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Title: Yo what gives?
Post by: Apollo on March 22, 2013, 05:46:19 pm
Anita Lopez is an Admiral during Apotheosis and Chrysalis, but by Tenebra she's dropped to Rear Admiral.

Why? Did she get demoted?

EDIT: Title changed because I actually didn't spoil much of anything.
Title: Re: Yo what gives?
Post by: Luis Dias on March 22, 2013, 07:11:49 pm
Trying hard to avoid a mysoginistic bad taste joke about the rank of Lopez...
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Post by: yuezhi on March 22, 2013, 10:29:43 pm
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Post by: Apollo on March 22, 2013, 10:30:11 pm
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Post by: General Battuta on March 22, 2013, 11:15:49 pm
I don't think the Federation Fleet Admirals are consistently referred to as Fleet Admirals either but they're definitely Fleet Admirals anyway
Title: Re: Yo what gives?
Post by: Apollo on March 22, 2013, 11:18:42 pm
I don't think the Federation Fleet Admirals are consistently referred to as Fleet Admirals either but they're definitely Fleet Admirals anyway

So was she actually demoted, or did she always have that rank?
Title: Re: Yo what gives?
Post by: Darius on March 22, 2013, 11:23:33 pm
Rear Admirals are still admirals. No discrimination in the GTVA.
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Post by: Apollo on March 22, 2013, 11:30:26 pm
Her bio specifically called her an Admiral, not a Rear Admiral or a Vice Admiral.
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Post by: General Battuta on March 22, 2013, 11:32:08 pm
All the other bios specifically call them Admirals too
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Post by: General Battuta on March 22, 2013, 11:35:03 pm
(even though many of them are Fleet Admirals)
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Post by: Klaustrophobia on March 22, 2013, 11:36:16 pm
All Fleet/Rear Admirals are Admirals.  Not all Admirals are Fleet/Rear Admirals.
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Post by: Apollo on March 22, 2013, 11:38:07 pm
Interesting. I'd always assumed they would take "Rear" and "Vice" into consideration, since they confer lower rank.
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Post by: General Battuta on March 22, 2013, 11:39:11 pm
And 'Fleet' confers higher rank, what's your point
Title: Re: Yo what gives?
Post by: Apollo on March 22, 2013, 11:57:33 pm
And 'Fleet' confers higher rank, what's your point

My obsessive self finds it mildly irritating that a bio written by military intelligence people wouldn't bother to specify an officer's exact rank.
Title: Re: Yo what gives?
Post by: Luis Dias on March 23, 2013, 06:13:00 am
NITPICKING DAY!
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Post by: The E on March 23, 2013, 06:54:55 am
And 'Fleet' confers higher rank, what's your point

My obsessive self finds it mildly irritating that a bio written by military intelligence people wouldn't bother to specify an officer's exact rank.

When I was in the military, I was told that anyone whose rank has "General" in it should be addressed as "General", unless the distinction is really important. It's a military etiquette thing.
Title: Re: Yo what gives?
Post by: 0rph3u5 on March 23, 2013, 08:02:42 am
And 'Fleet' confers higher rank, what's your point

My obsessive self finds it mildly irritating that a bio written by military intelligence people wouldn't bother to specify an officer's exact rank.

When I was in the military, I was told that anyone whose rank has "General" in it should be addressed as "General", unless the distinction is really important. It's a military etiquette thing.

Same goes for naval service ... everyone with "Captain" in their rank is a "Captain" when adressed, every member of an Admirality is an Admiral, regardless of the pre-fix to rank
(my instructors had a very vulgar way explaining that to us :D )
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Post by: Pred the Penguin on March 23, 2013, 10:16:18 am
But they still have distinct ranks, even if they're addressed the same way.
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Post by: Apollo on March 23, 2013, 01:15:52 pm
NITPICKING DAY!

EVERYTHING MOST MAKE SENSE!
Title: Re: Yo what gives?
Post by: Klaustrophobia on March 24, 2013, 01:29:43 pm
And 'Fleet' confers higher rank, what's your point

My obsessive self finds it mildly irritating that a bio written by military intelligence people wouldn't bother to specify an officer's exact rank.

When I was in the military, I was told that anyone whose rank has "General" in it should be addressed as "General", unless the distinction is really important. It's a military etiquette thing.

Same goes for naval service ... everyone with "Captain" in their rank is a "Captain" when adressed, every member of an Admirality is an Admiral, regardless of the pre-fix to rank
(my instructors had a very vulgar way explaining that to us :D )

in the spirit of NITPICKING DAY!, there aren't multiple ranks of captain in the (US) navy.  However, one may be the Commanding Officer (aka Captain) of a boat or ship without actually holding the rank of Captain.