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Brigadier Generals Dolph Stallone and Angela Bankson hit mandatory retirement. That leaves the Army with just five generals left, and it is expected that a colonel or two will be promoted soon to make up the slack. Both had served since SPACE's inception 34 years ago, and there are a rapidly dwindling few who can say that. The army also loses two of its top three colonels for the same reason, so it's definitely a changing of the guard.
Cmdr. Tell Perj Jr -- 8th out of 15. Now 40, Perj is in the middle of a very steady, highly respectable career. He's set to remain in Saturn orbit as the CO of one of the fuel harvesters.
Lt. Cmdr. Rob Nielsen III -- 27th out of 47. The cutoff for commands is at 23 right now, and Nielsen has another year before he'll be considered for auto-termination, so it looks like it'll come right down to the wire for him. He could make it, he could just miss.
Maj. Gen. Sterling Silvers -- The retirements make Silvers, now 52, as old as any of the army generals as he winds down his career. He's the standard by which all others are judged.
Sonny Dean(3) -- Governor of Wolf-Harrington. At 51, with declining health, it appears he's in the twilight of a mostly strong administrative career.
James Earl Jones V(6) -- Governor of Prokne. Since his tour their started a couple years ago, nothing's been heard from him.
Pioneer Deacon Palmer(CP 45) -- In the final stretch of work on improving research rate, one of several priority research projects for SPACE at the moment.
Joe Tycho(EW 25) -- A casualty of the Epsilon Eridani crisis, his project was yanked and is still in limbo, as is Tycho who awaits his next assignment.
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