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STAR WARS Zero Company puts heavy emphasis on Squad Customization. Beyond the story companions, you build much of your roster yourself, creating custom Operators and shaping nearly every visible and mechanical detail about them.

Building an Operator

When you create a mercenary you choose their species, appearance, voice, outfit, name, and Specialization. Hawks gets the same treatment at the start of the game, including a choice of gender. Even the squad's astromech droid is customizable down to its paint job. The result is a team that looks and fights the way you want it to.

Playable Species

Custom Operators and Hawks draw from overlapping but different species lists. Hawks can be one of six species, while custom Operators can be one of ten. Both lists are set at the Den and can be changed there later.

Classes and Specializations

Custom Operators can be assigned any of the eight standard Specializations, which set a character's weapons, skills, and signature abilities. The story companions instead come locked to their own unique classes, including exotic options like the Jedi Padawan, the Mandalorian Warrior, and the Astromech. Mixing custom builds with the fixed companions is how you cover the squad's tactical gaps.

Every Operator's loadout is built from four parts: a Talent Specialization that supplies one or two character abilities, a Weapon Specialization, a Primary Specialization, and a Secondary Specialization that unlocks partway through the campaign. The four weapon specializations are the pistol, the rifle, the long arm, and the repeater. Because the secondary class stacks on top of the primary, a single Operator can run two toolkits at once, which widens how a four-person squad fits together.

The eight standard Specializations available to custom Operators are:

• Assault

• Gunslinger

• Heavy

• Medic

• Scoundrel

• Scout

• Sharpshooter

• Soldier

Four exotic classes sit outside that pool. Each is tied to a particular kind of character rather than offered to every recruit:

Recruiting Custom Operators

New custom Operators are hired with Credits at the Den. Each cycle offers a fresh selection of recruits, each with their own name, talent, primary Specialization, weapon type, and backstory, all adjustable. You can refresh the pool at will, or build your own pool of custom Operators from the main menu. The Den starts with a limited roster capacity that you can raise over time. Custom Operators fight beside the story companions and are just as exposed to permadeath.