Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Wenshuting saw some readers asking why Horatio was so good at close combat and suspected of being blessed, but he still started as a trainee officer in the navy.

I thought about it carefully and felt that I needed to explain the situation and characteristics of the Imperial Navy and introduce them to you, otherwise it might affect your enjoyment of reading this book later.

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1. What is the difference between the organization of naval officers and the organization of Astra Militarum officers?

The organization of naval officers is appointed by the Star Domain Navy Department through a letter of appointment and reported to the Holy Terra Navy Department for verification.

The organization of Astra Militarum officers is appointed by the conscription world and reported to the local military affairs department.

Star Domain Level\u003e Star District Level\u003e Sub-Star District Level\u003e World Level.

The effectiveness and formality of the two are clear at a glance.

The gold content of the Imperial Navy Officer's Letter of Appointment is three levels higher than that of the Astra Militarum Officer's Letter of Appointment.

The organization higher than the Star Domain Level is the Undersecretary Level and the Supreme Minister Level.

The Imperial Navy does not have a Undersecretary Level rank.

There is one Supreme Minister level.

The one sitting in the High Lords' Council - the Supreme Lord Admiral of the Imperial Navy.

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Second, what is the organization of the Imperial Navy?

We all know that the Imperial Navy is a military rank system based on the British Royal Navy of the Age of Sail.

Then they drove Victorian ironclad ships, and even had rams. Many ironclad ships had rams, and they often bumped into each other. (Laughs)

According to official novels, Gothic Fleet rulebooks, Ronin's group rules, and historical British Royal Navy data.

Take a battlecruiser with 150,000 crew members (excluding contract workers) as an example.

There is only one colonel, 49 commissioned lieutenants, and 20 alternate officers.

The captain is a colonel, the first mate is a lord captain, and the third mate and later are all captains.

You will find that the navy has only one colonel? ! All the lieutenants below are lieutenants?

That's right, the lieutenants of the Imperial Navy are actually equivalent to the functions of the army colonels.

There is no major position in the Imperial Navy.

The officers are the top leaders, and there is only one on a ship!

Even battleships have this configuration, and the second-in-command must be the lord captain.

The lieutenant colonel is the top leader of frigates, and the colonel is the top leader of light cruisers to battleships.

The captain of a battleship is usually still a colonel, but more senior.

General officers are essentially passengers on the flagship, and usually do not interfere with the captain's command. Commanding the fleet is his more important responsibility and task.

Commodore is the highest rank that can be used as a captain. If you want to be a major general, you can't be one (the Navy Department: You command the fleet (kick!))

For example, the captain of the Imperial Fist Mountain Array Monastery, Commodore Trevox.

The naval rank sequence focuses on one, few but precious.

The word Captain in the navy is a colonel who is in charge of the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people on the ship.

In the Star Army, it is only a company commander who manages a thousand people.

The army ranks are more inflated.

So you must not use the army's set on the navy, otherwise the fun point will be greatly weakened, or even become a poison point.

The navy is not bragging when they call themselves the first class.

Because their military ranks from top to bottom reveal a delicate feeling of dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and male nobles.

If you regard the promotion of the navy as a promotion from baron to viscount, and from viscount to earl, it is completely fine.

It is really like this in real history.

The commission of British Royal Navy officers has always been signed by the king and issued by the Admiralty, and its effectiveness is like the signature of the Emperor.

The name of "Son of Heaven Officer" is not called for nothing.

The title of the Supreme Fleet Commander of the Imperial Navy has always been the Emperor himself.

The abbreviation of the Imperial Navy is also "HMS", which means "His Holy Navy".

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3. What is the situation of naval rank promotion?

The navy is essentially a military branch that looks at practical qualifications and combat records.

The Imperial Navy, which is built on the framework of the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail, is even more so.

As long as they are officers, except for the better treatment of colonels (after all, they are the top leaders), other officers are basically the same.

Among the lieutenants, second lieutenants, and captains, there is no formal distinction in the military rank. In fact, they are all lieutenants.

Captains are lieutenants, lieutenants are sub-lieutenants, and second lieutenants are junior sub-lieutenants.

The so-called second lieutenants and second lieutenants are just "junior captains".

It's just that the Chinese context makes people misunderstand that there is a big difference between the three.

In fact, the three are just seniority differences, and the command priority is only ranked according to the time and seniority of actual operation on the ship.

In normal times, whether it is treatment or meal standards, the reserve officers are exactly the same as the commissioned officers.

Therefore, the word "lieutenant" is used a lot in this article.

Because the navy really does not have such a clear classification among lieutenants.

The promotion of second lieutenants to lieutenants and lieutenants to captains are all based on the star zone fleet's assessment that the lieutenants have reached the appropriate seniority standards in their past practical operation levels.

For example, if Horatio feels that his level is good enough, the lieutenant wants to be promoted to captain.

