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An Infiltrator/Explorer type character. Maybe pick up some Vanguard levels down the track. Not sure I want to step up and lead groups of people. Seems like a lot of responsibility, but definitely among the first boots on the ground. A recon officer. 
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A recon officer makes more sense, the bit I was slightly worried about was how the pathfinder can switch between "classes" essentially, but as long as you have yourself a more concrete footing on their role and what that would allow them to do, then I'm all game.

I don't want to gamify the RP too much, so progression of like abilities is probably gonna be slow if at all. Point of it is to obviously have the sort of emotional story driven RP with the action being a part and vessel for those things to happen, rather than the standout focus, if that makes sense? 

For the pathfinder role, what I think would work better would be to separate Recon Officer as your characters' on-ship job, and role, and then select like the three sort of abilities from the class that you think best represents how they do that job, then you sort of hit the nail on both of them without gamifying that role