A general note regarding the Ranks & Warship Access section.
This section serves the purpose of not only being a reference list of all ranks within Task Force Akhetaten as well as the positions they are allowed to fulfill, but also provide an extensive explanation on how each rank's permissions work. Everything regarding warship access is explained below, with added examples to help with better understanding the unique concepts that Task Force Akhetaten employs.
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Ranks & Warship Access
Task Force Akhetaten (TFA) employs the standard Liberty Navy Forty-Sixth Fleet rank structure, found in the Fleet's information page. All ranks ranging from Cadet to the Admiralty are attainable for members of TFA through standard promotion procedures, no different to those outside it.
Within Task Force Akhetaten, however, access to all ship classes is granted to all members, through the use of shareds. Members whose characters are a sufficient enough rank to command their own capital ship class may do so - as per the Forty-Sixth Fleet's generalized rank restrictions, while characters without the sufficient rank may be part of the crew of a shared capital ship. The task force offers a wide array of capital ships, all listed below (Warship Database section), that characters of any rank have access to.
Every shared capital ship has a set of three roleplay-able positions. All of them are filled by default with pre-made characters that can be found in the relevant shared ship discord channels. These characters have been thoughtfully crafted and each of them covers a different array of player skill. Below is a list of the commonly roleplay-able positions:
⊳ Commanding Officer - [CO]
The officer in command of a capital ship. Reports to TFA Command.
⊳ Executive Officer - [XO]
The officer that's second-in-command of a capital ship. Reports to the CO. If the CO isn't present, reports to TFA command.
⊳ Comms Officer
The officer in charge of communications aboard a capital ship. Reports to either the XO or the CO. This role can be referred to with many different names. Radio Operator and Communications Officer are the most commonly used terms to refer to this role. However, usage of the term Chief Communications Officer is also allowed for officers who are roleplayed as the highest rank officer in charge of all other radio operators aboard a vessel. Such a role cannot be roleplayed on a capital ship with no commanding elements (XO or CO) being present. While roleplaying as a Radio Operator or (Chief) Communications Officer, if a commanding officer's presence is requested you are obliged to roleplay as an officer who holds one of the two above positions.
For ease of understanding, the terms Radio Operator and Communications Officer will be considered the exact same and be used interchangeably moving forward. The term Chief Communications Officer will be used only where applicable.
Every rank offers certain permissions related to capital ships. Certain ranks, such as Ensign, are only able to fill in for the communications officer position on any capital ship (except battleships). Other ranks, such as Lieutenant Commander, are allowed to take up the communications officer position on any capital ship, while also being allowed to take up the chief communications officer position for any ship that isn't a battleship, along with the rank also having access to the role of commanding officer and executive officer on certain ship classes.
Higher ranks, such as Commander, do not typically fill in for the communications officer position, but instead get "by default" elevated to chief communications officer. Those ranks usually take up the position of commanding officer or executive officer on all capital ships, but primarily the larger ones.
Below is the list of permissions that each rank has:
The Captain rank offers no additional benefits to the Commander rank. Ranks above Captain are still obtainable within Task Force Akhetaten but offer no additional ship access benefits.
For better understanding of what the above imply, a field example will be provided.
You are roleplaying your character, a Lieutenant, aboard the 46th|TFA-LNS-Providence, a battlecruiser. From your character's rank chart above you can see that your character is not allowed to be the commanding officer, but is allowed to be the executive officer or comms officer aboard a vessel of this class. You are free to roleplay your character aboard that vessel in either of those positions, but if a situation arises where a commanding officer needs to step in, you must visit the Roster page or the relevant discord channel to see who the commanding officer of the LNS Providence is. From there, you must pick Captain Lynn Adams to roleplay as during the situation that requires it.
Every character in Task Force Akhetaten may own their own snubcraft. All fighters or bombers within TFA must be codenamed, and the characters behind them must keep their identities secret at all times, regardless of who they are interacting with. Requests to reveal a pilot's identity must be forwarded to the task force's first in command (Maria Uhmen) and are to be handled by her. Of course, all TFA personnel have access to files related to TFA personnel and thus know, at all times, which operative is which officer by their full name. Two TFA characters meeting in-game will always know who is who, regardless of codenames being used.
Additionally, players who wish to log a shared snubcraft must, at all times, either roleplay their own character by their codename, or roleplay as the character who's codename is the snubcraft's shipname. Obviously, 46th members who have access to TFA upon their request are only permitted to roleplay the latter example, as they do not have personal characters. Here's an example of the above;
When logging the shared 46th|TFA-Umbral.03 you have two options:
You roleplay as your own character, but only identifying yourself by your character's codename. For example, Operative Lavinia operating from the Umbral Three snubcraft. As mentioned above, other members of TFA will know who Lavinia is by their full name, but are to not disclose such information. Operative Lavinia herself can only disclose this information to non-TFA personnel only upon the flag officer's approval.
You roleplay as Operative Umbral Three, a generic Task Force Akhetaten operative, and not your personal character. Obviously, you will never be asked for your real identification as there is none.
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