Confederacy Naval Administration (CNA)
Official
title for the "starship navy" of the Interstellar
Confederacy. Based at Lalandra (0821 Core), the CNA's
full-time fleet
arm acted merely as a police force, consisting mainly of small patrol
ships.
In the event of a war emergency, the CNA
was
to take control of the various planetary navies in the Confederacy.
In actual practice, the CNA was less than effective in
controlling the planetary navies - who often desregarded the CNA's
coordination
efforts in a time of crisis.
During the Sylean Expansion Wars (-201 to -100), a number
of poor strategic moves on the part of the Confederacy forces resulted
in the Confederacy giving way to the expanding Sylean
Federation. While the Confederacy's planetary navies may have
"won
the battle" here and there against the Syleans, the ultimately "lost
the
war" because of their failure to heed the strategic recommendations of
the CNA commanders.
The old CNA complex on Lalandra has become a popular museum
and tourist attraction of the Third
Imperium,
drawing many offworlders from throughout the nearby subsectors.
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