[quote=@Dondude]
[@Gnar The Missing Link]Are Spartans our superiors or is it the other way around? I was assuming it was the latter but now I'm not sure, since I assumed they were more just like infantry.
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I'm pretty sure all the soldiers there are above us in terms of military rank. Gnar did mention about the Cadet rank:

[quote=@Gnar The Missing Link]
You forget that your characters are [i]Cadets[/i], rookies despite their talent without any real power.

Just because they can pilot expensive and unbelievably powerful war machines, doesn't mean that they have any actual power outside of combat unless they have actually [i]earned[/i] it.
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