Was Lasky promoted?

FataI Vengeance wrote:

Syxnrgy wrote:

I have a feeling that Thomas Lasky will be promoted to Admiral, from the recommendations of Terrance Hood and Serin Osman. This would occur after Operation: ATHENA's successful mission and the UNSC Infinity stopping the Covenant Remnant from acquiring all Forerunner technology. However Catherine Halsey will manage to escape with Jul 'Mdama who plans to finish the Arbiter once and for all...

This would seem like the most logical reason as I can't see someone going straight from Captain to Admiral without doing something exceptionally important. Preventing Jul from acquiring all of that Forerunner technology would be exactly that. More so if they manage to regain both halves of the Janus Key as well.

• Diplomatic Peace with the Sangheili and Jiralhanae
• Reconnecting Communications with Vessels
• Investigation of a UNSC Traitor
• Janus Key
• Possibly Saving Catherine Halsey

Syxnrgy wrote:

BART 101 wrote:

4 stripes indicates a Captain not a Admiral. The lowest rank of Admirals has a star. When he was a Commander he had 3 stripes.

The United Nations Space Command has certain uniforms to dictate rank:


Commander - Officer Rank 5 [O5|CDR]
A Commander possesses three designated stripes and one star;

• Thomas Lasky
  
  • Halo 4 - Concept Art
  • Halo 4 - In Game
• Bradley
  
  • Halo: Escalation - Comic

Captain - Officer Rank 6 [O6|CPTN]
A Captain possesses four designated stripes and one star;

• Andrew Del Rio
  
  • Halo: Anniversary - Trailer
  • Halo 4 - In Game
  • Halo: Initiation - Comic
• Thomas Lasky
  
  • Halo: Infinity - Cinematic
  • Halo: Escalation - Concept Art

Admiral - Officer Rank 10 [O10|ADM]
An Admiral possesses four designated stripes and four starts;

• Terrance Hood
  
  • Halo 2 - Concept Art
  • Halo 3 - Concept Art
  • Halo 3 - In Game
  • Halo 3 - In-Game
• Thomas Lasky
  
  • Halo 5: Guardians - In Game how does buck sit on nothing?

A sLackEr X wrote:

Syxnrgy wrote:

FataI Vengeance wrote:

Syxnrgy wrote:

I have a feeling that Thomas Lasky will be promoted to Admiral, from the recommendations of Terrance Hood and Serin Osman. This would occur after Operation: ATHENA's successful mission and the UNSC Infinity stopping the Covenant Remnant from acquiring all Forerunner technology. However Catherine Halsey will manage to escape with Jul 'Mdama who plans to finish the Arbiter once and for all...

This would seem like the most logical reason as I can't see someone going straight from Captain to Admiral without doing something exceptionally important. Preventing Jul from acquiring all of that Forerunner technology would be exactly that. More so if they manage to regain both halves of the Janus Key as well.

Well it is stated that Margaret Parangosky and Terrance Hood is fond of Thomas Lasky... in the way of a future leader, much like Serin Osman. Plus Thomas Lasky easily demonstrated his loyalty to not only the UNSC but also Lord Terrance Hood.

• Diplomatic Peace with the Sangheili and Jiralhanae
• Reconnecting Communications with Vessels
• Investigation of a UNSC Traitor
• Janus Key
• Possibly Saving Catherine Halsey

That to me speaks a viable reason for a promotion...

I still wouldn't see him skipping all those ranks to go straight to Admiral. Honestly, being Hoods successor-in-training would make the most sense. Wasn't Osman a captain before she was promoted to Admiral and subsequent head of ONI?

agent texas359 wrote:

In response to the point that he just skipped two rate tiers: welcome to science fiction Captain Lennox from transformers in like two years gets to Colonel skipping like two or three ranks in-between also I mean given the fact that High Command has in put into the list it wouldn't be absurd that he would be shuffled up to Admiral given that fact that Harper doesn't seem to be the brightest Commissioned Officer in the world and Hood is probably thinking of throwing in the towel by this point (or dying from age either way) and also I don't know what I think about that shoulder plating I liked the asymmetry (I have no idea why because usually I'm really OCD about symmetry) and I mean the shoulder brace does go up to the neck and maybe ambushes are statistically more frequently to the left of personnel? I don't know but I wouldn't put it past the UNSC given they lowered the Ammunition count of the MA5 series due to statistical jamming rates.

FataI Vengeance wrote:

HangedCloth wrote:

FataI Vengeance wrote:

If you take a look at his uniform in the Halo 5 Vidoc you'll notice that he now has 4 stars compared to the one star he had in Halo 4. His shoulder pad is also gone.

Halo 4

Halo 5

4 stars would indicate he's now an Admiral instead of a Captain. I wonder how he got promoted so quickly seeing as in Halo 4 he was just a Commander (Captain by the time of Spartan Ops) and now he's an Admiral by the look of it. I mean that means he skipped 3 ranks in not even 2 years. That's pretty unprecedented.

I'm not gonna say anything about the rank, but the visuals in the Halo 5 screenshot. With you noting that his shoulder guard thing is gone, I picked apart this image yesterday because someone pointed out that Buck is actually sitting on nothing. It appears to be an unfinished scene with lighting missing from this shot and the textures on the Mantis being such a low resolution this to me looks almost like either early story boarding or just unfinished. So I'd probably chock up his shoulder pad missing either it being not placed on him in this shot or they actually did remove it.

Well it's not on him in this shot either, which is from the E3 trailer and that seemed to be more complete footage. He looks a hell of a lot better without it IMO. I don't see what the purpose of it even was.