Warhammer: Hail to the Void Lords!

Chapter 32 02.0032: 'Ah, Navy! ’

"Everything I say is irresistible, and everyone here can see it! But... what if you can't even get 85?"

Everyone looked at Horatio.

The chief officer stood up, refilled his empty water glass, and poured another for Horatio, breaking the awkward silence.

The brigadier poured the water himself, and Horatio did not dare to neglect, and quickly stepped forward to receive it.

"Young man, I'm not trying to make things difficult for you, I just want to tell you a truth: don't aim too high.

Confidence is a good thing, but blind confidence will eventually bring irreparable losses. By then it will be too late, and you may be buried with a boatload of people.

Who didn’t have a surging heart when they were young, and their goal was the stars and the sea. "

"General, you are right. But I am serious. If I fail to pass 85, I will voluntarily transfer from the Navy to the Storm loyal heir sequence."

"Hey, are you crazy?" Farida went up and grabbed Horatio, but he stood upright and remained unmoved.

"Hey, young man, why are you bothering? Although your father is a naval wizard and your ancestors have a legendary figure, but you are so confident that you can be like them? Don't waste the painstaking efforts of His Excellency Edward Perru Ah, wouldn’t it be nice to move forward with your feet firmly on the ground?”

[How could I throw away the free opportunity to improve my scores! If others can't pass the exam, it's because they don't have the blessing of the talent tree! ]

"Time is tight. I entered school later than other students of the same class, so I am willing to use this as a cost to encourage me to study. Please allow me, General!" Horatio said that every teacher loved to hear it, but he didn't believe it at all. words.

The prefect gives up admonishing Horatio.

"Then I'll do as you say, but if you don't get 85, I will call His Excellency Edward Perroux to settle the score with you!"

"Thank you General!"

"They say don't call me general. I'm not a general yet."

Horatio smiled politely and nodded.

In the European and American naval systems, a commodore is indeed not a general.

This rank is awarded to very experienced captains in the Imperial Navy.

In the Imperial Navy, a commodore usually serves as the commander of a strike/battle group consisting of several squadrons of cruisers and destroyers/frigates. Their modest size makes them a good introduction to fleet commanders.

In times of emergency, they are also the highest-level captains. For example, the captain of the Fortress Monastery of the Imperial Fist Mountain Formation is a Commodore loyal to the Chapter.

The chief officer took two sips of tea and complained to Captain Sterling: "This brat deserves to be Thomas's biological son. He is as stubborn as his father."

Captain Sterling smiled and said nothing, stood up from his chair and walked to Horatio: "That's it for today. This is your loyal heir certificate. You will enroll tomorrow, but you have something else to do tonight. Do."

"Sir, please speak."

"Your Excellency Edward Perroux has meetings during the day and cannot see you for the time being. Please go to his official residence for dinner tonight." Captain Sterling had almost given an explicit hint to Horatio:

"There are a lot of things you can ask him face to face."

"What shall I call you then?"

"Your Excellency Edward Perroux is a Commodore and a Lord Captain. You can just call him Lord Commander."

Horatio nodded. Judging from various aspects of the description, although the rank of captain seemed to be an honorary rank at the school level, it contained a lot of gold. So many navy men had become generals and commodores, and they all still called themselves captain.

However, Horatio, who was born in the Second Navy, can also understand that the biggest difference between his navy's military ranks and those of the army is that the navy's military ranks are all expanded around three core military ranks.

They are Lieutenant, Captain, and Admiral.

This is an ancient tradition, established during the age of sail, that now influences navies around the world.

The most essential characteristics of the sailing era are highlighted in the British Imperial Navy.

Taking lieutenants as an example, the Imperial Navy, like the British Navy in the age of sail, did not clearly distinguish ensigns, lieutenants, and captains in terms of names. There were only senior and junior ranks.

The word Lieutenant means 'assistant/deputy', meaning captain in the navy and lieutenant in the army.

At the end of the 18th century in Ancient Terra, British naval lieutenants could be regarded as the "emperor officers" of the royal family (only a few regimental officers with royal titles in the army were considered).

