Alliance Contribution

Alliance Civil Government

• Clerks: Rank 0. Simple volunteers seeking to lend a hand in whatever fashion they might, a Civil Government clerk aids the Alliance bureaucracy in whatever way they might, lending various non-military skill sets to the Allliance's efforts. Clerks were frequently placed under the mentorship of a senior Aide.
• Alliance Aides: Rank 1-4. The aides are the rank and file of Alliance bureaucracy, frequently shuffled about as needed: an aide's career may include basic bureaucratic wrangling for anyone from the Chancellor to a particularly pressured Alliance Command post (although Alliance Commands are usually required to staff their own postings). Talented aides–whether diplomats, computer technicians, scholars, or quartermasters–are frequently watched closely and plucked out of general service to lend their talents to a specific Cabinet.
• Ministry Administrator: Rank 5-8. Alliance civil servants of this rank hold positions within specific Alliance Civil Ministries (Finance, Industry, Education, State, Supply, and War). Even those ministries that do not currently have Ministers still function, under the defacto leadership of the Secretary of the Cabinet. Administrators of this ranking are usually assigned work groups of aides and clerks to help get their jobs done.
• Minister: Rank 9-11. Alliance Ministers oversee one of the six core ministries that make the Alliance run. Currently, only three of them (Finance, Industry, and Education) have Ministers. The others run with skeleton crews overseen by the Secretary of the Cabinet.
• Secretary of the Cabinet: Rank 12-13. The Secretary of the Cabinet runs the Alliance Civil Government where the Chancellor cannot. The Secretary has an extensive bureaucracy to aid in their efforts, and the current Secretary, Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan, is already setting an impressive example for future holders of the office.
• Chancellor: Rank 14+. The Chancellor–who is also simultaneously the Commander-in-Chief for the Alliance Forces–is an elected dictatorship. While they have virtually unlimited authority, their decisions can be overturned by the Advisory Council (composed of the highest leadership of both the Civil Government and the Alliance Forces) with a two-thirds majority. This is intended to be a last-ditch means of limiting potential autocrats, as when such a veto occurs, the Chancellor is expected to step down along with it; as such, most such possible issues are solved through compromise and negotiation.

Alliance Forces

• Trainees: Rank 0. Trainees are frequently raw recruits, more fervor than skill. Some may be attached to one of the Alliance branches, but most often they are new voluteers looking to prove themselves in the fight against Imperial oppression.
• Commander-in-Chief: Rank 14+ The Commander-in-Chief acts as the head of the Alliance Military, though they are expected to take the advice of their High Command (the various Allied Commanders, along with the Minister of War) in all decisions.

Alliance Fleet (Navy)

Fleet Command: Admiral Raddus
The Alliance Fleet is the Rebels' most important military force. The fleet gives the Rebels the mobility and firepower it needs to legitimately challenge Imperial military forces. However, as the fleet is only a small fraction of the size of the Imperial Navy, it must pick and choose its battles very carefully. Mon Mothma has forbidden Admiral Raddus from engaging the Imperials directly in a large-scale battle (much to the curmudgeonly old Mon Calamari's irritation). By and large the Alliance lacks the means to replace capital ships or large swathes of vessels at once, so it cannot afford to undertake any action that endangers a large part of the fleet at any one time. "The Alliance can survive the loss of its central command base or its fleet, but not both," Mon Mothma is famously quoted as saying, and the Alliance's command structure agree with her.

Ranking in the naval structure is fairly straightforward. The rank and file are made up of deckmen (Rank 1) and senior deckmen (Rank 2). The earliest command position is a petty officer (Rank 3-4), which may be made captain of a small vessel of about patrol boat or transport size, or more likely serves as mid-level command aboard a larger vessel. A chief petty officer (Rank 5-6) may hold command of an armored freighter, or oversees a section of petty officers and their crews aboard larger vessels. An ensign (Rank 7-8) or lieutenant (Rank 9) might be given command of a corvette or frigate, or serve as bridge crew aboard a larger vessel. Rebel cruisers all have commanders (Rank 10), captains (Rank 11), and admirals (Rank 12+) as their vessel commanders, with a whole cascade of lower ranking officers and naval crew beneath them.

The Fleet's structure is not permanently organized into specific ship models or designs, unlike the Imperial fleet. Elements of the fleet are combined on an ad hoc basis, building specialized groups to tend to specific Rebel missions, and then reabsorbed into the greater fleet afterwards. This makes the fleet available across the galactic disk, whether tending to specific missions for High Command, or allocated to other Alliance forces (notably Sector Commands). Some of the organized groupings include:

• Element: 1 vessel. A single starship is known as an element, commanded by the vessel's captain.
• Section: 3-12 vessels. A cluster of up to a dozen starships. Heavy cruisers are rarely available for such a small command (though specialized missions might warrant one or two of them). More often, a section is made up of 3-8 corvettes, frigates, or similar light capital ships. If the section is made up of both capital vessels and close-support ships, it is called a flotilla. The most senior vessel's captain acts as the commander.
• Squadron: 12-36 vessels, plus support units. Four sections are combined into a squadron, using such elements as a line of capital ships, a section of escort ships, or a picket line of armored freighters. The squadron is the most common fleet detachment assigned to general Alliance missions – any task that requires more than a squadron to accomplish is usually under the command of Fleet Command itself. Squadrons are commanded by a senior captain or admiral (sometimes called a line admiral), as directed by Fleet Command or Alliance High Command. Sector Commands with squadron-level resources usually rank its commander as a commodore.
• Battle Group: 48-72 vessels, plus support units. Two to four squadrons may be combined into a battle group under the command of a line admiral.

