Federation/Ranks

Ranks of the Federal Navy Auxiliary
No.	Rank	Unlocks
0	None	None
1	Recruit	None
2	Cadet	None
3	Midshipman	Federal Dropship
4	Petty Officer	Sol
5	Chief Petty Officer	Federal Assault Ship, Vega, Beta Hydri
6	Warrant Officer	PLX 695
7	Ensign	Federal Gunship, Ross 128
8	Lieutenant	Exbeur
9	Lieutenant Commander	None
10	Post Commander	Hors
11	Post Captain	None
12	Rear Admiral	Federal Corvette
13	Vice Admiral	None
14	Admiral	None

There are 14 ranks in the Federal Navy Auxiliary, which can be joined by any independent pilot. As pilots rise through the ranks, they are rewarded with access to exclusive Federal ships, missions, and restricted system permits.

Progression

For players to be promoted through the Federation's ranks, they must complete missions or other favourable activities with minor factions aligned with the Federation. Progress toward the next rank is tracked in the right HUD panel, in the Reputation section of the Status tab.

Missions

There are several types of missions that reward reputation, which improves rank. Common tactics for fast rank progress are:

• Cargo delivery missions - Offers high reputation gain and moderate pay, but carries the risk of frequent pirate interdictions. Cargo delivery missions also increases trade rank.
• Charity missions - Requires large credit donations, but very little effort. Charity missions do not increase trade, combat or exploration ranks.
• Data courier missions - Low-paying, but low-risk. Data courier missions also increases trade rank.
• Passenger missions for Federation-aligned factions at damaged stations - Missions are plentiful, fast, low-risk, and earn decent rank progress, but Thargoid attacks on stations occur inconsistently.
• Source-and-return missions for Federation-aligned factions at repairing stations - While slower than passenger missions at damaged stations, the commodities requested by these missions are common, and the risk is still fairly low.
• Planetary scan missions - Vary in risk and reward depending on the location scan requirements. Planetary scan missions do not increase trade, combat or exploration ranks.

Finding a system that best offers these opportunities can be difficult due to faction states changing constantly and a need for the minor factions to be aligned to the relevant superpower.

Promotion

Once a pilot reaches 100% rank progress, Federation-aligned minor factions with whom the pilot has a "cordial" or higher standing will begin to offer promotion missions for the Federal Navy. Completing a promotion mission will increase rank by one level. Note that rank progress continues to increase and count toward higher ranks even if the 100% mark for rank has been reached; no reputation gains are lost while waiting for a promotion mission to appear. Federal Navy promotion missions usually include the phrases "Federal Navy" in the mission title, for example "Federal Navy Acquisition Contract" or "Federal Navy Covert Transportation Mission".

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