<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Tagan link=topic=104036.msg4521442#msg452</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">(Can we make the 1st Lieutenant a jerk?)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><br/>Mosly depends on who calls the XO slot!  :-)    3rd Liutenant is the officer rank though, and your character is enlisted, so she'd likely be a Chief Boatswain unless she pushed up into the officer ranks at some point.  (probably promoted by Cortez, unless you want to start the game as the helmswoman and join the rogue trader's inner circle in play)<br/><br/>Rogue Trader ships don't actually follow naval ranks, so your character could have been promoted to executive officer on the spot.  It's mostly a matter of what other PCs want and what the Rogue Trader wants.  I don't mind creating an NPC or two to represent senior officers, or those crew positions could simply be vacant, since the ship doesn't follow navy procedure.