Talk:Military ranks of the Free Planets Alliance

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Lower ranks

I am concerned about the lower ranks. I obtained them from a mix of watching fan subs and reading this site, and consequently i've added the two lower ones here as 'ensign' followed by 'sub-lieutenant'. However, the characters for what the aforementioned site (and now our site) calls an ensign do not correspond to the classification of that rank. Wikipedia says that this is a warrant officer, and that what we call 'sub-lieutenant' is actually the rank of ensign. This would certainly make a lot of sense, for the following reasons:

1. No military ranking system i've read about online has three lieutenant classes — they all have two.

2. The design of the insignia would make more sense if we bumped out sub-lieutenant (or used it to replace lieutenant JG, which is what i personally prefer) and put ensign in its spot, because then the pattern of dashes and dots is consistent with the next level of ranks above. Since a warrant officer is not a class of officer, it is (or should be, seemingly) outside of the pattern.

All that said, i'm reluctant to unilaterally change this. Need more feedback first. Update: I did ultimately change this as detailed above. :) ♥ kine

The reference site you posted is correct. You're wrong because you don't understand the rank systems nor the historic background of ranks or japanese ranks for that matter. Sub-lieutenant was once used instead of ensign by the british navy. The japanese had been taken over many british conventions... So this is a relict. Also the Kanji names used are a simplification (for both navy and army) in this case leaning to the army system. You have listed the navy side only. There are only three errors on the reference site, though. I have my doubts about the differentiation between Alliance Army and Marines. IMHO they are probably one and the same in the future. The Staff Sergeant and Master Sergeant rank insignia is not quite the same as in the anime. In the anime they are not wholly filled. Also the Field Marshal rank is probably wrong for the Alliance, but it fits the Empire. For the Alliance it should be General of the Army. For this article to be complete a similar table listing is desired. Also divisions of rank groups are needed. There is no problem to fill-in the missing Kanjis. ;) Almael 21:10, 5 September 2011 (UTC)