, Starfleet Command
|Human
| Member
|}


By the early 2370s, she had been reclassified as a heavy cruiser but retained impressive scientific and exploratory capabilities that have continued to make her a desirable command. The class contained the most powerful spaceborne sensor arrays of their time, and her eighteen modular sensor pallets continue to be able to use the latest scientific scanner equipment. Twenty-eight large dedicated laboratory facilities are included in the ship, along with facilities to convert three of the cargo bays to hold extra scientific equipment if necessary. This gave the ''Ambassador'' an estimated 325% increase in research capabilities over an Excelsior, and she remains significantly more capable than light cruisers and smaller, more modern-exploratory vessels.
==Admiral==
[[File:Picard Uniform 2401.png|thumb|200x200px|Admiral Jean-Luc Picard is the current Chancellor of Starfleet Academy, and one of the most experienced and decorated Starfleet officers in history.]]


With more and more of these vessels having been pulled off of front-line duties in the 2380s and later, some of them have been retrofitted with even more impressive scientific suites in place of crew quarters or engineering support areas, to allow them to perform in-depth surveys of planetary systems with much greater speed than purpose-built surveyors, which tend to be a fraction of the size of an ''Ambassador''.
Admiral is the second most senior flag rank, held by many of the Starfleet Joint Chiefs, who head fleet-level departments, as well as the commanders and deputy commanders of many of Starfleet's numbered fleets. Officers of this rank also are occasionally assigned to command extremely important starbases or sectors within the Federation. <gallery>
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{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable Admirals
!Name
!Position
! Species
!Status
|-
|[[ma:Jean-Luc_Picard|Admiral Jean-Luc Picard]]
| Chancellor, Starfleet Academy
|[[Synthetic]]
|Canon
|-
|[[bfms_char:49761|Admiral Liam Dahlgren]]
|Deputy Commander, Fourth Fleet
|Human
|Member
|-
|[[Vailis|Admiral Vailis]]
|Commanding Officer, [[Starbase 38]]
Director, [[Delta Exploration Initiative]]
|[[Vulcan]]
|Fleet NPC
|}


=== Diplomacy ===
==Vice Admiral==
As her name would suggest, an ''Ambassador''-class starship has long been one of the most capable diplomatic platforms in Starfleet and she is still the ship of choice for most diplomatic missions in and near Federation space when a ''Galaxy'' or ''Odyssey''-class ship is not available. She was one of the first classes to include extensive support for variable atmosphere and gravity accommodations to assist in diplomatic dealings with lifeforms who are not from M-class environments. A full 50% of her high-quality guest quarters and all of her elaborate conference facilities were originally able of being quickly configured for K, L, O, or P-class environments, and this capability was extended in the 2370s to include high-temperature environments. Most vessels of this type have also been retrofitted with holographic projectors either in the whole ship or in diplomatic areas to allow for quick reconfiguration of facilities for different negotiations.
[[File:AlynnaNechayev.png|thumb|200x200px|[[ma:Alynna_Nechayev|Alynna Nechayev]] is an example of a vice admiral who was referred to as a fleet admiral, as she commanded a fleet.]]
Vice Admiral is the third most senior flag officer rank and it is held by officers in a wide range of positions, ranging from the command of smaller fleets to large starbases to departments within Starfleet Command. Vice admirals are often assigned as very senior field commanders, such as [[ma:William_Ross|Vice Admiral William Ross]] who had operational control over much of Starfleet's assets during the Dominion War.<gallery>
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{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable Vice Admirals
!Name
!Position
!Species
!Status
|-
|[[bfms_char:16756|Vice Admiral Alexander Beckett]]
|Director of Fourth Fleet Intelligence
|Human
|Member
|-
|[[bfms_char:15311|Vice Admiral Thomas Belvedere]]
|Commanding Officer, Starbase Bravo
|Human
|Member
|-
|[[bfms_char:13193|Vice Admiral Robert Dowd]]
|Director of Fourth Fleet Communications
|Human
|Member
|-
|[[bfms_char:15254|Vice Admiral Elizabeth Hayden]]
|Commandant, Fourth Fleet Academy
|Human
|Member
|-
|[[bfms_char:23798|Vice Admiral Aubrey Seagraves]]
|Flag Officer, Fourth Fleet Command
|Human
|Member
|}


An ''Ambassador''-class ship is capable of hosting multi-party talks in great comfort, while also being a suitably-powerful ship to not need an escort when going into hostile areas.
==Rear Admiral==
[[File:ErikPressman.png|thumb|264x264px|[[ma:Erik_Pressman|Rear Admiral Erik Pressman]] was a former starship captain who advanced to the upper echelons of Starfleet Intelligence.]]


