Alliances

An alliance is a promise with a flag on it. It gives isolated Governors a shared channel, a public reputation, mutual contacts, rank authority, and a common reserve for the harbours that cannot afford to wait.

Fleet & Garrison

How support, convoys, and depot runs cross the map.

Combat

Where allied timing and garrisons turn into battles.

Correspondence

The message ledger where alliance business lives.

Choose the banner before the quarrel

A lone Governor can browse existing alliances, request entry, or found a new banner. Joining is quieter: a request waits for someone with join authority, and an invitation waits for the invited Governor. Founding is louder. The charter sets the name and description, creates the first ranks, opens the alliance channel, and puts the new banner into public standing.

Entry matters beyond the roster. When a Governor joins, the new member and the existing members discover one another as contacts. That turns an alliance into a diplomatic map, not just a chat room.

Ranks are the real constitution

Alliances use ranks, not a single fixed officer ladder. Admiral, Officer, and Ensign are the core ranks, with Ensign as the first rank new members receive. The Admiral can create custom ranks, decide which permissions each rank holds, and assign those ranks to non-owner members.

This is where trust becomes operational. Invitation, removal, join request control, depot deposits, depot withdrawals, flag changes, and rank management are separate levers. A rank can be allowed to stock the reserve without being allowed to empty it.

Envoy Vale: Diplomatic read

Set rank permissions before the first emergency. A rule written during a raid is usually a confession, not a policy.

The Market Depot is alliance logistics

The Market Depot is the alliance storehouse at the Admiral's capital. It opens when that capital has a strong enough Marketplace, then lets permitted ranks send shipments in or request supplies out. Most depot transfers still need merchant ships and travel time. The depot island itself can move stores across the quay instantly.

Use it for alliance problems, not private tidying. A depot that only rescues careless builds will empty quickly. A depot that feeds frontier shipyards, emergency walls, and liberation runs becomes part of the alliance's war plan.

A banner has a public record

The Alliance tab shows member count, total score, rank, roster, join requests, and war record. Score is the sum of member strength. War record tracks wars, wins, losses, draws, and surrenders, so a banner's reputation is more than its size.

The correspondence channel carries the private side of that record: roster changes, activity notices, reactions, and the Operations feed for raids, defences, campaigns, liberations, and shared spy intel involving the alliance. Operations also appears as its own tab in the Alliance panel, so the same intelligence is reachable without opening chat.

Operations also lets any member mark an island as a target by its coordinates, with an optional note. Marked targets are listed for the whole alliance and announced in the correspondence channel, so the banner can set its fleets on the same shore. The member who marked a target, or an officer, can remove it.

The Watch gathers every member's harbour watchtowers in one place. Any banner-mate with fleets bearing down on them rises to the top, so the alliance can send aid before the tide turns. Each member's incoming fleets are shown only to the depth their own watchtower reveals — you never see more than the defender does.

Leave with the ships accounted for

A member can leave at any time, but an Admiral with company must pass leadership first. If the Admiral is the last member and leaves, the alliance dissolves. Existing garrisons are not recalled for you, so check stationed forces before you walk out.

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