Decided to grind Imperial ranks today

I don’t know what I must have been doing before attempting this today or if it’s just super easy to rank up in the beginning. But I just went from a non rank all the way up 6 or 7 ranks to Lord in just under two hours. It seemed like every time I would collect missions I also had the opportunity to complete a naval mission to rank up. I’ll probably play again tomorrow and see if I can make it up to Duke and get my Cutter in the same amount of time