Cavalier Character Discussion

Yeah well I actually scoured that book and googled the concept and could find nothing that explained what they meant by Growth so basically what I feel they meant is that Growth covers what is outlined in the various Consular Careers/Specializations --- and by being one of these you can simply extrapolate what means from what the Career/Specialization is all about but that might not be what you are thinking it means.

Now from what you just outlined it sounds like it is not really Growth(Life) but more Growth(Personal) -- so what is he focused on exactly? I ask because Personal Growth can take many many forms and most of the Motivations while general are a bit more specific than that such as:

Ambition(Expertise)
The character wants to excel in their chosen Career and/or Specialization and constantly practices to achieve perfection. Alternatively, the character picks a skill or two in which to excel.

This is a form of Personal Growth but it is much more focused and can even be more focused which kind of precludes it from being the same thing as Personal Growth. Now as I see it, Personal Growth is about making yourself a better you -- not just a better pilot but a better everything about you -- so again this can mean many different things. So what I would like you to do is examine your character and list the current top (minimum 3) things that your character feels they need to focus on to make themselves a better person. You can list more than 3 but please least them in most important to least important order and keep in mind that as things progress the list might change but the Motivation can remain the same. For instance today he currently feels he needs to work on A, B, and C and then something happens and he changes his view and decides he needs to work on B, C, D, then A then later on he feels A is good enough so drops it from his list an now is only working on B, C, and D

Thanks. I think that the three things are:
Piloting skill
Future prospects/career
Interpersonal skills

Okay so the mechanic crunch might extrapolate to:

Piloting -- Improving his ability to just fly (?space oriented?)-or-(?all kinds of craft?) or improve all things associated with flying (?space oriented -- such as astrogation and such?)-or-(?all kinds of craft?) --- keep in mind one of his focuses is Space Superiority so I could see him restricting this currently to just the space oriented aspects of flying

Future prospects/career -- I am assuming that this kind of means working on boarding his skill base (?via Specializations?) or another way might put it -- be more well rounded in relation to his chosen career?

Interpersonal Skills -- Learning to communicate better by ?? understanding other cultures, interelating to others, reading others better ??

Okay so if this the above is not clear -- what I am trying to help you do is pose that in a more "story-oriented" fashion rather than a mechanics crunch fashion. The mechanics crunch can be included to help outline what you are thinking about when you give the more generic story-oriented statement but it will the be the story-oriented statement that will be used in conjunction with your Motivation -- if that makes sense to you, if not please ask