officers are really neat, but a bit crazy. i don't mind the actual skill buffs they give to the ships, but they seem too common in "low-order" fleets. i just encountered a random picket fleet wandering through space that had 6+ officers over level 10, and i think 3-4 of them were level 20. at least to me that seems a little silly, besides the problem of having huge problems gauging what is possible for me to engage, it's a little weird lore-wise; at least as i understood it, a level 20 officer should be pretty rare, just living through so many battles must be a huge rarity, plus who even can say if most people are even capable of getting to that level? seems to me like it'd be better to have officers be more common and less skilled, except perhaps in huge warfleets that can of course pick and choose their soldiers from the entire faction, like system defense fleets, massive supply fleets, etc. discarding all that though, level 20 officers are incredibly ludicrously powerful, so making them rarer might help players climb the ladder, and also make engaging non-pirate fleets less of a horrific gamble.