Fiction:Kingdom of Spain/Spanish Armada

The Spanish Navy (Spanish: Armada Española) is the stellar and maritime branch of the Spanish Armed Forces.

History
The Spanish Navy is one of the oldest active naval forces in the world. The Spanish navy was responsible for a number of major historic achievements in navigation, the most famous being the discovery of America by Spain and the first global circumnavigation by Magellan and Elcano. For several centuries, it played a crucial logistical role in the Spanish Empire and defended a vast trade network across the Atlantic Ocean between the Americas and Europe and across the Pacific Ocean between Asia and the Americas.

The Spanish Navy was the most powerful maritime force in the world in the 16th and 17th centuries and possibly the world's largest navy at the end of the 16th century and in the early 17th century. Reform under the Bourbon dynasty improved its logistical and military capacity in the 18th century, for most of which Spain possessed the world's third largest navy. In the 19th century, the Spanish Navy built and operated one of the first military submarines, made important contributions in the development of destroyer warships, and again achieved a first global circumnavigation, this time by an ironclad vessel.

Incorporated in the European Navy from 2087 to 2743, it saw combat on World War Three, where, miraculously, while other european states were completely affected by nuclear strikes, not a single city in Spain was the target of a nuclear missile, although Gibraltar was bombed, and with it, part of the bordering spanish settlements. In 2743 one ship, due to having a spanish captain and a majority of spaniards and portuguese as crew, joined the rebellion against the European Star Alliance in order to restore Spain's independence, which still serves in the navy today (the Mártir). After the sucessful independence Spain started a modernization and construction of an own fleet, for the first time in 650 years. The armada suffered a minor downfall with the civil war between Philipists/Phaedrics and Bourbonists/Carlists, but soon started a mass expansion after the carlist victory to be able to defend itself and it's small but growing interstellar empire in the ages coming.