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Revision as of 23:14, 29 May 2020
The rank of Captain (O3) is the commissioned officer rank in the Imperial Army that commands a Company or has duties of similar importance.
Description (Specifications)
Each Company in the Imperial Army and many Mercenary and Huscarle units will be commanded by a Captain. Several staff posts at Brigade level or higher are also held by Officers with this rank.
The rank is often misused (and even misspelled) to mean the Leader of a Guerilla Unit, whatever its size.
The equivalent rank in the Imperial Navy is Lieutenant.
The equivalent rank in the Imperial Marines is Captain.
Rank & Grade (Hierarchy)
Some of the organizational ranks and grades used by this force are included in the following table:
| GFC Ranks | |
|---|---|
| |
| Commissioned Officers | |
| O11 » Field Marshal | |
| O10 » General (Colonel-General) | |
| O9 » Lieutenant General | |
| O8 » Major General | |
| O7 » Brigadier General | |
| O6 » Colonel | |
| O5 » Lieutenant Colonel | |
| O4 » Major | |
| O3 » Captain | |
| O2 » First Lieutenant | |
| O1 » Second Lieutenant | |
| O0 » Officer Cadet | |
| Enlisted | |
| E9 » Sergeant Major | |
| E8 » Master Sergeant (First Sergeant) | |
| E7 » Leading Sergeant | |
| E6 » Staff Sergeant | |
| E5 » Sergeant | |
| E4 » Lance Sergeant | |
| E3 » Corporal | |
| E2 » Lance Corporal | |
| E1 » Private (Private 1st Class) | |
| E0 » Private Recruit | |
History & Background (Dossier)
The term "captain" derives from "katepánō" (Greek: κατεπάνω, lit. "[the one] placed at the top", or "the topmost"), which was used as title for a senior Byzantine military rank and office. The word was Latinized as capetanus/catepan, and its meaning seems to have merged with that of the late Latin "capitaneus" (which derives from the classical Latin word "caput", meaning head). This hybridized term gave rise to the Anglic term "captain" and its equivalents in other languages
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- Gareth Hanrahan. Core Rulebook (Mongoose Publishing, 2008), 12.
- Collated by: BackworldTraveller