The Imperial Navy is the largest employer of sailors within the nation. With a tradition dating back to the time of Emperor Ulrich the Great, this former admiral-turned-warlord-turned-emperor is considered the founder of the empire, and as such is considered the senior service between it and the army. From its headquarters in the capital on Neuschwanstein, it coordinates, plans and administers the navy. It was here you received your higher education; you learnt much here about logistics, strategic planning and naval combat, as well as more advanced subjects such as marine boarding actions, suppressing piracy and assisting the army in orbital landings.
You made friends here, enemies too, but not all of them would come back later. Right out of the bat, you were first assigned as a staff officer on a corvette, though you were quickly transferred to a frigate assigned to a piracy task force, where you made a name for yourself before being transferred to do staff work at the naval staff and the admiralty, as most unfortunately, by the time you made commodore, there was once more an uneasy peace between the powers.
That's not to say you would spend most of your life waiting for your superiors to either die or retire, as you were still in your mid-twenties; nepotism and patronage can be very useful if you know how to cultivate it, and the armed forces are rife with it.
As of right now, you are serving with the imperial naval navigation agency. Due to the way FTL travel works, it often takes a few days to get from one system to the other. Traversing the empire can take up to two years in a fast ship. This, combined with the fact that navigation computers can't handle great distances, has meant that most human states can't reach beyond what is known as the Eärendil Nebula. Most astrologers agree that it formed in the new dark age and that it has effectively boxed up humanity in a small corner of the galaxy. That was, until now.
In recent years, there have been rediscoveries in interstellar travel; for the first time in many centuries, humanity can once more reach out into places it once thought permanently lost. For the empire, the main route towards this new frontier is through a gap in the nebula known as the Gate of Roland, where, on the other side, the Neues Land awaits.
You were just about to leave your office for your afternoon stroll and lunch when a runner approaches you.
<span class="mu-i"> ''Herr Kommodore'' </span>
File first name:
>Franz>Siegfried>Lothar>Maximillian>Reinhard>Johannes>Write-inFile last name:
>von Rauschenbach>von Grünwald>von Schotterfeld>von Katzbach zu Lippstadt>von Fürstenburg>van den Gerstenveld tot den Yssel>Write-in.>>6219719 This is coincidentally the only anime I ever watched from start to finish. 