Honestly I'm not too keen on that. The enemy will have no problem chewing through a 0 agility ship, no need to help them out.

No one really knows how Fleet Officer works, and FFG's policy is to not answer rules questions about unreleased material. I think it's probably fine either way on RAC.

Well it says "up to 2 friendly ships within range 1-2". I just don't know if you can count yourself as "within range 1-2". I mean technically the range band starts just off your base, so you aren't in your own band. But there's a precedent for a ship including themselves in their own ability without mentioning it (Etahn), so I figured "hey, wishful thinking why not".

Ethan works because his ability is actually "targetting" the defender, by checking the defenders status; that's an important difference

Like I said: wishful thinking.

But they could just have easily said "when another ship", but opted not to.