NAC - American style [LONG]

I have two problems with the NAC as written up by Jon Tuffley - The
rather confusing nomenclature of the ships as presented in FB1, and the
future history which has the collapse of the US and the re-emergance of
the British Empire.  I don't disparage the dream of a return to the days
of colonial glory, and the idea of the US falling into a chaotic
distopia is, to say the least, pragmatically amusing to some Brits, but
it does come to seem a little insulting to American players, as well as
somewhat less than believable, considering that our economy continues to
grow, thanks to immigration - legal & otherwise - from South & Central
America.  Besides, that sci-fi convention has been done to death since
the late 70's.	It has also inspired many trivial debates on the List
concerning American title peerage and whether or not the British
military could put down an insurgency in America, let alone a potental
insurgency in every country in the Western Hemisphere south of the 49th
parallel.  

So for the American players of FT, and any Brits interested, allow me to
postulate an alternate future history of the NAC for Y.O.U. [Your Own
Universe] as a date addendum to the background history on pages 42-43 of
the rule book 2nd edition...

THE NEW ATLANTIC CONFEDERATION 

"It is upon the Deep Space Fleet, under the divine providence of God,
that the Health, Wealth, and Safety of the Confederation do chiefly
depend."  

2014 - Britain withdraws from the EC following the attempted Spanish
invasion of Gibraltar, which was thwarted with the aid of a US Marine
Expeditionary Force and naval air power fron the US Navy's 5th Fleet.  

2046 - A show of force by the US Navy's Pacific Fleet averts a planned
invasion of South Korea by North Korea & China.  

2049 - Former Florida governer Richardo Marti and California senator
Guillermo Luis Guzman take the oath of office and become the first
ethnically Hispanic President & Vice President of the United States,
signaling the beginning of a historic new closeness with Latin America.  

2050 - Ending a debate that has gone on for nearly a century, Spanish
becomes offically recognized as the SECOND language of the United
States, further strengthing trade relations with the newly-formed LLAR.  

2051 - An attemped annexation of the Indian sub-continent by the EU is
repelled with the assistance of American air power based from Dieago
Garcia.  

2057 - With the rest of the world organizing into federated superstates,
the United States, Canada, Britain, and Scotland unite as a economic and
military alliance, forming the Atlantic Confederation, with General
Parham of the United States as chief of ground forces, and Admiral Lord
Dewsbury of Great Britain as head of naval forces.  

2072 - After 22 years of fence-sitting, the nation of Mexico and the
republics of Central America request membership in the AC rather than in
the LLAR, further strengthening their ties with "El Norte".  

2098 - The LLAR, economically overextended by the establishment of their
off-world colonies, their economies hamstrung by a rash of political &
financial scandals, as well as the final exhaustion of the Venezuelan
oil reserves, requests membership in the AC as a means of bolstering
their flagging finances.  The decision to join is unpopular with the
off-world colonies, which demand - and are granted - independence in the
11th hour before membership is finalized.  The LLAR now exists as a
nation without territories on Earth.  

2135 - The seat of the Atlantic Confederation government is moved to
Albion.  

2136 - The Atlantic Confederation renames itself the New Atlantic
Confederation and revises its Constitution to include all related
colonies as independent members.  

2159 - With the far-flung NAC empire dangerously overextended following
the First & Second Solar Wars, the NAC accept the request for
independence by the colonies of Austin and New Pasadena, as a means of
delegating authority and self-defense responsibilities, freeing the Deep
Space Fleet to tighten its defenses elsewhere.	

As a result of this ammended history, Gibraltar  remains a Brittish &
later NAC territory, South Korea eventually joins the OU as a
provisional member, Guam remains a US/NAC territory [with close
relations but not membership with the OU], and India remains independent
as per List posting...
http://lists.firedrake.org/gzg/200401/msg00114.html ...but with closer
ties to the NAC than ESU, so rather than a "Komarov" and a "Konstantin",
India buys an "Eastwood"... 
http://www.star-ranger.com/Stuff/images/NAC/NACeastwood.gif 
...and a "Saratoga"... 
http://www.star-ranger.com/Stuff/images/NAC/NACsaratoga.gif 

As for the ship nomenclature in FB1, the names consigned to classes were
meant as examples by Jon Tuffley, since the conventions of nomenclature
seem to overlap between classes.  There are two classes beginning with
"M", two classes beginning with "V", two classes with Revolutionary War
names, THREE classes with adjectives, ect.  Also "Furious" doesn't seem
the most appropriate name for a class whose role is chiefly DEFENSIVE.	

