“ head cannon for my characters is that only a few of them are actually members of starfleet. only the ones that are have rank on uniforms and i tend to cap them at captains. it is a bit immersion breaking when everything refers to you as admiral though... i have long wondered why they dont have a... ”
“ I didn't realize this at first. Just so everyone is aware, you get some freebies by linking your Amazon account and Steam account. You have to go into Amazon and claim it, but it looks like there may be more to claim down the line. ”
“ I just rp my characters at different ranks....it is what it is, it's a game. Starfleet Admirals don't fly around killing hundreds of thousands of Terran ships on a daily basis, but it's a game so it would be boring to do 99% peaceful missions...but I guess it gets boring doing 99% killer missions... ”
“ Amazon seems like they would be likely to try to capitalize on the higher profile IP in this acquisition, so sounds promising for the future of Stargate now that this has wrapped up. Also nice to know that MGM's library of content will eventually gravitate towards a streaming service I already... ”
“ At least for my own headcanon I usually assume my character exists outside the normal military structure and use of any rank badges are part of my cover story. For example my Fed Tac is a Section 31 operative, my Fed Sci is a Daniels-like temporal agent, etc. It also makes it easier to believe the... ”
“ The way STO is set out for the most part it's assumed that you are the only character in the game and therefore it makes sense for there to be one "hero" fleet admiral.
Team content is not really considered a part of the ongoing story; more a sort of side aspect of the game in that regard so it... ”
“ Also because it is made as a role playing game but the role you play doesn’t add up to realism. It is too bad that they arranged that like this.
Just going to admiral and no further looks like more like it as I have read in many canon stories you have to count over more then 5000-10000 starships... ”