How to Earn Promotions in the XSF

Whether through leading operations, mentoring juniors, or displaying standout qualities, each rank offers new growth opportunities and responsibilities for willing Commanders inside the XSF.

This guide will explain the steps and expectations for advancing, helping you rise through the ranks and become a leader within XSF.

Have a look at our Rank Overview for a broader picture of the different kinds of Ranks we use.

Learner

Aviator

Lieutenant

Captain

Major

Colonel

General Staff

Rank Requirements

Promotion has been valued with 5 major categories that a Commander must accomplish. The categories consist of Experience, Knowledge Proficiencies, Promotion Challenges, Individual Proficiency, and Leadership Potential.

The Tab-Box at the bottom of this page contains details on every requirement.

Promotion within Xeno Strike Force is not always guaranteed, even if a Commander has met all qualification standards.

Submitting a Promotion Request

Use the /requestpromotion command in our ‘#apply-for-ranks’ Discord channel.
The GuardianAI bot will then open a new private thread for your Promotion Process to take place in.
There will be another Thread opened for XSF Senior Officers and Staff to review your process.
Read the Bot’s Messages and Instructions carefuly, they will lead you through every step.

1 – Knowledge Proficiency Test
- The Bot will ask you some questions on AX matters, read carefully – answer by typing into the chatbox. Update the Answer by typing a new Message. Submit each Answer by clicking the button below the embed.
- Can no longer update answer after advancing to the next question.
- After going through all the Questions the test will be complete and then be pending for review by the according XSF Officer. Please wait patiently, you will see a live progress bar filling up as they go through the test once they begin reviewing it.
2 – Experience Credits
- The Bot will check and display your Experience Credits to both you and the Reviewers Thread.
- In fact the /requestpromotion command wont let you start the process if you didn’t have the required amount of Credits in the first place.
3 – Individual Proficiency
- The Bot will automatically check your progression Ranks on the Anti-Xeno Initiative Discord Server to match the required solo skill level needed for the XSF Rank you are applying for.
- If you are not a Member of the Anti-Xeno Initiative Server the bot will ask you to submit equivalent proof manually in the Thread. View Requirement Details.
4 – Promotion Challenge
- The Bot will ask you to submit the image or video link for the Promotion Challenge of the XSF Rank you are applying for.
  View Requirement Details.
5 – Leadership Potential
- Ranks will be awarded once General Staff approves the Promotion.
- For Promotions to Lieutenant and above there is a level of community assessment as far as how the Commander carries themselves publicly.
- For Promotions to Major and Colonel and above there is a level of Leadership Potential Assessment required.

Once the Process is completed and Promotion approved the Bot will then post a summary to #apply-for-ranks, congratulating you on your Promotion!
If your Promotion could not be approved at that time you will get a notice in your private Promotion-Process thread with the bot.

Requirement Details

1 – Knowledge Proficiencies

Over time, excellent Commanders have taken it upon themselves to distinguish themselves amongst their peers by learning Thargoid habits, weapon types and configurations, ship loadouts, and Xeno Strike Force knowledge. There is a test that will be administered going over proficiency categories per rank. Applicant must have an 80% or higher. This proficiency exam ensures quality commanders are being progressed.

RANK
Aviator
Lieutenant
Captain

PROFICIENCY
Basic
Advanced
Master

PROCTORED BY
Captain
Major
Colonel

See the “Book of Sentinel” for the knowledge proficiencies.

2 – Experience

Commanders will gain Operational Experience participating in Official Operations. Official Operations are approved by Majors, Colonels, or General Staff. Official Operations will be posted in the Operation Orders channel on discord. Anybody is allowed to submit Official Operation Orders through the discord bot with the command “/opord“. See “/opord information” for further details..

Aviator	1 Operation as Learner
Lieutenant	5 Operations as Aviator
Captain	5 Operations as Lieutenant
Major	5 Operations as Captain
Colonel	5 Operations as Major

Experience Table

View your Credits with /experience name @person or on our OpOrd Credits page.

3 – Anti Xeno Initiative Rank

Qualifications must include achieving atleast the matching AXI Ranks – or submitting equivalent standard Proof of the solo Kill when requesting the promotion.

