The Glockstar status doesn’t seem to be very popular with fans. But it makes perfect sense to me that in Glukkon society it’s the rich and successful businessman that has celebrity status. The outfit may be gharish, but that can be hand-waved by the need to make Glockstars the most visually distinguishing Glukkon rank, and accentuate the Glukkon ego.
Molluck is, by recent word of god, a low-ranking Glukkon. However, when the MO ranks were designed it's quite obvious they intended to correlate Molluck with the rank of Big Cheese. The use of his image in some rank charts supports this. However, this is probably done to convince the audience that Molluck is successful and powerful, and isn’t indicative of Lorne’s idea of the character changing. Molluck’s development through the Quintology sounds quite a fundamental part of it.
For an in-universe explanation, Molluck considers himself king of his own personal corporate empire. It’s this very blindness to his small position in the big scheme of things that makes the revelation so important to his story: it’s a revelation to him, too. But this doesn’t mean Molluck isn’t a Glockstar. These ranks might only apply to the more publicly visible businessmen. Why would an entity as paranoid as the Glukkons let their most powerful individuals have celebrity status? Even Glockstars are probably chumps in the end: after all, even the queen Glukkon is somebody else’s puppet.
And I think it’s pretty fucking obvious that the Glukkon executives in AO are holographic yesmen that don’t need to leave the boardroom. Molluck just turns them on and off whenever he wants. Abe was actually destroying the holographic projectors with that Shrykull power. Now you know.
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