The Dominion Legion, Dominion Space

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The Dominion Legion

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Introduction

The Dominion Legion is both Military and Police force, although for pragmatic purposes there are distinctions within the Legion that focus more on one task than another.

Many of the jobs in Dominion society are the sole province of the military, and the military often maintains a parallel work force for many roles in civilian society.

Rank, Class and Role

Each member of the Legion has a Rank, designating seniority within the hierarchy, a Class designating operational focus and a Role designating duties.

Rank

Table of ranks.

Rank Group	Rank	Acronym	GURPS Rank	Insignia
Junior Ranks
	Recruit	RCT	Rank 0	■
	Under Legionnaire	ULG	Rank 0	■ ■ ■
	Legionnaire	LEG	Rank 1	■ ■ ■ ■
	Over Legionnaire	OLG	Rank 1	■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
	Under Sub Officer	USO	Rank 2	■ ■ ■ ■ ■
	Sub Officer	SOF	Rank 2	▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
	Over Sub Officer	OSO	Rank 2	■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
Leader Ranks
	Under Officer	UOF	Rank 3	▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
	Officer	OFF	Rank 3	▲ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
	Over Officer	OOF	Rank 3	▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▲ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
	Under Commander	UCR	Rank 4	▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
	Commander	CDR	Rank 4	▲ ▲ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
	Over Commander	OCR	Rank 5	▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▲ ▲ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
	Under Marshall	UML	Rank 6	▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
	Marshall	MSHL	Rank 7	▲ ▲ ▲ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
	Over Marshall	OML	Rank 8	▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Ceremonial Ranks
	Underlord (no longer in use)	ULD	Ceremonial Rank 8	▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
	Overlord	OLD	Ceremonial Rank 8	▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

Class

Classes are as follows:

Operations

Operations wear black tunics.
Operations staff are the warrior types that do the bulk of the actual fighting and policing.

Staff

Staff wear grey tunics.
Staff are the support roles, such as logistics, mechanics, intelligence etc.

Commissariat

Commissars wear red tunics.
Members of the Commissariat are responsible for morale, oversight and ensuring continued loyalty to the Overlord.
Commissars are always of Leader Rank (except as Recruits).
To be a Commissar you must have an F~ ID number.
- Because of the Forerunner requirement, in practice, there aren’t enough Commissars to fill all the designated Commissar roles in the Legion and many are either vacant, filled on a temporary basis by a Legionnaire of another class, or someone in a red tunic irrespective of their rank and skill set.

Role

There are many roles. Many roles are tied to a particular class, and specific roles may also have a rank requirement.

Examples of Roles

Role Name	Description	Rank Requirement	Class Requirement
Captain	Master of a Spaceship.	Varies with Tonnage (see below)	Operations, Commissariat
Major	Leader of Troops aboard Ship.	Leader Rank	Operations
Commandant	Legionnaire in Charge of a Military Facility.	Leader Rank	Varies
Trooper	Generic military role.	Junior Rank	Operations
Public Safety Officer	Generic Domestic Policing Role.	Junior Rank	Operations
Public Safety Advisor	Generic Domestic Policing Role.	Junior Rank	Staff
Gunner	Mounted Weapons or Field Artillery Operator.	Junior Rank	Operations
Staffer	Generic Staff Role.	Junior Rank	Staff
Staff Officer	Generic Staff Role.	Leader Rank	Staff
Technician	Generic Role for People Who Fix Stuff or Operate Equipment.	Junior Rank	Staff
Technician Officer	Generic Role for People Who Fix Stuff or Operate Equipment.	Leader Rank	Staff
Analyst	Generic role for people who interpret information, make plans or forecasts.	Junior Rank	Staff
Analyst Officer	Generic role for people who interpret information, make plans or forecasts.	Leader Rank	Staff
Councillor	Generic role for people who provide psychological adjustment .	Leader Rank	Staff
Medic	Generic role for medical staff.	Junior Rank	Staff
Physician	Generic role for medical staff.	Leader Rank	Staff
Academican	Generic Role for Science Staff.	Under Sub Officer	Staff
Moralist	Guide of Morals, Morale and Orthodoxy; this is often used as a generic role title for Commissars.	Leader Rank	Commissariat
Martinet	Commissariat advisor to to the commanding officer of a ship, facility or organisational grouping.	Leader Rank, no higher rank than the officer they are advising, and usually one rank lower.	Commissariat
Inquisitor	Officiator at Formal Military Tribunals.	Commander	Commissariat
Grand Inquisitor	Boss of all the Inquisitors.	Marshall	Commissariat
Investigator	Military Policeman.	Under Sub Officer	Staff, Commissariat
Operative	Charged with special investigations and missions; sometimes used for special-forces roles.	Any	Any, but usually Operations or Commissariat
Praetorian Guard	Specialist legionnaire charged with protecting VIPs (one of few roles where the Junior rank role title carries the qualifier).	Junior Rank	Staff, Commissariat
Praetorian	Specialist legionnaire charged with protecting VIPs.	Leader Rank	Staff, Commissariat
Commodore	In charge of a task group of ships or multiple facilities.	Of equal or higher rank than the most senior captain or commandant	Operations
First Officer	Second in charge of a facility, ship or group.	Varies with specific role, usually one rank below the commanding officer.	Varies, but usually Operations
Admiral	In charge of a fleet of ships. cf Commodore, task groups are temporary constructs but fleets have permanency in the Table of Organisation	Under Marshall	Operations
Protector	In charge of the policing forces of a city or region.	Under Marshall	Operations
Defender	In charge of the defences of a planet or base.	Under Marshall	Operations
General	In charge of an army of Soldiers or a Company of Marines.	Under Marshall	Operations
Grand Admiral	Boss of the Navy	Marshall	Any, but usually Operations
Grand Protector	Boss of the Public Safety Officers	Marshall	Any, but usually Operations
Grand Defender	Boss of the Military Defence Forces	Marshall	Any, but usually Operations
Grand General	Boss of the Marines/Army	Marshall	Operations
Grand Over Marshall of the Legion	Boss of the Legion	Over Marshall	Any

