Yep. Things have changed. Demoting myself to Shoi Kohosei and back to the days of the cadet, or am I required to...go through the enlisted ranks to officer now? Either works, but I haven't run into a readily available rank progression page in the wiki yet, so I just went with what I know. Whatever I need to do works, though.
Would rather start as officer, though. Else I'll have to add Aeto's skill as a Personal Waste Management Node Bacterial Mitigation Technician.
Regardless, changes made. At least the barfight scene scar is gone now. It wasn't from someone else in the Star Army of Yamatai, though.