In the picture with ships, tokens, and cards from the Imperial Veterans, there is an upgrade card right between the tractor-beam and clustermines upgrade card, which spells:

Sys..

Of..

Impe..

After you..

manouve..

friendly..

That aff...

As the Bomber with the upgrade card "Tie Shuttle" gets access to 2 crew, I am guessing we will see a new crew(?)-upgrade:

"Systems Officer"

Imperial Only

..

but what does he/she do? Thematically, it could make the Bomber, the HWK equivalent, by providing some kind of support actions, like redistributing target-locks/focus/evade tokens within range 1-3.

What would you like it to do?

Hmm, well it triggers after you maneuver so putting him on a higher ps to see where every thing ended up is not a bad idea

I think it says

"After you..

maneuve..

friendly..

That sh..."

So I'm hoping/guessing it does something like,

"After you [reveal/execute] [a/your] [green? white?]

maneuver, you may choose a

friendly ship at range [1-2?].

That ship may acquire a target lock."

If you put this on a high PS ship, it could give lower-PS generics a target lock 1) for free, and 2) later in the phase. This could mitigate both the action economy and timing problems that those ships have with using ordnance effectively.

In other words, this could be yet another part of "the ordnance fix," although bizarrely, only available to Imperials.

- H8

it would be a nice compliment to Fleet Officer perhaps

"Systems Officer of doom"

"After you [reveal/execute] [a/your] [RED]

maneuver, and there are no

friendly ships left in play

That ship may self destruct taking all enemy ships with it

Maybe it's like K-4 droid, but it distributes the Target Lock instead of keeping it. Perform a green maneuver, assign a target lock to a friendly ship at R1 to R3? Something like that?

Also makes support shuttles more of a thing. Currently shuttles only hold Palp, but if Shuttles can hand out Focus and Target Locks, they can kinda do the same thing without requiring the purchase of a Raider, and they can clock in at slightly less than 29 points. Good for swarm support.

Handing out Target Locks is good for ordinance, but also Interceptors, Tie Fighters and Phantoms, which can't easily Target Lock on their own during that alpha run. Ooo, Omega Leader, too.

"SysAdmin-Guild Official"

After you had a coffee,

I don't know why but the first thing that popped into my head when I saw that snippet of card name in the picture of the spread was "Synchronized Offense". Systems Officer probably makes more sense, especially with the Shuttle title and the lack of any other crew cards in the expansion.