Professions
Below is a list of Occupations/Professions that Players can pick for their characters. This is for both roll-playing purposes as well as determining Character wealth. Some professions have prerequisites that must be meet before a character can choose it as its profession.
In order to fully understand Bonus Income and Credit Rating please review the Wealth page.
Starting Professions
Professions can tell the Player what there Character's Starting Bonus Income, Average Monthly Income and Credit Score Range. They also provide suggestions as to which Starter Packs to pick and any additional equipment they may have on there a person at the starting level. Starting Credit Score is the lowest number in the Range. This can go up based on how many ranks the Character has in Profession.
Below you will see instructions on how to edit the Character sheet manually. Instructions on manually editing a character sheet are boxed. For example:
Use the Skill Profession located on the first page of the Character Sheet too the left to record the Character's Profession.
All new characters start out at the lowest credit score for the Profession in question. Adding ranks too the Profession skill can improve the Credit Rating to learn more review the Profession skill. These Professions are broad descriptions of what the Character may do or be trying to do and may not exactly fit the character's actual career. If a Character has a Profession/Career that is so far removed from anything in the below list feel free to discuss with the GM about what there wealth/income/credit score should be. Keep in mind it will need to be relative to what is described below.
The Professions are also rated based on a how wealthy they make the Character.
- Very Poor: Jobless, Student, Criminal
- Poor: Rural, Adventurer, Religious, Creative
- Independent: Military, Law Enforcement, Investigative, Emergency Services, Blue Collar, Technician
- Rich: Academic, White Collar, Mercenary, Entrepreneur
- Very Rich: Doctor, Dilettante, Celebrity
Most starting Professions have a prerequisite that the character must meet to qualify for the Profession. If they do not qualify they can choose a different profession and change professions once they do qualify however they do not get the Starting Bonus Income.
Academic
Academics include librarians, archaeologists, scholars, professors, teachers, and other education professionals.
- Prerequisite: Age 23+. Int Score 14+
- Starting Bonus Income: $10,000
- Average Monthly Income: $4,000
- Credit Rating Range: 7 - 14
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Official's Pack (without the Shepherd Chip) or Explorer's Pack
- Additional common items: Book(s) (Non-fiction books on topic of interest)
Adventurer
Adventurers include professional daredevils, big-game hunters, relic hunters, explorers, extreme sports enthusiasts, field scientists, thrill-seekers, and others called to face danger for a variety of reasons.
- Prerequisite: Age 15+. Wisdom Score 14+ or Survival Skill Rank 1+
- Starting Bonus Income: $5,000
- Average Monthly Income: $1,500
- Credit Rating Range: 4 - 15
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Explorer's Pack or Outlaw's Pack.
- Additional common items: Extra Rope/Duracable with Grappler Tag. Extra Rations(Tech 2) (5-day pack)
Athlete
Athletes include amateur athletes of Olympic quality and professional athletes of all types, including gymnasts, weight trainers, wrestlers, boxers, martial artists, swimmers, skaters, and those who engage in any type of competitive sport.
- Prerequisite: Strength 13 or Dexterity 13.
- Starting Bonus Income: $4,000
- Average Monthly Income: $1,500
- Credit Rating Range: 4 - 15
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Official's Pack
- Additional common items: Rations(Tech 2) (5 day pack), Purifier, Rocket-X
Blue Collar
Blue collar occupations include factory work, food service jobs, construction, service industry jobs, taxi drivers, postal workers, and other jobs that are usually not considered to be desk jobs.
- Prerequisite: Age 18+. Wisdom 14+ or Intelligence 14+
- Starting Bonus Income: $6,000
- Average Monthly Income: $2,750
- Credit Rating Range: 6 - 14
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Technician's Pack or Settler's Pack
- Additional common items: Contractor's Field Bag, Clothing Outfit Uniform (worn) (For an old or current job)
Celebrity
A celebrity is anyone who, for whatever reason, has been thrust into the spotlight of the public eye. Actors, entertainers of all types, newscasters, radio and television personalities, and more fall under this starting occupation.
- Prerequisite: Age 15+. Charisma Score 16+
- Starting Bonus Income: $20,000
- Average Monthly Income: $8,000
- Credit Rating Range: 10 - 22
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Official's Pack (with shepherd chip)
- Additional common items: Booster(pick an ability to boost), Expensive Pen for signing autographs, Clothing Outfit Casual x2 (expensive), Outfit that includes face covering to protect against paparazzi.
Creative
The creative starting occupation covers artists of all types who fan their creative spark into a career. Illustrators, copywriters, cartoonists, graphic artists, novelists, magazine columnists, actors, sculptors, game designers, musicians, screenwriters, photographers, and web designers all fall under this occupation.
