==Ninja Rankings==
In keeping with the most popularBut far from only source material Hidden Asteroid's official, public rank structure is fairly simple.
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| colspan="3" {{tableheader}}|Ninja Ranks
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| {{tableheader}}|Rank
| {{tableheader}}|Description
| {{tableheader}}|[[Great_Justice#Operation_Great_Justice_Grade_Scale|OGJ] Equivalent
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| {{tableheader}}|Kage||The Karasukage is the supreme commander of Hidden Asteroids military forces||OF-10||
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| {{tableheader}}|Jounin||...||OF-6 or OF-7||
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| {{tableheader}}|Special or Tokubetsu Jounin||...||OF-3||
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| {{tableheader}}|Chunin||...||OR-5||
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| {{tableheader}}|Genin||...||OR-3||
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| {{tableheader}}|Student||...||OR-1||
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It should be noted that students have not yet graduated from the Academy and are not technically considered part of Hidden Asteroid's military forces and are assigned a grade mostly for the purposes of pay and book keeping.
The Ninja's relatively flat rank structure causes some issues when they are working with other factions as part of [[OGJ] or other intra-factional activities. It usually only becomes a problem when they are dealing with factions that are a bit... focused on minor detailsFen as a whole tend not to care so much for fixed hierarchies, but also tend to be a bit obsesive over trivial details.. The table above lists the officially accepted equivalencies, but in practice a ninja working as part of a multi fraction group will often have a working rank that looks nothing like what the table says they should have.
Ninja teams typically follow the four man cell structure described in the source material, one higher ranking shinobi with three lower ranking ones. The most commonly encountered team of this sort is a genin training cell with a jounin instructor. However, this sort of arrangement can and will be ignored for any reason deemed good enoughGood enough has been known to include "needed an extra set of hands to carry the ramen" and "We needed seven people for an effective panty raid on a target that large." by someone in Hidden Asteroid's command structure.
==Sources of Income==
In addition to [[Ninjaburger], perhaps Hidden Asteroid's most profitable venture, the ninja earn money from a number of ventures. The two most profitable of these being bodyguard and 'assasination' services. Ninja bodyguards are hired across Fenspace for any number of reasons, from pure prestigeand they hate these assignments to actual fear of attack and death. Officially Hidden Asteroid's 'assasination' service is only used to pull pranks, the more elaborate the better, against the targets. Rumours otherwise filter through Fenspace and are always good for a headline on certain 'Dane news networks.
As Hidden Asteroid is the most common, but not only, place to hire ninja in Fenspace it is common for Hidden Asteroid shinobi to end up on opposite sides of prank wars and spying missions. They try to maintain their professionalism, at least as much as anyfen does.
There, a few thoughts before bed. The rank equivalencies were pulled completely out of thin air, so rip them apart as you will. Apologies for any markup errors. Also Yuku's spellchecker does not consider 'panty' to be a word, oddly enough.
--
Ah, yes, _The Dying Earth_: a wonderful title, greatly spoiled by the
book.
-- Nix
In keeping with the most popularBut far from only source material Hidden Asteroid's official, public rank structure is fairly simple.
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| colspan="3" {{tableheader}}|Ninja Ranks
|-
| {{tableheader}}|Rank
| {{tableheader}}|Description
| {{tableheader}}|[[Great_Justice#Operation_Great_Justice_Grade_Scale|OGJ] Equivalent
|-
| {{tableheader}}|Kage||The Karasukage is the supreme commander of Hidden Asteroids military forces||OF-10||
|-
| {{tableheader}}|Jounin||...||OF-6 or OF-7||
|-
| {{tableheader}}|Special or Tokubetsu Jounin||...||OF-3||
|-
| {{tableheader}}|Chunin||...||OR-5||
|-
| {{tableheader}}|Genin||...||OR-3||
|-
| {{tableheader}}|Student||...||OR-1||
|-
|}
It should be noted that students have not yet graduated from the Academy and are not technically considered part of Hidden Asteroid's military forces and are assigned a grade mostly for the purposes of pay and book keeping.
The Ninja's relatively flat rank structure causes some issues when they are working with other factions as part of [[OGJ] or other intra-factional activities. It usually only becomes a problem when they are dealing with factions that are a bit... focused on minor detailsFen as a whole tend not to care so much for fixed hierarchies, but also tend to be a bit obsesive over trivial details.. The table above lists the officially accepted equivalencies, but in practice a ninja working as part of a multi fraction group will often have a working rank that looks nothing like what the table says they should have.
Ninja teams typically follow the four man cell structure described in the source material, one higher ranking shinobi with three lower ranking ones. The most commonly encountered team of this sort is a genin training cell with a jounin instructor. However, this sort of arrangement can and will be ignored for any reason deemed good enoughGood enough has been known to include "needed an extra set of hands to carry the ramen" and "We needed seven people for an effective panty raid on a target that large." by someone in Hidden Asteroid's command structure.
==Sources of Income==
In addition to [[Ninjaburger], perhaps Hidden Asteroid's most profitable venture, the ninja earn money from a number of ventures. The two most profitable of these being bodyguard and 'assasination' services. Ninja bodyguards are hired across Fenspace for any number of reasons, from pure prestigeand they hate these assignments to actual fear of attack and death. Officially Hidden Asteroid's 'assasination' service is only used to pull pranks, the more elaborate the better, against the targets. Rumours otherwise filter through Fenspace and are always good for a headline on certain 'Dane news networks.
As Hidden Asteroid is the most common, but not only, place to hire ninja in Fenspace it is common for Hidden Asteroid shinobi to end up on opposite sides of prank wars and spying missions. They try to maintain their professionalism, at least as much as anyfen does.
There, a few thoughts before bed. The rank equivalencies were pulled completely out of thin air, so rip them apart as you will. Apologies for any markup errors. Also Yuku's spellchecker does not consider 'panty' to be a word, oddly enough.
--
Ah, yes, _The Dying Earth_: a wonderful title, greatly spoiled by the
book.
-- Nix