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[patocerda]

Chewin3 wrote...

We won't have a XO names Pressly...


...we will have a XO named Priestly

+1!  

[me_54m]

I miss the announcement we used to get : "Logged the commanding officer is ashore XO Pressly has the deck" - I quite liked the feeling of giving him something to do!

If we can chose, I would chose Miranda or Garrus then Ashley (Kaiden annoyed me so I gave him the bomb) :S

But surly the XO shouldn't be someone you can take off the ship, I'm guessing they will bring in a new Navigator.

[ladyvader]

Alocormin wrote...

Perhaps it's Anderson.

Anderson doesn't get on the Normandy.  He stays behind on Earth.

[Made Nightwing]

fenix8081 wrote...

[I knew an Army guy who went from Warrant Officer class One to Captain in his late thirties, but we do things a little differently in Australia

Yeah, like rappelling face down.  You guys are crazy, mate!.

Aussie SAS like to be able to use their weapons while rapelling.

Modifié par Made Nightwing, 19 juin 2011 - 02:15 .

[Aedan_Cousland]

EDIT:
Alliance Ranks for Officers:





2nd Lieutenant



1st Lieutenant



Staff Lieutenant


Lieutenant Commander(Shepard)



Staff Commander(Alenko)



Captain/Major



Rear Admiral/General



Admiral



Fleet Admiral

[/list]Is that from the codex somewhere?

Just curious, because if so it is a bit odd that a Major is an equivalent of a Captain. In the real world a Major in the Army or Marines is an O-4 (the 4th officer rank) and equivalent to a Lt. Commander in the Navy. (O-4) A Captain in the Navy is an O-6 and would be the equivalent of a Colonel in the Army or Marines.

Anyway...

I hope in ME3 we'll get a new NPC XO that plays a similar (though, larger) role than Pressly.  As much as I like Garrus or Miranda, realstically neither should be the XO aboard an alliance vessel. Miranda is a civilian and Garrus is Turian. The rest of your squadmates other than the Virmire Survivor, are less qualified.

[ladyvader]

Aedan_Cousland wrote...

EDIT:
Alliance Ranks for Officers:





2nd Lieutenant



1st Lieutenant



Staff Lieutenant


Lieutenant Commander(Shepard)



Staff Commander(Alenko)



Captain/Major



Rear Admiral/General



Admiral



Fleet Admiral

[/list]Is that from the codex somewhere?

Just curious, because if so it is a bit odd that a Major is an equivalent of a Captain. In the real world a Major in the Army or Marines is an O-4 (the 4th officer rank) and equivalent to a Lt. Commander in the Navy. (O-4) A Captain in the Navy is an O-6 and would be the equivalent of a Colonel in the Army or Marines.

Anyway...

I hope in ME3 we'll get a new NPC XO that plays a similar (though, larger) role than Pressly.  As much as I like Garrus or Miranda, realstically neither should be the XO aboard an alliance vessel. Miranda is a civilian and Garrus is Turian. The rest of your squadmIates other than the Virmire Survivor, are less qualified.

It's from the Mass Effect Wikia actually.   They have all the ranks, but I just posted the officers. 

Here is the problem I think some are having.  They keep thinking in American Military ranks.  Or the country they are from and this is not set up that way.  Or at least to me it is not.  It the whole human race's military and it will be set up different from what we know about our own militaries.  I just wish people would take that in to account.  Espeically those that have complained that Ash is too young to be a Lt.  Which is just silly because Shepard was 29 during ME1 and was a Lt. Commander  which is three ranks above where Ash is at two years younger.

[Clonedzero]

what if the VS is in command and you're the XO

[ladyvader]

Clonedzero wrote...

what if the VS is in command and you're the XO

For some reason, I doubt that very much.  Just my thought.

[kaiki01]

Aedan_Cousland wrote...

Assuming Shepard will be back to being in command of an Alliance military vessel, with an Alliance crew, who is the executive officer?

Kaidan would be of high enough rank to serve in that role if still living, but other than that it would seem you'd need a new character to replace Pressly. Ashley is not high enough in rank and Miranda and Jacob are civilians, and formerly Cerberus affiliated civilians at that. None of the aliens could serve in that role either, since as aliens, they have no authority over Alliance military personnel and might not know the first thing about operating or commanding a military vessel.

I would guess the VS. No matter what choices you made in ME & ME2, one of them will have survived. Make Ashley an officer and there would be an XO for any permutation of gameplay choices.

[ladyvader]

@Aedan_Cousland Yes, it is a codex. Secondary tab in ME1. But I did copy and pasted it from the Wikia site. Faster that way. I'm too lazy to type some days.

[ladyvader]

kaiki01 wrote...

Aedan_Cousland wrote...

Assuming Shepard will be back to being in command of an Alliance military vessel, with an Alliance crew, who is the executive officer?

Kaidan would be of high enough rank to serve in that role if still living, but other than that it would seem you'd need a new character to replace Pressly. Ashley is not high enough in rank and Miranda and Jacob are civilians, and formerly Cerberus affiliated civilians at that. None of the aliens could serve in that role either, since as aliens, they have no authority over Alliance military personnel and might not know the first thing about operating or commanding a military vessel.

I would guess the VS. No matter what choices you made in ME & ME2, one of them will have survived. Make Ashley an officer and there would be an XO for any permutation of gameplay choices.

