# Fleet of Worlds ( 2007 )

They know nothing of other intelligent beings in the universe until first encountering Humans and Pierson's Puppeteers in Fleet of Worlds.

In Fleet of Worlds, the characters tour a General Products factory and receive clues that allow them to destroy a General Products hull from the inside using only a high-powered interstellar communications laser.

In many non-canon sources like The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual and Worlds of the Federation, as well as the FASA and Last Unicorn Games Star Trek role-playing games, the five founding worlds of the United Federation of Planets were Earth, Vulcan, Tellar, Andoria, and Alpha Centauri.

However, aside from the crews of the Long Shot ( in the novel Ringworld ) and Explorer ( in the novel Fleet of Worlds ), no human has ever met a completely sane Puppeteer, as no sane Puppeteer would ever leave the safety of the Fleet of Worlds ( see below ).

Exposure to antimatter is the only known method for destroying a General Products hull until the recent novel Fleet of Worlds.

In Fleet of Worlds, the characters tour a General Product factory and ask innocent-seeming questions of their tour guide, Baedeker.

Eventually, their sun converted from a yellow dwarf to a red giant, so the Puppeteers moved the " Fleet of Worlds ", the five planets, to their system's Oort cloud.

This news prompts the Puppeteer Exodus, where the Fleet of Worlds flee the galaxy at just under light speed for the Magellanic Clouds, in the hope that by the time the explosion reaches the Fleet of Worlds, the Puppeteers will have found a way to protect their civilization.

This exodus prompts a major stock market crash in human society ; in 2864, the Fleet of Worlds leaves Known Space.

Beowulf notes, however, that the speed at which the Fleet of Worlds is moving ( 0. 8c ) would cause nearly as much damage as the Core explosion itself.

* Fleet of Worlds

In Larry Niven's novel Ringworld, the Puppeteers ' " Fleet of Worlds " is arranged in such a configuration ( 5 planets spaced at the points of a pentagon ) which Niven calls a " Kemplerer rosette "; this ( possibly intentional ) misspelling ( and misuse ) is one possible source of this confusion.

Nessus is also a central character of the Fleet of Worlds series of Ringworld companion novels ( Fleet of Worlds, Juggler of Worlds, Destroyer of Worlds, Betrayer of Worlds, and Fate of Worlds ), that opens about 200 years before Ringworld and ends following Ringworld's Children.

The exoneration Pearson speaks of is not an exoneration, but Lizzie's expression of her opinion, as reported in the testimony of Assistant Marshal Fleet.

In Germany, Beatty had ruined his reputation when he told the crews of his ships that were receiving the German High Seas Fleet for its internment at Scapa Flow, " Don't forget that the enemy is a despicable beast ," and arranged the surrender of the German Fleet as a grand spectacle of humiliation.

He is a mosquito, created in honour of the team's back-to-back Premierships side in the 1920s known as the Mosquito Fleet.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

* 1340 – Hundred Years ' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.

NOGAPS is run operationally at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center for the United States Military.

The village of Moonfleet is based on East Fleet in Dorset by Chesil Beach.

The alternative source of Norfolk Island for these, ( or in the case of flax and hemp, similar ) supplies is argued by some historians, notably Geoffrey Blainey in Tyranny of Distance, as being a major reason for the founding of the convict settlement of New South Wales by the First Fleet in 1788.

* 1918 – The German High Seas Fleet is incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918 – 1919.

It is estimated that of all the gold entering Spain from the New World between 1531 and 1660, 60 % had arrived at its destiny via the ' Treasure Fleet and Fairs ' system from Nombre de Dios / Portobelo.

) The two most common handicap systems are the IRC and the Portsmouth Yardstick, while the Performance Handicap Racing Fleet ( PHRF ) is very common in the U. S. A.

The Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet in the new series consists of a Command Ship and a number of capsules that can be moved into position when Battle Status is enjoined.

The Sontaran Empire has ostracised him for his failures and the failures of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Fleet, and he is forced to work as a mercenary for the alien Bane and later colludes with their renegade Mrs Wormwood to unleash the ancient entity Horath.

