Howedar wrote:XO. All of the perks, none of the responsibility.
Yeah, but how long before you'd be "promoted" to CO? Assuming you're in Lord Vader's task force.
Well it can be a while, apparently most of the task force deaths were on the Executor herself.
Actually, I always thought the Captain of the ship had a better time of it than the XO. The XO always seemed to get crapped on and got stuck doing all the stuff the Captain decided he didn't want to do. The CO has a few more perks than the XO. Of course most of the XO's I've seen wanted to eventually Captain their own carrier so they all were strung a bit more tightly than the guy who was already sitting in the chair.
Now, I did have one Captain that had a reall stick up his butt. He had really screwed up and was trying very very hard to make up for it so he could make Admiral. Didn't happen.
What the XO does depends a lot on his own strengths and the strength of the Captain. Now my total experience with a CO/XO combo comes from teh Marines but I'll tell you that we loved our CO but our XO was around all teh time and he grew on you real quick. He was the guy who got things done in ways that the CO couldn't and I think most of us would have gladly stood as the last man between either of them and an enemy overrunning our position. Basically he was part Co but without all the command responsibility.
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I would like to be something important but nothing that would put my life at risk from pissed off Sith Lords. My personality is suited to Intelligence, Fleet Inteligence i'd find torture distasteful.
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Seriously, though, I'd probably be a TIE Interceptor pilot.
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In a LTL or HTL turret i would kill more rebels than all you TOE pilots combines. LTL, I am on point defense, setting up flak bursts destroying enemy fighters. In a HTL turret, well my shots will be slamming into the hulls of rebel cruisers, and I will be using flak burst mode against fighters, so either way I win. Sure if the shields go down, i am one of the first people to die, but I dont care.
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Bridge crewman in pit. All you have to do is press random buttons, and point and laugh as the captain gets choked by Vader. Also, compared to the janitor and garbage chute operator, it's a fairly high rank. However, I just wouldn't feel safe on the bridge, so my next choice would be a gunner for a bow-mounted TL. It's fun blowing up rebel ships, and if I miss, there are 199 other LTLs that can fill in.
Sith Lord "Moral" officer. That or perhaps a Gunboat pilot. Shields to avoid the fodder aspect, hyperdrive should I wish to leave the service.
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Assuming you're in Lord Vader's task force.
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