=== Engineering ===
Rear Admiral is the fourth most senior flag officer rank, and the first rank referred to as "admiral." Officers with this rank are much more common than more senior flag officers, and they hold a wide variety of roles across the fleet, but especially commanding starbases or divisions of numbered fleets. <gallery>
''Ambassador''-class ships were among the fastest vessels of their time, retaining speed records that weren’t broken until the ''Galaxy''-class was launched in the late 2350s. These vessels were the first to use the second generation of the semi-toroid warp coils that became standard after the launch of the ''Excelsior''-class three decades earlier. Their large warp cores provided ample power for her scientific and tactical systems as well, and they boast large engineering crews to keep everything operating effectively.
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{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable Rear Admirals
!Name
!Position
!Species
!Status
|-
|[[bfms_char:29961|Rear Admiral Zack Marshall-Bennett]]
|Director of Fourth Fleet Operations
|Human
|Member
|-
|[[bfms_char:47967|Rear Admiral Ezel Virem]]
|Director of Fourth Fleet Engineering
|[[Trill|Trill (Unjoined)]]
|Member
|-
|[[bfms_char:17740|Rear Admiral T'Vrell]]
|Staff Judge Advocate, Fourth Fleet
|Vulcan
|Member
|}


An ''Ambassador''-class ship also maintains relatively large cargo bays and auxiliary craft facilities, alongside industrial replicators and other systems that make her a very effective vessel for humanitarian missions or construction projects. Given her comfortable accommodations and facilities, she is also effective as a tender for frigates and escorts.
==Commodore==
[[File:Oh.png|thumb|200x200px|[[ma:Oh|General Nedar]] of the Romulan Tal Shiar and Zhat Vash successfully infiltrated Starfleet Intelligence and rose to the rank of commodore under the assumed name Oh, but was exposed in 2399.]]
Commodore is the lowest flag officer rank, ranking above all line officers and beneath all admirals. This is the last rank at which an officer may regularly maintain the command of a starship, though this is increasingly rare in Starfleet. Officers of this rank are also senior task force commanders, staff officers within numbered fleets and at Starfleet Command, as well as the commanding officer of a majority of Starfleet's large starbases, which also gives them authority over the sector of space containing their base. <gallery>
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{| class="wikitable"
|+Notable Commodores
!Name
!Position
!Species
!Status
|-
|[[bfms_char:24691|Commodore Maxwell Stafford]]
|Chief of Staff, Fourth Fleet
|Human
|Member
|-
|[[Uzoma Ekwueme|Commodore Uzoma Ekwueme]]
|Commander, [[Fourth Fleet Expeditionary Group]]
|Human
|Fleet NPC
|-
|[[Py'Tellan|Commodore Py'Tellan]]
|Commanding Officer, [[Deep Space 17]]
|[[ma:Tyrellian|Tyrellian]]
|Task Force NPC
|-
|[[Aben Ch'Thobar|Commodore Aben Ch'Thobar]]
|Commanding Officer, [[Deep Space 47]]
|[[Andorian]]
|Task Force NPC
|-
|[[Jalian|Commodore Jalian]]
|Commanding Officer, [[Starbase 72]]
|[[Saurian]]
|Task Force NPC
|-
|[[bfms_char:25776|Commodore Imya Jori]]
|Commander, [[Task Force 93]]
|[[Trill]]
|Member
|-
|[[Ciffao Tharc|Commodore Ciffao Tharc]]
|Commanding Officer, [[Starbase 86]]
|[[Tellarite]]
|Task Force NPC
|-
|[[Ethysaan Ch'chirrit|Commodore Ethysaan Ch'chirrit]]
|Commanding Officer, [[Devron Fleet Yards|Starbase 93]]
|[[Andorian]]
|Task Force NPC
|}


