The importance of naval battles in orbit between the Republic and its enemies played out several times over the course of Season 1 and 2. Warships maneuvered for advantage as fighters zipped through space to hit targets of opportunity. Entire battles played out in the absence of up or down in an atmosphere while commanders aboard their ships tried to manage the chaos.
Through the pages of Galaxy’s Edge, we repeatedly get treated to the term CIC. Standing for combat information center, the CIC is not the same as the bridge in other scifi stories that served as a combination command and control and pilot’s station. GE took a more battleship approach, treating the CIC as an updated version of how they are used in battleships around the world.
The CIC tracks the ship’s condition and situation in an evolving battle space. Encompassing multiple stations and certified techs to run them, these command centers (sometimes called combat direction centers on larger starcraft) serve as the nerve center of the ship, feeding mission critical information to the vessel’s commander.
While smaller ships (like corsairs or corvettes) might have the bridge and CIC close together, the larger battleships choose to keep them apart. With the advent of spatial tracking and multi-spectra camera feeds, the bridge need not be somewhere the pilots can see over the entire ship. The benefit of having the CIC and bridge separate lie in planning for the worst possible scenario, where the vessel is hit and one of those stations is a catastrophic loss. At least one section containing trained officers will hopefully survive to carry on the mission or withdraw the ship to a safe location.
In Kill Team, Chuun and his legionnaires board a warship bent on a grievous attack at the heart of the Republic. The team fights their way through multiple decks, looking for the Combat Information Center to take control of the ship and stop it from completing its mission and killing thousands.
Check out the assault on the CIC throughout Galaxy’s Edge as well as in the book Kill Team!
I've gotta know . . . are the illustrations in these posts just generic Mil-SF pics? Or were they specifically created for GE? And, does this mean we'll eventually get the sourcebook?