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[Iituem]

Phoenix 303 is a Protectorate space station used for peace talks between warring races.  It is the default setting for a game of

Players take the role of alien ambassadors representing their nations in the conflict.  As well as an overt goal, ambassadors SeaCIC.usually have a second, covert goal to achieve.  These are often conflicting.

This is especially suited for three players; two opposed, one in a neutral stance.  With more than three players, a GM is advised to employ further players as station staff whose main desire is to resolve the issues quickly, one way or another.

Phoenix 303 is a political role playing game where you play alien ambassadors gathered on a neutral ship run by the Terran Protectorate.  With various political and economic tools at your disposal, it is your job to maneuver events to the best advantage of your race, government or faction.  If this sounds a lot like a certain 90s sci fi series set on an interstellar space station named after a Mesopotamian state, well done; that's pretty much what the writers were going for.

In this session, I will be looking for up to four players to play ambassadors - any more will have to play station staff.  Below (spoilered) are character creation and setting notes for the adventure.  It is worth noting that one does not need to pay over-much attention to stats; an entire game session can pass without a single roll being made.  Also, a fair amount of the game may be played in the background through secret or private channels to your allies or between ambassadors - secrecy is a valuable tool as it may well be that most have conflicting goals.  I strongly suggest creating your own race as well as character.

(If you feel that the rules by and large are a bit [tl;dr], use the Sample Character and Race sheet and remember that the Economic and Military scores must total 12 and you have 35 points to split between the six main stats.)

Spoiler: Race Generation (click to show/hide)

++ Race Generation

+Traits

While precise skills and stats may vary by character, traits tend to remain constant throughout a race.  Pick up to three traits from the available [Trait List] or make up your own.  There will apply various bonuses and penalties to your character - but usually bonuses.


+Economic and Military Power

Races have ratings of [Economic] and [Military] strength that represent the resources available at their disposal.  The balance between the two can be generated simply by dividing twelve points between both.

e.g. The highly industrialised race of the Cathari specialise in the manufacture of equipment for most of the known systems.  This includes military equipment, so while their primary strength is Economic ( 8 ) they can still defend themselves with a Military (4).

The militant Klax, by comparison, have an unpleasantly powerful Fleet (Military 9) and don't really spend much time thinking about money except for looting it (Economy 3).  They are great at short blitzkrieg campaigns, but be warned; Don't start a war you can't afford to pay for.


+Using Economic and Military Points

+++Petty Cash

As an ambassador, you have the equivalent of a platinum credit card at your disposal; very nearly unlimited, but you have to pay for it eventually.  Your starting Petty Cash score is equivalent to your race's Economic score.  This represents your personal wealth, or the wealth of your noble house, guild, corporation or whatever background you came from.

Petty Cash can be expended as bribes and favours, for throwing parties or for obtaining difficult-to-obtain information.  Ordinary expenses such as food and living accomodations are paid for by the Embassy and don't cost you anything in Petty Cash.  You might even be able to squeeze a bottle of wine or similarly cheap gift out of the ambassadorial expenses chit, but if you're trying to woo a difficult trade representative with a trendy solid-gold lavatory, that's going to cost you.


+++Clout

The counterpart to Petty Cash is Clout and is initially obtained from your race's Military score.  Clout represents your personal military might in terms of private soldiers, weapons or other military presence.  Your ability to use Clout is somewhat less available on the station than spending Petty Cash - it's so difficult to smuggle private soldiers onto an interstellar space station, after all.

Difficult, but not impossible.  You can spend a point of Clout right off the bat to bring a heavy on board with you as your 'cultural attache', in case you think things are going to get rough - or in case you want to make them rough.  The Game Master will decide the cost of getting more toughs in if you want them - a recommended cost would be 1 Clout to bring a team of soldiers and 1 Clout or Petty Cash to smuggle them onboard.  If you want to surround the station with battleships, you should be looking at Military spending below.


Use Clout and Petty Cash at your discretion.  Some jobs can be done with either Clout or Cash; smuggling weapons or banned materials on board the station, for example.  Bribery tends to require Cash and extortion tends to need Clout, but blackmail could work equally well with either one.


+++Economic & Military Spending

So you need something a little bigger than a bodyguard, or more impressive than your usual bribe?  As Ambassador, you may be able to call upon your government to put a portion of your race's spending toward a cause.

