Captain Drogan
I don't have any issue with CG creating a character from thin air, just as long as they add to the lore. He's not a main character, but him just "being there" on Endor would be pretty lame. A couple o...
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"Jacgul;c-2437279" wrote:"Drathuk916;c-2437261" wrote:
So his limb difference is a missing finger (not his thumb) on his right hand that holds the keypad he punches commands into for the flamethrower. He fires his blaster with his left hand.
You’re all acting as if his limb difference makes him incapable of functioning in any meaningful way on the “front lines.” This is the exact opposite intent of cg when creating the character. The point of the character is he is still capable of being a valuable fighter despite missing a finger and presumably, though not stated, having a weaker right arm.
I assume your statement is based on years of your own years of military experience and multiple deployments right? Because if it's not, believe me, you won't won't win that. This winter I'll have spent 38 months deployed. No, having a weaker arm you can't be a part of any military team, same problem I have with echo, because guess what, when someone goes down, if you can't carry them, you're worse than useless. It is never acceptable to be the weakest link in any military capacity. If he's a rebel fighter and a captain, it means he got given that rank, goes back to my initial post. He could never have possibly earned it through military operations doing a combattant job.
I respect your military service first and foremost. That said, I will also disagree that you can apply military norms in the real world to the rebel alliance. Han Solo is a general after less than four years in the alliance, so is lando in less than a year. So ranks can’t be said to follow a normal military order compared to the real world.
Now, I actually assume by “earn his rank” you were discussing his capability on the battlefield and not duration in the military organization. All we’ve been told is he has a limb difference and had it described as a disability. Cg hasn’t quantified the severity. Everyone is jumping to the conclusion it’s a disqualifying disability. It may very well be in a real world military or even a real world rebel alliance in desperate need of people. The point is you’re assuming it’s disqualifying. I’m assuming he improvised, adapted, and overcame any limits he had and did it to a level satisfactory to the people he fought with and for. Both are reasonable assumptions as this is, after all, a fictional character in a fictional universe.
Ymmv
