Starship Manticore - Character Keywords
Occupations
Security Operative
You operate behind the scenes to protect your employer’s interests, from threats within and without. You watch everyone with a suspicious eye, you know how to get in and out of restricted places, and you know how to prevent someone else from doing the same.
Abilities: Avoid detection; Scan for trouble; Security procedures; Scout; Penetrating questions; Spot inconsistency; Small arms; Knife fighting; Pin opponent.
Personality Traits: Suspicious; Distant; Callous; Determined; Loyal.
Typical Relationships: to Employer; to Colleagues (current and former)
Typical Followers: Specialists in intrusion countermeasures, field agents, leg breakers, informants, hackers – anyone with borderline legal abilities or a blind spot for tedious legalities might be useful to the security op.
Standard of living: Common
Typical equipment: Knife, dark clothing, radio headset, pistol and backup pistol; portable computer; lockpicking equipment.
Space Pilot
Living life is space ain't easy; having an airlock for a front door, two feet of carbon alloy plating underfoot and overhead and stars for neighbours in every direction can be a lonely life. But it's the closest thing to real freedom, and you wouldn't have it any other way. Besides, it impresses the ladies.
Abilities: Pilot spacecraft; Navigate in space; Identify hazard; Know comms procedures; Make repairs; Well traveled; Emergency procedures; Operate spacesuit; Girl/guy in every port.
Personality Traits: Brash; Confident; Independent; Girl/guy in every port.
Typical Relationships: to Ship (may also be Flaw); to Crew; to Patrons or Agent; to Girl/guy in every port.
Typical Followers: Owner/pilots may have a loyal crew or cargo procurement agents. And doesn't every pilot have a girl or guy or whatever in every port?
Standard of living: Common
Typical equipment: Spacesuit; Exotic paraphrenalia.