Executor Extras
Some of you brilliant short fic writers needs to do one about those background officers on the Executor.
So here we have these guys, standing around, pretending to be talking about something Really Important when really they’ve just been watching Captain Needa’s execution. The kind of people who slow down to stare when the police have pulled someone over.
Clearly they weren’t actually invited to be there. Maybe one them was just walking past and only watched because he was wondering why the rest of them were staring. As soon as Vader turns around, they can’t scramble fast enough.
To the point where they’re pulling each other away and they’ve gone by the time he’s walked the few steps to threaten speak with Admiral Piett.
Compare them to this guy, who doesn’t even look away from his monitor until Ozzel hits the deck.
He’s so stoic about his boss dying on the floor beside him, he glances up, gives Vader a look like ‘Oh, Lord Vader is restructuring upper management again’ and then goes back to his screen, like ‘now let’s see if I can get the pivot table function to work this time’.
It’s like an episode of The Office. I feel like I’ve worked with all these people at one time or another.