Just as with Petty Cash, Economic spending covers anything that needs money to make it happen.  Need to fund a propaganda campaign?  Spend an Economy Point.  Need to rush production of trade goods to secure a deal?  Economy point.  Want to hire some mercenaries?  Economy point, but they usually won't be as good or as loyal as using your own military.  Be warned.

Military spending is just like a bigger version of Clout.  If you decide that diplomacy just isn't cutting it, want to surround the station with battleships?  Military.  Rival fleets getting too bossy around a contested world?  Military.  Really need to force production of weapons for a coming war?  Economy, really, but you can probably get away with Military.  You get the idea.


+++Combat

So if you can hire mercenaries with Economic points, why bother with a Military?  Well, only the GM will know how good your mercenaries are, or how loyal.  And how good they are is important if it comes to real fighting.

Combat is resolved by opposed d10 rolls - both sides add their Military score to the roll.  The higher wins, equal losses in the case of a draw.  Be aware that actually fielding a fleet may well cost you a Military point in the first place, so the more force you try to put out there the harder it can get for any one fleet to hit its targets.  In the event of multiple fleets fighting, do multiple rolls.

As a rule of thumb, if the conflict is a border skirmish between packs of light fighters, don't take a Military point from the loser.  If it's between two fully fledged armies, take one point from the winner and two points from the loser.

Note that this system will work just as well with Economic scores in the event of corporate takeovers - be creative.


++Replenishing Economic and Military Scores

Spending Petty Cash and expending Clout doesn't matter too much in the larger scheme of things.  If you are playing a campaign game, both Petty Cash and Clout will restore to your race's Economic and Military levels by the start of the next session.  Your race's Economic and Military scores may not.

Economic and Military spending are very significant costs on the part of your government.  They may not necessarily recover by the time the next conflict arises.  If you were not successful in attaining your mission goal in the previous game, your race's scores improve by a total of two (to be distributed between Economic and Military).  If you were successful, replenish scores by 1d10 points, with a minimum of 2.



+Exception to the Above

The [Terran Protectorate] is the one glaring exception to the above rules.  The Protectorate starts with FIFTEEN points to distribute between Military and Economic power.  Nobody knows how the Protectorate is able to maintain such might across the full extent of its empire, but however it manages it the Protectorate gets a say in almost everything.

(It is recommended against playing a Protectorate ambassador, but if you do decide to play one, suffice to say that you don't know the secret to your race's power either.  But sometimes you do get some very odd mission imperatives...)

Spoiler: Racial Trait Table (click to show/hide)

++ Trait List

Unless otherwise specified, species are assumed to be tetrapods or bipedal.

*Amphibious* characters can breathe both in and out of water.  They also gain +5 to Swim.

*Advanced Vision* gives a character +2 to Detect.

*Business-Like* characters gain a +5 to both Admin and Bluff.

*Trustworthy* characters gain +7 Persuasion and +7 Bluff but are rarely found to be Intimidating (Intimidate -5)

*Subterranean Characters* gain a bonus to melee with a pickaxe or cutting tool (+5 Melee with selected weapon) and a +1 bonus to Detect.

Characters with a *Small Frame* are extremely short or skinny - they enjoy a -10 penalty to enemies' attempts to shoot or hit them.

Characters with a *Large Frame* are tall or broad and gain +1 to Strength and +1 to Endurance but suffer a +10 bonus to enemies' attempts to shoot or hit them.

*Extra Limbs* allow 1-2 additional limbs over the standard 4 per rank spent.  These limbs are fully functional. (Vestigial limbs cost no ranks as they are essentially decorative.)

*No Limbs* means that character is limbless and essentially similar to a slug.  +15 to Sneak, but with the slight disadvantage of no limbs.

*Mechanical* life forms gain +5 to Vitality and Toughness and +5 to Electronics and Mechanics - but metal is dense.  -10 to swim.

*Encounter Suits* are used by characters who cannot survive without them for whatever reasons (such as being a liquid life form).  Characters wearing them gain a +5 to Intimidate and a +1 to Damage Resistance (deducts damage from attacks).

*Spacers* are used to interstellar travel and gain a +10 to Piloting and +5 to Xenology.

*Terrifying* creatures gain a +15 to Intimidate but suffer -5 to both Melee and Unarmed as they have become used to foes running in terror instead of fighting.

