Since i have not that much idea of millitary ranks and i have to write some in a comic, and you Americans are all fucking obsessed with that :D if we are talking about a space battleship, the first on command would be Captain and the second Liutenant?
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Replying to @kukuruyo
Are you modeling it after modern naval warfare or like, Trafalgar-era?
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Replying to @Shinden9
I simply want to use something that most people would understand as correct. No one really knows what the ranks would be on a hyperfuturistic spaceship, but naval ranks seem to be accepted
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for things like this, Wikipedia is a good quick resource https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_officer_rank_insignia … first question you have to ask is "are ranks based on sea navy or air force" ? next: based on US or some other system? third: actively adding quirks is fun.
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Air force is based on Army ranks while usually spacefaring is based on Naval ranks. Curious as to why that is (Naval navigation usually based on stars maybe? Vast openness versus landmarks?) Oddity: passenger airlines are based on Navy ranks and uniforms.
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yep, I know that ...but IRL USAF has more to do with space than Navy does, and thus I suggest that actual plausible paths from here to there include a decent chance that USAF leads the way, and thus that USAF ranks are usedf
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