Talk:United Kingdom/@comment-24787182-20161106010624

Today is a special day for both the Royal Navy and the United Kingdom. Today is the day that we (the United Kingdom) finally enters the modern world. The first three classes of starships have been commissioned into Her Majesty's Navy.

The first class, the Sheffield-class, is a destroyer based on the James A. Lovell-class and built by our American allies. The class' namesake comes from the ship HMS Sheffield (D80), a Type 42 destroyer lost during the 1982 Falklands War.

The second class, the Belfast-class, is a heavy cruiser also built by the United States, and considered a larger Lovell by the American navy. Her namesake comes from the HMS Belfast, the crown exhibit of the Imperial War Museum in London.

The final class, the Commonwealth-class, is a frigate designed to counter the Scarlet Republic's Type-195 heavy frigates, which were responsible for the glassing of the Falklands in late 2015, dragging us into the war. Unlike the other two classes commissioned, this class is the first class of starships built by British shipbuilders, and serves as a proud achievment for the Empire. Despite having the same name as the King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought, the Commonwealth is named after all the Commonwealths that make up the Empire.

These three classes are part of the first batch of Lord Nelson's Star Fleet Initiative, which aims to create an interstellar fleet for the Royal Navy. The two classes in batch two, a heavy destroyer and a battlecruiser, have just been ordered and are expected to enter the fleet by early December.