Core Templates

"Core" Templates represent occupations strongly bound to major and highly legitimate organizations, such as the Valorian Empire and the Alliance. They tend to concern themselves with politics and war.

List of Core Templates

  • Diplomat: The diplomat combines an excellence in negotiation with cultural mastery and organizational power. The diplomat’s high levels of rank, administrative acumen and her talent benefit her when “Pulling Rank.” Her high levels of diplomacy can outright replace any reaction modifier with little risk to herself, but diplomats also benefit from high reaction modifiers, making her a social power-house in general. Diplomats have the option of investing in various cultural skills, cultural familiarities and languages, allowing them to bridge the gap between species and organizations. Finally, the diplomat enjoys diplomatic immunity and a mastery of international law, allowing her to know what she can get away with and what she can’t. However, a diplomat has only nominal combat skills and basic training in stealth, appropriate for any Action character, but a diplomats vastly prefers peaceful solutions to violent ones, which is reflected in their disadvantage options.
  • Fighter Ace: The Empire and the Alliance fight their wars in space. The most effective weapons in space, currently, starfighters. Thus, the most important warfighters of the galaxy are Fighter Aces: they are the elite of the elite, and the first line of defense of any great faction. Fighter Aces master the arts of space combat and the star fighter. While he's quite competent at all forms of space travel, including hyperspace navigation or gunnery tasks, he's at his best when he's in the cockpit of a starfighter, whether fighting off enemy starfighters or making a torpedo run on a capital ship. Some specialize their space combat skills, mastering a few techniques unique to their style of flying. They often have unique relationships with their tech-bot or the mechanic that tends to their craft, their squadron or wingman, or the military force that sponsors them: many an admiral has their "pocket ace" that they deploy when they absolutely want to win, and this makes that ace a "darling" of their particular navy. Outside of their starfighter, they tend to be charming, roguish, cocky and trained in evasion tactics, in case they end up behind enemy lines. While not great soldiers or spies, they make passable adventurers.
  • Officer: The Officer excels at command and control. He’s mastered the art of planning; he is extremely adept at the Big Picture rules for planning an operation, and can plan so well that he features the use of Foresight, allowing the player to retroactively declare that his character had prepared for the current situation. Furthermore, his high rank and administration skill makes him top-notch at Pulling Rank, ensuring that he and his group gain required resources when they need it most. Finally, Psi-Wars doesn’t support Mass Combat out of the box, but should your game include Mass Combat, the officer’s high levels of Strategy, Administration and Intelligence Analysis make him particularly well suited to it.
  • Security Agent: The Security Agent is the elite enforcer of the law, and excel at criminal investigation. Like the Bounty Hunter and the Frontier Marshal, they represent the long-arm of the Law, but the Security Agent is a strictly urban character, one associated with the heavily populated worlds of the core. They answer to a tight hierarchy on a world with an exacting legal code, giving them much less leeway than the other enforcers have. The Security Agent, as represented in this template, is heroic. As a detective, they tend to be tenacious and intuitive, and as a combatant, they tend to be elite blast-slingers, wielding tight and highly professional martial arts, such as Imperial Marksmanship Academy Training or even Shineido.
  • Spy: Spies are masters of intrigue, infiltration and manipulation. The Psi-Wars Spy template represents the cinematic sort of spy who is equally adept at winning over others with a winsome smile, slipping undetected into enemy installations, and analyzing any data she comes across.
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