Commissions

[Thanos]

I can't seem to find it one way or another but if you successfully enlist in the armed services and are knight or above do you automatically go in as an officer?

 

[Xerxeskingofking]

as I understand it, NO, you do not.

You can try for a commission, like everybody else, and your high SOC will give you a bonus to the roll, but you do not automatically become an officer..

note, in mongoose traveller, a officer gets a knighthood (ie SOC 10 or +1 which ever is better for him) when he reaches sufficient rank (normally 5 or 6).

 

[CosmicGamer]

Commissions are not just handed out to untrained nobles. I'd think many nobles wishing to serve would take the route of attending a military academy. Such as the Naval College in the High Guard book. If they graduate, they are commissioned.

 

[DonM]

I have to agree here -- I would believe that noble scions seeing officer ranks would clog the halls of the various service academies across the Imperium, as that is the easy automatic path, and their high SOC assures the cadet of successful waivers in the case of failures at said academies.

 

[Shonner]

Nobility is inherited in my book whether a character has high or low SOC. An Admiral can get high SOC, but still not belong to any nobility. The moment a player rolls up a high SOC, he or she can decide if in fact their character is a member of some dynasty (and all that entails) or not. The reverse can also happen. A character is decided to be a member of some dynasty, but the player has rolled a SOC of 5 for them. The character is still nobility. Just a bad seed, black sheep, bastard, doesn't know, orphaned, whatever.