When questioned about what the various empires would call their mercenaries months ago, I believe the community came up with the fact that in eve Minmatar naming schemes are done based off of norse mythology, Gallente after Greek, Caldari after animals/Japanese myth, and amarr after religious stuff / knightly orders.

Basing it off the concept of 'immortals' in each stated thema, I'll toss these out.

Level 10 Minmatar - Einherjiar
Level 10 Gallente - Elysian or Hecatonchires
Level 10 Caldari - Rasetsu (it's kind of migrated from indian culture, but they're ultra-violent deathfeeder type things, unbound by karmic cycle - we're looking at the Buddhist incarnation primarily)
Level 10 Amarr - (I'm kind of stumped on this, I want to go with Empyrean, Archon, or Sefrim)

The point I'd like to make is to *separate them from military titles*, Immortal mercenaries are creatures of practically mythic might - warriors without peer and we should fall somewhere outside of typical military foundations. We're called in when nothing else will do, when it would be suicide for anyone else to even try - and then we go and achieve the impossible.

Loving this

Imperial reclaimer vs Valkear elder warlord

By all means I could make a much more practical list, but I needed to at least try to make something super-duper lore-friendly that could one day be considered canon.

A merc can dream!~

I think I like your Amarr standing lv 10 suggestions more than mine. Scutariorum Imperatrix sounds appropriately fancy, though not sure why an empress of a bodyguard would be on a battlefield light-years away from her. You should come up with something equally fancy and latin.

EDIT: made the Amarr one High imperial reclaimer to make it more impressive, the Minmatar one was more impressive so I think now they're pretty even.

Gallentean cat reporting in for approval.

*slow clap*

Out of curiosity, what do you think of the other proposed ranks?

Caldari's EWAR capabilities know no bounds...

You wouldn't have your precious Viziam weapons without the Caldari huehuehuehue

Ok...i've had a little time to kick some ideas around about an alternate Caldari title naming convention. Basically, I wanted to look for names that capture the mosaic of traits the Caldari have without overly relying on names you would have to google to figure out.

Again, might not be great but perhaps a good start point.

1) State Soldat
2) Vanguard Trooper
3) Dragonaur Trooper
4) Vanguard Sergeant
5) Dragonaur Sergeant
6) Vanguard Officer
7) Dragonaur Officer
8) Senior Military Operative
9) Senior Intelligence Operative
10) Executive Security Director

Couple notes:
1) tried to stay away from Japanese / Euro names too much. Didn't feel right to go one way or the other and a mixed list was sketchy.

2) Vanguards - homage to the EVE video (can't remember name) with the Caldari merc (call sign; Vanguard) that was betrayed by the capsuleer that dropped the OB on him. Basically your more basic ground operations guys for the Caldari.

3) Dragonaurs - direct lore tie in; bit of a mix of police state strong-arm guys, political / intelligence muscle, action arm for some of Tibus Heth's circle.

4) Ranks 8-10 were much more corporate oriented titles.

Aren't the Dragonaurs viewed as a terrorist group?

I prefer the term....


"A Misunderstood, Ultranationalist Society of Altruists and Puckish Rouges."

I must say, contrary to my previous crossed out post I am souring on the whole idea of FW ranks being in other languages. While it does lend a diversity to the titles it doesn't really convey the races' values.

I like the idea of the Amarran FW ranks being based on something "Crusades" esque as it fits their whole religious zealot backstory. junni jones's ideas are good with the exception of rank 10 which I would prefer to see switched with "Inquisitor" or the like since it keeps more with the overall theme he developed in the list.

Seriously, as much as I joke about the Amarr some of these comments make me shiver with frustration.
Wait, no, dont like my Comment true. I agree with Mobius.

I just thought the monster of god and other suggestions were...outlandish.

But they are an important first step. At this point, any new reason to care is a good thing.

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Seriously, I could cite you the several posts before you showed up where we were being fairly productive as a community, the several posts afterwards where we refuted every one of your points, or the several evelopedia posts that support our choices...

But you seem beyond that point. And by the way, if you haven't figured it out yet Mina is Longstride's alt. You know, the guy running for CPM? Literally the community representative and my personal vote? I'm pretty sure saying he doesn't represent the DUST community is a hopeless argument.

I also add that while on comms no one has ever pronounced my corp name correctly nor knew what it meant or while i explained gave a ****, and as a blow to my own ego for creating it . If the name Hecatonchire was so badass (excluding the fact Im an *******) then why has no one ever joined it.

The dev asked us for MILITIA FW ranks not what the ranks would be in say The Ministry of Internal Order or what they would be in say Wirkomi's or Kalikiota private security forces.Hes not asking us for names in npc militaries or say what the rank system would Be in the Holfast Syndicate .Which ( jokeingly ) could be "Top Slave Master" A brutor is not going to want a Sebestor name to be rank 10 and vice versa the names must be inclusive of all the bloodlines and there would be arguments there like the ones were having here.

http://dust514.com/news/blog/2013/12/strengthening-the-link-factional-warfare-in-uprising-1.7/

Minmatar -> Republic Command: Republic Command is something of an oddity in a new order where the Minmatar tribes wield considerable power. In large part the Minmatar military has become fragmented among the tribes but a rump central command remains. The Republic Command has managed to retain control over those units that reported directly to its military council, and the elite nature of many of these forces has allowed the generals of the Command to retain significant influence.

So if we use this as our example A Brutor would not join Minmitar FW if the top rank was a Sebsestor name for rank 10. Whether the names coinside with the lore is not the issue nor what he asked given all the bloodlines of new eden would a True Amarr want to join the 24th Imperial Crusade if the top rank was a Ni kunni name. No he would not so it must also coincide with all the bloodline to be inclusive of all of them to get all of them to join for the greater good.

I am not saying that these names are not good for some rank in something and that they are not consistent with lore.We also need to look at cultures.Those cultures and there subdivisions. It would be as if the U>S and Chinese army wanted to join together to fight an alien invader and the chinese wanted the name General to be the rank of Private and a Chinese name to be the top rank in the chain. That wouldnt do .SO they'd have to come up with a solution they both liked.We also have to consider that ranks in militaries really have nothing at all to do with deities or monsters.It has to do with 1 guy leads 10 guys. 2 guy leads 100, and all the 1's answer to him. 2 guys answer to 3 guy, who leads 1000 guys.Thats called the decimal ranking system. Through out the ages we just came up with names for them.

Thus why they would go with a rank system , and also to reiterate what the DEV asked us to come up with .......Ranks for Faction warfare militia. Not Npc corps. Like the Sanmatar Kelkoons and would they be the same names as the ones for the Company of Marcher Lords.