When the captain thinks he has done a good job.

That is, the captain writes a letter of recommendation to the Star Region Navy Department, and the senior officials of the Gothic Fleet make a judgment based on Horatio's actual command level in the past.

It is indeed suitable, good, you are not a junior (Sub) lieutenant.

Only the senior officials of the Star Region Navy Department can decide whether a lieutenant can become a captain.

Based on the person's past resume, combat record, command level, captain feedback, etc., a comprehensive assessment is made.

Then a "Lieutenant Colonel Commission" is issued.

When a Lieutenant Colonel is promoted to Colonel, a "Colonel Commission" is issued.

For example,

"The Navy Headquarters of the Hazy Star Domain Empire, in the name of the Emperor, appoints Lord Horatio Cochrane X/His Excellency as the rank of Navy Colonel and the captain of the XXX-class cruiser XXX. The command authority will take effect immediately after Lord Horatio Cochrane X/His Excellency receives this commission."

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Fourth, the issue of naval professional skills inspection.

No matter in which era, naval officers have the highest professional and technical requirements among all military branches, the broadest knowledge reserves, and even retired at the age of aging and serving as tutors at the Naval University.

We all know that the Imperial Ministry of the Interior is so complicated that the Ministry of the Interior itself does not know how many departments it has.

A void ship, which is measured by kilometers, has even more departments.

However, warships are the largest war creations in human history.

It requires countless people to work together, and any mistake may cause immeasurable losses.

At the least, all the people on a ship will be killed. It takes hundreds of years to re-produce a cruiser.

At the worst, the battle line will be disconnected in the middle, and the enemy will take the opportunity to cut off the battle line from the gap, and the whole naval battle will be defeated.

At the worst, the star region that loses sea control will fall in a very short time, and there will be no time for the Imperial Guard and the Astartes to come.

A naval officer will be familiar with all the departments on a warship during his career as a candidate officer and lieutenant.

This is also the reason why the navy has a candidate officer system.

The fundamental reason for all this is that the navy cannot afford to lose.

So every officer must be a talented person who has been tested in practice.

Inferior people cannot pass the lieutenant exam with a pass rate of only 13%, and cannot be promoted from candidate officers to commissioned lieutenants.

I believe that readers who have read Master and Commander will definitely remember the candidate officer who failed the naval lieutenant exam at the age of 30, was regarded as a plague god by everyone, and finally jumped into the sea with a bullet in his arms to commit suicide.

The role of the majors in the Naval Chuji Academy is to stimulate some of the students' talents in advance.

It is a bit like betting.

And provide candidates with professional knowledge as executive officers for warships.

Even aviation tactics are just one of the links in the vast knowledge reserve of naval officers.

Readers who know a little about the navy may know that naval aviation officers and naval officers are two tracks.

In the Imperial Navy, naval aviation pilots can be the highest fighter commander (Wings Commander).

This position is similar to the weight of a naval captain, responsible for managing all naval aviation pilots. There is no promotion after that.

But what kind of mission to send a warship to perform, how to perform the mission, and what the mission of the fighter during the entire battle is, are all designated by the naval officers on the aviation command bridge.

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V. What exactly is a candidate officer? Is it very bad?

As a senior professional officer, the Imperial Navy, like civil servants in reality, must take an exam for every job.

If you can become a naval candidate officer in the human empire.

Then congratulations, you are already above 99.99999% of people.

From the quota data of a battle cruiser with 150,000 crew members (excluding contract workers), there is only one colonel, 49 commissioned lieutenants, and 20 candidate officers. We can see that the number of candidate officers is less than that of commissioned lieutenants.

The role of candidate officers is to connect the upper and lower levels of the entire battleship. It is an indispensable and important part.

There are very few commissioned officers, and they are almost too busy. They rarely go down the bridge or leave the command room.

And the candidate officers are the best mediator between them and the executive warrant officers.

They are commissioned to execute the orders of the command bridge and check the effectiveness of their subordinates' execution on the front line.

It is just right for these young people to see with their own eyes and touch how the various equipment on the battleship is operated, so that the theory learned can be combined with practice and become real skills.

Dear readers, do you think that an officer who can't even figure out the internal structure and departments of a warship is really qualified to be a captain and be responsible for hundreds of thousands of people and so many worlds behind him?

In the official setting, the identity of the Imperial Navy candidate is either the son of a naval officer or the god of learning in the Zhongsi Academy.

Whether it is Ravensburg, Commodore Ashagai of the Saint Astor and First Mate Fenula, and General Cassandra Valescus of the Third Fleet of the Indomitable Expedition, they all talked about their career as a candidate officer in the article.

The Imperial Navy at the end of the 41K millennium was an era when there were more people than ships. Many officers had to wait for decades at the port before they could go on board for internship.

Horatio is good at close combat and has excellent test scores. But the senior officers of the Gothic Fleet don't know how professional his quality is.

