Mustering out in High Guard

[Red Bart]

Since the ranks carry over from career to career (i.e. if you were rank O5 in the pilot career, you'll start as O5 in the Command career) do the bonus benefits for mustering out apply to each career? Or do you only roll for mustering out benefits when leaving the navy, not just a career?

For instance: A character goes from naval college (1st term, leaving with rank O1) to crewman (2nd term, leaving with rank O2) to pilot (3rd to 5th term, leaving with rank O5) to command (6th and final term, leaving with rank O6).
Strictly following the RAW, the character would get 2 benefit rolls (1 term + 1 for rank) after mustering out of the crewman career, and 5 benefit rolls (3 terms + 2 for rank) after the pilot career, and 4 benefit rolls (1 term + 3 for rank) with a +1 bonus after the command career.
OR would the character only get benefits after mustering out of the command career, for a total of 8 rolls (5 terms + 3 rank) all rolled on the command mustering out benefits table, with a +1 bonus.

 

[F33D]

Since the ranks carry over from career to career (i.e. if you were rank O5 in the pilot career, you'll start as O5 in the Command career) do the bonus benefits for mustering out apply to each career? Or do you only roll for mustering out benefits when leaving the navy, not just a career?

Like IRL, you get the benefits from being in the Navy for X amount of time ONLY when you leave the service not every time you switch assignments...

 

[Red Bart]

That does make more sense. I just couldn't find it anywhere in the high guard book.

What happens though if (in my previous example) the character had a mishap during his time as a crewman. He'd get ejected from the imperial navy, but could roll to qualify as a pilot in a planetary navy. Since imperial ranks carry over to a planetary navy, would he get the bonus benefit from this rank in both the mustering out from the crewman career as in the mustering out from the pilot career?

 

[locarno24]

That does make more sense. I just couldn't find it anywhere in the high guard book.

It isn't.
Playing Devil's Advocate for the other side:

I get that they all broadly fall under the badge of 'navy', but they are listed as seperate careers, and have their own benefits tables, however, which to me says you use those, when you leave the career.

An officer getting to roll all benefits for his entire navy career on the High Command table, for example, gets so much stuff it verges on the ridiculous (how many Imperial Consorts can one person marry, after all?).

 

[Red Bart]

That is certainly true, but characters making it to High Command are probably few and far between and should probably be treated more like a dilettante (in respect to their wealth).

There's something to say about both approaches. Maybe it warrants a new rule: mustering out benefits are rolled for per career (as usual), but bonus benefits are acquired one for each two ranks (round up) that are advanced in that career. That would mean for my example: +1 bonus benefit for crewman (1 rank advance), +2 bonus benefits for pilot (3 rank advances), and +1 bonus benefit for command (1 rank advance).

 

[F33D]

Maybe it warrants a new rule: mustering out benefits are rolled for per career (as usual), but bonus benefits are acquired one for each two ranks (round up) that are advanced in that career. That would mean for my example: +1 bonus benefit for crewman (1 rank advance), +2 bonus benefits for pilot (3 rank advances), and +1 bonus benefit for command (1 rank advance).

I think this would work well.