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I absolutely agree with Kevin about being overdress to occasions and loving to wear a dress shirt with a suit and tie, I also love my collections of suits. I had a school uniform for five years, so I'm used to uniformity. Two certain events in my live made me wanting an imperial uniform - reading "Heir to the Empire" in 2014 and the first Vienna ComicCon in 2015. I loved Thrawn from the beginning of the book and I always wanted to go on a ComicCon, and I knew I want to be there as Grand Admiral Thrawn.
So I started researching for the uniform and by accident I stumbled across the 501st and the Officer CRLs. I made contact with my local garrison and the GML helped me and pointed me towards the IOC which has been the best thing that could have happened. It took me about year from the beginning until finishing the uniform and finally (I didn't made it to the 2015 Vienna ComicCon) I went to the 2016 Vienna ComicCon as Thrawn:
I met great people from my Garrison, lovely and very helpful people at the IOC and a lot of fans who get big eyes and happy faces when they see us. And with the uniforms it's the same as with the suits, if you have one you want more. And soon my uniform collection will have catched up to my suit collection.
I could write much more about my journey as an officer, but I think it's enough for now.
Duty - Honor - Empire
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For your daily amount of imperial history check the Imperial History Channel, hosted by Robert Barker
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When you choose to make a uniform you can take whatever rank you like.
Grand Admiral was also the rank I started with.
Hope this helps.
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Uniforms: 300 credits
Art: 10.000 credits
Elis expression: priceless
This is so awesome!!!
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10 hours ago, GDMorti said:
I'm still reeling over the lack of adherence to the given rank bar system in the TFA visual dictionary with his rank bars. I'm really struggling to believe that Hux was that special a snowflake that he got entirely his own uniform. But like, maybe? There are so many unknowns here. So many "why?!" questions!
To me the total First Order is one big "why?!" question
But it gets more and more confusing with the ranks and uniforms...
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Can someone move this proposal for a seperate CRL forward to the LMO team or are they too busy at the moment?
Many thanks!
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17 minutes ago, CalofhouseThrawn said:
Languages are funny. Wouldn’t it be great if we all spoke Basic
It would make the Galaxy a better place. Which is exactly the mission of the Empire. So we are on the right way
8 minutes ago, Tentayena said:There's actually a really cool chart that I found when the novel first came out that lined up their ranks with when they got promoted. I'll have to see if I can dig it up again, if you'd like it, but it was really helpful for keeping things straight in my head lol
This would be great!
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3 hours ago, Mynock said:
Seems good to me mate, I just lined them up with respect to each other’s rank
I am using a picture due to my phone confusing the formatting.
Thanks for the clarification Scott!
I thought that Eli was a Lieutenant Commander, because it's the same rank Krennic had for a short time in "Catalyst" and it was also translated as "Kapitänleutnant". And Thrawn shortened it calling Eli "Kaleu" which sounds ridiculous to me, don't know if he called him "Lieuco" or whatever in english
3 hours ago, Mynock said:Don’t think too much about the ranks they are a mess just like real life, an army Captain in the ADF is a NATO O3 officer in the Navy its an O6 Officer
I know...
According to Glyn Dillons Rank Chart a Navy Commander is lower than a Navy Captain, but in the novel it's just the other way round. Thanks Timothy, I thought you would make it right
But I just finished the novel and it's brilliant! Very close to "Heir of the Empire"
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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!
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I'm just reading "Thrawn" so I'm not sure if I want to be spoilered. But I'm looking very much forward to this book!
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Very nice chart! Thanks for sharing.
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We tried once to put something into a CRL that was not seen on screen because of logic and common sense, it was a mess. So not seen on screen = not in a CRL.
But you can make a white poncho and wear it on non-canon events, as the others already said.
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Congratulations!
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Krennic is not an ISB Officer he is the Director of the Advanced Weapons Research division. And there was no ISB Officer seen with a Poncho. So I'm afraid this is a double-no.
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You can contact Klaus's Frässtüberl for belt, rank bar, code disc and hat:
https://www.facebook.com/klauss3ddruckundfraesstueberl/
He does excellent stuff.
Good luck!
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Congratulations and welcome!
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3 hours ago, buckrogersbarker said:
There wasn’t much cause to salute in the original trilogy as nearly all the imperials were on ships and not in a situation to do so. For 6 hours worth of movies we may have a total of a hours worth of imperials on screen.
That is a huge difference with 6 seasons of clone wars, 4 of Rebels and literally almost 1000 comics. They had more room to explore such things.
The arrival of the Emperor at the second Death Star would have been a reason, when if not then
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3 minutes ago, Aurabesh said:
Hmmm, I just read the deployment guidlines for L3, and it did not say anything about linking to your L2 approval. Only that you have to be L2 first. I would guess that having Executor above my avatar would meet that requirement.
So it might not be a must but all the Imperator requests I saw had it included
and if not it was often requested by the Deployment officer
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You have to include a link to your Executor Request, this should provide all the pics. But a front and back pic is never wrong. And of course all the details and items needed for L3.
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So we have seen the "classic" military salute from Clone Troopers, Pilots and even an Officer from the comics. We never saw this in the OT movies. The salute of the imperial Officers is different, they simply stand still and snap to attention in front of an higher Officer or Lord Vader (e.g. General Veers in ESB). I also call this "to salute" when I write fan fiction, even if it's different than what we know from the real world.
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6 minutes ago, Mynock said:
Sorry mate typing on my phone it cut off the rest, what I was saying it was always mentioned that is why the Navy salutes differently to the Army but we early salute on Ship only at ceremonial events etc...lol when reading the above post it sounded rather not nice with the rest sorry Steven
Things are clear now. No offense taken.
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4 minutes ago, Mynock said:
I think the space to salute on a ship is a bit of a stretch we only salute
Thanks mate “Horst-Wessel-Lied". Was well out of my memory while at work, Iblove this post so far. It is my understanding that Nazi Party Uniforms and symbols are illegal in Germany ?
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.
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Some say the origins of the classic salute come from the Middle Ages, from when a Knight opened the visor of his helmet. This would also make sense with what someone else said in a previous post, that the salute was also done with both hands, if the visor of the helmet has been very heavy you definitley would have needed two hands to open it. Later the move remained the same, but soldiers did not wear helmets with visors anymore. So until today it remained as an universal salute in military forces all over the world.
Regarding the "Hitler-Salute" it's true that it was not obligatory to use it in the german military until after the 20 july plot, until then they mostly used the normal military slute. I highly agree with Raphael @Tutanchseth about wearing an FO uniform, there are a lot of similarities to the Nazi Uniforms, much more than to the Imperial Uniforms. As for the question why they mostly (I say mostly because I know pics where they use the "Hitler-Salute" very well) did not use the "Hitler-Salute" at the german Navy I have a theory of my own. To me it might simply be a question of space, because the Deck of a ship is limited in space and if you are below deck the corridors are even smaller. So it's simpler to use the normal military salute. But this is only a theory and even as a historian I don't know for sure.
Shadows of the Empire? Or the Director?
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Nice, I like shadow pics like these two