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Trapper

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  1. On 4/8/2018 at 2:49 PM, trencher said:

    Something to consider with choosing a rank is age.  If you are younger, lieutenant is a youthful rank. Middle aged is commander /mid ranks. Older is general, admiral ect.  This is based off of experience in the army.  You star at the bottom and work your way up.  It's like seeing a 25 year old general or admiral in a movie. It looks weird.   Does that make sense?   And I'm not knocking anyone for wanting to be any rank specifically. Just life experience.

    Once again I agree with you . I don't think any one should be upset with what you said. Sure there can be exceptions after all we are talking about back stories to flesh out a character one would like to portray. A young person could be an up and coming officer in the empire through acts of valor or simply family connections. But nobody mentioned the other way . The poor middle aged offcer who is still a lieutenant  whose back story is he / she is such a screw up in their career. That they are one step away from being forced choked from Vader. Lol

  2. On 4/4/2018 at 2:50 PM, Alay said:

     

    That's part of being "in character".  I have an entire head-canon for the nameless officer I portray;  I wear a Captain badge, because I was given captainship of a Victory-Class Star Destroyer.  Sounds nifty, right?  Except the Victory-class ships are the old war tech, and being placed on one is usually seen as the career-ender for any upward mobility.  It makes sense to me that the Empire might stick an experienced female officer somewhere like that so as to appease her without having to deal with her.  Of course, knowing this, my character lets this all go to her head and thinks she's going to be the next Peitt.

    Okay, nerdiness aside, be whatever rank you want.  The goal is to have fun and put smiles on faces :P

    That is a great back story.

  3. 14 minutes ago, CalofhouseThrawn said:

    At least I now know the time setting of the book. This is truly a great excerpt. I can’t wait until the book comes out. I’d preorder it but I like to wait until Barnes and Nobles Exclusive Edition comes out. Bound to come with a great poster. 

    I always get the barnes and noble editions myself. 

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