“Our duty is to fight for the Empire, to become the steel bastion of Citizens from Sol to Castra, to aid those in need, to stay vigilant against the forces that wishes to harm our home, Castra, and to set foot where no Citizen did.”
United Empire of Earth Navy’s 44th Battle Group was formed during the Operation Overdrive and third incursion of XenoThreat into Stanton in 2954. Established in response to increased criminal activity within Stanton-Castra corridor and repeated criminal faction attacks on Stanton, 44th Battle Group is structured under the 2nd Fleet and reports to Naval Command Castra.
Initially the 44th was planned to be a full-scale battle group with Bengal-class Carrier UEES Zeus becoming the lead vessel, however during the trial operations and training phases, a radical shift in priorities was taken and 44th assumed a reserve fast response / expeditionary force role with less personnel involved. Instead of imposing heavy carriers and battlecruisers, it was a few Javelin Destroyers and Idris Frigate squadrons responding in time against threats, laying down the firepower in haste, that kept Castra-Pyro jump points safe. 44th Battle Group came to blows with both Headhunters and XenoThreat during expeditions into Pyro to remind UEE’s presence and to keep the Gateway stations under watch. During these expeditions especially XenoThreat’s Idris Frigates were posing a considerable threat. 44th gained full operational status in 2955 as a Reserve Component of UEE Navy, coinciding with Slicers’ incursion into Stanton. 44th was mobilized and deployed to Stanton to combat rampant piracy threat that rendered local corporate forces ill-equipped to deal with. While CDF’s presence assisted greatly, United Empire of Earth still needed her Navy to have a presence, even if a smaller one compared to a larger battlegroups.
Due to being smaller than a full battle group like the 65th of the 2nd Fleet and its missions, the 44th Battle Group is primarily made out of either reserve naval personnel or new recruits as an expeditionary combat unit that gets activated full time against larger threats and otherwise operate on short term gathering of personnel, with prominent use of lighter capital ships paired with stealth fighters and bombers rather than fleet-on-fleet engagements unlike defense of Vega II. 44th Battle Group’s operations focuses on rapid response against pirate and criminal fleet formations, ensuring domestic security, assisting stability and flow of commercial lanes and offering humanitarian aid through technicians, marine detachment and combat medics. Due to their expeditionary nature and operations that reach into Pyro and Nyx, 44th Battle Group is expected to be as self sufficient as possible with means to gather resources and establish forward bases if needed in close coordination with lawful local organizations.
U.E.E.N 44th Battle Group is an expeditionary combat unit under the command of 2nd Fleet, with missions of piracy suppression, full-spectrum combat superiority, Imperial sovereign territories defense, humanitarian aid and extraterritorial operations.
44th Battle Group stands strong on three core values:
44th Battle Group achieves their objectives through currently four units:
U.E.E.N 44th Battle Group is an EU timezone centered RP/Mil-Sim organization where both PvP and PvE is the focus. However, while we are combat focused, we recognize the value of strong logistics, resource gathering and engineering, construction and forward outpost construction as well so those non-combat roles are also needed and appreciated. However non-combatants are heavily encouraged to be able to contribute to their own and their comrades’ defense if required.