*Warlike* races gain +5 to Unarmed, Melee, Pistol and Rifle but suffer a -1 penalty to Charisma.

*Athletic* characters gain +5 to Athletics, Climb and Swim, but all that exercise takes its toll - they suffer -2 to Vitality and Toughness.

*Spines* are a natural weapon that are used as an unarmed attack dealing 1d3 damage above base.  This trait will adapt equally well for horns, teeth, claws or other natural weapons.

Feel free to come up with other Traits, but check with your GM to ensure they are balanced.

Spoiler: Skill Table (click to show/hide)

++ Skills

Generate skills by adding or multiplying the following scores.

Acrobatics  Agi x 2
Admin       Int + Wis
Bluff       Cha x 2
Climb       End + Agi 
Computers   Int x 2
Explosives  Int x 2
Electronics Int x 2
Intimidate  Cha + Cool
Mechanics   Int x 2
Melee       Str + Agil
Persuasion  Cha x 2
Pilot       Int + Agil
Pistol      Agi x 2
Rifle       Agi x 2
Sneak       Agi x 2
Swim        Agi + End 
Throw       End x 2
Unarmed     Str + End 
Xenology    Wis x 2

Multiply tagged skills by 2 before adding racial trait bonuses.

Spoiler: Character Generation (click to show/hide)

++ Character Generation

There are six stats which form the basis of the actual name SeaCIC:

*Strength* - Used for calculating vitality points (damage taken before dying), calculating weight limits and melee damage in combat.

*Endurance* - Used for calculating toughness points (damage taken before passing out), damage resistance, and general stamina.

*Agility* is used to determine how many actions are received in a combat turn and speed of movement.

*Charisma* is a measure of how well you can interact with others, regardless of their species.  Charisma is used to calculate reaction modifiers.

*Intelligence* is used as the base of your Detect ability.

*Cool* is a measure of how well your character can cope in stressful situations and is important for keeping your sanity in a dangerous and unpredictable universe.

A character has 35 points to distribute between the six stats - each stat must have a minimum of 1.


Eight other stats are derived from the first six:

*Physique* is used to determine both vitality and toughness points, as well as determining jump and throw distances and size.

Physique is determined by adding Strength, Endurance and Agility together and dividing by 3.  Round up.

*Wisdom* is used as a multiplier for experience but in the rare occasion a character possesses psychic powers they may be governed by Wisdom also.

Wisdom is determined by adding Charisma, Intelligence and Cool together and dividing by 3.  Round up.

*Vitality* is determined by adding Strength and Physique together.  This is the amount of damage you can take before dying.

*Toughness* is determined by adding Endurance and Physique together.  This is the amount of damage you can take before passing out.  It is entirely possible for a character to fight to the last breath without passing out.

*Damage Resistance* is usually zero base and increased by wearing armour - each point of DR soaks damage from melee or missile attacks.  If a character has 8 or more Endurance, he gains a point of natural DR.  Every 4 points more (12, 16 etc) will grant an extra point of DR.

*Move* is equal to Agility / 3 (rounded up) and determines the number of moves that can be taken in a round of combat and order of turn.

Finally, determine *Detect* by taking your Intelligence score and applying any racial detect bonuses and *Damage* by halving your Strength score and rounding up - this is the base of all unarmed and melee damage you do.



Bear in mind that in a typical diplomatic game of SeaCIC the entire session may pass without a single roll being made.


Next, determine your starting [Skills], as per the table.  You may Tag three skills - these are multiplied by 2 before gameplay.  Increasing these later will cost 1 xp instead of 2.

Skill checks are performed by rolling d100 - a success is scored below the skill level.

You have one skill that does not follow this rule - Detect.  Detect can only be raised by a racial trait or specialist training and is otherwise equal to your Intelligence stat.  Detect rolls are d10 rolls, usually with a score of 10 as the required amount to succeed.


Once you have applied your racial traits and determined your race's Economic and Military ability, you are ready to begin!

Spoiler: Sample Character & Race (click to show/hide)

++ Sample Race

+++The Phibians+++

Traits
Amphibian: +5 to Swim, breathe in water
Business-Like: +5 Admin, +5 Bluff
Terrifying: +15 Intimidate, -5 Melee, -5 Unarmed

Economic Power: 10
Military Power: 2

The Phibians are a race of enormous amphibians who look like giant toads.  They are often referred as such by other species, much to their dismay.  Their front limbs do possess opposable digits and they can maintain a bipedal stance for a reasonable period of time, but prefer to be quadrapedal where possible unless sitting down.

