Captain
Captain noun - A person in overall command of a ship.
Rear admiral and captain are semantically related. In some cases you can replace phrase "Rear admiral" with "Captain", this terms are similar.
Rear admiral
Rear admiral noun - An admiral junior to a vice admiral.
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Synonyms for Rear admiral
Captain and rear admiral are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Captain" with "Rear admiral", this terms are similar.
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Guls (roughly equivalent to a Starfleet captain or rear admiral) have a panel of Cardassian script on the right side of the breastplate.
Source: Earned Stripes - Crack Pairing: invoked An extremely odd choice for the main pairing considering that in the games Captain/Rear Admiral Shepard and Councilor Sparatus were never even on the same planet at the same time.
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This is acknowledged in the novelization, where the captain is promoted to rear admiral and receives both the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Order of Mao Tze-Dong.
Source: One Man Army / Video Games
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