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aaaaaaaagh_skyWe wouldn't be doing it like this back in California.
Of course, we probably wouldn't even be talking back in California. They don't do much outside recruiting at all there. Exceptional cases, sometimes, but… well. As the Star Paladin's told a couple of people, you'll notice we're not in California.
I bring it up because the organization's different there. The Scribes research, the Knights build, and the Paladins fight. Call them castes, if you want. You wouldn't be far wrong. Elder Lyons changed that when they gave him his own command out here. That's why you've been in the field this whole time, instead of at a workbench in the Citadel somewhere, or wearing a junior Paladin's markings on your armor. In California, our chaplains are mostly Scribes. Sometimes they're Knights, not that that's common. They consider it a technical service the same as engineering, only you're servicing the human soul instead of somebody's power armor.
I suppose there's worse ways to look at it.
At any rate, Elder Lyons has his own ideas about how these things ought to be done. In the old days they used to directly commission civilian professionals upon entry into the military, doctors mostly, sometimes clergy. The idea was to get the skills and expertise the civvies had into a position where they could do the military the most good. They had rank, but they didn't have command authority outside their specific branch of duty. If you'd been sent straight to Paladin rank you'd have wound up like that- commissioned for your specific duties, but without any chance of command of your own.
Interesting look on your face, there. You hadn't been thinking about that?
Well, it doesn't particularly matter. You've been promoted up the ladder properly, if faster than most. I don't think anyone could argue that you haven't earned it, though. Frankly, the Brotherhood owes you a good deal more than just a Paladin's rank. I've got good reason to believe there's more in the works, but I'm not officially cleared for that info. Just- don't take it into your head to run off to Maryland or the Pitt on some weeks-long quest any time soon. You're going to have a lot of field work to do here, once the promotion's official and the ordination's been handled. I can't say more than that.
Now, go and get your copy of the Codex. You were born an outsider, so you've got twice as much to prove as anyone else- we've got a lot to go over before your vigil night.
Of course, we probably wouldn't even be talking back in California. They don't do much outside recruiting at all there. Exceptional cases, sometimes, but… well. As the Star Paladin's told a couple of people, you'll notice we're not in California.
I bring it up because the organization's different there. The Scribes research, the Knights build, and the Paladins fight. Call them castes, if you want. You wouldn't be far wrong. Elder Lyons changed that when they gave him his own command out here. That's why you've been in the field this whole time, instead of at a workbench in the Citadel somewhere, or wearing a junior Paladin's markings on your armor. In California, our chaplains are mostly Scribes. Sometimes they're Knights, not that that's common. They consider it a technical service the same as engineering, only you're servicing the human soul instead of somebody's power armor.
I suppose there's worse ways to look at it.
At any rate, Elder Lyons has his own ideas about how these things ought to be done. In the old days they used to directly commission civilian professionals upon entry into the military, doctors mostly, sometimes clergy. The idea was to get the skills and expertise the civvies had into a position where they could do the military the most good. They had rank, but they didn't have command authority outside their specific branch of duty. If you'd been sent straight to Paladin rank you'd have wound up like that- commissioned for your specific duties, but without any chance of command of your own.
Interesting look on your face, there. You hadn't been thinking about that?
Well, it doesn't particularly matter. You've been promoted up the ladder properly, if faster than most. I don't think anyone could argue that you haven't earned it, though. Frankly, the Brotherhood owes you a good deal more than just a Paladin's rank. I've got good reason to believe there's more in the works, but I'm not officially cleared for that info. Just- don't take it into your head to run off to Maryland or the Pitt on some weeks-long quest any time soon. You're going to have a lot of field work to do here, once the promotion's official and the ordination's been handled. I can't say more than that.
Now, go and get your copy of the Codex. You were born an outsider, so you've got twice as much to prove as anyone else- we've got a lot to go over before your vigil night.