Why Gozanti Cruiser Captains Are All BatSh!t Crazy

The Gozanti Class Cruiser is one of the less impressive ships you can command within the imperial military, it's widely seen as the start of one's career as a junior officer in the imperial navy. So than why is the typical captain for this class of vessel so fanatic and extreme? We take a look at the role the gozanti class cruiser has in the hierarchy of the imperial command structure.

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[mk_gamíng]

Fun fact:
During WW1 and WW2 British Admiralty tended to give captaincy of destroyers to the most Batshit insane Naval officers we had
If you were patient and calm you got carriers, Cruisers, subs, battleships and Battlecruisers
If you were a modern day pirate you got a destroyer
This lead to several cases of Destroyer crews suddenly getting the urge to board and loot enemy vessels
So this ends up in cases of British destroyers circling enemy ships like sharks waiting for there chance to bring back the good old days of the Age of Sail

[redenginner]

They have survived into the post Endor period in a ship with minimal armament, a god awful stock top speed, and a slow hyperdrive. Thats a recipe for the mix of competent and crazy thats pretty damn rare amongst Imperials in “cannon”.

[Special_Agent_NSB]

It's funny that they would cast Titus Welliver, one of the best screen actors working, for a 3 minute role where he dies.

[atigerclaw]

"Coruscant's not going to send a bunch of people to the Outer Rim to watch over your back."

_Laughs in Imperial Security Bureau_

[xxbongobazookaxx]

I'd argue that the Gozanti is one of the imperial navy's more practical ships; it fills an adaptable role that can see it operating without waste in many theatres. It can operate as a freighter, an e-war vessel, fire support and often serves to carry a wing of fighters for peacekeeping and airspace enforcement. An incredibly useful support package coming in at a fraction of the price of the star destroyers the empire often fielded to wastefully fill such benign roles.

[bigcazza]

the bad batch captain struck me as arrogant
the mando captain struck me as the dude who will grill u out for not doing up a strap properly so he can get his reliable near stall climb

[Karagianis]

Remember using a suicide pill to avoid capture is not necessarily an act of fanaticism, in the case of imperial personnel they have probably been told their entire lives that rebels are insane terrorists and that a quick death for the Empire is preferable to what the rebels will do to them if they're taken alive (and If it's Saw Gerrera's band we're talking about, they're probably not even wrong)!
The fact that torturing captives is totally what the imperials would do if the roles were reversed just makes it easier to convince them that is what will happen.
In the case of that Imperial captain on the prison ship especially. A bunch of unstable, mutinous clone troopers (well known as some of the most hardcore fighting men in the galaxy), are threatening to essentially torture the info they want out of him. Choosing death by shock capsule may have been as much due to fear of what the clones were going to do as it was dedication to the Empire.

[OuterRimPride]

Right? I was like "bro you command a literal cargo truck, CHILL."

[pychojoe]

Another thing to consider is that these also weren't standard Gozanti cruiser captains. Both of the captains you used as examples were dealing with either sensitive data or critcal equipment and were trusted to be the kind of captains to Kamikaze if it came down to it. And the captain from Mando was also an extremist, as most Imperials in that sector at that time were, maybe not to the degree of those who would form the First Order but still. Almost wouldn't doubt his crew would have followed the order to crash to the letter.

[MandelbrotMetalhead]

Gozanti class is one of my favorite ships for Star Wars ttrpg, perfect traveling base for a party of 4-6 players

[thunderK]

Note: The second hand truck bought from a plumber that became famous was an F-250 used in Syria. It's still a great line as delivered.

[bigcazza]

big ego, big skill and lack of recognition
truck drivers + gozanti class captains

[isaackim]

I’m more surprised that a Gozanti can carry two AT-ATs

[bigcazza]

no im not a gozanti salesman just a passionate heavy machine operator who can relate to being captain of a sketchy "ship"

[SpencerBurkett]

Police Chief gets a call that one of his best detectives just tried to crash a spaceship into the ocean.

Fucking Bosch.

[kellscorner]

10:48 The dust must be so bad on that planet that you need to wear goggles over your sealed helmet visor...

[elliottenglish]

Honestly, seeing that officer shoot his two pilots then try to commit suicide by crashing then actually doing it kinda shocked me for how brutal it was for a star wars show.

[dragonblaster-vuwz]

One thing to take note of the Gozanti captains that committed suicide was the circumstances of their mission. In The Bad Batch, those clones were going to Tantiss, a location that the Empire needed kept secret, so the officers sent there had to be willing to take their own life to defend it. And in Mandalorian, Moff Gideon's location needed to be kept a secret to prevent the Imperial Remnant from losing a vital asset. So there's likely a psychological aspect to the extremism those captains have

[tk-]

This analysis doesn't make any sense.
The reason that officer from Mando Season 2 was batshit crazy is because he was part of Gideon's remnant, they are all crazy, Season 3 mentions how infamous and extreme Gideon was. Him being the captain of a Gozanti does not suggest anything about other Gozanti captains either. Given that he had one of the tooth things, he was probably ex-ISB or something, as Mando S2 suggests that most remaining officers were not really military, but more COMPNOR/science division officers, who were crazy af.

The same goes for the Gozanti captain in TBB S2, he was not just any Gozanti captain, he was working for Hemlock and was clearly involved in the Advanced Science Division's work, not just some random officer. Therefore it once again makes sense why he had a suicide tooth thing, since he had very important information.

[erdervv]

The captain of a gozanti would have known all the men under him intimately, the ship being so small and having such a small complement. And would have been used to deal with enemy combatants that often had equal if not better ships than them while far away from imperial support.

These people were probably the most competent officers in the empire by sheer natural selection, used to improvise and stay on long patrols on detached duty. Probably the only captains that had to not be too insufferable as a mutiny, unlike with an ISD, was a possible threat on their ships.

It takes someone with balls of steel and the brains to back them up to thrive in such an enviroment.