[LMB] request for factual help - the timeline was digest

Elizabeth Holden azurite at rogers.com
Sun Sep 2 00:35:34 BST 2007


--- Michael R N Dolbear <m.dolbear at lineone.net> wrote:

> But Miles' & Ivan's discussion of Galeni's rapid promotion to "Captain" in
> BiA and Galini's later promotion from Captain to Commodore in Memory/ACC
> don't really match this.

Is there any reason to think that Barrayaran ranks follow the patterns of current earth ranks at
all? In any country?  this is centuries in the future and far away, and I'm happy to take the
ranks as being mere approximations of what we know - if even that.

namaste,
Elizabeth


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