Quick question.

Is it just me, or does it seem like a Navy and an attached Marine Corps is just boring?

I was thinking of making another branch of the Alliance. Army is not needed, as the Marines are the army, which can be deployed from ships.

Unfortunately, seeing how I'm an Air Force brat and probably will join the USAF after I graduate (from college to be an officer), there dosen't seem to be the need for a "Space Force," if you will.

The job of the USAF is air dominace. However, the Alliance Navy has to get space power, and that's not done with fighters and bombers, but frigates and cruisers. They take over the role of the traditional fighter, and bomber, seeing as they can bombard from orbit. It's like the UN Navy and Air Force joined forces, using Air Force technology with Navy terminology.

There is still one more service. A type of Coast Guard. Frigates and cruisers only. Maybe they could join forces with the C-Sec space patrol branch or whatever they're called. A new type of starship, patrol vessels. Light frigates, no bigger than the Merchant ships encountered on the game.

I'm wondering if I should make it. Is it really nessescary, seeing as how this place is slowing falling off? Also, no one really likes or thinks about the Coast Guard.

Should we just stick with a Navy and Marine Corps? Again, it does seem like the Patrol arm of C-Sec is a Coast Guard. The Coast Guard is not naval combat...just.....guarding the coast, like C-Sec Patrol does. However, this would belong soley to the Alliance and its controlled areas.

Maybe a not-so-quick question.

I love the Airforce, im most likely gonna enlist when i graduate from High School, but i dont see the need for such a program in Mass Effect. Possibly a specialized branch of the navy?

What would the ASG provide that the Navy can't?

The way I always saw it was that there was kind of an Air Force, Alot of ships have personal fighters and those are gonna require skilled pilots not navigators from these huge warships. just my take on it.

We can expand the marine corps so that it's more than just an attached force.

Orbital superiority is not the be-all and end-all of everything. Often you can't simply hit a base from orbit due to collateral damage, like important infrastructure or casualties. Not to mention that there may be issues with accuracy.

Air support from frigates is prone to Air Defence towers which would restrict their use and cruisers are too big to bring into the atmosphere.

So without the weaponry from the space assets, there would be a need for heavy weaponry on the ground. Gunships would be immensely useful. Think the future versions of Apaches or Hinds or even an equivalent of an A-10. Also, the concept of an MBT would still be applicable, as well as artillery. The only difference between a ground force in Mass Effect and from today would be the need for rapid deployment and mobility.

Well the marine corp has aviators of its own so I don't think that adding the Air Force would be necessary considering the size of the alliance military, there are most likely more than enough marine aviators.

Okay, I've decided. No Space Guard. The Citadel Patrol branch fufills all the missions the ASG would.