The Phibians live on the planet of Avar in the Ara system and are a relatively minor race, confined to their homeworld.  Although numerous they are barely technologically evolved beyond the Hyperdrive age and most of their society remains in feudal serfdom.  The de facto power base of the Phibian race is the Chelorian Bank, an international (and soon, interstellar) financial institution that wields more economic power than any of the kingdoms of its world.

For all its wealth, Avar is practically undefended.  Although many of its nations are perpetually at war on some scale, conflicts remain small and orbital weaponry is out of the question - no one nation trusts another enough to let them launch spacecraft with weaponry.  The Chelorian Bank thus holds an exclusive monopoly over Avar's stellar military and devotes it almost entirely to protecting its trade routes.

The Phibians might not be able to field large armies, but their true strength is their deadly financial might - at the word of the Chelorian bank they can gather tens or hundreds of millions of their kind together to work on a project at a day's notice.  This might also makes them terrifying in the financial arena - if crossed, a Chelorian Banker could ruin your entire family and have you dispossessed in a week.


+++Aalan Chel+++

Race: Phibian
Age: 62 (Middle Aged)
Clearance: Level 6
Planet: Avar

Str: 3   End: 3   Agi: 3   Cha: 8   Int: 9   Cool: 9

Phys: 3   Wis: 9   Detect: 9   Damage: 2   Vitality: 6   Toughness: 6   DR: 0   Move: 1

Amphibian: +5 to Swim, breathe in water
Business-Like: +5 Admin, +5 Bluff
Terrifying: +15 Intimidate, -5 Melee, -5 Unarmed

Petty Cash: 10
Clout: 2   [These figures do not have to be displayed openly, as they may change during the game.]

Acrobatics  6  (Agi x 2)
Admin*      41 (Int + Wis)
Bluff*      37 (Cha x 2)
Climb       6  (End + Agi)
Computers   18 (Int x 2)
Explosives  18 (Int x 2)
Electronics 18 (Int x 2)
Intimidate  22 (Cha + Cool)
Mechanics   18 (Int x 2)
Melee       1  (Str + Agil)
Persuasion* 32 (Cha x 2)
Pilot       12 (Int + Agil)
Pistol      6  (Agi x 2)
Rifle       6  (Agi x 2)
Sneak       6  (Agi x 2)
Swim        11 (Agi + End)
Throw       6  (End x 2)
Unarmed     1  (Str + End)
Xenology    18 (Wis x 2)

Aalan Chel is a senior banker in the Chelorian Bank.  He comes from a line of successful bankers and investors and owns several businesses in his family's name, all of which bring him a great deal of profit.  He was placed in the Embassy by his family in order to secure political favours in the future.

Spoiler: Setting (click to show/hide)

++ Standard Background

In the standard setting for Pheonix 303 play takes place in Known Space, a relatively small neck of the galaxy.  The advent of Hyperdrives have meant that ships can travel light years in weeks, days or even hours - but infrastructure cannot.  Even though it has been centuries for some races since they reached the Hyperdrive Age, Known Space does not extend more than fifty or sixty light years from its central point.


+++The Terran Protectorate+++

The largest empire in Known Space is the Terran Protectorate, a more-or-less federal government spanning scores of worlds and with an astoundingly powerful economy and military - nobody is entirely sure why; even the humans who are a part of it.  Although not dominating Known Space by any means, the Protectorate still possesses enough clout to dictate terms when it wants to and tries to maintain peace - or at least prevent wars from spilling too far out of hand.


+++The Polnareth+++

The Polnareth were the second-largest empire in Known Space and at one point the largest.  Very recently they vacated Known Space en masse, their entire species packed onto colony ships and travelling far beyond the borders of their former neighbours.  The Polnareth evacuation was brought about by an alliance headed up by the Terran Protectorate who informed them in no uncertain terms that if they didn't stop warmongering and didn't leave within three Solar cycles, everybody else in Known Space would come together and wipe them out.

They left.  The power vacuum resulting from their departure has caused massive ripples in the political structure of the galaxy.  No Polnareth remain in Known Space today.

