N'Akkiarlian Battle Commander

The N'Akkiarlian rank of Battle Commander was high rank, equivalent to that of General or Fleet Admiral, a Battle Commander usually commanded all forces in any given battle but they officially commanded between 1,000 and 5,000,000 troops - depending on their sub-rank (e.g. a Junior Battle Commander commanded between 1,000 and 30,000 troops whilst a Master Battle Commander could command any number of troops between 800,000 and 5,000,000O). The Battle Commander usually commanded a fleet or an army (though most commanded both a fleet and an army) the rank was a rank lower than the ranks of Army Commander and Navy Commander and was two ranks lower than the rank of Supreme Commander, which has held by the sovereign.

Creation of the rank
In 32,980 BBY the N'Akkiarlian Supreme Commander (sovereign) and his war council decided to create a new rank in which a N'Akkiarlian could command an army or a fleet on the front-lines, until this point forces had been commanded from N'Akkiarl Major, the capital and headquaters for the military. This arrangement had worked well when N'Akkiarlian occupied only their system but they were beginning to move through the N'Akkiarl Galaxy and were trying to beat the Jussk'Ravgarok in Jussk'Ravgarok Space, a different system which was causing logistics problems.