Mynock

That is Awesome well done

Hi all,
 
My wife and my two daughters are 501st members! And my wife became the 100th member of our garrison! 
IC 16777 / IC 14914 / IC 66039
 
 

Same in our Military, In my organisation we have a mix of Lt Colonel's/Colonel's (O5-O6) and Civilians that hold director positions under our CIO ( Chief Information Officer)

Same in our Military, In my organisation we have a mix of Lt Colonel's/Colonel's (O5-O6) and Civilians that hold director positions under our CIO ( Chief Information Officer)

Same in our Military, In my organisation we have a mix of Lt Colonel's/Colonel's (O5-O6) and Civilians that hold director positions under our CIO ( Chief Information Officer)

It’s a good book and they have full on started mixing and matching accessorries (and armor) for officers in the book.  Some General Hux boots also show up on some officers.  I think they build what they need for a scene from the same prop department 

I find this difficult as well. So long as there are un-costumed handlers at the event, your responsibilities are only supplemental to theirs. Liaising with the crowd feels like the right thing to do, but I struggle to maintain the right demeanor. Scowling would probably be more in character, but I feel unapproachable when I do it. Often I can't help breaking into a smile. I'm genuinely thrilled to be doing this, and the enthusiasm at events is infectious.
 
Anyhow, I'm still very much figuring this out for myself as well, but I'd recommend just behaving in whatever way feels most natural for you. Don't give yourself a hard time. If you're more of an introvert, then just focus on looking good in photos, and let the handlers take care of the crowd.

Don't feel bad. it was many years later when most of us became aware of this. lol. 

These Star Wars history lessons are always a wonderful distraction from work  cheers and beers for the effort you put in to them mate.

A Deep aversion to standing armies or why are rank bars different from before Empire Strikes Back and after.
 

Before the Clone Wars, the Old Republic enjoyed almost 1000 years of relative peace.  The Republic while vast and expansive, was NOT ubiquitous and even well-traveled parts of the galaxy did not accept its currency.  It was only after the Clone Wars that the republic increased more than 25% of its size and territory by acquiring the Outer Rim Territories, Hutt space and what would become the Corporate Sector.  All of these were spoils of war controlled by the Trade Federation, the Techno Union, the Banking Clan and the other conglomerates that made up the Confederacy.  
 
Before the Clone Wars, most military and police protection was performed by local system militias.  The ground and space force of Naboo is an excellent example of this with forces to defend their cities from pirates, but not enough to take on a well-organized military.  The Droid armies of the Trade Federation could be quickly built and this imbalance did much to push the military creation act that kicked of the Clone Wars.
 

Before the military creation act, the closest thing that the Republic had to a military was the Judicials.  These soldiers represented the Republic senate wherever they went.  Clad in the same blue uniforms that would later be adopted by the Imperial officer corp, much of their roots and traditions can be found in this elite force.  Tarkin, Yularen, and Screed were all Judicials.  Orsen Krennic used Judicial Rangers when he rescued Galen Erso.
 
The end of the Clone Wars brought the nascent officer corp into its own replacing the Jedi as leaders of the Clone forces.  The Star Destroyers commanded by these officers were of the same shape as the Jedi fighters of the time, drawing comparisons that the new officer corp was the inheritor of the Jedi legacy.  Still, the same trepidation that had made the Military Creation Act difficult to pass at the start of the war prevented the unification of the entire military under direct Coruscant control.
 
Nominally, the emperor controlled the Galactic forces left over from the Clone Wars directly from Coruscant.  You can recognize these members as wearing double rank bars and often times being referred to as “fleet officers”.  The officers that wore single rank bars reported to the local sector moff and were under the oversight of the sector’s senator.  With 75% of the empire’s sectors being monitored by imperial senators, it is no wonder why Tarkin and Darth Vader were so concerned about word of the Death Star getting out.  

The officers that oversaw the construction of the Death Star were sector controlled, not controlled by Coruscant directly.  But as the sector moffs (and Grand Moff) of the out Rim Territories worked directly for the Emperor and none reported to a local senator since most of these territories were occupied worlds, they were able to operate with impunity and secrecy.  Direct connections to Coruscant control happened only through top admiralty: for example Krennic who was a fleet admiral.  The rest worked in silos, many of which never knew for what the final product was to be.  This was the time that the bulk of the Imperial Military was far from the core worlds and hidden in the shadows of the outer rim.
 

New moffs and admirals were being minted in this time.  Admiral Versio of the ISB is hailed not just for his activities as an intelligence leader, but as the person who brought his home world into the empire.  He was rewarded with a place not in sector politics, but a position in the expanding galactic fleet.  And his world had its military standardized to the Imperial model.
 

The difference between sector fleets and the galactic fleet has a real world comparison to the armies of the United States.  The National guards are commanded by the governors of their respective states, but do have a place in the hierarchy of the US Army in times of emergency.  They are trained by many of the same schools that their regular army colleagues are trained.  They wear the same uniforms for the most part with minor differences to distinguish them.  Most officer uniforms had specific sector insignia for the collars and hats they wore.
 

