Hold up, hold up, didn't I promise to scour my notebooks?
Grabbing the first notebook to hand, a pocket sized jobber I first used for Arabic vocabulary. [RANKS IN THE BLOODY NAVY] Livtenńt—commissioned officer who can command a small interstellar vessel such as a brig (for exploration, transport, reconnaissance, pickets, escorts to cargo or transports in groups of 3+) or a fast interplanetary vessel like a cutter (antismuggler, antipirate, fast transport). Less lucky livs command a watch or a portion of the crew of the great interstellar ships. Outside of spacecraft command, a livtenńt serves many roles in orbital docks and wellside ports: construction, comms, intelligence, batteries, and the impress service. Livs who command a brig or cutter, or who stand out in wellside service, are usually the officers promoted to Cmanŕ. Livs who possess technical competence without genius or ferocity may spend a great many decades as junior officers on the great interstellar ships before graduating to the command of a transport or exploration ves...