Greetings. I always love it when people engage with my awesome contributions to the Star Army setting. Here is some guidance and then a question in the end.
As a further note: I am not here to talk about anything specific (unless you want to talk about how cool my plots are
), but rather to inform the community about the details of my creations in a void. Importantly: I was asked by several members to make this post.
The Order of the Blazing Sun is akin to the Medal of Honor. It is given for extraordinary gallantry, which has a very high bar in this space future setting. The scope and scale of action this is awarded for is supposed to be widely impactful. One soldier against odds explicitly or implicitly in the hundreds or even thousands. It shouldn't be awarded specifically for life saving (which is covered by the Combat Livesaver Award). It is also an individual award. This means that multiple soldiers participating in a single part of an engagement should not receive it en masse; if they all deserve the same award for what they did at the same time then their individual actions were not extraordinary enough to warrant an Order of the Blazing Sun. This award should not be handed out like candy. And, if I'm being very honest, it really shouldn't be given to NPCs unless there is an overriding narrative value to doing so.
The Red Tessen is akin to a Silver Star. It is awarded for gallantry in service beyond what the Star Army's Combat Award would call for. Multiple soldiers who are part of a single engagement might all qualify for one, and such situations have happened in the past. Still shouldn't be handed out like candy, but isn't so rare as to be unobtanium. While it isn't as rare as the Blazing Sun, being awarded a Red Tessen singles out the recipient as part of a very exclusive combat fellowship made up of the Star Army's best soldiers.
The Star Army Unit Citation is an award for collective efforts. These efforts might include one soldier getting a Blazing Sun and a handful getting a Red Tessen or Combat Livesaver in addition to the Unit Citation. This is an appropriate award for mass gallantry in battle.
During the Unit Citation's approval process, Andrew reminded me that I should be specific about how it is awarded. And very amusingly, I was thinking this past Saturday and Sunday about his words and wondering if I ought to update the Blazing Sun and Red Tessen have more extensive awarding standards (what a coincidence!). They were introduced a long time ago when Wes had a lot of time to dedicate, so "Yui's approval" was a sufficiently high bar.
So the question: Would anyone have a problem with me correcting my awards to more contemporary detail and standards?
As a further note: I am not here to talk about anything specific (unless you want to talk about how cool my plots are
The Order of the Blazing Sun is akin to the Medal of Honor. It is given for extraordinary gallantry, which has a very high bar in this space future setting. The scope and scale of action this is awarded for is supposed to be widely impactful. One soldier against odds explicitly or implicitly in the hundreds or even thousands. It shouldn't be awarded specifically for life saving (which is covered by the Combat Livesaver Award). It is also an individual award. This means that multiple soldiers participating in a single part of an engagement should not receive it en masse; if they all deserve the same award for what they did at the same time then their individual actions were not extraordinary enough to warrant an Order of the Blazing Sun. This award should not be handed out like candy. And, if I'm being very honest, it really shouldn't be given to NPCs unless there is an overriding narrative value to doing so.
The Red Tessen is akin to a Silver Star. It is awarded for gallantry in service beyond what the Star Army's Combat Award would call for. Multiple soldiers who are part of a single engagement might all qualify for one, and such situations have happened in the past. Still shouldn't be handed out like candy, but isn't so rare as to be unobtanium. While it isn't as rare as the Blazing Sun, being awarded a Red Tessen singles out the recipient as part of a very exclusive combat fellowship made up of the Star Army's best soldiers.
The Star Army Unit Citation is an award for collective efforts. These efforts might include one soldier getting a Blazing Sun and a handful getting a Red Tessen or Combat Livesaver in addition to the Unit Citation. This is an appropriate award for mass gallantry in battle.
During the Unit Citation's approval process, Andrew reminded me that I should be specific about how it is awarded. And very amusingly, I was thinking this past Saturday and Sunday about his words and wondering if I ought to update the Blazing Sun and Red Tessen have more extensive awarding standards (what a coincidence!). They were introduced a long time ago when Wes had a lot of time to dedicate, so "Yui's approval" was a sufficiently high bar.
So the question: Would anyone have a problem with me correcting my awards to more contemporary detail and standards?