The elimination of the Imperial Senate removed the senators that provided oversight for the sector militaries.  The regional governors took direct control of their territories and their militaries reporting directly to the Emperor much like the regional governors of Rome took to reporting to their emperors.  The illusion of separation was over and the single bar rank system disappeared as did sector insignia.  Everyone wore double rank bars from then on out until the end of the empire five years later.  The Emperor had direct control of his empire then.
 
 

It should be noted that the Confederacy was not soundly defeated, its command and control was smashed.  It’s leadership was decapitated.  But the many of the worlds that made up the Confederacy fought on for years to come.  We will see some of that in the coming Solo film 

Nobility has been part of the galaxy since long before the founding of the Old Republic, but there were no galactic nobility before the Emperor took control at the end of the clone wars.  Shortly thereafter the Emperor started to name nobility to supporters across the empire to create a system of Peerage.
 
The ascension of Chancellor Palpatine was not without precedent in the galaxy.  His own homeworld of Naboo was ruled by a series of Queens and Kings elected by the populace with a degree of authority stronger than a president or prime minister answerable to a legislature.  Palpatine HAD been elected to office and with no children, did not appear to be creating a hereditary monarchy.  The success of the Clone Wars brought in vast territories that had once been beyond the Empire’s reach.  The largest of these was the Outer Rim Terrirories, Hutt space, another region reorganized into what became the Corporate Sector Authority and effectively the Unknown Regions beyond the Western Reaches.  

With no direct representation in the Imperial Senate these regions were often under military rule or increasingly under control of appointed nobles and sometimes corporate charters.
 
There are at least three grades of nobility that have been found in the 40 years of Star Wars stories.
The first we saw was “Baron” with the appearance of Baron Tagge of the house of Tagge, a noble family that included General from the Death Star.  The head of the family Ormon Tagge controlled a vast industrial conglomerate that brought him a seat at the table governing the galaxy.  He proposed to organize the underpopulated region of space into the “Corporate Sector Authority” for proper exploitation by commercial interested.  The CSA had its own security services separate from the empire and the intruding eyes of the Imperial Senate.  As long as the correct taxes were paid into the imperial treasury, Tagge and his family had an independent fiefdom of their own. 
 
Baron Tagge jockeyed for the number two position to the emperor arguing that it should be him over Vader.  This lead to a confrontation where Vader challenged Tagge to a duel and blinded him with his lightsaber.  Tagge would spend the rest of his life practicing with a jedi lightsaber he acquired trying to become good enough to challenge Vader again and beat him.  Upon his death, a younger Tagge in the imperial military gained the title.
 
The Moff in charge of Cato Nemodia was also a Baron who had started as an imperial officer. 
 
Probably the most famous Baron was Soontir Fel of the 181st squadron, who gained the title after a military victory.
Pilots seemed to be the most popular recipients of the title based on their own accomplishments. 
 
Baron Valen Rudor was an imperial pilot on Lothal that received the title. 
 
The title would come with a baton of office and an estate.  Baron Fel’s estate would come from his home planet on Corellia.  Baron Rudor would receive an estate on Lothal.  Many times this estate would come from the confiscated property of citizens arrested and executed for treason.  Rudor would gain Old Jho’s Pit Stop establishment.
 
A second noble title was given exclusively to pilots the title of Tam.  The title of Tam was given to two pilots in the Star Wars universe Anikan Skywalker and Imperial Pilot Merrik Steele in the video game Tie Fighter.  Creating it as a title was a “retcon” by Pablo Hildago who found the mention of Skywalker in the old newspaper Star Wars serials from the 1970s.  The title for Maarik Stele came in the official companion guides for the game.  And a new title was born.
 
The third and final title is “Lord”.  Lord is usually used for a higher rank than Barons, but no title of Duke or Count is heard in the saga.  Darth Vader is not the only Lord in the Empire.  Lord Tion is an imperial Commodore that first appeared in the Radio drama of A New Hope in 1980.  He is the imperial commander of the subjugation of Raltier and was a suitor for the affections of Princess Senator Leia Organa. 
 
 
The title of a noble supersedes rank.  While an officer can be an admiral, captain, moff, or even a Lieutenant, they are addressed as Baron or even  “My lord”… even by superior officers, unless they are address by a noble of higher rank… which at this time is only the Emperor.
 
 
The purpose of nobility is to support the monarch and the structure that ensures continuity under that form of government.  The Empire passing at only 23 years old did not have the time to create enough peerage to continue this or maybe it was never intended to continue beyond the life of the Emperor as we see from the details of Operation Cinder.  Low level titles were given not so much to run the galaxy but to ensure loyalty and gratitude to the regime. 
 

There is a type for blue skin lol sign me up

That red guy though lol

I have a breakdown for that, see attached file. I've done quite a few blue characters (I think I have a type, lol) so I've tried pretty much every available paint.
Thrawn_Makeup.docx

Another awesome article mate 

Moff is military and political title for a sector leader. It originates from the days of the Old Republic.  As the Republic would expand outward and incorporate new systems they woulc occasionally encounter warlords or kings that would control entire sectors.  These leaders were given the title of Moff to help them integrate into the Republic.  Eventually as time passed the leaders would die and the sectors would elect representatives to the galactic senate.  As the Old Republic settled into its established borders, the title fell out of use. 