In the "Americanized" version of the NAC, I use a defined
nomenclature...

Carriers - "Ships of Renown"  
Dreadnoughts - member nations of the Confed  
Battleships - American states, Canadian provinces, territories, and
islands  
Battlecruisers - capitals  
Cruisers - cities  
Destroyers & Frigates - military heroes  
Corvettes - American tribal  
Scoutships - enumerated  

NOTE: In some classes, there are more ships than there are names to go
around.  For these "Surplus" ships, they are identified by a 4-digit
number, prefixed with the letters "ENCC" for "Emergency Naval
Constrution Contract".	For surplus ships constructed prior to the
Sumani IV incident, they are prefixed "WNCC" for "War-time Naval
Construction Contract".  To get the contract number, use the last 2
numbers of the year that class first entered service, followed by the
number of ship in that class.  

EXAMPLE: The unnamed,16th superdreadnought, whose class first entered
service in 2170, is named "WNCC 7016"  

If more than one class was first constructed that year, the number is
suffixed with the class acronym.  

EXAMPLE: The unnamed, 15th battledreadnought, whose class, along with
the CM & DDG, first entered service 2178, is named "ENCC 7815 BDN"  

Also, since the US is, by nature, fostering the other nations of the
Confederation, the US has elected to consort American names to escort
and needle-beam versions of classes that take up a supporting combat
role, while deferring "the honour of combat victories" to ships
representing the other client states.  

(This is an off-handedly clever deferment, owing to a well-known saying
in naval strategy, "Warships win battles, but support ships win wars!")  

Because of this nomenclature, the carrier & heavy battlegroups found at
the Unoffical NAC Fleet Roster... 
http://www.bcpl.net/~indy/full-thrust/nac_roster.html 
...needed renaming, but only as slightly as I could.  

** Carrier Battlegroups **  

Ark Royal  
Independence  
Warspite  
Victory/Yorktown  
Repulse  
Royal Sovereign  
Renown/Peru  
Enterprise  
Nimitz	
Lexington  
Forrestal  
Saratoga/Uraguay  
Hermes	
Ranger/Paraguay  

** Heavy Battle Squadrons **  

Great Britain  
Brazil/Argentina  
Bolivia  
Colombia/Venezuela  
United States  
Mexico	
Canada	
Scotland  

CV  

Ships in Class: ARK ROYAL, ENTERPRISE, VICTORY, LEXINGTON, REPULSE,
INDEPENDENCE, ROYAL SOVEREIGN, NIMITZ, RENOWN, FORRESTAL, HERMES,
YORKTOWN, WARSPITE, RANGER, HOOD, SARATOGA  

CVL  

Ships in Class: HORNET, KING GEORGE V, WASP, PRINCE OF WALES, BONHOMME
RICHARD, RODNEY, CONSTITUTION, ROYAL OAK, KERSARGE, WARRIOR, KITTY HAWK,
EXETER, LANGLEY, DREADNOUGHT  

BB/V - Since this class follows its fighter groups into battle, dynamic
adjectives are used 

Ships in Class: AUDACIOUS, DEFIANT, INTREPID, RELIANT, VALIANT	

CVE - Since this class is built using destroyer hulls, the class names
use legendary political figures  

Ships in Class: Ben Franklin, Ethan Allen, Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket,
Nathan Hale, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, Paul
Revere, Winston Churchill, Oliver Cromwell, Arthur Lord Wellington,
Benjamin Disraeli, Horatio Lord Kitchener, Louis Lord Mountbatten,
Bernard Law Montgomery, Margret Thatcher, Robert the Bruce, Miguel
Hidalgo y Costilla, Benito Juarez, Simon Bolivar  

SDN/M  

http://www.star-ranger.com/Stuff/images/NAC/NACvallyfM.gif  

Ships in Class: UNITED STATES, CANADA  

SDN  

Ships in Class: GREAT BRITAIN, SCOTLAND, MEXICO, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA,
URAGUAY, PARAGUAY, CHILE, BOLIVIA, PERU, ECUADOR, COLOMBIA, VENEZUELA,
WNCC 7016  

