So, can anyone - prefereably
@MJ12 Commando,
@EarthScorpion,
@Aleph - or some other participant of Panopticon Quest, explain to me how Panopticon Quest's ranking system works?
Basically, throw out most of the ranks in the book. Rather, use how real-life analogies to the system tend to rank themselves. Note that these ranks
do not relate at all to Enlightenment except in some special cases. The Enlightened tend to get promoted much higher, but that's as much a factor of competence as it is bias. Talented and dedicated non-Enlightened personnel can get at least minor leadership roles, but most of them tend to be either unranked support personnel who aren't formally aware of the Technocracy-"Friendlies," or stuck around the lower end of the rank scale. Friendlies are the most common type of Technocratic agent-guys who don't know much about what they're doing but are aware enough to listen to the guys who know their stuff and are in charge.
Technically anyone can order around a Friendly. However, a wet-behind-the-ears Shock Corps corporal trying to tell a senator or member of Parliament or whatever what to do will likely find out that this, like many other things, is only
technically true.
The militant Convention units-Iteration X, Void Engineers, Ragnarok Command if you're using them, etc.-use NATO ranks. Void Engineers have a policy of making sure Enlightened personnel are all promoted to at least officer level, while the Shock Corps does not because it's got a different culture.
The NWO generally uses a pseudo-intelligence agency type ranking setup for Operatives and Watchers, with different subsets depending on seniority and competence. So it goes Operative->Senior Operative->Special Operative->Director. There are subdivisions there to determine whether someone is senior or not in it, but these aren't too relevant. The Ivory Tower uses one identical to the Progenitors.
The Syndicate tends to use financial/legal monikers. So Intern-Associate-Senior Associate-Supervisor-Partner. The Enforcers are either Agent, Special Agent, or Special Agent in Charge/Supervisory Special Agent.
Progenitors have sciency-style ranks-Research Assistant, Researcher, Senior Researcher, Research Director. If you have a teaching role, you tend to be called "Professor," as an honorific instead of your rank.
If you're in a leadership position and military you have a military rank which is, due to the Technocracy's connections, valid for any Sleeper military. They're still limited by what the military can
actually do, but you
are technically a Sleeper military leader, even if nobody knows who the fuck you are. The Conventions tend to have different terms for their senior leaders. Iteration X has its Comptrollers, the NWO calls them Directors as well (they're just
really high ranked ones), the Progenitors have Administrators, the Syndicate has Board Members, and the Void Engineers have their Admiralty. Ragnarok Command just calls the leader "General."
Panopticon uses NWO rankings, even if they're former members of any other Convention, and Ragnarok Command uses military ranks, even if they're former members of a non-military convention. The Abjad do not use a rank system. All of the knives of the Aleph are equally valued.
