Category:Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleet

The Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleets form the core of the Last Commonwealth's military power off-world, consisting of a large aerospace fleet, cosmo marine forces, and strategic support services. While the armed forces of the Russian Federation take a dominant position, the cosmo forces encompass troops and assets of all members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization. In the larger structure of Terran Mandate forces, Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleets serve notably as Guardian Fleets to the System Links and are deployed in defense of important strategic positions of the Mandate outside the system Sol.

Doctrine
The Cosmo Forces of the Tashkent Pact largely follow a fortress fleet doctrine, setting a strong focus on sector denial and planetary defense. Consequently, their fleets and vessels are designed to operate in close cooperation with bulwark habitats, orbital installations, and planetary defenses. Last Commonwealth forces will often be directly attached to strategic bases and installations, forming mobile battle- and carrier-groups less frequently.

The fleet composition of Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleets favors powerful capital ships and heavy cruiser types, often sacrificing range and strategic mobility for durability and conventional firepower. While this makes Last Commonwealth forces powerful adversaries in battlespace, the redeployment and reinforcement of such forces can pose a significant challenge.

As defensive operations often require close coordination with local national forces and combined arms approaches, massed maneuvering exercises, and wargames are especially prominent in the cosmo forces of the Last Commonwealth.

Structure
The Last Commonwealth Cosmo Force Headquarters is located in the deep bunker installation of Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia. This serves also as the HQ for Sector Command 01 – Cislunar.

The Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleets are organized into four combat services – the Interplanetary Navy, Aerospace Forces, Orbital Defense Forces, and Surface Troops. Additionally, the Cosmo Forces include strategic and logistical support units. Special Forces such as orbital drop troops and Spetsnaz Cosmonauts are not part of the Last Commonwealth CF but part of the Main Intelligence Directorate and attached directly to the respective fleets and sector commands.

Fleets and Sector Commands
Throughout Terran Mandate space, the Last Commonwealth distinguishes numerous sector commands based typically on planets and system gates. These are tasked with independent operations within their allocated space. In some cases, sector commands or individual fleets are integrated directly into the Terran Mandate's supranational command structure to coordinate joined operations against the Confluence.

Technology
The Russian Federation and its close allies are notable for making a strong distinction between human- and extraterrestrial technologies. Whereas the forces of other nations frequently incorporate scavenged or traded ET weaponry, hardware and materials into their designs, the Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleets do so only in special units. The bulk of their forces is outfitted with conventional arms and equipment, relying solely on technologies reverse-engineered and gradually adapted by human scientists.

As a result, Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleets are generally less advanced than others of the Terran Mandate but generally considered more reliable and less susceptible to critical malfunction, compatibility issues, or sabotage.

Alliances and Reputation
As part of the Shanghai Pact, the Russian Federation and consequently the Last Commonwealth of Terra are closely aligned with the People's Republic of China, the Republic of India, and their sphere of influence on the Terran Globe and beyond Sol.

This tenuous pact pre-dating the arrival of the Confluence was forged into an unbreakable alliance in the fires of the invasion, or so the public propaganda of its major nations would have history believe. In reality, strong tensions between the major powers of the Shanghai Pact persist and at times interfere with the operations of their militaries.

Detractors on both sides have asserted that the Cosmo Forces of the Last Commonwealth are merely the 'garrison fleet' for the joined military of the Shanghai Pact, the Russian side advocating stronger independence while the Chinese have long sought to fully integrate the Last Commonwealth into the Shanghai Pact completely.

Under the best of circumstances, however, the differences in doctrine between the Last Commonwealth and the Shanghai Pact allow the militaries of the two to complement each other's strengths greatly, making the combined forces of the Eurasian pacts the strongest asset of the Terran Mandate.

The privileged position of the Last Commonwealth in its control over the System Links has often been criticized and challenged by other global powers of the Terran Mandate, leading to some minor altercations, but also joined initiatives to expand system bulwarks and defense positions. As the Terran Mandate expands, the Last Commonwealth holds less of a monopoly on the System Gates in newly conquered territories, putting an even stronger emphasis on the defense of the Terran colonies.

The relationship between forces of the Last Commonwealth and the Mandate's extraterrestrial allies is cold at best. Joined operations between Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleets and Xeno rebellions are exceptionally rare.

Origins and History
During the Confluence Invasion, the deep steppes of Eurasia were one of the last regions on Earth not overrun by extraterrestrial forces, harboring scarce safe havens for civilian and military leadership of the wider region. Since the Advent of extraterrestrials in system Sol numerous deep installations and revived soviet assets had been rapidly activated, providing precious infrastructure to the failing human resistance.

Earth's first successful strike lashing out against orbital Confluence Forces was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome and is generally cited as the birth of the Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleets.

In their formation, Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleets united the strategic and administrative apparatus of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, assets and expertise of the member's respective space agencies (notably Roskosmos and KazCosmos) as well as remaining assets, resources and personnel of the member militaries, spearheaded by the Russian Federation's aerospace- & space forces.

In the wake of the invasion, the Last Commonwealth profited greatly from a relatively larger percentage of surviving infrastructure, using that edge to establish several off-world bases and securing the dormant System Gate. For much of the early Terran Mandate's expansion, the Last Commonwealth Cosmo Fleets, together with their allies of the Shanghai Pact, maintained the highest numbers of all Terran Fleets, leading to them assuming the role as protectors of the System Links.