# Roles and Ranks

Each Nova Creed Avatar comes with a role and rank offering unique benefits and utilities in various games and modes throughout Nova Creed. Here's an outline of what each role means and a little more insight on how to think about structuring your crews**.**

<mark style="color:red;">**ROLES**</mark>

👩‍✈️**PILOT** 🧑‍✈️

At the helm of your spaceship ensuring you're headed in the right direction and bringing home the ice collected. Owning a pilot enables strafing and back-thrust, giving you much improved handling of your spaceship.

🧭 **NAVIGATOR** 🧭

The one thing about space that everybody knows: there's lots of it! Hence, having a navigator will be a huge help in terms of locating where the asteroids you need to destroy are. Owning a navigator enables the radar within the game so you can pinpoint nearby asteroids.

🔫 **GUNNER** 🔫

On earth we struggle to live in harmony, but 200 years from now as the Universe's species are fighting it out for the last scraps of water, tensions have risen. A lot. Having a gunner can protect you from enemy ships and also make much lighter work of asteroid obliteration. Owning a gunner increases your firepower 💥💥

⛑ **MEDIC** ⛑

With all those enemy ships flying around and the odd asteroid collision an inevitability, it's no surprise that Ice Hunting is a dangerous occupation. All the better then to have a medic onboard to help your team recover from any hits they take. Owning a medic increases your ships recovery rate from impacts.

👩‍🏭**ENGINEER** 🧑‍🏭

Not every asteroid holds ice. Some contain easily convertible fuel; destroy these and you'll be able to last that little bit longer out in the endless darkness. Owning an engineer increases your efficiency in using any fuel gathered.

👷‍♀️**DECKHAND** 👷

A deckhand is there to do all the jobs that no one else wants to. On an Ice Hunt, that's invariably the perilous task of collecting and storing the ice. Owning a deckhand will increase the amount of ice you collect from each asteroid.

**You can only benefit from one boost for each avatar of a single profession you have**. For example having 3 gunners onboard wouldn't mean your firepower is increased to 8 times that of a ship without a gunner (2 x 2 x 2), you would still only get increased firepower for the first gunner included. **Therefore, the best ships will be those deploying one of each of the aforementioned roles in play.**&#x20;

<mark style="color:red;">**RANKS**</mark>

As well as roles, every Avatar has a rank. These are as follows in order of both rank and rarity (Ensigns make up almost half of the populace, Admirals only a small percentage):

<table><thead><tr><th width="167.37931034482756"></th><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>⭐️</strong></td><td><strong>ENSIGN</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>⭐️⭐️</strong></td><td><strong>LIEUTENANT</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>⭐️⭐️⭐️</strong></td><td><strong>CAPTAIN</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️</strong></td><td><strong>VICE ADMIRAL</strong></td></tr><tr><td><strong>⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️</strong></td><td><strong>ADMIRAL</strong></td></tr></tbody></table>

**The best formation of crew is to have one of each rank within your spaceship, including TWO ENSIGNS. This will help increase your high scores and give you a better chance of winning the daily $ICE prizes, and ensure you can collect as much $FUEL as possible.**

Remember, *too many cooks spoil a broth:* it's a misconception that having 6 x Admirals onboard would give the highest scoring potential.