BDN  

Ships in Class: GUATEMALA, BELIZE, HONDURAS, EL SALVADOR, NICARGUA,
COSTA RICA, PANAMA, GUYANA, SURINAM, FRENCH GUIANA, CUBA, HAITI,
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, JAMAICA, ENCC 7815 BDN, MORE  

BB - [Fleet Book]  

Ships in Class: CALIFORNIA, TEXAS, NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, ILLINOIS,
MASSACHUSETTS, INDIANA, WASHINGTON, MINNESOTA, ALABAMA, COLORADO,
KENTUCKY, CONNECTICUT, OREGON, MISSISSIPPI, KANSAS, ARKANSAW, UTAH,
NEVADA, WEST VIRGINIA, NEW MEXICO, IDAHO, NEW HAMSHIRE, NEBRASKA,
MONTANA, SOUTH DAKOTA, NORTH DAKOTA, WYOMING  

BB - [http://www.star-ranger.com/Stuff/images/NAC/NACvanguard.gif]  

Ships in Class: OHIO, MICHIGAN, NEW JERSEY, NORTH CAROLINA, MISSOURI,
TENNESSEE, WISCONSIN, ARIZONA, OKLAHOMA, IOWA, ALASKA  

BB - [http://www.star-ranger.com/Stuff/images/NAC/NAChowe.gif]	

Ships in Class: FLORIDA, GEORGIA, VIRGINIA, MARYLAND, LOUISIANA, SOUTH
CAROLINA, MAINE, HAWAII, RHODE ISLAND, DELAWARE, VERMONT  

BB - all other variants  

Ships in Class: WALES, ULSTER, PUERTO RICO, GIBRALTAR, GUAM, DIEAGO
GARCIA, NOVA SCOTIA, NEWFOUNDLAND, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, NEW BRUNSWICK,
QUEBEC, ONTARIO, MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN, ALBERTA, BRITISH COLUMBIA,
YUKON, DISTRICT OF MACKENZIE, GRAND BAHAMA, BERMUDA, ST. TOMAS, TORTOLA,
ANTIGUA, ST. KITTS, GUADELOUPE, ANGUILLA, MONTSERRAT, DOMINICA,
MARTINIQUE, ST. LUCIA, ST. VINCENT, BARBADOS, GRENADA, TRINIDAD,
CURACAO, ARUBA, GRAND CAYMAN  

BC/E - BC/N  

Ships in Class: SACRAMENTO, AUSTIN, ALBANY, TALLAHASSEE, HARRISBURG,
SPRINGFIELD, COLUMBUS, LANSING, TRENTON, ATLANTA, RALEIGH, RICHMOND,
BOSTON, INDIANAPOLIS, OLYMPIA, JEFFERSON CITY, NASHVILLE, MADISON,
ANNAPOLIS, ST. PAUL, PHOENIX, BATON ROUGE, MONTGOMERY, DENVER,
FRANKFORT, COLUMBIA, OKLAHOMA CITY, HARTFORD, SALEM, DES MOINES,
JACKSON, TOPEKA, LITTLE ROCK, SALT LAKE CITY, CARSON CITY, CHARLESTON,
SANTA FE, AUGUSTA, BOISE, HONOLULU, CONCORD, OMAHA, PROVIDENCE, HELENA,
PIERRE, DOVER, BISMARK, JUNEAU, MONTPELIER, CHEYENNE  

BC - all other variants  

Ships in Class: District of Columbia, London, Ottawa, Edinburgh, Ciudad
de Mexico, Ciudad de Guatemala, Belmopan, San Salvador, Tegucigapa,
Managua, San Jose, Ciudad de Panama, Brasillia, Buenos Aires,
Montevideo, Asuncion, Santiago, La Paz, Lima, Quito, Bogota, Caracas,
Georgetown, Parmaribo, Cayenne, La Habana, Port-a-Prince, Santo Domingo,
Kingston, San Juan, Nassau, Hamilton, Charlotte Amalie, Road Town, Saint
Johns, Basse Terre, The Valley, Plymouth, Roseau, Fort-de-France,
Castries, Bridgetown, Saint George's, Port of Spain, Willemstad,
Oranjestad, Halifax, Fredericton, Charlottetown, Cite du Quebec,
Toronto, Winnipeg, Regina, Edmonton, Victoria, Whitehorse, Yellowknife	

Cruisers, and the rest, Tomorrow.

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