Chief gunnery officer

Chief gunnery officer, also called gunnery chief, was an assignment given on Imperial Navy Star Destroyers and Sentinel-class landing shuttles. The position was also on Y-4 Transports and pirate and privateer ships, being known as weapons officer in the second and third cases. In the Imperial Navy, under the gunnery captain's command, the chief gunnery officer managed the Star Destroyer's main weaponry. On Sentinel-class landing shuttles, they handled the laser cannons mounted on the ships' main troop compartments. For pirate ships, they were in charge of drills, supervising weapon and shield maintenance, and commanding tactical situations, and were also responsible for ship-wide security and boarding teams for privateer and other, larger vessels. During the Galactic Civil War, Niclara Varnillian, Reagal Eron, and Lieutenant Hija all served as Imperial chief gunnery officers.

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