Flash forward to the last year of the Clone War with the conflict appearing to have no end in sight.  Chancelor Palpatine started to appoint Moffs to work in parallel with their respective sector senators.  The Moff''s would oversee resources such as planets for the war effort, not just direct fleets and armies.  In areas where territory was conquered a moff was used rather than the previous senator that had proven traitorous to the Republic.  This was captured in the online Starwars.com Holonet news which gave a week by week account of the Clone Wars leading up to the release of Revenge of the Sith.  

 
 
 
The first time the rank for a Moff is seen is in Revenge of the Sith on Governor Tarkin.  In the Tarkin novel, there are 20 moffs established at the dawn of the Empire.  Tarkin convinces the Emperor to create a special oversector leader for a combination of other sectors.  This was done making him Grand Moff Tarkin.
 
Grand Moff Tarkin is the leader of the Outer Rim Territories made up mostly of conquered territory from the Clone Wars and Hutt territory acquired during the war.  Here far from prying eyes of the Core Worlds, work is undertaken on the imperial war machine including the Death Star.  
 
The rank of moff becomes the defacto sector leader after Palpatine abolishes the senate.  And the number of moffs by then equal or exceed the number of senators previously in the legislative body.  
 
Replacing the bureaucracy are other ranks in the imperial structure.  The rank depends on the importance of the world.   In many cases, a world has a simple governor.  Sometimes the moff picks a favorite world to rule from and adopts the title of "governor" to go with Moff.   Other times military officers are used to govern worlds.
 
 Captain Sturn is the governor of the occupied world of Kashyyyk.  Styling himself as a big game hunter, Sturn wore a sash made of wookiee fur.
 
 
Baron Tarko had the rank of Moff, but also the title of nobility where he governed on the world of Cato Nemodia, homeworld of the former Trade Federation.  He adopted the local fashion aesthetic into his uniform dress.
 
Governor Pryce had no record of military service before becoming appointed the leader of the world Lothal.  Her uniform was strictly that of imperial officer.
 
Captain Supervisor Grammel was the officer in charge of an imperial mining operation of Circarpous V.  Portly and more of a sadist in charge of the miners.
 
His rule was not long.  
 
Lon Isoto of Brental IV, who had the decency to at least wear his rank...
 
and not much else.

Even Queen Amidala's Captain Panaka became the moff for the Naboo sector serving his old friend the former Senator Palpatine.
 
How many moff's are there?  As many as there are senators.

Make sure you post some of the pictures.

Hi fellow Officers,
 
I almost finished "Thrawn" and I'm curious about the ranks in the book and especially the ranks Thrawn and Eli were holding. As I'm reading the book in german I'm curious about the english version of the ranks, because I'm not always sure about the translation.
 
I try to reconstruct the ranks of Thrawn and Eli during the novel in english, please correct me if one is wrong and please add the ones I don't know:
 
                                                           Thrawn                                                         Eli Vanto
Leaving the Academy                 Lieutenant                                                  Ensign (for quite some time)
Chapter 11                                     Captain                                                             
Chapter 16                                   Commander?? "Kommandant" in german
Chapter 19                                    Commodore                                             "Kapitänleutnant" in german, I'm not sure about the correct rank in english
Chapter 23                                      Admiral                                                          Commander??
 
This is how far I'm with the novel, Thrawn is not Grand Admiral yet, but we all know he has this rank at the end.
 
Thanks for your help!
 
 
Duty - Honor - Empire

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I'm definitely looking forward to my first official troop. I think I am all set as in the forums, except I am unsure on how I could get deployed status. There was something saying I could get that requested.
 
Mynoc- Thanks! Photoshop work is actually one of my favorite hobbies. And that sig block was actually from when I first really started working on my Staff Officer (Back when I accidently got the wrong belt, haha)

This has been making the rounds lately in our Garrison and on social media, thought it would be worthwhile to share here as well. Great place for a newbie to start when they’re looking for an easy and versatile costume combo.
 

 
 
 
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Well done good Sir Bravo.

Don't worry, the ISB knows.  And what's more, they know YOU know.  So y'know if others know, they'll know how they know.  Y'know?

As I said, only an idea, I don't know for sure. But what I know for sure is regarding the space inside buildings or for an injured person, who could also salute with the hand only stretched back to the shoulder and not stretched out.
 
Yes they are illegal, and in Austria as well.

During the so called Third Reich they only sung the first verse of Deutschlandlied, after that they played "Horst-Wessel-Lied". It was the anthem of the NSDAP.
 
And as a german I have to say: Yep, they dug a little bit to deep in the dark parts of our history for the First Order. I'm glad that they discarded the collar patches, otherwise it would be nearly impossible to wear First Order costumes (except the teal ones) without breaking the law.