And this is why I put no stock in this process. This isn't lore. It's an en masse submission of random and fanciful names supplied by the community with no context or purpose and wholly separate from EVE in its entirety.

Rather than focus on introducing and arbitrary series of titles that have no purpose and provide no insight into the universe of New Eden why not focus on actually bringing the context, story arcs, and histories of existing New Eden content into the fore of Dust. We've tried this before and no one was happy with the previous results.

Aeon - will you add us to the Trello or do you just want succinct lists by faction in this thread and you add them?

I am American, my father was in the Navy, I am a cadet in the armed forces, and I spent four years of my life working in a Naval Aviation museum in Pearl Harbor with veterans of the Pacific theater and I wouldn't give a damn if you named something 'Kamikaze' because I understand the cultural significance behind what the divine wind meant to the Japanese before an imperialist government decided to throw teenagers in airplanes at aircraft carriers. Not to mention the fact that the suicidal implications would have altered massively in the thousands of years between WWII and the formation of the Caldari State. Just sayin'.

Also, how are you in contact with Mercury? I've never heard of a DUST member being affiliated or having contact with the ISD or Mercury in the past, so color me skeptical.

You are mostly thinking some kind of formal FW titles so I will clarify, but a few were on the right track. It was my question so I am to blame.

I am thinking more royal guard, or special forces types of secret undercover groups, or covert mercs in the employ of the Factions.

Black Water and Halliburton are much closer to what I am thinking.

Also, I am thinking in parallel to existing or old style of behind the scenes protectors like the Swiss guard or Emperor's Custodians, even the Three Musqueteers or the French Foreign Legion.

There is also the legend of the Varangians, who were swedish vikings forming the Bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperors in Constantinople.

Then of course Seals (Black Eagles) , Rangers *could be (Pathfinders).

I am not sure where I will end up using it, but I am curious whether we have this in New Eden lore, and what is our leeway.

One Mercenary could worm himself into the Empress's bodyguard, there is nothing that says that couldnt happen, even if its not an achievable goal for every mercenary.

They make you watch it all, man. They make you watch through the eyes of the person you killed. It's all for show, really, but they do it so well. I saw the guy come in, brush his teeth, kiss his son good night... then I felt my bullet go into his skull just seconds after it shattered the window. Back when I'd shot him, you know, I didn't know anything... all I saw was a man leaning down in the spot where I'd been told he would be, then I squeezed the trigger, twice to make sure, and got the hell out of there. But they had to make me relive it all through this bullshit virtual scenario. They want you to know that you're gonna be called upon to kill innocent people, good people, Federation people, and that you have to be comfortable with doing it because it serves the greater good. Whatever the **** that's even supposed to mean.
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Perhaps though if this presents an attainable rank or joinable sect in Dust 514 then you are potentially insinuating that hundred of individual cloned soldiers might be able to attain this rank. As you say while there is no reason to state unequivocally that this is impossible to attain there is also no reason to suspect it is possible.

More than likely if the Empress required such soldiers as her personal guard then candidates would be drawn from regiments under the direct mandate of the Emperor Family or even Kameiras all of whom would be significantly more disciplined, zealously dogmatic, and utterly loyal. Also giving Dust 514 players a direct line to the Empress in terms of in game lore I think would be met rather poorly by our Capsuleer parallels. In this instance I suggest you look two levels down. Neither the Empress nor the Heirs would likely be caught dead with out kind at their sides though Holders, the High Nobility of the Empire might certainly call upon us for protection and other such activities

That being said I'll still take this question back to PIE Inc and Samira, She Who Knows Ten-Thousand Things and see how they both feel about the concept and what they can dig up.