Edit for clarification:  Clearance is clearance on Pheonix 303 - you are assumed to have an appropriately high level of clearance for your own race.  6 is the lowest level (visitor) and 1 is the highest.  All ambassadors should start at 6.

[ExKirby]

+++The Trade Union+++

Traits
Trustworthy: +7 Persuasion, +7 Bluff, -5 Intimidate
Business-Like: +5 Admin, +5 Bluff
Mechanical: +5 Vitality, +5 Toughness, +5 Electronics, +5 Mechanics, -10 Swim

Economic Power: 9
Military Power: 3

The Trade Union are a bunch of sand-coloured, humanoid robots who form a group that check every trade route in the Known Space. The fees that they take also allow them to set up trade routes with other races and improve their economy. Their base of operations is a moon called Epsilon II, with Epsilon being just a ball of gas surounding a metal sphere with high gravity.

They use their fledging yet minor military that come out of their factories to defend their routes, and because not a single one of them is living, they pay little tax themselves, meaning they have quite a good economic status.

+++AL31-K8R+++

Race: Trade Union
Age: 120 (He's a frigging robot, he could live forever with enough fuel)
Clearance: Level 9
Planet: Technically, Epsilon

Str: 2   End: 5   Agi: 3   Cha: 7   Int: 9   Cool: 9

Phys: 4   Wis: 9   Detect: 9   Damage: 1   Vitality: 6   Toughness: 9   DR: 0   Move: 1

Trustworthy: +7 Persuasion, +7 Bluff, -5 Intimidate
Business-Like: +5 Admin, +5 Bluff
Mechanical: +5 Vitality, +5 Toughness, +5 Electronics, +5 Mechanics, -10 Swim

Petty Cash: 9
Clout: 3

Acrobatics  6  (Agi x 2)
Admin*      46 (Int + Wis)
Bluff      26 (Cha x 2)
Climb       8  (End + Agi)
Computers   18 (Int x 2)
Explosives  18 (Int x 2)
Electronics 23 (Int x 2)
Intimidate  11 (Cha + Cool)
Mechanics   23 (Int x 2)
Melee       5  (Str + Agil)
Persuasion* 42 (Cha x 2)
Pilot       12 (Int + Agil)
Pistol      6  (Agi x 2)
Rifle       6  (Agi x 2)
Sneak       6  (Agi x 2)
Swim        -2 (Agi + End)
Throw       10  (End x 2)
Unarmed     7  (Str + End)
Xenology    18 (Wis x 2)

AL31-K8R is one of the Trade Union's many diplomatic bots. He can speak 117 languages and knows almost all there is to know about anything. His right arm, althogh it commonly serves as a standard 2-fingers-and-thumb had, can be quickly changed into a small blaster pistol (the equivelent of carrying a small firearm on your personage).

((I'm not to sure if I got my maths right... can someone just check it?))

[Jerick]

The Ackrian Monarchy

Traits
Spacer +10 to Piloting and +5 to Xenology.
Extra Limbs (an extra set of arms)
Flyier (Ackrians can glide for long distances, but they can't go for too long and their bodies are fragle and light as a result +10 piloting -5 melee -5 unarmed)

Economic Power: 4
Military: 8

Description:
Politics
Formerly an exiled fringe race that barely escaped the destruction of their home world the Ackrians have reccently established colonies scattered around known space.
They have lived aboard nomadic fleets of ships for hundreds of years before the newest in the Ackrian royal line declaired that the Ackrians sould find a way to return to life.
While most refuse to give up the way of life to which they are acustomed to live on world the numbers who have joined their soverign, has blown most estimates of the total Ackrian population away.
Vast numbers of ships converge on Ackrian worlds, hobbled together craft that will soon be landed and disabled to be used as Ackrin buildings.
More worring to neighbouring governments is the Monarch's claim that 90% of his kind still lurk beyond known space.
The Ackrians do not yet have a strong infrastructure but every Ackrian ship has at least one weapon.
Despite the Monarch's declaired desire for peace many nations worry that the only way this newly formed empire can sustain itself is by conquest.
This is made worse by the growing discontent with the Soverign and the ever increaseing talk of rebellion.

