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| The AWSF is an all-volunteer organization, recruiting from all AW member states. It has its main training facilities on Thane and on a [[BTW/Capital Station|station orbiting Iridia]]. It is relatively small given the scope of its work, with around 100,000 personnel at the present time. (It was larger during the Dirac civil war intervention, and at various other times of major conflict; it has also in times of low tension been smaller.) Automation is used extensively but viewed as complementary to sentient beings. | The AWSF is an all-volunteer organization, recruiting from all AW member states. It has its main training facilities on Thane and on a [[BTW/Capital Station|station orbiting Iridia]]. It is relatively small given the scope of its work, with around 48,000 personnel at the present time. (It was larger during the Dirac civil war intervention, and at various other times of major conflict; it has also in times of low tension been smaller.) Automation is used extensively but viewed as complementary to sentient beings. |
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| The AWSF employs a number of [[BTW/Allied Words Ships|types of spacecraft.]] |
The Allied Worlds Space Force is the spacefairing military service of the Allied Worlds. The name "Space Force" was coined by analogy to various planetary or subplanetary government "space forces" or "aerospace forces," and not to distinguish it from other branches of the military - the Allied Worlds have no Army, Navy, or Air Force with which to contrast the AWSF. (The AW do have the Spaceborne Infantry, but these "space marines" are part of the AWSF and not a separate armed force.) The AWSF cooperates with system-level or planetary space forces, orbital guards, and law enforcement agencies, and provides transportation and logistics for other allied forces participating in planetary actions.
Its motto is Tuemini societatem!
History
The AWSF was formed after the Unification Wars as the standing military of the victorious Allied Worlds. Since then, it has participated in a handful of major conflicts over its long history, most in the first century and a half of the alliance, when the AW was more interventionalist in planetary affairs and many bounds were untested. The Allied intervention in the Dirac civil war was the most recent major conflict involving the AWSF, and interrupted roughly a century of peace.
The AWSF has in general had success in protecting space traffic from attempts at piracy and extortion.
Personnel
The AWSF is an all-volunteer organization, recruiting from all AW member states. It has its main training facilities on Thane and on a station orbiting Iridia. It is relatively small given the scope of its work, with around 48,000 personnel at the present time. (It was larger during the Dirac civil war intervention, and at various other times of major conflict; it has also in times of low tension been smaller.) Automation is used extensively but viewed as complementary to sentient beings.
The AWSF has comparatively high turnover, with many members viewing a term of service in the Space Force as a stepping stone to a career in commercial spaceflight or other fields.
The AWSF is open to all people, but Humans and Biran do normally serve on separate ships and facilities because of their different life support and habitat needs.
Fleet
The AWSF employs a number of types of spacecraft.
With the resolution of the Dirac civil war, the AWSF has been removing many craft from active service, mostly keeping them uncrewed in cold shutdown in high orbit around New Iridia. The Zheng He and Marco Polo are refits of rapid response ships that were considered surplus to defense needs and made available for the exploratory mission.