The most iconic plaques being the rank of Admiral (six red squares above six blue squares) , So, what I've gathered from my research of Imperial rank insignia's, is that there are several ways of determining the rank of an imperial officer in the star wars universe.īefore I begin, I just want to say that i'll be ignoring the rank insignia's of the members of the Joint chiefs (seen in ANH), this is mainly due to the fact that ANH was the very first star wars movie and with many of the ranks (such as Grand Admiral, Governor, Taskmaster, etc.) being made and invented long after ANH, many of the inconsistencies that I have encountered surrounding the topic of Imperial rank insignias, stem from the bloopers or constraints in fliming the OT.įirstly and the most obvious way to determine an Imperial officer's rank is from the officer's rank plaque. Whilst Imperial ranking insignia and rank plaques are VERY inconsistent across all cannon material,(due to costume design constraints and mistakes in the OT) this hasn't detered me from continuing my investigation on this extremely interesting topic of Star Wars lore. I've been re-watching some rebels clips on youtube and whilst also being a WWII enthusiast, i've become very interested in the Galatic Imperial Ranking system, espeically officer rank plaques, code cylinders and patterns.