Because everyone from the Navy Lieutenant to the First Sea Lord is a royal commissioned officer, they can all get a letter of appointment signed by the royal family and be officially regarded as an officer.

They all had an "officer's quarters" on board, as well as their own storerooms, cooks and attendants.

Also since the age of sailing, captains have been divided into First Lieutenant, Second Lieutenant, and Third Lieutenant according to their seniority...

In the Chinese context, they are the first mate, the second mate, and the third mate, which represent the order in which they take over the command.

In the Imperial Navy, the first captain has a special rank, that is, Lord lieutenant.

Sub-lieutenant means 'deputy of the deputy', which means that this person is a junior naval captain who has just passed the navy captain examination and is therefore regarded as a lieutenant, but not a clearly graded lieutenant like the army.

In the Imperial Navy, Sub-lieutenant was given the titles of Senior and Junior.

Senior Sub-lieutenant and Junior Sub-lieutenant were conventionally regarded as Lieutenants and Ensigns.

In addition, the term Ensign is often used to refer to Ensigns, because Ensigns are the lowest-ranking officers with the right to manage signal flags.

This has to mention the process of Midshipmen becoming formal naval officers, and explain why there are no formal naval officers in Zhongsi Academy.

Compared with the Army, the Navy has stricter conditions for becoming an officer. The appointment of naval officers can only be done by passing the examination, obtaining a commission issued by the Navy Department, and the salary is paid uniformly by the national treasury.

Midshipmen stay on the ship for at least 6 months, and the longest for nearly 10 years, and take the "Navy Lieutenant Examination" with the recommendation of the captain. After passing, they get a commission and become a junior captain. There are many children who got on the ship at a very young age, such as the young candidate officer with a broken arm in the movie "Master and Commander".

This feature has also been inherited by the Imperial Navy.

The appointment of officers of the Astra Militarum only needs to be commissioned by the planet-level military affairs department. Once out of that star region, others may not recognize this organization. With the administrative efficiency of the Empire, it is particularly troublesome and cumbersome to verify. This is also the main reason why the Astra Militarum usually forms a larger organization for unified deployment.

However, officers of the Imperial Navy often travel alone in the vast star sea of ​​the Empire. In addition, warships are precious, and collaborative command of a giant war machine that is several kilometers long is obviously much more complicated than commanding an infantry company.

Therefore, the level of naval officers is required to be higher, and their organization is also uniformly managed by the Star Domain Navy Department, and is regularly updated between the five major empire star domain naval departments.

In comparison, officers of the Astra Militarum are like county sheriffs in the United States, and naval officers are similar to federal agents. Although they both eat imperial meals, one belongs to the local area and the other belongs to the country, and the organization and effectiveness are completely different.

Therefore, even among the Sindiras, who are a dandy army, there is a saying: Excellent Sindiras are in the void.

The word Captain means captain in the navy and captain in the army. The difference between the two ranks is huge. In the navy, it means colonel, but in the army, it only means captain.

Becoming a captain means becoming the king of the ship, with the right to control the life and death of all people. It is the highest position in the navy before the emergence of systematic naval warfare.

All naval personnel are proud to be captains. This is a rank of extraordinary significance and the white moonlight in the hearts of naval personnel.

Lord Captain is an honorary rank, specially awarded to captains with outstanding performance. It is the highest recognition of the Imperial Navy for personal command ability, naval combat ability, and business ability.

Lord Captains who act independently have many privileges, and have the right to organize fleets within their mission scope, decide action plans, etc.

Send a string of coordinates, and all nearby Imperial fleets must respond, whether he is a Space Marine or an armed warship of the Mechanicus.

And captains who generally perform cruise missions can only act in pre-designed cruise plans, with many shackles.

The Lord Captain has the right to conduct imperial affairs on behalf of the Imperial Navy and serve as the captain of the fleet flagship.

Admiral means admiral, also known as admiral.

As early as the beginning of the sailing age, admiral was not a fixed rank. Usually before a naval battle, a group of captains voted to select the most experienced and highest-level captain among them to command the fleet.

