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StarWatch
History
of the Watch
120,000 years ago a group of
civilizations near the galactic core were saved by the actions of a
member of the Galaxars. Formerly rivals these three races banded
together to create a group for the Milky Way similar to the Galaxars.
The Galaxars themselves, always willing to assist such efforts,
helped create the technology for the StarRods and train the first
members of the Watch.
Within 10,000 years
StarWatch had grown to cover the Milky Way.
Members
of the Watch
StarRanger-
The backbone of the Watch they are armed with StarRods, protected by
their uniforms, and have individual bases with support staff. There
are slightly more than 300,000 StarRangers at this time.
StarRangers have ranks:
regular, 'sergeant', 'lieutenant', 'captain', and 'major'. Sergeants
are senior Rangers and while they formally supervise no one regular
rangers obey them on joint missions. Lieutenants supervise groups of
10 rangers (including themselves); Captains supervise groups of 100
(including themselves); Majors supervise groups of 1,000 (including
themselves).
StarMarshal-
These members of the Watch specialize in battle; they have more
weapons and better defenses. Each StarRanger major commands a
detachment of 10 StarMarshals.
StarScout-
Specialists in stealth and
speed, these members of the Watch are less heavily armed but are much
faster and have sophisticated stealth capabilities. Each StarRanger
major commands 10 StarScouts.
StarMedic-
These members have advanced skills in care and medicine at the
expense of attacks. Each StarRanger major commands 10 StarMedics.
StarWarden-
Often semi-retired StarRangers, the Wardens maintain and guard the
Watch's various prisons. Each major has 10 StarWardens.
StarCommander-
These are the leaders of the Watch based in one of the three
StarWatch Command centers. There are 30 'colonels' and 3 'generals'
each split evenly between the 3 bases. Each of them has his own
commands of 30 StarRangers, 3 StarMarshals, 3 StarScouts, and 3
StarMedics. Each base also has 30 StarWardens.
Others-
StarWatch has a fair number of support staff that are not members of
the Watch itself but still are loyal employees. Each base has a
minimum of 3 staff; pilot, mechanic, communications. Some bases (in
busy sectors; the base of a Captain; etc.) have up to 30 staff doing
everything up to public relations and charity coordination. The three
Bases each have an average of 1,000 staff members. All told the Watch
has more than 1,000,000 staff members.
Staff positions, especially
in remote areas, often serve as a recruiting ground for new
StarRangers.
Organization
Regions-
StarWatch divides the galaxy into 4 regions. The Core Region consists
of the 20,000 light year diameter center of the entire galaxy. The
thee bases are placed equidistantly around the perimeter of the Core
and they
share responsibility for the region. The rest of the galaxy is evenly
divided into wedge-shaped regions, the inner edge of which is
centered on the base responsible for it. These outer regions have
what a human would call 'letter designators' that roughly correspond
to D Region, R Region, and U Region; these are based on the names of
the founding races. 1/3rd
of StarWatch is assigned to each region.
[Note: the solar system is
less than 100 light years spinward ['clockwise'] inside R Region from
the boundary with U Region.]
Sectors-
Each region is divided into 100,000 sectors. These are designated in
such a way that would translate into English as 'U-9357' or
'R-84231'. While each sector averages about 1,000,000 stars each this
can vary greatly – a sector on the galactic rim halfway between two
arms that holds no spacefaring race may be vast in distance and have
2,000,000 stars or more while a sector close to the core on the main
of an arm with a handful of spacefaring races might have 500,000
stars and be a fraction of the volume.
Earth
is at the almost-center of Sector R-77975.
