Authority of Independents

[sovereign]

If you can actually RP an admiral/general/etc, make sure the rest of the admiralty knows that you are, in fact, an admiral if anyone asks, coordinate with the rest of the admiralty on stuff that admiralties coordinate on, etc ad infinitum, then you are an admiral. Anyone under your rank who disobeys gets a court martial, if their infraction is big enough to endanger a mission then they get shot.




This is COMPLETELY unrelated to whether or not this player puts a few letters and symbols in front of their name. In most cases, it just happens that the existing admiralty equivalent is done by factions because no one else put the effort into it. Xing put effort into it, he had a general for awhile with no complaints. (Now has a Taisho, IIRC). No funny faction tag. Does it make his character less of a figure? No, it makes her less recognizable by those who don't spend time on the forums. Nothing more.



I'm really sick of this faction vs. indy bulldung. You reap what you sow. Factions, by nature, sow a lot. So they reap a lot. Individuals can do just as much, it just takes a dedication that usually isn't there. Usually. Xing, Dreygon, and Jinx all have characters that are very well known, very powerful, and very obviously not in factions. Actually, you can probably name those characters more easily than you can name the admiralty board of the Liberty Navy. More people probably know Mon'Star than Chancellor Reinhardt- because Dreygon put more into getting Mon'Star's name around than Virus put into getting Reinhardt's name around.

It's that simple.




With that taken care of, please find an equestrienne that isn't unrecognizable from the various insects and bacteria eating its mangled corpse rather that continuing on this one. Thank you, don't come again.





EDIT: To answer your question simply, the answer is that you shouldn't have to ask. If a Liberty Navy officer says "stop" then you stop. If they say "stop lol" then you ignore them. Whether they bear an [LN] in front of them is irrelevant. Whether they have some idea of what they're talking about is. The thing that gets people is that you can't be in most factions (not for long, anyway) without having some idea of what you're talking about. But assuming that idiots and geniuses are equally distributed across people bearing tags and people not bearing tags, then "yes" you have authority based on your rank... anything else is fairly silly.

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