The Admiralty

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"The Admiralty's picket fleets and intelligence networks are long gone. The Survey Office pays zee-captains a small sum for recent information."[1]

The Admiralty is the bureaucratic remnant of the British Empire's once-mighty Royal Navy.

Mostly There For Tradition's Sake[edit | edit source]

"A heap of Admiralty accounts in very poor order. Receipts for fuel and supplies. And these Port Reports... are incongruously collected."[2]

After the Fall of London, the Admiralty was cut off from most of the Royal Navy, which remained on the Surface.[3] The contingent of the Navy that was stranded in the Neath is overfunded and overequipped,[4] and unable to patrol even its own shores.[5] While it has established several Stations across the Unterzee and elsewhere, it has essentially become more of an intelligence service than a true navy,[6] collecting Port Reports from zailors to keep track of happenings across the zee.[5][7]

As of 1887, the Dark-Spectacled Admiral runs its remaining operations;[6][8] as of the third year of 1899, the Overworked Commodore is the most public-facing member of naval leadership.[9][10][11]

Stations[edit | edit source]

The New Sequence[edit | edit source]

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“The Grand - yes. Yes, of course, we're generally quite well-informed on that topic, but since you're here, perhaps you may as well let us know what your own impressions were - ”[17]

After the Fall of London, June of the Calendar Council spearheaded an ambitious project, alongside the Admiralty, to create an artificial Sun in the Neath: the Dawn Machine.[18] The Machine broke free of its creators' control soon after completion, and used its power to brainwash most of London's naval forces and Royal Marines into serving it as its minions.[19] The faction they formed, now known as the New Sequence, has wrested away most of the Admiralty's control of the zee.[20]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ The Admiralty Survey Office, Sunless Sea
  2. ↑ A Functionary's Confidant (Story), Fallen London
  3. ↑ Say I'm curious what he will say, Mask of the Rose "And now! Now that London is underground, and the ships of the East India Company are being stripped in the docks?"
  4. ↑ A Functionary's Confidant (Story), Fallen London "The Admiralty receives a great deal of money. The Admiralty spends a great deal of money. In exchange for this, it outfits a Royal Navy so catastrophically useless that its ships might as well be merchants carrying Rostygold through the Corsair's Forest."
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Functionary's Confidant (Story), Fallen London "The Admiralty is unable even to patrol its own shores, so it relies upon the reports of seagoing captains. You may observe the result! At least half are wine-soaked invention!"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ask what he needs, Sunless Sea "Visit a port, and we'll be interested in the Port Report. Visit places of particular interest, and we'll be interested in the Strategic Information you gain thereby. We will pay you well, don't worry. We understand you can't be expected to act entirely for the love of the Empire. [...] What's left of it."
  7. ↑ A Functionary's Confidant (Story), Fallen London "A heap of Admiralty accounts in very poor order. Receipts for fuel and supplies. And these Port Reports [...] are incongruously collected."
  8. ↑ Submit Vital Intelligence, Sunless Sea "There are powers in this world I cannot speak of. There are affairs of the Navy I am not proud of. Bring me more information like this, and we can set matters right."
  9. ↑ Council of War, Fallen London ""This isn't working," say Sinning Jenny. [...] Admiralty leadership [...] is meeting in the operations room of the HMS Vaunted. Jenny has dragged you [...] along so that [...] "Those wretched shell-shovers don't dominate the agenda." [...] "We're prosecuting a war – using primarily naval materiel – inside of our own city," says the Overworked Commodore. "I'd say it's working as well as it can.""
  10. ↑ Marshalling Intelligence, Fallen London "The Overworked Commodore looks up [...] What intelligence do you have for the Admiralty's resistance efforts?"
  11. ↑ Delicately ask why this matter has come to the Admiralty, Fallen London "The Commodore gives you a long-suffering look. "This is a water-borne problem, yes? And we are the Navy." He doesn't say another word, as though the conclusion is self-evident."
  12. ↑ Visit the Unmakers, Sunless Sea "We get funding from the Bazaar, it's true, but... Station IV? I wouldn't call us Station IV. It's a little grandiose."
  13. ↑ Grand Geode, Sunless Sea "[...] you can still make out the original inscription: 'STATION V (ADJUNCT)'."
  14. ↑ Aigul, Sunless Sea "Ah, Station Six. One hears strange stories."
  15. ↑ Station IX (Provisional), Fallen London "Previously known as the University's cricket field. Airship mooring posts [...] Eyes ever turn upwards: the skies are not secure. But, perhaps, soon."
  16. ↑ Take the barge, Fallen London "The Commodore [...] gasps and sits upright. "Station IX," he says, a note of triumph in his voice. "But it's been abandoned since the War. We couldn't get near—" "Abandoned, but not forgotten," the Neddy Man says [...]"
  17. ↑ Grand Geode, Sunless Sea
  18. ↑ Who was the original architect of the Dawn Machine?, Failbetter Games "June of the Calendar Council"
  19. ↑ Grand Geode, Sunless Sea "A naval base, with the Royal Navy's emblems, curiously amended. Efficient, bright-eyed women and men work briskly, everywhere you look. They are singing [...] Hard-faced Royal Marines watch you carefully [...] A plaque by the docks has been defaced with orange paint, but you can still make out the original inscription: 'STATION V (ADJUNCT)'."
  20. ↑ Sell the Memento Mori to the Royal Navy, Sunless Sea "I wish I could reward you better than this, but the New Sequence strangles us like ivy. Thank you. You are a true patriot."
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