Pysical
Ackrians are eight foot tall bipead with very narrow stick like limbs.
They have four arms with a thin but durable membrane between them which allows them to glide, many Ackrians have however clipped the membrane to allow all four arms to be more manuverable.
The majority of their organs are contained in a vunerable sack on their very stick like upper chest.
Their head and complex feet seem wildely out of proportion and are covered in thin harmless spines.
Their skin is very coarse and grey and after cenuturies of living aboard spacecraft is vunerable to UV radiation.
An Ackrian's mouth is a short darkgrey beak and dominates it's face.

Ga ra'Lacine Hackra (Son of whispers of the old winds)
Race: Ackrian
Age: 17
Clearance: Level 6
Planet: Ga Hilsanra (the new place of rest)

Str: 2   End: 2   Agi: 9   Cha: 6   Int: 9   Cool: 7

Phys: 4   Wis: 7   Detect: 9   Damage: 1   Vitality: 6   Toughness: 6   DR: 0   Move: 3


Spacer +10 to Piloting and +5 to Xenology.
Flyier +10 to Piloting and -5 melee -5 unarmed

Petty Cash: 4
Clout: 8

Acrobatics  18  (Agi x 2)
Admin      16 (Int + Wis)
Bluff      12 (Cha x 2)
Climb       11 (End + Agi)
Computers*   36 (Int x 2)
Explosives  18 (Int x 2)
Electronics 18 (Int x 2)
Intimidate  13 (Cha + Cool)
Mechanics*   36 (Int x 2)
Melee       6  (Str + Agil)
Persuasion 12 (Cha x 2)
Pilot*      56 (Int + Agil)
Pistol      18  (Agi x 2)
Rifle       18  (Agi x 2)
Sneak       18  (Agi x 2)
Swim        11 (Agi + End)
Throw       4  (End x 2)
Unarmed     -1  (Str + End)
Xenology    19 (Wis x 2)

Hackra is the youngest of the twenty brothers of the current Monarch.
He is not yet old enough to have earned his own name and as is the Ackrian tradition he uses the name of his father with an added prefix.
It is only when achives something of note that he will earn a name of his own relating to his acoplishment.
To this end he is keen to prove himself as a compentent leader and an excellent pilot which is why he jumped at the chance to represnt the Ackrian Monarchy.

[Toaster]

The Keltonians

The Keltonians are a race of natural pilots and explorers who have a deep love of searching the galaxy for the love of finding new and exciting wonders.  Their home world Kelton has a lower gravity than many, which guided much of their development.  Keltonians are a tall, lanky humanoid race with a gray skin tone and short bristly hair on their heads and shoulders.  They discovered flight at a very early point in their development, and have been fascinated with it ever since.

The Keltonian government is representative, with those considered wise and those having a wide array of experience tending to be elected to serve.  The most senior member of the Keltonian Senate serves as the executive.  Currently, a famous pilot named Lans Talenk holds that office.  Current foreign policy is to remain neutral in most disputes, as the Keltonians want to remain on good terms with all races.

The Keltonian economic might is based on exploration and exploitation of resources in remote systems, which has served them well.  Their military might is not the greatest as they do not have very powerful fleets, but their excellent pilots help turn the tide of battles in their favor.  Still, they feel the best fight is one they don't have to fight in the first place.

Traits:
Advanced Vision
Spacers
Trustworthy

Economic Power:  7
Military Power:  5



Lankton Trill:

Lankton Trill is a well-respected senior diplomat in the Keltonian Diplomat Corps.  A 24-year veteran of space exploration, he has served as a diplomat ever since retiring from that field.  He is fairly typical of the Keltonian race, sharp and cunning, but physically frail.  He follows the philosophy that a conflict avoided is the best path to take, but is not afraid to fight when there is no other option.

Race: Keltonian
Age: 55 (Middle Aged)
Clearance: Level 6
Planet: Kelton

Stats:

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Strength   3
Endurance   3
Agility      8
Charisma   8
Intelligence   7
Cool      6

Physique   5
Wisdom      7
Vitality   8
Toughness   8
Damage Res   0
Move      3
Detect      9
Damage      2

Skills:

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Acrobatics   16
Admin      14
*Bluff      39
Climb      11
Computers   14
*Explosives   28
Electronics   14
Intimidate   9
Mechanics   14
Melee      11
*Persuasion   39
Pilot      25
Pistol      16
Rifle      16
Sneak      16
Swim      11
Throw      6
Unarmed      6
Xenology   19

[Spartan 117]

In.

