Talk:Ranks/@comment-208.86.131.129-20120730224117

As a seperate note...I would recommend that a Captain (like Tagon) and a Colonel (like Pranger) are actually of equivalent rank and deserve to be listed on the same line (perhaps with a backslash '/').

My logic for this is that in most space odesseys military rank is based on ancient earth naval ranks, where a captain is paygrade O6, the same as ancient earth army ranks for the colonel. It is highly unlikly that space military ranks are based on ancient earth army ranks where a captain is paygrade O3.

Additional evidence of this is that Ensign (O1) is not a rank in ancient earth army, marines, or airforce, only in the navy.

It does get tricky however when you start looking at the enlisted personell, because the navy has no Privates, Corporals, or Sergeants. All it has is different levels of Seamen and Petty Officers. I would recommend that the resolution to this is that the rank structure uses ancient earth marine rank structure for enlisted personell (the "ground troops") and ancient earth navy rank structure for officers (the "ship commanders")

And now that's all I have to say.