Bounty Hunter

It's a big galaxy with a lot of places to hide. System governments find it difficult enough to enforce laws with the billions of people visiting their worlds. When a criminal skips town, it's next to impossible to organize a search and extradition. Local governments deputize bounty hunters and pay them for successful retrieval or elimination of targets. Some work as enforcers for corporations or criminal organizations. These operatives are skilled in tracking people down and subduing them.

Skills: Contacts, Fight, Investigate, Pilot, Provoke, Shoot

Courier

In the vast lawless expanses of open space, there is the persistent risk of transmissions or deliveries being intercepted. One way to combat this is with firepower, but another is through the use of couriers. These people are quick and cunning as they must make fast and reliable deliveries no matter what hazard, enemies, or law might get in their way.

Skills: Contacts, Lore, Navigate, Notice, Pilot, Stealth, Tweaking

Engineer

Almost everything in the galaxy has moving parts, electronics, and structural design. To keep everything working, engineers are employed to build, inspect, repair, and replace things. The career is profitable and in high-demand, and thus many engineers lack formal education, and have simply earned their talents through hands-on experience.

Skills: Engineer, Extraction, Physique, Pilot, Science, Tweaking

Entertainer

ExodiaNet supplies instant and ubiquitous entertainment. It provides a voice to people who wish to evoke emotion, provoke thought, and motivate change. It's also for pornography. Entertainers are adventurous and charismatic, and wish to share their experiences with others.

Skills: Contacts, Deceive, Empathy, Lore, Provoke, Rapport, Resources, Will

Explorer

Even though many people have settled on new worlds and found a stable lifestyle, most of the galaxy is a blank and mysterious canvas. Courageous explorers continue to push the boundaries and chart new systems, worlds, and phenomena so that the people who follow in their path will be prepared.

Skills: Athletics, Extraction, Fight, Lore, Navigate, Notice, Physique, Pilot, Will

Medic

Between war, disease, accidents, radiation, collisions, asphyxiation, contamination, alien bacteria, and natural bodily degradation, there are a lot of ways a person can get hurt. Fortunately, medical professionals are plentiful, often converging from backgrounds like military organizations, biological sciences, or private practice.

Skills: Empathy, Lore, Medicine, Physique, Rapport, Science, Will

Mercenary

Even the largest governing organizations lack the personnel to enforce widespread law or defend against invasion or theft. Consequently, corporations and private individuals often hire groups of mercenaries to provide security or take hostile action.

Skills: Fight, Physique, Pilot, Resources, Shoot, Stealth

Merchant

Anyone can haul goods from one place to another for the going price, but it takes a merchant to make real money. Merchants are charismatic and persuasive entrepreneurs, always thinking about what something is worth and to whom. Whether it's selling luxuries, the latest technology, or simple peace of mind, they always have their eye on the big deal.

Skills: Contacts, Deceive, Empathy, Investigate, Lore, Notice, Rapport, Resources, Will

Miner

Every device in use across the galaxy is manufactured using materials extracted from somewhere. It is easy to forget that there is an enormous industry of raw material extraction, and those miners are tough and resourceful workers who require the intellect of engineers, the caution of salvagers, and the audacity of explorers.

Skills: Engineer, Extraction, Navigate, Notice, Physique, Resources, Strategy

Navigator

While explorers are paid to chart the stars, navigators are paid to remember how to get to them. Astronavigation requires a prodigious understanding of physics, cosmic distance, and the hazards of space travel. Even tiny errors can result in the destruction of a craft or being lost forever. On top of that, navigators must also be able to adapt their understanding to the often unfathomable properties of Zipp Space.

Skills: Lore, Navigate, Notice, Pilot, Science, Stealth, Strategy

Negotiator

Sector governments, local governments, and corporations rarely get along with each other. However, governance and business are necessary for the welfare of everyone involved. Negotiators are charismatic, intelligent, and shrewd, and are employed to settle disputes, or start new ones.

Skills: Contacts, Deceive, Empathy, Investigate, Provoke, Rapport, Resources, Strategy, Will

Net Worker

The ambitious task of enabling the majority of electronic systems to communicate with each other over interstellar distances required precise engineering of miniaturized computers and sophisticated software. Net workers are employed to develop and maintain these systems. Now that SCOMOC runs the ExodiaNet, there are a number of disgruntled net workers who perform tweaks for pay.

