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[untiltheend]

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Re: [After the signs flood, before the sword curse]

[deuceoftears]

I don't know how neatly faction society would map onto Earth high society. But I suspect there are...certain parallels.

Re: [After the signs flood, before the sword curse]

[untiltheend]

[Curiously:]

"Faction society", is it?

Re: [After the signs flood, before the sword curse]

[deuceoftears]

Mm. Everything is quite beautiful, and rank is...meaningful. But it's more professional than aristocratic, in the factions I was...among.

Re: [After the signs flood, before the sword curse]

[untiltheend]

What rank had you? If I may ask.

Re: [After the signs flood, before the sword curse]

[deuceoftears]

When I was among the army, I was given the rank of General, but I hadn't earned it; that role was based on the lie that I was another person, whom I was only pretending to be, which is one of the reasons I so dislike it. Later, I was granted the role of Instructor, as you know. I didn't arrive to it by the...traditional path, but I do feel as though I did the work, that the title is more meaningfully my own. As an Instructor, and a very junior one, I had something of a middling rank - I could expect deference from cadets and infantry and analysts, but I owed more respect to most higher-level operatives, handlers, supervisors and so on.

Re: [After the signs flood, before the sword curse]

[untiltheend]

[Hmmm.]

I will say: although military rankings have their similarities to those of high society, they at least are based in some measure of competence rather than simple birth right. If I may, if you have indeed done the work, I believe the title of Instructor should be accurate, formalities aside.