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Approved Character Lucas Zion

Shoi Kohosei is not a high rank.
 
It's the training officer rank. I based it off of normal military. If you've got a bachelor's or higher and join the military you start off as an officer.
 
Basically, this guy didn't enlist, he went into one of the academies. Just having a degree doesn't make you an officer IRL, it just bumps you to a higher grade for pay purposes right off the bat, or a higher rank, if you have enough credits completed. It's really up to Wes how exactly he wants to handle it, but training officer ranks usually imply membership in an institution like West Point or the Naval Academy, not having a degree.
 
Yeah I guess I should clarify that a bachelor's or higher gives you the option of joining as an officer. But no military I know of will take on a medical doctor as anything else.
 
Rhysis said:
But no military I know of will take on a medical doctor as anything else.
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It's not unheard of for technical experts and doctors to sometimes get taken in as warrant officers.
 
No. Having a degree doesn't give you the option of joining as an officer IRL. Taking part in an enlisted to officer program (such as the Green to Gold in the Army), taking part in a ROTC program or an OCS program, or receiving a commission do. Generally, commissions are given to established specialists, though, not a medic. And on top of that, there is a huge difference between being qualified as a field medic, and being qualified as a doctor. Medics are typically enlisted.
 
I'm, apparently, not being clear. I wasn't meaning that anyone with a four year degree or better just shoots right in as an O1. There is officer training school, because you're still joining the military and need that training. It's just not necessary to go up through all the ranks with a degree.

Wes, I can't say I've ever seen someone start off as a warrant officer. Not to say it's impossible, I only had six years of military experience, and know very little about other countries' military systems, but like I said, I've never seen it.
 
To reiterate the last part of what I said, though, a medic and a doctor are two very different jobs, though it wouldn't be horribly unusual for a small ship's doctor to serve as their medic. Which job were you looking at?
 
Oh yeah you're definitely right on that one. That's really up to Scarlet, but I figured it would be fun to do a doctor that gets forced into the medic role, too. And unless I'm mistaken, the Ryujo is a cruiser, hardly a small ship. Just adds to the fun. Heh.
 
Basically, for warrant officers, it's basically something where the military finds someone who is already fully trained as something like a helicopter pilot, gives them some basic military training, and puts them in a military helicopter. This tends to happen when nations are in significant wars. They're not commissioned officers, but they're some sort of vital expert the military needs. In the Star Army, this is common. Warrant officers will be people like starship engine experts. Note that a doctor who comes in as a warrant officer would not be on a command track - e.g. he's not going to be in charge of hospitals because no significant advancement in rank is expected or possible. One of the most common warrant officer types in the Star Army is the starship operator - frequently Star Army moves a ship that's not commissioned or manned, it has a warrant officer operating that ship, who is a general purpose one-man starship crew. But this is a tangent, because players almost never start their characters as warrants because there's no advancement expected for them and the faction rules don't allow it to happen normally. Players are supposed to normally join as santo hei (typical) or shoi kohosei (if they want to be an officer and we trust them). After the first mission the shoi kohosei (meaning "acting ensign" or midshipman/cadet) character is promoted to Shoi (ensign). Since your character is an officer, it'd probably be more appropriate for us to call him a Doctor. All Star Army commissioned officers are considered to be medical doctors. This doesn't prevent you from going on away teams and such.
 
Basically, do you want to be specialized for emergency lifesaving, and field work (as an enlisted soldier), or the more sterilized, hospital room kind of medical work (as an officer)?
 
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