Talk:Special Forces TIE Expansion Pack/@comment-34274783-20180109105835/@comment-31354887-20180109115507

There is no crew slot because the second seat is taken up by the rear gunner to begin with. That's what enables the Tie to fire out it's back arc.

It's the same reason why the Y-wing doesn't have a crew slot, because the person in the second seat is manning the turret. It's sort of given in most cases that crew slots are for passengers or officer positions or support stations while ships that are canonically known to have multiple seats may not have a crew slot because that second seat is being taken up by the turret operator or the rear gunner.