Skills: Burglary, Deceive, Engineer, Investigate, Science, Stealth, Tweaking

Officer

The majority of starship crews have little patience for propriety and logistics, but the truth is that both are necessary for the smooth and effective operation of everything from a single craft to an entire fleet. Officers may be granted by a government, commissioned by a military, or simply be given authority by their comrades.

Skills: Contacts, Empathy, Investigate, Lore, Provoke, Rapport, Resources, Strategy, Will

Pilot

The majority of spaceflight can be handled by a ship computer's autopilot. However, a pilot knows their ship better than they know their own body and can push it to its limits and beyond, so during the tense moments where a skilled hand is needed, a pilot is the only crew a ship needs. Some are honed by academies, others just learned by practice, all of them yearn for the burn.

Skills: Engineer, Navigate, Pilot, Shoot, Stealth

Salvager

The hazards of space travel leave many a derelict starship adrift in space. In many cases, it is too costly for an organization to run a salvage mission themselves. For better or for worse, salvagers are clever and patient crew who keep an eye for valuable wrecks. If the ship's owner agrees to the reasonable rates, they get their ship back. If not, the salvager gets a free ship to sell, scrap, or recover.

Skills: Athletics, Burglary, Engineer, Extraction, Notice, Resources, Stealth

Scientist

Existing science took exodians into space, made space travel commonplace, and enriched lives with technology. Now, there are entire new frontiers of unexplained phenomena that will undoubtedly enable new technologies and shape the course of history. Scientists employ their incredible intellect to test, theorize, and solve for things we didn't even know were there.

Skills: Engineer, Extraction, Lore, Medicine, Resources, Science, Tweaking

Slaver

Disclaimer: Slavery is illegal in Schematic for Cosmic Order space, however the laws may be different in your system.

In the vast and unregulated stretches of space, some people reason that the forceful ownership of other people is desirable arrangement for them. Reasons may include sexual motivations, spiteful motivations, or economic motivations. But no matter the reason, slavers find a market and trick, capture, or coerce people into becoming the goods they sell.

Skills: Burglary, Contacts, Deceive, Empathy, Investigate, Medicine, Medicine, Provoke, Rapport, Strategy

Smuggler

Disclaimer: Not declaring your ship's cargo or concealing it from customs inspectors is illegal in Schematic for Cosmic Order space, however the laws may be different in your system.

While the lawful trading of goods can be quite profitable when a crew is lucky, tariffs can reduce significant profit-margin. In addition, some goods are profitable because they are illegal to sell or possess. As a result, some traders choose to sneak cargo past customs to sell them for for higher profits, or to a black market.

Skills: Burglary, Contacts, Deceive, Pilot, Provoke, Rapport, Stealth

Soldier

Enlisting to a government's military provides a steady job, training, and a purpose. In can also harden those people into effective warriors. Soldiers benefit from military training with weapons, procedure, and tactics. They also expect a hierarchy of command, and a good reason to fight.

Skills: Athletics, Fight, Medicine, Physique, Shoot, Strategy

Spy

Information is power, and so the organizations that come out of the churn with the most power are those who hire spies. Spies employ deception, sabotage, assassination, and theft to assist their employers. The wide skill set makes the job very profitable, but it means that your enemies are equally dangerous. Spies have short lives.

Skills: Athletics, Burglary, Deceive, Investigate, Notice, Provoke, Rapport, Stealth, Tweaking

Thief

Disclaimer: Theft is illegal in Schematic for Cosmic Order space. Registered belongings that are reported stolen can be seized and returned to their owners. Laws may be different in your system.

There are many things in the galaxy that are extremely valuable. Sometimes they are a computer with valuable data, other times they are an artifact of cultural value, and sometimes they are a state-of-the-art warship of military value. No matter what it is, there is always someone with a plan to steal it. Thieves use deception, sabotage, tweaking, and sleight of hand to carry out their schemes.

Skills: Athletics, Burglary, Deceive, Investigate, Notice, Provoke, Stealth, Tweaking