Line Captain

Line Captain is a military rank which is considered the senior most rank of the Imperial Navy below the ranks of the Admiralty. The rank of Line Captain has only been seen once in a live action production, that being in the film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. In the film, a Line Captain on board the Death Star reports to Darth Vader that the captured Millennium Falcon is empty of its passengers and crew. The script of Star Wars Episode IV listed the characters name as “Captain Khurgee”.

The insignia for Line Captain was displayed in Star Wars Episode IV as a row of yellow rank squares with a code cylinder worn on either side of the badge. Later Star Wars films do not show any further Line Captains, however publications from the Star Wars Expanded Universe indicate that an alternate insignia for Line Captain exists which consists of four columns of red and blue squares.

The alternate insignia for Line Captain is the badge worn by an Imperial computer character in the video game TIE Fighter who serves as mission commander.

Line Captain is a rank of the Imperial Navy with the rank referred to as High Colonel in the Imperial Army.