Rank Requirements for Ship Command

The table below shows the Legion’s rank requirements to command a space ship of a certain size.

Size	Tonnage	Typical Ship Class	Rank
SM+5	30t	Fighter	Under Sub Officer
SM+6	100t	Heavy Fighter	Under Sub Officer
SM+7	300t	Corvette	Sub Officer
SM+8	1kt	Sloop	Over Sub Officer
SM+9	3kt	Frigate	Under Officer
SM+10	10kt	Destroyer	Officer
SM+11	30kt	Cruiser	Over Officer
SM+12	100kt	Heavy Cruiser/Light Carrier	Under Commander
SM+13	300kt	Battlecruiser/Battleship/Carrier	Commander
SM+14	1Mt	Supercruiser/Super Battleship/Supercarrier	Commander
SM+15	3Mt	Dreadnaught	Commander

Variations

In an emergency or temporary situation, rank and/or class requirements may be waived for a role.

If there is any doubt, Rank takes precedence over Class. For example, among the survivors of a damaged spaceship, the Staff Over Officer takes the Captain role before the Operations Under Officer. However, if there was a Staff Over Officer and an Operations Over Officer, the Operations Over Officer would take the Captain role.

A direct order from a superior can override the natural hierarchy. For example, before the Captain heroically goes up with the ship (spaceships go up, not down, usually in a burst of pyrotechnics) she can appoint the Staff Over Officer or the Operations Under Officer as her replacement.

In non-emergency situations, ‘temporary’ is usually up to 100 Cycles. For example, the Commandant of a facility can appoint a lower-level Leader Rank to a more senior role for a short time due to staffing constraints or as a development opportunity.

It is possible but unusual to acquire additional Classes during one’s career. This usually involves undergoing the appropriate basic training for the class. The Legion contains a small number of Operations Staff, Operations Commissars, Staff Commissars and a very small number of Operations Staff Commissars.

This may be waived on a per-role basis if an individual is able to demonstrate suitable qualifications for a role, however the paperwork involved acts as a disincentive.

Military Address

The full title of any member of the Legion is <Class> <Rank> <Role> <Name> <Post Nomials>, and thus ranges from the simplest ‘Operations Legionnaire Trooper Johnson’ to the extreme ‘Operations Staff Commissar Marshall Grand Protector Owens-Ulbrecht DSS with Double Cluster’.

In everyday use within an operational team, the role is usually used, for example, “Trooper Johnson”; “First Officer Smithers.”

Among different units or teams, rank is normally used, for example, “Legionnaire, come with me.”

Saluting

The legion salute is performed with a closed right fist to the centre of the chest.

The protocol for general operations is that subordinate soldiers salute uniformed Leader ranks in their chain of command when meeting. The Leader ranks are not required to return the greeting salute, but may do so at their discretion; culture in most of the Legion is that the salute is generally not returned except as a sign of particular respect.

Subordinates also salute in a condition of ‘leaving under orders’ – in general this is when an order has been issued by the Leader and the subordinate is departing to carry it out. In this case the Leader returns the salute. Junior ranks may salute each other when leaving under orders, but are not required to.

The salute is also given in certain prescribed ceremonial circumstances, including:

Legionnaires are saluted by all Legionnaires present regardless of rank when they first take the oath, when promoted and when being commended or decorated.
Legionnaires salute each other regardless of rank when handing over a command (the Legionnaire taking command offers the salute first).
Salutes may be given to indicate the start and/or end of certain formal occasions, such as when an Inquisitor enters or leaves a military court or the Overlord arrives at or leaves a function.
Salutes are given any time the command ‘Respect’ is given, for example if a visiting VIP or out-of-chain Leader rank is given an honour detail the detail may be commanded to show ‘respect’ by giving the salute to someone they would not ordinarily be required to salute.
Certain ceremonies call for the ‘Triple Salute’ – the command ‘Prosperity! Protection! Victory!’ is given and those commanded salute after every word.

Legionnaires carrying a weapon will perform the appropriate drill with the weapon instead of saluting with the hand – in general this is bringing the weapon to port arms.