The Kaiserliche Marine is the maritime warfare branch of The German Empire's Armed Forces, the Reichswehr. It is the ultimate symbol of German global reach, a blue-water navy that projects the Kaiser’s authority across the entirety of Earth. Though it maintains a great deal of legacy dreadnoughts, the modern Imperial Navy is built around the imported American concept of the "Trägerkampfgruppe" (or Carrier Strike Groups) where massive, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers enforce the will of the Kaiser. These floating citadels are escorted by a new generation of guided-missile destroyers and frigates, designed to engage Soviet surface raiders at ranges far beyond the horizon. The navy's primary mission is ensuring that the vital flow of colonial resources from Africa and Asia remains unmolested by acts of piracy, or in a state of war, by enemy fleets.
Beneath the waves, the U-Boot-Waffe continues its legacy as the most potent and lethal arm of the Kaiser’s fleet. The modern German submarine fleet is composed of sleek, nuclear-powered vessels capable of remaining submerged for months, patrolling the deep-water trenches of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Some of them are the finest weapons that mankind has ever produced, nuclear ballistic submarines armed with intercontinental ballistic missiles, the last line of defence against a Soviet nuclear strike.