Hello [member="Edward Blake"] and welcome!
First, have a look at our
rank structure. Stormtroopers follow the Army rank structure, and assuming your character is Trainee rank, any rank in grey font is available to you. As a trainee, you can be anything up to a Captain, depending on how many troops you want to lead off the bat. If you want to be super hardcore and start out as a lowly grunt, you have that option also. It's up to you.
As for the Hutt Cartel thread, once you've decided where you want to start, just jump right in as a Stormtrooper! Our mission is basically a delaying action. We need to defend the station long enough to allow our engineers to escape with the prototype star destroyer. That is basically all we care about. So that means fight the Hutt forces and keep them bogged down for as long as possible.
Great to have you aboard.