=== Tactical ===
==Flag Officers In-Play==
The Type-IX phaser array was developed for use aboard the ''Ambassador''-class. This measure greatly increased the ability of the ''Ambassador'' Class to fire sustained bursts, and greatly reduced the recharge and cool down times. The use of an independent power system for every group of ten emitter segments in the array triples the survivability of the array compared to a ball turret, while there are also benefits to the reaction time, greater control of thermal effects, field halos and target impact. Overall the phaser arrays of the ''Ambassador'' are over 50% more effective than the Type-VIII ball turrets found aboard -class ships. Torpedo coverage is fired by a single burst-fire torpedo tube forward and another aft. These ships generally do not carry quantum torpedoes, but they are able to use them. ''Ambassador''-class ships were updated with Type-X phaser arrays in the 2370s for the Dominion War.


An ''Ambassador''-class ship is still a force to be reckoned with, even seventy years after their initial launch. They had a much higher survivability rate during the Dominion War than the Excelsior-class did, and continue to be used for routine patrols of the core sector. They do lag behind newer ships in maneuverability and overall power, but most pirates and raiders would think twice about engaging one without support.
*There are several fleet and task force-level supporting characters (NPCs) available for use in your stories. Each task force has a commodore NPC, and  RPGs have access to one of their own. The purpose of these characters is to provide you a way of giving your characters orders without needing to ask for joint writing with a staff member, though you're welcome to ask other members to collaborate in that way too! This is meant to help you avoid creating your own flag officers (unless you have flag rank yourself) and to maintain continuity of the organization of the Fourth Fleet.
*Flag officers generally do not command starships, especially those ranking above commodore. Their flagships would be commanded by a flag captain, often a relatively junior captain who would handle the day-to-day administrative responsibilities of commanding a starship, but taking their orders directly from the flag officer.  


=== Shipboard Life ===
[[Category:Starfleet Ranks]]
As with many designs that were once launched as flagships, the ''Ambassador''-class is now a reliable workhorse for the Federation. Crews aboard these ships tend to enjoy their assignment, as the class has been retrofitted with most of the amenities you would find aboard newer explorers, such as holodecks, arboretums, and lounges, as well as comfortable crew quarters. Captains assigned to these vessels tend to be relatively junior, as more experienced captains are generally given assignments further away from Federation space, but a number of them are commanded by diplomatic or scientific veterans.
 
More and more of these vessels are being retired, but they are very popular with their crews, who often consider it an honor to keep these venerable ships going, which leads to a mix of officers and crew who have refused transfers to newer ships and very junior staff who were posted to them as a first assignment. Like the ''Galaxy''-class, they can accommodate civilian scientists.
 
== Class History ==
Initially envisioned as early as 2300, the ''Ambassador''-class was designed as not only the next greatest exploratory ship for Starfleet but also as the first of an entirely new classification of starship: explorer, as opposed to a mere heavy cruiser. Development was done at a relatively slow pace, given that the Federation was in a sustained period of peace and the ''Excelsior''-class was performing above expectations. Starfleet wanted a design that would introduce as many revolutionary systems as her predecessor had, which led to a long prototyping period with other less-capable ships, such as the ''Renaissance''-class light cruiser and the ''Freedom-''class frigate. These technologies included the next generation in warp coils, phasers, shields, and scientific systems, as well as diplomatic facilities that would make the ''Ambassador'' a powerful symbol of the Federation’s values.
 
Construction on ''Ambassador'', ''Surak'' (renamed ''Enterprise'' before launch, while the name ''Surak'' was transferred to a second-run vessel of the same class), and ''Zheng He'' began in 2323 at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards. ''Ambassador'' was launched in 2329, followed by her sister ships in 2332 and 2333, respectively. Despite retaining a crew size of 750, they required nearly twice the time and twice the resources of an ''Excelsior''-class starship, while only giving approximately a 50% improvement in overall capabilities. Though they were markedly better at scientific and diplomatic missions, they were too expensive to replace the Excelsior in her role as a capable multi-mission platform, and both classes continued to be produced alongside one another until ''Excelsior'' and ''Ambassador'' were replaced by the ''Nebula''-class in 2355 and the ''Galaxy''-class in 2358, respectively.
 
