Not if it's consistent, and the production quality we've ascribed to the studio would catch that sort of thing.
Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest (No SV, you are the Waifu)
- Thread starter Avalanche
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Not if it's consistent, and the production quality we've ascribed to the studio would catch that sort of thing.
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- Voidbetweenstars
"I still haven't finished [/wrists], but I've called the beta process early. Update will be released within seven days."
He has spoken.
He has spoken.
So...That's what...The 29th before the Majora's Mask Jokes are allowed to start?
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- Leeds
No thanks thats a suckers bet.Seven days huh?
So... who wants to bet August 31st?
TortugaGreen
Constantly out of the loop
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I have hopes that you are sorely mistaken. And a good bit of confidence that I am correct in that.
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- Voidbetweenstars
I feel as if this should be done in canon somewhere cause its just a "wait what" scenes.
yes I'm about 100 pages late but looking though the between posts is fun.
Dark Abstraction
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- United States
I'm just waiting for one of the faculty to accidentally slip up and address Anna as a Second Lieutenant rather than a Cadet. Because we all know that the only reason she's not being called as such is because they're trying to help her feel a sense of normalcy and acceptance with the other cadets, since this is first and foremost a mental health leave of absence for Anna.
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- Leeds
Also the UN outlawed child soldiers, her rank is a technicality.
While we don't know what minimum age the UN in 2070 use with regards to child soldiers we do know that the UN only prohibits, and deems a war crime, the use of children under 15 as soldiers. With the UN estimating Anna's age at 16, backed up by her own statements, she could quite legally be a soldier under today's law.
Incidentally this neatly explains why first year Valks are generally around 16 since kids can't enroll, or likely even be tested for compatibility, until they are 15 and with the various birthdays spread across the year the UN probably delays people until they've turned 16, or at least are turning 16 that year.
That being said the Optional Protocol (it's not actually optional) added the following additions to the law:
- It's illegal to conscript people under 18. Which isn't a problem since Anna's almost certainly a volunteer.
- It requires governments take all feasible measures to ensure that members of their armed forces who have not attained the age of 18 years do not take a direct part in hostilities.
However I could quite easily see the UN having repealed the Optional Protocol during the early days of the war and just be operating off the Convention on the Rights of the Child for the ban on soldiers under 15.
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- Leeds
You're focusing on the wrong thing. We don't know the minimum age. But, we do know that Shuri is under it as her flight participating in that Arcology fight was one of the things that caused the UN to assimilate her countries military.
I believe everyone but Yukari are sixteen in this flight so they're all underage.
Shuri was under it but that doesn't necessarily mean she is. She was sent to defend the Arcology in 2066:
and given that she's 16 right now, early 2070, she was probably twelve, thirteen at the most, when that happened. Well below the minimum age threshold of 15 laid out in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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Keep in mind that the UN would've been throwing everyone compatible with a Valkyrie Core into the fight early on as they were hard pressed for manpower and equipment that could do more than slow the AGs down. Underage soldiers would've been a big thing at the time, and probably why Shuri's Flight didn't get Pakistan's face smashed in the first time she showed up on the TOE after a battle.
What got Pakistan's national government dissolved was their extreme disregard for their Valkyries, to the point that they were sending underage kids into fights that they didn't need to be involved in.
What got Pakistan's national government dissolved was their extreme disregard for their Valkyries, to the point that they were sending underage kids into fights that they didn't need to be involved in.
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- Leeds
Curses. Foiled by my inability to remember timelines.
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- Mobile, Alabama
One might call her Lt. if the bad guys attack. At that point there's no need to be coy. And you'd want her rank posted out so that the proper chain of command can be followed.
Which gives me an odd question now. Anna has the same rank as a platoon officer. Does that mean they are equal I'm the military hierarchy? Or do Valks outrank line officers of similar ranks. Like a Navy Captain would an Army Captain?
Navy captains aren't on the same level as army captains. They are, IIRC, on the same level as army colonels. Which is a rather different situation.
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- Leeds
... But those aren't similar ranks at all.
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- Leeds
Captain, captain. They're pretty easily confused. In fact the only difference there is that one isn't capitalised. And that's because of grammar not the rank.
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- Mobile, Alabama
Exactly. But they have the same name. That was my point so is Anna as a 2nd Lt the same kind of Lt as a company commander or does the rank mean something for Valks.
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What complete moron would allow such a potential source of confusion on the battlefield come into existence? The only reason the military gets away with the mess that is the differences in their captain ranks is that it's old and they're generally not on the same battlefield.
That said, the reason air force pilots are officers is because generally speaking even though when flying there's maybe enough personnel up there for a squad, when you account for ground crew even the average jet requires enough personnel for a short platoon to stay fully operational, and a pilot needs the authority of their rank to properly attend their duties.
Of course, when it comes to Valkyries... nope, that support structure is not needed. Which means that, reading between the lines of our service record and the Valkyrie Corps' own internal rating system, Anna being a lieutenant is partially an administrative simplification ('what do we pay these girls and what do we call them by, it's not as if self mobile exoskeleton operator is a rank we are using right?' 'I dunno, but they all fly, so why not make them all use that ranking system?' 'Good idea, so... all of them are pilots so they are officers, and they start at O-1 on graduating, which is lieutenant. Done.'), and what Valkyries actually use when it comes to their authority comes down to their 'Valkyrie grade rankings' and their combat and 300 suit ratings.
It should be noted that, if Anna were not currently slumming it in Perth, she'd probably be the top ranked Valkyrie. Not necessarily the one that calls the shots, but definitely the one that's supposed to do the heavy lifting when it comes to fighting.
Frakir's brother
Goodbye.
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- The Sea of Trees
Sempai is updating?! Oh joyous day! Time to reread the quest.
