Star Army Navigator is a newer term created after the Fuji-class bridge was made. I updated the navigator page to include they'resometimes called helmsman or starship pilots.
"Tak~ ahem," Tachiko cleared her throat softly before continuing, "Helm, when at safe distance from station, bring plasma engines to full sublight cruise, and take us into a manual insert– high prograde equatorial parking orbit of Sharie II, circularized. Nav One, get the Cadet the numbers for manual burn, Nav Two, find plasma sublight transfer for Sharie III gravity-assist encounter at full cruise to get us to the FTL radius in the outer gravity well."
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"Oh! Um... ah, yes, plasma sublight transfer to Sharie III, grav assist, full cruise," confirmed Yuki. Her eyes widened, ears flattening a bit. So enrapt had she been at following what everyone else was doing that she'd neglected her own job. After all, a much wiser and more experienced joto heisho had pointed out to her that what separated a good navigator from an okay navigator was anticipating the captain's needs and having the most likely needed courses ready so that she wouldn't have to wait.
She might have forgotten to do that.
Her normally pale face flushed. Luckily, it was a relatively easy course to plot, in normal space for the whole length, something she should be able to do in her sleep. It was, though, the first real duty she'd gotten to do for her new ship, and her fingers were far from steady as she started working out the calculations.
We're sort of getting into the weeds right now but blue paneled pilots generally don't fly warships at all. I've been directly told this by the FM in the past. The pilot occupation page even explicitly says "Members of the Pilot's occupation fall into 2 main roles: Fighter Pilot, and Bomber Pilot." Warship bridges are almost always limited to officer crew while the pilot occupation is not, which is why the starship operator line of occupations (09, including 09A navigator) were mandated to have officer ranks as of YE 43.Pilot on first shift (they fly "some small starships" and a Nozomi II, even a bit bigger than a Noz I is still quite small).
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