Imperial Uniform Manual

The Imperial standart duty uniform is the most used in the 5th fleet. Different to the old Imperial ones the uniforms are all navy grey with the New Republican insignias on the left arm. The following list helps you to identify officers as well as making using the correct symbols for your own uniform.

Medals

Usually all merits on the standart uniform are displayed as patches above the ranking emblem. 3 to 5 patches will be added to one line before you can start another line. If you have 5 lines, you can add more than 5 patches to one line. New lines are started above the older lines. (Some older Imperial medals are usually worn as full medals on the standart uniform, but actually the Imperial navy don't uses these medals)

Unit Symbols, Special Unit Symbols

Unit Symbols are worn below the ranking emblem, Special Unit Symbols below the Unit Symbols.

Code Cylinders

Usually the Imperial navy uses two kinds of cylinders. (short silver cylinders have been phased out since 25 NE) Silver cylinders mark you line position, red cylinders your special position. Silver Cylinders are ever closer to the ranking badge, than red cylinders. Red cylinders are ever on the same site with the ranking emblem. The cylinders only show your active position. If your position changes, you have to wear other cylinders.

Service Ribbons

The Imperial forces actually wear three different types of ribbons:

The Ribbon of Nobility
The Ribbon of nobility is a golden ribbon on a golden star and is usually worn by planetary monachs. You must have the title of baron to be allowd to wear such this ribbon.

The Adjutants Ribbon
(Left Picture) The Adjutants Ribbon looks familiar to the Ribbon of Nobility, only the colors are different. This ribbon is blue and yellow with a green star. Usually adjutants wear such a ribbon, or officers, who have been adjutant. Not like the cylinders, you can keep your adjutant ribbon, even if you aren't adjutant anymore.

The Line Ribbon
(Right Picture) The line ribbon is usually awardent to supreme line commanders like Fleet Commander. The ribbon has the colors light blue and dark blue. In former times this ribbon have been awarded to ground commanders so that soldiers can easyly recognize their leaders in ground combats. Actually the ribbon is only given as special honor to some officers. Like the Adjutants Ribbon, officers are allowed to war this ribbon, even when they got another position.
Note: officers can wear the other ribbons as soon as they reached the requirements, but Line Ribbons have to be given by the government or the central high command.

Uniform Colors

More than 70 percent of the Imperial forces wear grey uniformes. The army uses sometimes different grey tones like grey-green, grey-violett or grey-brown, but this havn't a meaning like the other uniform colors:
- Grey uniform: The usual Imperial officer/soldier
- White uniform: Grand Admirals or other superior commanders
- Black uniform: Security officers/soldiers, stormtroopers
- White jacket and black trousers/skirt: ISB (Imperial Security Bureau) Officers
- Red jacket and black trousers/skirt: Imperial Royal Guard and Imperial Secret Council

Rank Insignias

Soldier rank insignias are usually worn at the sleeve or at the same position as the officer rank insignias (displayed on the picture at the beginning of the text)

Badge form
Usually the number of the squares shows the ranking (Some parts of the army have a different rules for the number of squares, not displayed here):
- 1 square: Cadet
- 2 squares: Ensign
- 3 squares: Second Lieutenant
- 4 squares: Lieutenant
- 5 squares: Lieutenant Commander
- 6 squares: Commander
- 7 squares: Commander senior grade
- 8 squares: Captain
- 9 squares: Line Captain
- 10 squares: Commodore to Admiral
- 12 squares: Fleet Admiral and higher
In the navy every second square is added in the second line, the IIS fills the first line with 6 squares, before they start with the second line. Parts of the army uses the navy system in this point, some parts, the IIS system. In case there are more squares in the second line than in the first line, the squares in the second line will be placed in the middle of the second line. Navy officers add sometimes more than 6 squares to one line. Examples:

Square Colors
The square colors of a ranking badge usually don't change, exept this officer gets more squares with a promotion. In a promotion, usually two sqares will be added. The position you have or the position you get with the promotion decides, which color the squares have:
Usual Asignments:
- Officers working in the navy or the army get one red and one blue square.
- Officers working in the military security gets two red squares.
- Officers working in the navy/army central high command or the government get one yellow and one blue square.
- Officers working in the high command of the military security get one yellow and one yellow and one red square.
- Officers working for the militia or the planetary police get two blue squares.
Special Asignments:
- Officers working for the special projects get one orange square and one blue square.
- Officers working for the classified special projects get one orang square and one red square.
- Officers working in high advisor positions in the fedaral government get two yellow squares.
- Civil Officers working for the Imperial forces get one blue and one green square. (For example doctors)
Example:
Colonel Mustermann from the Marine Corps (The Marine Corps is a part of the Imperial navy) is actually serving in a usual position. He has actually 4 red squares and 4 blue squares. He gets promoted to Brigadier General, so get gets one red square and one blue square more. In case Colonel Mustermann had been transfered to the navy high command before the promotion or with the promotion, he would get one yellow square and one blue square.

Halfsteps:
Since 28 NE the empire uses Halfsteps, that means for some promotions you only get one square. In the navy and in the IIS the halfstep square is ever red, even if the officer, who gets promoted, is asigned in the navy high command. Halfstep rankings are: Cadet, second Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander seniour grade and Line Captain. The Halfstep square will be deleted with a promotion to a fullstep ranking. Halfstep squares in the militia are usually blue, in the army halfstep squares can have different colores.
Example:
First Lieutenant Mustermann is serving as adjutant in the navy central high command. He has actually 2 yellow squares and two blue squares. He will be promoted to the halfstep ranking lieutenant commander, so he gets one red square. Then he will be promoted to Commander. The red square will be deleted and he gets one yellow square and one blue square more.

Color sorting:
In the navy, the squares are sorted from the brightest to the darkest color. Yellow is the brightest, than orange, than red, than blue and green is the darkest color. Some factories produce the green color for the rank signs a bit brighter than the blue color, just ignore this, the colors are sorted for importance and the brightness of the color is only a hint for easyer sorting the squares. Some other units have white, grey, black and violett rank squares, especially parts of the former secret order, but the navy don't use this colors. To sort the colors you begin with the highest line and fill in the brightest (or most important) squares from left to right, then you proceed with the next lower line and so on.

Admiral/General signs
Admiral or General signs are usually added on the collar, sometimes on the right shoulder. There are four different signs, which can be added: the diamond, the half-diamond and the empty versions of both signs.

The half-diamon is the same as a star in the U. S. armed forces. The diamond is the same as a cross in the German armed forces.

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