As for vice admiral and rear admiral, they are not strictly established by different words like the army, but are similar to naval lieutenants, divided into:

Vice-Admiral and Rear-Admiral according to seniority.

Vice means deputy position, and "vice admiral" is naturally the vice admiral.

Rear means rear guard, and the admiral of the rear fleet is the rear admiral.

From the naval ranks, we can also see the liberalism and "egalitarianism with thresholds" prevalent in the navy.

In short, as long as they are not indentured slaves (this does not even have human rights), the Imperial Navy will try its best to protect the treatment of the crew.

If you can become a petty officer or even a warrant officer, the Imperial Navy will regard you as a "person in the Navy system", and will give you face respect in daily life, and the treatment will be more abundant, and there will even be dividends for actions.

(PS: Naval petty officers and warrant officers who are not graduates of Zhongsi Academy are usually appointed by the captain, and the captain pays the remuneration personally, and does not report to the Navy Department, which is equivalent to an extra-staff position. However, the ranks of petty officers and reserve officers obtained in Zhongsi Academy are paid by the Star Region Navy Department, and the salaries of commissioned naval officers are paid by the Star Region Navy Department.)

As for the commissioned officers of the Imperial Navy, they silently exude a natural sense of superiority in calmness and composure. In non-war situations, they all use honorifics such as gentlemen and ladies and Your Excellency, giving each other enough face.

This is also the reason why Sterling, as a lord captain, can sit and smoke and chat with the chief officer of the rank of brigadier general so calmly.

Once on board, especially when entering a combat state, naval officers will immediately enter a strict "seniority level" sequence, strictly follow the command hierarchy, and begin to be addressed by rank and position.

Although midshipmen failed to obtain a commission from the Navy Department to become formal officers, the Navy tacitly regarded these midshipmen as part of the officer corps, with a higher status than warrant officers. Second lieutenant level salary.

In the Imperial Navy, there are two categories of officer candidates.

A category of "Chungsi Officer Candidates" who are trained by the Chungsi Academy and obtain officer candidate qualifications after entering the Officer Preparatory School are guaranteed by the Navy Department of the Sector and have to serve on ships for at least 6 months before they can take the Navy Lieutenant Examination.

The other type is the children of the Navy whose parents are still alive. These children usually start sailing on ships at the age of 12. They travel through the terrifying sea of ​​souls since childhood, fighting and studying at the same time. After they live to be 18, they can take the Navy Lieutenant Examination.

No matter which category they are, these naval officers who have experienced countless cruel actual battles are the best among the imperial officers in terms of professional level and command ability.

But the naval officer who was born in Saint Abridar's College has an honorable quality that is remarkable even among the entire Imperial Navy.

——Their defection rate and surrender rate are so far 0%. They continue to write the legend of the Gothic Fleet with their blood. They are loyal beyond words.

The navy believes that this is the blessing of the spirit of the heavenly spirit of Colonel Abridar, the naval saint who died in the line of duty after heroically rushing to the Blackstone Fortress and preventing Abaddon's conspiracy during the Gothic War.

It is a source of pride for naval officers to come from the bloodshed and refuse any advice from non-naval persons on their professional matters.

It is also the unruly self-confidence formed by the appointment of the Star Territory Navy Ministry obtained through rigorous professional examinations.

It has also given the Navy a unique characteristic of "qualification creates the right to speak."

Horatio's mind couldn't help but think of the famous saying, 'In the Naval Academy, a fourth-year student who says he can't hear means he can't hear! ’

It is the perfect embodiment of this characteristic of the navy.

"You can make your own arrangements for the rest of the time. All you need to do is report to the Freshman Office of Zhongsi College before eight o'clock tomorrow morning. You will also receive your equipment there. Turn left at the intersection ahead and there are bathrooms and locker rooms. Get yourself clean.

This is a locator. Your butler will use this locator to pick you up at a location near you. Bring your ID with you. This is your only identity document now. "

Captain Sterling patted Horatio on the shoulder and handed him two small things.

"Thank you, sir!"

[hiss. The Zhongji Academy here doesn't look so scary. ] Horatio was shocked, but also a little secretly happy.

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