Xeno Strike Force Rank	Required Solo Proficiency (AXI Rank)
Aviator	Sole Survivor (Basilisk Solo)
Lieutenant	Serpent’s Nemesis (Medusa Solo)
Captain	Collector (Hydra Duo, and All previous Solos)
Major	Herculean Conqueror (Hydra Solo)
Colonel	Decent Pilot (AX Mastery)

Visit the AXI Website for their Rank Requirements

4 – Promotion Challenges

Aviator

Lieutenant

Captain

Promotion Challenges can be submitted to the ‘apply-for-ranks‘ channel in the XSF Discord. The Challenges showcase the competency of a Commander to lead others against the Thargoid threat. Below articulate each Challenge per Rank and its requirements…

Aviator Charlie and Captain Sheen were conducting Combat Air Patrol in a two Commander wing located in Pleiades Sector MI-S B4-0, where they were engaged by a Medusa Interceptor. Not expecting the dire strength and devastating firepower of the Interceptor, they were forced to fight for their lives while never losing focus of wing combat to become the Unconquerable Pair…

Wing of 2
Kill a Thargoid Medusa within 30 minutes
Captain or higher as wing member to promote
No Guardian Modules or Weapons
No Weapon & Module Synthesis (Limpets are considered cargo)
No Deaths allowed
Must use Basic Ammo
Applicant must not be carried through the fight
Single screen shot showing both Commanders in a wing, both in the same instance at time of explosion and bond.
Must not be an AXCZ

Spirit of this Challenge is to face a high priority threat with similar ship-build restrictions a typical Escort Fighter for Titanspace would have

Lieutenant Yang was participating in Operation Iron Eagle assaulting Titan Taranis in the year 3310 while flying her “Titan Killer” Krait MK II dubbed ‘XSF Yin’. She found herself following the orders of the Captain until suddenly a Lightning strike from a Hydra Interceptor vaporized her Captain. Lieutenant Yang was now in charge…

You are in charge now, successfully hold the instance while gaining 60 points without losing any team members.
Must be completed in Titan Space
Wing of 3 required, 4th not allowed (The Captain is dead…)
Wing should be comprised of the Rank-applicant plus 2 Aviators/Learners
One RRR allowed at a time while remaining Commanders stay in the instance
Requires video from Rank Requesting applicant
Medusa or Hydra: 60 points
Basilisk: 25 points
Cyclops: 15 points
Glaive: 10 points
Scythe: 5 points

Learn how to organize, communicate and lead to achieve a given mission-objective

Captain Jaeger was assigned a recovery mission in the year 3310. He was instructed to break his wing down into two elements – Strike and Search and Rescue – tasked with recovering Thargoid Bio-storage Capsules from a Thargoid Titan in an attempt to bring our fellow human brethren home. Mission analysts intel suggests Scythe variants of the formidable Hunter class Thargoid vessels are present in the area to actively recover any jettisoned Bio-Capsules. It is said that the Captain has the knowledge proficiency, administrative capability, effective communication skills, and piloting skill to lead the most effective Tactical Wing that the Xeno Strike Force has to offer…

The Rank requesting applicant must lead the operation and be in the Strike Team. Must submit Official Operation Order for a Tactical Wing sized element demonstrating administrative leadership.
Losing any Search and Rescue Team members invalidates the run
Recover 180 Thargoid Bio-Capsules to the nearest megaship.
Respawning is not permitted
Wing of 4 required
Must kill all Scythe Hunter Class vessels attempting to recover extracted Thargoid Bio-Capsules.*
No wing member is allowed to leave Titan Space once inside until Mission Completion.
Strike Team must not extract Thargoid Bio-Capsules, however may store them in cargo.
Requires using Mumble Comms and teaching wing members to validate communication proficiency during Operations while running a Strike Group
Menu logging to leave titan space not permitted
Video required only from Applicant, must show remaining team members exiting with 180 Thargoid Bio-Capsules. Recommend Wingmates take screen shots.

Prove that you are fully capable in your knowledge, piloting, communication and administrative abilities to organize a wing and delegate multiple mission tasks at once

* Until a glitch causing game crashes upon the death of Scythes is fixed, this is not required and actively advised against. Best practice is to beam them to take aggro from SAR craft and lead them to the asteroid fields.

5 – Leadership Potential

Lieutenant, Captain, Major, and Colonel will have a degree of community assessment as far as how the Commander carries themselves publicly. Leading Operations as any rank will be noticed. Whether a Commander has accomplishments positively progressing the Xeno Strike Force as a Community will be determined based on several factors which will all be taken into consideration, including: evaluation of communication with others, if they are a team player or not, if they have been an effective team mate, and how well team mates cooperated together. Social interactions on the XSF and AXI discords, social media, any forum, and in game will also be a factor. A simple rule of, “treating others the way you want to be treated”.