Special Imperial Officers
I need some assistance on a massive project I've been working on for almost 2 years now. It is a fan-based sourcebook for the game we all love in the Galaxy we all cherish. What I need are some character drawings for High Ranking Imperial Army Officers. There are 15 Characters total at this time that I would like assistance in. I can handle the vehicles and vessels we have been working on, just been about 14 years since I've drawn people.
The best way to describe these characters, without giving up too much about the book is:
Supreme General- Highest officer in the Army
High Generals- kind of like the Grand Admirals, but are troubleshooters for the Supreme General and are Army
Sergeant Major of the Empire- Highest rank an enlisted man can achieve in the Empire
The book some of you may already know about, it is the Marching Orders Source book. I've had several people offer in the past, and either failed to deliver, or disappeared completely after volunteering. The book is about 98% complete, just needs art, editing, and fine tweaking, which I'm in the process of fine tweaking, and the ship and vehicle art tweaking phases.
Submitted by JawaStu on Mon, 04/21/2008 - 18:14.
Can you possibly give anymore detail of what you're after?
Is it only those 3 officers you want from this request?
What makes them different to the Imperial Officers that we're all familiar with, do they wear standard uniforms or do they have anything elaborate or different to distinguish them?
Do they have specific characters/personalities you'd like to portray?
Obviously you don't want to give to much away, but I'm thinking you may need a hook to get artists interested.
Submitted by gmjabreson on Mon, 06/09/2008 - 09:51.
The officers are Army, but wear a type of uniform most commonly seen with the Grand Admirals. Supreme General has the Whitish looking uniform, but with Blue shoulder epaulets.
High Generals (there are 13 of them, including a female) have a light gray uniform (lighter than the regular Imperial officer uniform) with Maroon/dark red epaulets.
Sergeant Major of the Empire has the regular Imperial uniform, with rank insignia on sleeve, about 1/3 way down the biceps. 3 chevrons up, 3 chevrons down, diamond in middle. Rank chevrons are red with blue border and filling on the dress uniforms. On combat fatigues it is green with black fill and border.
Does this help?
Submitted by Velovich on Wed, 06/25/2008 - 15:58.
If I may, I had a General that was the equivalent rank to a Grand Admiral IMSWU - I used the rank "Field Marshal" to represent his being different/special. In historic usage, a Marshal is *the* military officer for a nation, but a "Field Marshal" can be of lower rank but command any size force the Soverign/Head of State wishes to give him. WW II German Field Marshals had the ability to cut red tape and demand to speak to Hitler personally to ensure the staff system didn't bog down a campaign.
Further, historic Field Marshals were given important tasks involving huge numbers of troops, such as Rommel in Africa or Manstein in Southern USSR. Their commands often defied typical tables of organization.
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