The Orbital Forces Command (ORBIFORCOM), also known informally as the Starfighter Command, is the Barrayaran command responsible for orbital deployments and interceptor (both suborbital only and capable of non differentiated flight inside ad outside orbit and atmosphere) assets of the Imperial Service. While equal in rank and position, the Chief of the Orbital Forces Staff takes precedence over the Landing Forces Command. The spacefighter fleet command is mostly dominated by non-Vor officers. ORBIFORCOM is the descendant of both the Imperial Air Force and of some assets of the Imperial Navy. In 2901, immediately after the Vordarian Pretendership, the Imperial Air Forces was merged with the other Armed Forces to form the new Imperial Military Service. Since 2993 ORBIFORCOM's crafts are comm
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| - The Orbital Forces Command (ORBIFORCOM), also known informally as the Starfighter Command, is the Barrayaran command responsible for orbital deployments and interceptor (both suborbital only and capable of non differentiated flight inside ad outside orbit and atmosphere) assets of the Imperial Service. While equal in rank and position, the Chief of the Orbital Forces Staff takes precedence over the Landing Forces Command. The spacefighter fleet command is mostly dominated by non-Vor officers. ORBIFORCOM is the descendant of both the Imperial Air Force and of some assets of the Imperial Navy. In 2901, immediately after the Vordarian Pretendership, the Imperial Air Forces was merged with the other Armed Forces to form the new Imperial Military Service. Since 2993 ORBIFORCOM's crafts are comm
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| - Imperial Service Headquarters, Vorbarr Sultana
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| - Lieutenant General Aral Byerly Phourthonous
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| - Orbital forces and interceptors
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| - Imperial Star-fighters
- Orbital Artillery
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| Battles
| - Aslund Crisis
- Escobaran War
- Hagen Hub War
- Komarran Conquest
- Polian War
- Second Cetagandan War
- Third Cetagandan War
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| - The Orbital Forces Command (ORBIFORCOM), also known informally as the Starfighter Command, is the Barrayaran command responsible for orbital deployments and interceptor (both suborbital only and capable of non differentiated flight inside ad outside orbit and atmosphere) assets of the Imperial Service. While equal in rank and position, the Chief of the Orbital Forces Staff takes precedence over the Landing Forces Command. The spacefighter fleet command is mostly dominated by non-Vor officers. ORBIFORCOM is the descendant of both the Imperial Air Force and of some assets of the Imperial Navy. In 2901, immediately after the Vordarian Pretendership, the Imperial Air Forces was merged with the other Armed Forces to form the new Imperial Military Service. Since 2993 ORBIFORCOM's crafts are commissioned as His Majesty's Starfighter, with the initialism HMSF designating them, or His Majesty's Orbital Platform, with the initialism HMOP which identifies them. While the LANFORCOM has a naval hierarchy, the ORBIFORCOM has a ground-based ranks system, also because the now-disbanded Imperial Air Forces retained a rank system very similar to those of the Army. Form a cultural point of view, interceptors forces and units regard themselves as a sort of space cavalry, while orbital defences are closely linked with the artillery heritage. It should be noted that ORBIFORCOM assets do not contain all starfighters or all interceptors and orbital military satellites: not only the Logistics Command handles on its own significant suborbital and orbital crafts, but the Space Forces and Ground Forces have environment-dedicated crafts on their own: the Space Forces embark SPAFORCOM shuttles and interceptors, and may embark also ORBIFORCOM assets if required; on a similar way, the GROFORCOM has several low-altitude vehicles. The ORBIFORCOM just provide highly mobile or heavily armed assets in order to augment the strategic initiative in all situations: deep space mobile attack is a prerogative of ORBIFORCOM starfighters carried in SPAFORCOM carriers; strategic ground bombardment is carried by ORBIFORCOM gunships in support to GROFORCOM forces; orbital satellites management and major system defences are operated by the ORBIFORCOM in support to SPAFORCOM mobile forces. The ORBIFORCOM mainly operate its Flying Wings from star bases and from the biggest vessels, but its orbital defence constitute the vast majority of space fixed installations. The Command is divided according functional lines; there are four Component Commands (ORBIBAR, ORBIKOM, ORBISER and EXPRESINT), which group eleven numbered Forces, each consisting of space interceptors (also known as starfighters) or of fixed orbital defences; Forces are deployed in combined or one-type elements according their destination. As a rule, odd-numbered Forces consist of fixed defence weapons, while the even-numbered ones consist of mobile defences such as starfighters and interceptors.
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