The USAF nuclear component was then officially combined with the United States Navy's strategic nuclear component, its Fleet Ballistic Missile ( FBM ) submarines, to form United States Strategic Command ( USSTRATCOM ), which is headquartered at SAC's former complex at Offutt AFB, Nebraska.

This is part of an extensive military outreach program, which also includes a series of Military Appreciation Night games, and game tapes mailed to deployed United States Navy ships of the Pacific Fleet for onboard viewing ( a large portion of the Pacific Fleet is homeported in San Diego ).

Todd's barber shop is situated at 186 Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage.

The Fleet Ballistic Missile ( FBM ) is armed with nuclear warheads and is launched from nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines ( SSBNs ).

*, a prestigious ship name in the British Royal Navy, often the name of the Fleet Flagship, has been given to five ships

It would consist of five divisions of the Baltic Fleet, including 11 of its 13 battleships.

On 6 February, Jervis was joined off Cape St. Vincent by a reinforcement of five ships of the line from the Channel Fleet under Rear-Admiral William Parker.

Around the same time, his father, who had opened an unsuccessful Latin-speaking coffee house at St John's Gate, was imprisoned for debt in Fleet Prison for five years.

Quadrant House ( 7-15 Fleet Street ) was acquired by the Middle Temple in 1999 and after five years of conversion is now a barristers ' chambers.

Bats ( five species recorded ), Song Thrush, House Martin, Water Rail, and various dragonflies and damselflies are becoming rarer countrywide and so an area like Fleet Pond is vital to provide a safe breeding environment.

The battle was the fifth of five major " carrier-versus-carrier " engagements between American and Japanese naval forces, and involved elements of the United States Navy's Fifth Fleet as well as ships and land-based aircraft from the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet and nearby island garrisons.

Since 1811 five members of the British Royal family, other than the monarch, and four members of foreign royal families have been appointed Admirals of the Fleet.

Following the creation of the Chief of the Defence Staff in 1959, the five Naval officers appointed to that postion became Admirals of the Fleet.

All five founding members were from families who had migrated to Australia from Europe: lead singer Stevie Wright and drummer Gordon " Snowy " Fleet were from England ; rhythm guitarist George Young was from Scotland ; lead guitarist Harry Vanda and bassist Dick Diamonde were from the Netherlands.

The primary means of carrying out these missions are the five Nimitz class aircraft carriers attached to the Third Fleet:

The forces of the 5th Fleet peaked in early 2003, when five USN aircraft carriers ( CV and CVNs ), six USN amphibious assault ships known as LHAs and LHDs and their embarked USMC air ground combat elements, their escorting and supply vessels, and over 30 Royal Navy vessels were under its command.

Together with Naval Forces Central Command, Fifth Fleet oversees five naval task forces monitoring maritime activity:

It was then decided to shift the remaining fleet ( one cruiser-the famous Averof -, three destroyers and five submarines ) to the join up with the British Mediterranean Fleet at Alexandria.

He was the U. S. Navy's second most senior officer after Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, and the second admiral to be promoted to five star rank.

The New York section includes a baggage car, Heritage Fleet dining car, two to three Viewliner sleeping cars and three to five Amfleet II coaches.

The Home Fleet comprised the flagship HMS Nelson leading a force that included the 2nd Battle Squadron ( United Kingdom ) ( five more battleships ), the Battlecruiser Squadron ( HMS Hood and HMS Renown ), the 2nd Cruiser Squadron ( Vice-Admiral Edward Astley-Rushton, CB, CMG aboard Dorsetshire ( three cruisers )), three destroyer flotillas ( 27 ), a submarine flotilla ( six ), two aircraft carriers and associated vessels.

With five carriers fully equipped with air groups, plus their numerous battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, the Japanese Combined Fleet, directed by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, was confident that they could make up for their defeat at the Battle of Midway.

After several important assignments during the next five years, he commanded Aircraft Squadrons, Battle Fleet, in Langley in 1925.

Its creator, Li Hongzhang, used the customs and tax revenues of the five provinces under his control in the 1880s and 1890s to modernize segments of the Huai Army, and to build a modern navy ( the Beiyang Fleet ).