Starfighter Forces

Starfighter Command: General Antoc Merrick
Starfighter Command controls strategic deployment and development of Alliance starfighter forces. It carries out starfighter training and wing assignments to the fleet, Sector Forces, and other commands, and issues operational orders to wings not permanently assigned to the fleet or to Sector Commands.

Starfighter resources are largely organized into "wings," though they are made up of smaller organizational units with a wing.

• Element: 2 Starfighters. The smallest organizational unit for starfighters is the element, made up of a pair of starfighters, with the senior pilot operating as leader, and the second as wingman. The majority of starfighter pilots are flight cadets (Rank 1-3) or flight officers (Rank 4-7).
• Flight: 2 Elements. A flight is made up of four starfighters, led by a flight commander, who is the most senior of the flight's pilots, generally a senior flight officer (Rank 7), a lieutenant (Rank 8), or a captain (Rank 9).
• Squadron: 3 Flights. A squadron is made up of three flights (a dozen starfighters), led by the squadron commander who is usually a lieutenant (Rank 8), captain (Rank 9), or a commander (Rank 10). A squadron is made up of a single type of starfighter, and is usually given a color or name designation. Squadrons are sometimes referred casually as a "group," such as the "Red group," but this term is identifying rather than organizational.
• Wing: 3 Squadrons. A wing consists of thirty-six starfighters, plus the necessary support personnel, craft, and equipment. Ideally, one squadron in the wing is a recon squadron, and each squadron within the wing can be of a different type of fighter. A wing is led by a colonel (Rank 11), also called a "wing commander," who reports directly to the local commander, whether a Sector Force officer, or a ship's captain. When assigned to the fleet, a wing also reports to the fleet's Starfighter Command.
• Group: 2+ Wings. Groups are uncommon; by and large, the largest useful designation for starfighter efficiency is the wing. When an operation requires starfighter resources on this scale, however, they are referred to as a "group," and are under the command of the senior colonel (Rank 11) or by a general (Rank 12+).

Special Forces

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Sector Forces (Army)

Sector Command: General Jan Dodonna
The Alliance does not field a unified army force – it can't afford to, quite honestly. Instead, it coordinates and supports a variety of Sector Forces, the local military power of a variety of sectors in open or semi-open rebellion against Imperial forces. Each such Sector Force consists of its own structured military, although they are encouraged to adopt the Alliance's command structure (typically a Commander-in-Chief, a Chief-of-Staff, and commanders leading individual departments within the Force, such as Intelligence or Starfighter Command).

Sector Forces absorb independent resistance groups that want to join the Rebellion; if there are none when a group wishes to join, they become the foundation of a new Sector Force. Sector Forces include all types of units within their organization, including the types of forces that might ordinarily be under the command of other parts of the Alliance military, and which are often loaned to the larger commands in question for tasks where their aid is needed.

The following organizational structure is used:

• Squad: 9 Troopers. The smallest unit of army command, made up of 8 troopers (Rank 1-2), commanded by a sergeant (Rank 3-4).
• Platoon: 36 Troopers. A unit consisting of four squads, led by a sergeant major (Rank 5-6) and a lieutenant (Rank 7-8).
• Company: 144 Troopers, plus Support Personnel. A unit consisting of four platoons, led by a captain (Rank 9).
• Battalion: 576 Troopers, plus Support Personnel. A unit consisting of four companies, led by a major (Rank 10).
• Regiment: 2304 Troopers, plus Support Personnel. A unit consisting of four batallions, led by a colonel (Rank 11).
• Brigade: 9216 Troopers, plus Support Personnel. A unit consisting of four regiments, led by a colonel (Rank 11) or a general (Rank 12+). In some Allied Commands, a brigade might be referred to as a legion.
• Corps: 36,864 Troopers, plus Support Personnel. A unit consisting of four brigades, led by a general (Rank 12+).

In theory, multiple corps make up a proper Sector Army, but most Rebel forces in a sector are lucky to field a regiment. The highest ranking general usually holds the Commander-in-Chief office, and coordinates with Sector Command.

Intelligence

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Ordnance & Supply

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Support Services

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Alliance SpecForce

These ranks apply to a number of other Alliance operations, including Intelligence (under General Airen Cracken), Ordnance & Supply (under General Baccam Grafis), and Support Services (under General Dustil Forell).

• Trooper: Rank 1.
• Senior (1st) Trooper: Rank 2.
• Sergeant: Rank 3-4.
• Master Sergeant: Rank 5.
• Lieutenant: Rank 6-7.
• Senior Lieutenant: Rank 8.
• Captain: Rank 9.
• Major: Rank 10
• Colonel: Rank 11.
• General: Rank 12+.

Rank	Civil Government	Sector Forces	Alliance Fleet	Starfighter Forces	SpecForces + Others
0	Clerk	Trainee	Trainee	Trainee	Trainee
1	Aide	Trooper	Deckman	Flight Cadet	Trooper
2	Aide	Senior Trooper	Senior Deckman	Flight Cadet	Senior (1st) Trooper
3	Aide	Sergeant	Petty Officer	Flight Cadet	Sergeant
4	Aide	Sergeant	Petty Officer	Flight Officer	Sergeant
5	Ministry Administrator	Sergeant Major	Chief Petty Officer	Flight Officer	Master Sergeant
6	Ministry Administrator	Sergeant Major	Chief Petty Officer	Flight Officer	Lieutenant
7	Ministry Administrator	Lieutenant	Ensign	Flight Officer	Lieutenant
8	Ministry Administrator	Lieutenant	Ensign	Lieutenant	Senior Lieutenant
9	Minister	Captain	Lieutenant	Captain	Captain
10	Minister	Major	Commander	Commander	Major
11	Minister	Colonel	Captain	Colonel (Wing Commander)	Colonel
12+	Secretary of the Cabinet	General	Admiral	General	General