During her production run, the ''Ambassador''-class was generally built at a rate of two units per year, with 75 of the class built in total. This made them rare compared to the ''Excelsior''-class which was built in the hundreds and they were generally reserved for high-status assignments. They proved popular in service to both their crews and to the admiralty, though they were eclipsed by the Galaxy-class which was substantially more powerful and useful in every respect.
 
They were generally a rare sight within the Federation for the first thirty years of their lifespans, as they were sent on long-range missions or reserved to put out diplomatic brushfires, but they gradually became more and more common within the core as they were supplanted. One was lost at the Battle of Wolf 359, and a handful were destroyed during the Dominion War, but they proved to be substantially tougher than the Excelsior-class thanks to their more powerful shields, something that was simply less important to the Federation during their initial production run.
 
Currently, Ambassador-class ships have been reclassified as heavy cruisers and see service in most areas of the Federation, remaining a rare but welcome sight. They have received regular refits to keep them up to modern standards. A few of them have received more specialized refits either for scientific, engineering, or diplomatic duties, though most of them remain capable multi-mission vessels. Starfleet expects them to be in service until at least 2425.
 
== In Play ==
 
* ''Ambassador''-class ships are capable heavy cruisers built in smaller numbers than the older ''Excelsior'', but still relatively common. Functionally, they have a lot in common with the ''Galaxy''-class, but the newer ship eclipses it in every measure. Because of this, the ''Ambassador'' is a solid, relatively-generic heavy cruiser that can go on nearly any mission and expect to perform adequately. They wouldn't often be sent on long-range missions alone anymore.
* Like the ''Excelsior'', captains of ''Ambassador''-class ships would either be very junior and assigned to milk runs, or be very senior and have decades of experience on their ships.
 
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[[Category:Federation Starship Classes]]
[[Category:Heavy Cruisers]]

Latest revision as of 17:13, 28 February 2023

This article is official Bravo Fleet canon.

Federation Faction Starfleet







Starfleet Flag Officers are the senior-most Starfleet officers, so-named for the old Earth naval tradition of hoisting a command flag to designate the lead ship in a group of ships, the flagship. Flag Officers in Starfleet command groups of ships (from task groups to entire fleets) and important starbases, and also serve in staff roles at various levels of the Starfleet hierarchy. There are five flag officer ranks.

Fleet Admiral

Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy
Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy is the current Commander, Starfleet, and one of the few fleet admirals on active duty.

Fleet Admiral is the highest rank in Starfleet, held by an extremely select few, including the Commander-in-Chief, the Chief of Starfleet Operations, the Starfleet Chief of Staff, and the most senior commanders of the most important Numbered Fleets. Promotion to this rank requires a nomination by the President of the United Federation of Planets and confirmation by the Federation Council. As a matter of course, only members of the Command Division are ever promoted to this rank. As a title, "fleet admiral" can also refer to an admiral in command of a fleet, and so it is often used to refer to admirals and vice admirals.

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Notable Fleet Admirals
Name Position Species Status
Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy Commander-in-Chief, Starfleet Human Canon
Fleet Admiral Teylas Ramar Commander, Fourth Fleet Bolian Member
Fleet Admiral Elizabeth Wolf Flag Officer, Starfleet Command Human Member

Admiral

Admiral Jean-Luc Picard is the current Chancellor of Starfleet Academy, and one of the most experienced and decorated Starfleet officers in history.

Admiral is the second most senior flag rank, held by many of the Starfleet Joint Chiefs, who head fleet-level departments, as well as the commanders and deputy commanders of many of Starfleet's numbered fleets. Officers of this rank also are occasionally assigned to command extremely important starbases or sectors within the Federation.

