"I'm Commander Shepard and I'm somewhere between 31 and 33.5 years old, it's really a philosophical question. I'm really a laid back sort of person, even though I obtained an absurdly high rank at an absurdly young age. That's why I bone my subordinates ALL THE TIME"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
A (very brief and totally amateur) scan of the Royal Navy suggests that early 30s is a reasonable age for person at the rank of "Commander" to be in charge of a small ship...
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Replying to @social_scifi
Shepard's a Marine though. They use army ranks
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
There are *some* countries where Marines use naval ranks (Russia is the only one I know offhand) but generally yeah, they use army ones. Mostly I think it's a reflection of ME using the "Space is an Ocean, Star Fleets are Navies" trope.
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Replying to @social_scifi @BootlegGirl
I actually rather enjoyed Stargate SG-1 saying “nope, space is Air Force territory.” AF uses Army ranks because it used to be the Army Air Corps. An accident of cinematic history just because Devlin/Emmerich decided to put the gate under NORAD.
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The history of military ranks isn't really logical or meant to be, but it made sense that they didn't treat SG-1 like a Navy because at the outset they had no ship, just the titular Stargate
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But even once they got the Prometheus and Daedalus class ships, they still retained Air Force command structure.
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Well yeah, it was already established at that point
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