I know that pain all too well it's part of what drove a wedge between SW and me. And they have to stitch together a vast array of contradictory and widely variable designs from various canon sources. And I understand it can't be perfect, since it's for an imperfect medium where the levels of command really are meaningless. And I recall thinking, 'Shut the **** up and pray they don't.'īut they did. And I recall looking through the Wookieepedia Talk page for EGTW, with a fanboy longing for a final and definitive explanation for how those silly little rank squares work. disgusting to anyone who has studied military history, military structuring, or well. The Imperial Sourcebook put together a system that's fairly. But we're asking from the in-universe perspective, and meta-excuses are just cop-outs. Well, the real reason is 'Moff, the SW trilogy isn't hard military science fiction. So why do the Imperials change up how to tell superior from subordinate, admiral from adjutant, and captain from corporal apparently ever two weeks in canon? I don't know how long the British have used their particular system, but it's a while too. The US military has had the same damn system of bars, leaves, birds, and stars for over nearly a century and a half.

just to have it ignored by the next guy and dismissed as 'artistic license' or 'they changed it by my thing, so **** off.'

Writers and illustrators have attempted to put their own sense of order into the system of little plastic squares on metal. Curtis Saxton tried his hand at it, but canon really paid no attention. Well, the Essential Guide to Warfare finally answered the question that burned on the minds of some SW fans.

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