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Notable Admirals
Name Position Species Status
Admiral Jean-Luc Picard Chancellor, Starfleet Academy Synthetic Canon
Admiral Liam Dahlgren Deputy Commander, Fourth Fleet Human Member
Admiral Vailis Commanding Officer, Starbase 38

Director, Delta Exploration Initiative

Vulcan Fleet NPC

Vice Admiral

Alynna Nechayev is an example of a vice admiral who was referred to as a fleet admiral, as she commanded a fleet.

Vice Admiral is the third most senior flag officer rank and it is held by officers in a wide range of positions, ranging from the command of smaller fleets to large starbases to departments within Starfleet Command. Vice admirals are often assigned as very senior field commanders, such as Vice Admiral William Ross who had operational control over much of Starfleet's assets during the Dominion War.

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Notable Vice Admirals
Name Position Species Status
Vice Admiral Alexander Beckett Director of Fourth Fleet Intelligence Human Member
Vice Admiral Thomas Belvedere Commanding Officer, Starbase Bravo Human Member
Vice Admiral Robert Dowd Director of Fourth Fleet Communications Human Member
Vice Admiral Elizabeth Hayden Commandant, Fourth Fleet Academy Human Member
Vice Admiral Aubrey Seagraves Flag Officer, Fourth Fleet Command Human Member

Rear Admiral

Rear Admiral Erik Pressman was a former starship captain who advanced to the upper echelons of Starfleet Intelligence.

Rear Admiral is the fourth most senior flag officer rank, and the first rank referred to as "admiral." Officers with this rank are much more common than more senior flag officers, and they hold a wide variety of roles across the fleet, but especially commanding starbases or divisions of numbered fleets.

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Notable Rear Admirals
Name Position Species Status
Rear Admiral Zack Marshall-Bennett Director of Fourth Fleet Operations Human Member
Rear Admiral Ezel Virem Director of Fourth Fleet Engineering Trill (Unjoined) Member
Rear Admiral T'Vrell Staff Judge Advocate, Fourth Fleet Vulcan Member

Commodore

General Nedar of the Romulan Tal Shiar and Zhat Vash successfully infiltrated Starfleet Intelligence and rose to the rank of commodore under the assumed name Oh, but was exposed in 2399.

Commodore is the lowest flag officer rank, ranking above all line officers and beneath all admirals. This is the last rank at which an officer may regularly maintain the command of a starship, though this is increasingly rare in Starfleet. Officers of this rank are also senior task force commanders, staff officers within numbered fleets and at Starfleet Command, as well as the commanding officer of a majority of Starfleet's large starbases, which also gives them authority over the sector of space containing their base.

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Notable Commodores
Name Position Species Status
Commodore Maxwell Stafford Chief of Staff, Fourth Fleet Human Member
Commodore Uzoma Ekwueme Commander, Fourth Fleet Expeditionary Group Human Fleet NPC
Commodore Py'Tellan Commanding Officer, Deep Space 17 Tyrellian Task Force NPC
Commodore Aben Ch'Thobar Commanding Officer, Deep Space 47 Andorian Task Force NPC
Commodore Jalian Commanding Officer, Starbase 72 Saurian Task Force NPC
Commodore Imya Jori Commander, Task Force 93 Trill Member
Commodore Ciffao Tharc Commanding Officer, Starbase 86 Tellarite Task Force NPC
Commodore Ethysaan Ch'chirrit Commanding Officer, Starbase 93 Andorian Task Force NPC

Flag Officers In-Play

  • There are several fleet and task force-level supporting characters (NPCs) available for use in your stories. Each task force has a commodore NPC, and RPGs have access to one of their own. The purpose of these characters is to provide you a way of giving your characters orders without needing to ask for joint writing with a staff member, though you're welcome to ask other members to collaborate in that way too! This is meant to help you avoid creating your own flag officers (unless you have flag rank yourself) and to maintain continuity of the organization of the Fourth Fleet.
  • Flag officers generally do not command starships, especially those ranking above commodore. Their flagships would be commanded by a flag captain, often a relatively junior captain who would handle the day-to-day administrative responsibilities of commanding a starship, but taking their orders directly from the flag officer.
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