Forgotten_Noble

FanFiltration said:

Lol!! This!!

sunglassesatnite said:

Obviously this is a little off subject from Star Wars, but I’m a real life Navy vet and have witnessed ship captains in action and have known a few personally. The reality is that a ship captain gets to take the 100% of the credit for the successes of his command, but also takes 100% of the blame when something goes wrong, no matter the circumstances. It’s just the way it is, and there are few jobs in the military and hardly any in civilian life with such razor sharp lines of accountability and responsibility.

It’s a lonely life, and many ship captains experience a career ceiling at O-5 or O-6 because they simply can’t live up to the high standards. This is especially true in peacetime, where there are few opportunities for captains to distinguish themselves in important operations, but plenty of opportunities for them to run ships aground, collide with other vessels, or get themselves involved in sexual harassment or some other bullshit.

I know it’s kinda off topic, but I was curious.
Also, you have a good point, though they have the privilege of getting all the credit, they must also hold all the responsibility.
Thank you for your post and thank you for your service!

Frank your Majesty said:

If the ship comes too early out of hyperspace, why does only the captain get force choked by Darth Vader? Same answer. The captain is responsible for the ship, if his decisions lead to success, he gets the credit. Noone will give Turbolase operater #285 a pat on his back for shooting escape pods.

Good point!

Whatever movie you watch, whether it be prequel or original, there is always a man standing in the bridge of one of the star destroyers bossing everyone around.
Now, I know he had to work to achieve that position. But what I’m curious is why did the captains get all the credit? Like if a nebulon b frigate destroyed a imperial victory class, people would say the captain did it. (I’m not trying to dis captains or anything, I’ve always been curious about this both in the Star Wars world and in real life). Any military or ex-military posts are always welcome as maybe the reason for the captains in our world is the same reason for the captains in the Star Wars universe.

Thanks in advance,
Forgotten_Noble

daileyxplanet said:

Forgotten_Noble said:

Anyone else have any thoughts they’re willing to share?

If you’re asking so you can write about it, just write about it. Have a thousand IG-88s running around and 20 living persons and then you can have another story about the IG’s mutiny.

Thought about writing, don’t have much free time anymore. But I see your point. Thanks!

Anyone else have any thoughts they’re willing to share?

daileyxplanet said:

Forgotten_Noble said:

what I mean is. Is it even possible to bring that venator up to functional capacity by possibly recruiting over a period of time. Or would it be easier to just simply try to hack the droid crew in the providence and have that?

Anything is possible, this is fiction, buddy.

I know, just wanted to hear everyone’s thoughts. 😛

ZkinandBonez said:

LexX said:

The second book in the Thrawn trilogy, was it Fleet of Twilight in English, is about a whole abandoned fleet. They had some way to control it by very few people.

I’m actually reading that book right now and the Katana fleet is more or less from the clone wars era, granted that is in the pre-PT clone wars canon so it may not fit perfectly with the new time-line, but it’s very close to Forgotten Noble’s scenario.

Also I’m sure there’s some PT RPG sourcebook somwhere that can offer some info on how many people/droids that’s needed to run a cruiser. Or you can probably find similar, if not the same, info on Wookieepedia.

(The Thrasn book was called Dark Force Rising btw.)

Thanks for the info!

Thanks for all the help so far guys!

Imperial destroyers were reported to be much much bigger. But the ship with the smallest crew idea is smart. But what if the venator can be run by a crew smaller than 800?

what I mean is. Is it even possible to bring that venator up to functional capacity by possibly recruiting over a period of time. Or would it be easier to just simply try to hack the droid crew in the providence and have that?

I remember that, and one of the separatist ships they recovered was in fact a providence. But they had a rebel army, what if it was just you and maybe a small group. What could you pull off easier and why?

I’m just curious on whither it’s possible and what it would take to get either ship functional.

That’s cool, I haven’t seen that before.
From what I’ve seen, ISDs were much bigger and needed a larger crew than most other ships.

First post here guys, hope to have many good discussions in the future.
For my first post, I wanted to ask something that has been bothering me for a couple days now. (I consider myself a Star Wars fan, but I’m sure there is the elite few who know so much more than I do).
Anyway, say it’s the galactic civil war, rebel versus imperial going on all over the Galaxy. We started to see more bounty hunters and pirates in the books and original trilogy. My question is this. Say a person wanting to be a pirate stumbled across the find of the century, an abandoned clone war era cruiser. Which would be more likely the most realistic situation (in the sense of the Star Wars realistic point of view):
A venator class (Jedi flagship)
A providence (like the invisible hand)
The venator is awesome and probably one of my favorite ships, but it requires a crew of 7,400. But it can probably be manned by a smaller crew if need be.
The providence, on the other hand, is also a neat ship. Having an epic armament if one of the modified versions, it carries 1.5 million droids and only needs a crew of 800.

Now, the situations I can see is these:
Pirate finds the venator fully equipped, abandoned in the outer colony space. Could it be possible muster a group big enough to pilot and use it effectively for a life of piracy.
Now the providence, also fully stocked, just abandoned with the droids all shut down, maybe he had a friend or buddy who could get into the mainframe of the droids and reprogram them to work for them.

Both abandoned due to either not wanting to be apart of the empire (venator), and simply not being needed anymore, (providence).

What do you guys think? I’m open to any and all ideas.