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Lots of cards seem to have the "character" icon. There's a character icon in the corner of the weapon liaison, defense liaison, and also leia.

Then there's Dodonna and Grand Moff Tarkin, which have no character ICON on the front, but have the character backing.

The rules say that any ship can have a character - but that putting a character in a ship makes it a flagship, and that your fleet can only have one flagship. Does that mean I have to choose between Grand Moff Tarkin and a......weapon iaison to lead my star destroyer?

just started to read the rules....I didn;t even notice that, Ill have to check it out.

The cards with the Character icon on the back but none at the bottom-left corner are "Commanders" and do not consume an upgrade slot hence why they can be assigned to any ship. Placing a commander on a ship makes it your flagship, and you must have one (see: Fleet Building).

And you can only have one commander in your list, right?

Correct; only one commander and only one flagship. Not sure why FFG felt the need to spell both of those out explicitly, but they did.

Seemingly redundant stuff like that is often a matter of future-proofing.