Ash is a Lt in ME3 along with being a Spectre.

[Abispa]

Oh, you haven't heard? Shepard dies at the beginning and is resurrected. S/he discovers that Harbinger was behind the resurrection and convinces you that nothing in the past game has any real bearing on the current one and now the husks are just trying to find their own way or something. With his help you'll take on the Reapers to save the galaxy, just after you finish a series of missions that will help you enhance your squad's self esteem, both new and old members.

Harbinger will assign you an abomination for an XO, and it'll challenge your every decision for about 30 second before it starts whining about how insecure it is and envies how awesome you are. It'll even come to you, embarrassed, to ask you to help it with some personal issue after which it'll stare at you with puppy dog eyes and spend the rest of the game trying to get into your pants.

[Thargorichiban]

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You forgot to list "Shepard" as a "Spectre". [/quote]Spectre is not an Alliance rank.  Why I didn't mention it.  Kaidan is also a Spectre in ME3, so that is a wash.  Unless Shepard gets promoted, Alenko still outranks Shepard.
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[*]I wouldn't consider it a wash. Once you join the ranks of Spectre's past ranks don't really ever come into place or matter anymore. I would imagine the only thing that would matter are two things: seniority and performance. In either case Shepard has the edge over the VS.
[*]This is assuming that he/she actually got reinstated as a Spectre.

[Raiil]

Abispa wrote...

Oh, you haven't heard? Shepard dies at the beginning and is resurrected. S/he discovers that Harbinger was behind the resurrection and convinces you that nothing in the past game has any real bearing on the current one and now the husks are just trying to find their own way or something. With his help you'll take on the Reapers to save the galaxy, just after you finish a series of missions that will help you enhance your squad's self esteem, both new and old members.

Harbinger will assign you an abomination for an XO, and it'll challenge your every decision for about 30 second before it starts whining about how insecure it is and envies how awesome you are. It'll even come to you, embarrassed, to ask you to help it with some personal issue after which it'll stare at you with puppy dog eyes and spend the rest of the game trying to get into your pants.

I laughed way too hard at this. +10

[ISpeakTheTruth]

If I have any say in it at all Miranda will be and if she can't be than Legion is next.

[clone wars]

well let look at the xo from me1 and   the xo from  me2 and then we maybe have a good idear as who will be the next xo

Modifié par clone wars, 20 juin 2011 - 05:09 .

[nphyx]

XO shouldn't be a squad member it makes no sense for the acting caption and the XO to be going on missions.

[stephee]

I vote Engineer Adams for XO. I missed him in ME2

[Oblivious]

It seems odd to give Garrus, who DESPISES paperwork and administrative duties, the purely-administrative office of XO. I can see Kaidan as being XO material since he's calm and a hard worker. My first choice will be Miranda though as she has not only proven herself a fantastic leader (both on and off the field) for both TIM and Shepard, but if what she says is to be taken seriously then she was born with an extremely high IQ and had gotten the best education money can buy. Both very admirable traits in an XO

[Lord Forshadow]

Hmm, I would say if they give me the choice, Samara or Legion as my second in command, easily. However, neither of them have much experience with human military operations and the crew wouldn't respect them.

If the crew is mostly the old Cerberus crew, Miranda

If the crew are mostly Alliance provided, then there are already strings attached and whomever they send is who will be "XO".

And I love em to death, but if either Ash or Kaiden feel they're taking command and becoming the next Shep, they're getting put down. If that's part of the storyline (and it would be amazing, just saying) and I get a choice between killing them and recruiting them back on .. I honestly don't know.

[Lord Forshadow]

stephee wrote...

I vote Engineer Adams for XO. I missed him in ME2

You find his dogtag in the Normandy wreckage too.

[stephee]

Lord Forshadow wrote...

stephee wrote...

I vote Engineer Adams for XO. I missed him in ME2

You find his dogtag in the Normandy wreckage too.

You do?

Taken from the wiki. http://masseffect.wi...te_(assignment)

Bakari, Jamin
Barrett, Germeen
Chase, Addison
Crosby, Silas
Draven, Rosamund
Draven, Talitha
Dubyansky, Alexei
Emerson, Hector
Felawa, Robert
Gladstone, Harvey J.



Grenado, Caroline
Grieco, Marcus
Laflamme, Orden
Lowe, Helen M.
Negulesco, Monica
Pakti, Abishek
Rahman, Mandira
Tanaka, Raymond
Tucks, Carlton
Waaberi, Amina

[Oblivious]

I agree with those that says the XO shouldn't be a squadmate and should remain onboard. If I had my way I would have Miranda be an XO and temp squadmate. I know it will anger some Miranda fans that she can't get off the ship unless the mission requires her to, but nobody else is as qualified to be an XO and at least she remains with Shepard from the beginning rather than simply appearing in one mission.

Besides, it seems like the Cerberus crew respects/fears her and are used to being under her command.

[Orion1836]

ladyvader wrote...
In ME1, Shepard is only 29 and a Lt. Commander.   So why have a problem with Ashley being a LT at her age?

From my experience (American military), 29 is about right for a Lieutenant Commander (O-4). 27 is old, however, for an enlisted troop to make the jump to officer. O-1s are usually 21-23. Obviously, the Alliance military is different, it just seemed odd to me is all I was saying.

[WidePaul]

Eric Cartman for XO

"Respect my authoritaah!".