Imperial Rank Insignia Discussion

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Re: Imperial Rank Insignia Discussion

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RogueIce wrote: 2021-10-26 05:01pmThat seems to be what the Rogue One costume designers more or less went with for ANH-style. They still had multi-color badges but it seems whichever color came first defines the branch of service - so something like the three red/three blue and three blue/three red is purposeful.
I see someone also had the same thoughts I had.

My thought was that the "leftmost" color is the wearer's "Primary Branch."

Then the "rightmost" color lets you know what specific schooling they have completed.

All Red: This guy's only received pure army training.
5 Red - 1 Blue : This guy has been sent to the Imperial Naval School for Line Officers.
4 Red - 2 Blue : This guy's been sent to Line/Squadron Schools
3 Red - 3 Blue: This guy's been sent to Line/Squadron/Systems Force Schools

Presumably, at this point, Imperial Army stops sending their men to Naval Schools as a matter of procedure; because does a ground forces officer need to know how to fight and move a fleet of 400~ ships or more?
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Rouge; in the Disney Canon, they have invented "Vice General" as a rank for the Imperial Army. It's used just once in Aftermath: Life Debt for Vice General Adambo.

With that, it make sense if you reorganize it around:

Officer Candidate
Lieutenant
Captain
Major
Lt Colonel
Colonel
High Colonel -- Replaces Brigadier General
Vice General (2 Star) -- use this to fix the oddity of "Major General being lesser than a Lt General"
Lieutenant General (3 Star)
General (4 Star)
Marshal (5 Star) (Commonly referred in slang as a Surface Marshal; since at this point, they're commanding all the ground forces in a system -- it's rare that you would get multiple armies deployed on a planet in the Imperial Era; or hell, even during the Clone Wars period.)
High Marshal
Grand Marshal

I can see the Vice General rank of commanding a "Division" to be obscure; since the Division has been depreciated in favor of Brigade/Battlegroups per WEG; which makes sense; a few Imperial Regiments are more than enough firepower for 75% of worlds.
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