EDIT: Oh god, this makes my head pound. A little help?

[Iituem]

Heh.  Sorry, it is a bit much all at once.  Short version:

Race

All you need for your race is to pick three Traits from the list (or come up with your own!), then decide on the Economic/Military balance of your race.  You have 12 points to distribute between Economy and Military, representing your race's relative strengths in both.


Character

Six base stats; Str, End, Agil, Cha, Int, Cool.  You have 35 points to divide between them - minimum of 1 point per stat.

Physique:  (Str + End + Agil) / 3  (average of the three, rounded up)
Wisdom:  (Cha + Int + Cool) / 3 (average, rounded up)

Vitality:  (Str + Physique) - Damage taken before dying.
Toughness:  (End + Physique) - Damage taken before passing out.
Damage Resist (DR):  0, increases with armour.  If you have 8 End, gain 1 natural DR.  If you have 12, 2 DR.  Increase every 4 points in End.

Move:  Agil/3  Number of moves in a round of combat (we may never need to use this).
Detect:  Int, plus any racial modifiers.  Specialist equipment may be able to raise Detect.
Damage:  Str / 2.  This is your base unarmed and melee damage - weapons provide a bonus.


You calculate your skills from the skills table by adding or multiplying your base stats.  Multiply three tagged skills by two.  Then add any racial bonuses to skills (see Racial Traits table for examples, feel free to add your own).

Petty Cash:  This is just your race's Economy stat - it represents your personal wealth and can be used for bribes and such.
Clout:  Again, your race's Military stat - it represents your personal might (that is, the forces or equipment at your disposal) and can be used for threats, house assassins or smuggled equipment onto the station.


And that's about it.  Equipment can be determined later, but it is automatically assumed you have a tablet for communicating with your own racial high command via subspace and any other contacts you need.


ExKirby:  Seems fine, see the checked maths I PM'd you.  Until said otherwise, I'm going to interpret your race as being the equivalent of Switzerland - they hold a few key points in major trade routes and tariff the heck out of them for fun and profit.  Also, your blaster will have to be deactivated as part of standard diplomatic procedure - no live arms aboard the ship.

Jerick:  Ackrians seem fine.  Flight trait is perfectly acceptable, my suggestion would be as well as the natural flight ability a native +10 bonus to Piloting but a -5 to Melee and Unarmed from your race's light frame.

Toaster:  Nothing wrong with the Keltonians.  Carry on.

[Jerick]

Nice!
I just updated my sheet and fixed where I muiltiplied piloting after adding moddifers by leaving exactly it the same and as a result I have a question:
What happens when you have a negative skill?

[Iituem]

It is almost* impossible to succeed in that skill, and you will need to add that many points just to get it vaguely useable again.

Not that it matters too much, as skill rolls are fairly uncommon anyway.

*According to the book, a roll of 10 or less is an auto-succeed and 5 or less is a crit success.  On the other hand, >90 is an auto-fail, >95 is a crit fail.

[Spartan 117]

The Dvarim

Mechanical

Large frame

Advanced vision

Economy: 6

Military: 6

SPR-10

10 STR, 10 END, 10 AGIL, 1 COOL, 1 CHAR, 3 INT

Before I finish this, am I doing it right?

[Iituem]

Stat bit is fine, see my PM regarding skills.  Also, flavour is probably more important than stats, as you need to give a basic description of your race for some background.  (In other words, don't fret too much about getting stats wrong - I can always calculate them for you if you just tell me which skills you want to tag.)

[Spartan 117]

Actually, I'll just be a station staff dude. Someone else can take the last race slot.

[Iituem]

Alright.  What sort of position would you prefer?  Same stats/mechanical fellow?

[Spartan 117]

Yeah.

[Iituem]

Spartan:  You are a former Dvarim killbot.  Unlike the leadership of your race, you were built with only the bare bones of sapience.  What you lack in common intellect, you make up for in sheer brute strength and speed, as well as cunning.  After you were decomissioned due to damage in combat, your hire contract was purchased by the Terran Protectorate and you were repaired on credit.  You are currently paying off your debt as a security officer aboard Pheonix 303.

(Setting details to follow when we have a fourth player or in a few hours, whichever comes first.)

[Ghazkull]

what can i basically do as an station crew member?