Editing The Admiralty

{{Character|title1 = The Admiralty|image1 = admiralty.png|caption1 = Where did all the ships go? Art from Sunless Sea.|location = [[London]]<br>

[[The Overworked Commodore]]|relationships=[[The New Sequence]] (splinter faction)}}<blockquote>''"The Admiralty's picket fleets and intelligence networks are long gone. The Survey Office pays zee-captains a small sum for recent information."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Admiralty_Survey_Office|The Admiralty Survey Office|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>

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

<blockquote>''"A heap of Admiralty accounts in very poor order. Receipts for fuel and supplies. And these Port Reports... are incongruously collected."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Functionary%27s_Confidant_(Story)|A Functionary's Confidant (Story)|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>After the [[Fall of London]], the Admiralty was cut off from most of the Royal Navy, which remained on the [[Surface]].<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Harjit|Say I'm curious what he will say|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"And now! Now that London is underground, and the ships of the East India Company are being stripped in the docks?"''</ref> The contingent of the Navy that was stranded in the [[Neath]] is overfunded and overequipped,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Functionary%27s_Confidant_(Story)|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."''</ref> and unable to patrol even its own shores.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Functionary%27s_Confidant_(Story)|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!"''</ref> While it has established several Stations across the [[Unterzee]] and elsewhere, it has essentially become more of an intelligence service than a true navy,<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark-Spectacled_Admiral|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."''</ref> collecting '''Port Reports''' from zailors to keep track of happenings across the zee.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Functionary%27s_Confidant_(Story)|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."''</ref><ref name=":0" />

As of 1887, the [[The Dark-Spectacled Admiral|'''Dark-Spectacled Admiral''']] runs its remaining operations;<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark-Spectacled_Admiral|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."''</ref> as of the third year of 1899, the '''[[Overworked Commodore]]''' is the most public-facing member of naval leadership.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Council_of_War|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.""''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Marshalling_Intelligence|Marshalling Intelligence|Fallen London|}} ''"The Overworked Commodore looks up [...] What intelligence do you have for the Admiralty's resistance efforts?"''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Delicately_ask_why_this_matter_has_come_to_the_Admiralty|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."''</ref>

*Station IV - [[The Salt Lions]]<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Salt_Lions|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."''</ref>

*Station V - [[Grand Geode]]<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Geode|Grand Geode|Sunless Sea|}} ''"[...] you can still make out the original inscription: 'STATION V (ADJUNCT)'."''</ref>

*Station VI - [[Aigul]]<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Admiralty_Survey_Office#Port_Reports|Aigul|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Ah, Station Six. One hears strange stories."''</ref>

*Station IX - the [[University]]'s cricket field, commissioned as a temporary Station during the events following the [[The London Horticultural Show|London Horticultural Show]]<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Station_IX_(Provisional)|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."''</ref>

{{Spoiler}}<blockquote>''“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 - ”''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Admiralty_Survey_Office#Port_Reports|Grand Geode|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>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]].<ref>{{Citation|https://www.failbettergames.com/the-mysteries-revealed-again/|Who was the original architect of the Dawn Machine?|Failbetter Games|}}''"June of the Calendar Council"''</ref> 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.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Grand_Geode|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)'."''</ref> The faction they formed, now known as the [[New Sequence|'''New Sequence''']], has wrested away most of the Admiralty's control of the [[zee]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Dark-Spectacled_Admiral|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."''</ref>

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