So in the article, Commodore Peru personally selects the guards and asks people to use servoskulls to record his command level, which will be used for the senior officers of the Gothic Fleet to judge after the war.

The granting and promotion of naval officers is not decided by one person, but by a group of colonels or even generals in the Star Domain Navy Department.

Most people have a fixed age limit, such as how many years of ship practice a captain must have before he can be promoted to lieutenant colonel, etc.

After understanding these, it is not difficult to find that Horatio already has a lot of advantages.

1. His every move was filmed and analyzed. This shows that the Gothic Fleet's top brass is trying to get the only descendant of Admiral Speyer and the god of war to obtain a lieutenant commission without taking an exam.

Because the naval officer commission is issued by the Star Domain Navy Department, we want to exempt Horatio from the test and get the commission.

Not only does he need a detailed overview of all his test scores at Zhongsi Academy, but also his personal practical operation, command resume and recording information, deeds and honors.

There must also be a letter signed by the responsible lieutenant (Captain Lord Sterling), the responsible captain (Commodore Peru), the head of the department (Vice Admiral Hood), and the colonels and captains who participated in the evaluation.

And a letter of recommendation signed by the heavyweight commander-in-chief of the Gothic Fleet (Admiral Lord Catalia).

This means that Horatio is the only one in the fleets in the 41st millennium who has obtained a naval officer commission without taking an exam.

2. Students who have scored 15,000 points in the Zhongsi Academy Navy Department can be promoted without the minimum age limit.

They don’t have to wait until 45 like Vice Admiral Hood, who came from a wild background, to get their own Navy Vice Admiral commission.

As long as he has military merits and achievements to prove his strength to the Navy Department, Horatio can become a colonel captain at the age of 24 and a general at the age of 27.

The Imperial Navy seems to be stingy, why is there so much trouble in issuing a commission to one person.

But think about it, how many star legions can the human empire form in the time it takes to build a moon-class cruiser?

Moreover, the time node is already the end of the End Era M41, and it has been more than ten years since Abaddon launched the 13th Black Crusade.

90% of the sealed warships in the fleets of the entire empire are not enough to fill the gap in the vast territory of the emperor.

In this case, how can the navy masters not be careful in selecting people?

So in this book, Horatio's promotion process will be fast, but every step is taken by him step by step.

Although the length of his independent command of an entire ship will not be too long.

And I will not write in detail about the plot of Horatio going to which department, just like going to school at Zhongsi Academy, with a few silhouettes.

The main storyline of his career as a lieutenant is the story of his political, personal connections, career, love, and military capital accumulated after he became a captain.

There will definitely be some exciting moments, so please rest assured, readers.

But the navy is not a makeshift team, it is the most rigorous military organization in human history.

Because the cost of a naval defeat is so high that no one can be responsible for the subsequent impact, there is such a strict and complex selection system.

After the Danish Navy was completely annihilated by Nelson in the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, it fell directly from the altar of hegemony. The oak trees planted were not notified to the government until 2020 that they could be cut down for shipbuilding. (Laughs)

The century-old navy is not a boast.

The Star Army suffered dozens of casualties, and it could mobilize another 100 regiments the next year.

But it takes a long time to build a cruiser, and every screw has to be blessed with nano-incense.

Battleships are even less one after another, and some battleships even have no production conditions.

And if you throw any star zone, there are so many worlds in it, and the population of each world is hundreds of millions.

The accidental destruction of the warship and the death of a naval genius are truly a loss for the navy.

The navy is not a makeshift team.

Although I know that many readers like to be happy, is it really fun to see the protagonist serving in a military branch with such a loose and casual organization?

The Imperial Navy really doesn't mind giving a genius more resources to speed up his promotion and let him shine as soon as possible.

But the premise is that this genius has really been recognized and convinced by so many senior captains.

This is also the main line of what Horatio will do in the future:

That is to be the most cautious and promotion-threshold military department in the entire empire, and also the most glorious and respectable military department.

Let everyone be convinced that this naval legend who is young and capable of higher command authority leads the fleet.

And his most important military career capital is:

Open the box? Open it at will! All the achievements and service records of this duke are publicly available.

I, Horatio Cochrane, have been promoted to such a high position by the Imperial Admiralty without any parachuting behavior, all based on my strength. Who among the captains here would not accept this?

Then imagine that when Guilliman is selecting the Imperial Warmaster in the Indomitable Era M42, he will see Horatio's personal service record presented by the Primaris Adjutant, and he will read a long list.

All of them are based on real evidence, promoted step by step, with rich qualifications and detailed combat records. There is nothing in his resume that he would feel is untrue.

With Old Thirteen's personality and work style, he will carefully select a new mortal expedition warmaster, the Void Lord, from the candidates for the Empire. And when choosing his own Imperial Regent Chief Military Advisor, what choice will he make?