- Prerequisite: Age 15+. Wisdom Score 16+ or Intelligence Score 16+
- Starting Bonus Income: $7,000
- Average Monthly Income: $2,000
- Credit Rating Range: 4 - 14
- Suggested Start Pack(s): N/A
- Additional common items: Computation Device, Camera, pen/paper, books (digital and/or physical)
Criminal
This illegal starting occupation reveals a background from the wrong side of the law. This occupation includes con artists, burglars, thieves, crime family soldiers, gang members, bank robbers, and other types of career criminals.
- Prerequisite: Age 15+.
- Starting Bonus Income: $4,000
- Average Monthly Income: $1,000
- Credit Rating Range: 2 - 20*
- NOTE: Credit Rating for a criminal only counts among other criminal's and banks that do secret dealings with them. At the starting level most players not considered good Criminal's and must work there way up. The room for improvement is high, but there are added risks such as dealing with Law Enforcement or worse Tracers.
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Outlaw's Pack
- Additional common items: Lock Release Gun, Fake ID, Hackcard
Dilettante
Dilettantes usually get their wealth from family holdings and trust funds. The typical dilettante has no job, few responsibilities, and at least one driving passion that occupies his or her day. That passion might be a charity or philanthropic foundation, an idea or cause worth fighting for, or lust for living a fun and carefree existence.
- Prerequisite: Age 18+. Knowledge Culture Skill Rank 1+ and either Current Events or Philosophy Skill Rank 1+
- Reputation Bonus Increase: +1.
- Starting Bonus Income: $24,000
- Average Monthly Income: $8,000
- Credit Rating Range: 20 - 30
- NOTE: A Dilettante cannot use ranks in there Profession skill to improve or recover there Credit Rating. They will eventually have to pick a different profession if they want there ranks to improve the Credit Rating.
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Official's Pack
- Additional common items: A.I Assistant Software, Booster, Polyvox
Doctor
A doctor can be a physician (general practitioner or specialist), a surgeon, or a psychiatrist.
- Prerequisite: Age 25+. Intellagance Score 14+ and Treate Injury Skill Rank 1+
- Starting Bonus Income: $14,000
- Average Monthly Income: $6,500
- Credit Rating Range: 15 - 22
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Doctor's Pack
- Additional common items: Books (Digital/Physical) (On medicine), Clothing Outfit Uniform (worn) x2, Sporekill, Biocort x3.
Emergency Services
Rescue workers, firefighters, paramedics, hazardous material handlers, and emergency medical technicians fall under this category.
- Prerequisite: Age 18+.
- Starting Bonus Income: $5,000
- Average Monthly Income: $2,500
- Credit Rating Range: 6 - 12
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Doctor's Pack or Settler's Pack
- Additional common items: Clothing Outfit Uniform (worn) x2, First Aid Kit, Search-and-Rescue Kit, Purifier.
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs have an obsession with being their boss. They believe in themselves, have an abundance of confidence, and the ability to acquire the funds necessary to bankroll their newest moneymaking venture. These small to large business owners have a knack for putting together business plans, gathering resources, and getting a new venture off the ground. They rarely want to stick around after the launch, however, as they prefer to put their energies into the next big thing.
- Prerequisite: Age 18+. Wisdom Score 12+
- NOTE: The Player should come up with a business idea the Character is currently trying to do work. This can change over time but for the Credit rating to increase the Character must make successful strides toward this or another idea.
- Starting Bonus Income: $10,000
- Average Monthly Income: $4,000
- Credit Rating Range: 4 - 20
- NOTE: The Entrepreneur has to work there way up to become truly wealthy. They may have more money at the start, but that is because they have taken out loans to start there own business. This means they have a much lower Credit rating at the start despite the higher income.
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Businessman’s Pack or Settler's Pack
- Additional common items: (Books) (Digital) (Some Inspirational reading), Hologram Player/Recorder, Polyvox
Jobless
Some people are just down on their luck. Or they are incapable of caring for a job due to a disability. Or they are just lazy. Either the case most species will have civilizations now or in there history where people were poor and jobless. Some people may like the freedom, but few enjoy the lack of comfort, security, stability wealthy can provide.
- Prerequisite: None
- Starting Bonus Income: $250
- Average Monthly Income: $0
- Credit Rating Range: 0
- NOTE: The Character must pick a profession to lose this Profession and start getting Credit.
- Suggested Start Pack(s): N/A
- Additional common items: A cup to beg for money with, Clothing Outfit Casual (heavily worn) x2
Investigative
There are several jobs that fit within this occupation, including investigative reporters, photojournalists, private investigators, police detectives, criminologists, criminal profilers, espionage agents, and others who use their skills to gather evidence and analyze clues.
- Prerequisite: Age 23+. Study Skill Rank 1+
- Starting Bonus Income: $6,500
- Average Monthly Income: $3,000
- Credit Rating Range: 8 - 14
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Explorer's Pack or Settler's Pack
- Additional common items: Evidence Kits, Handcuffs, Truthtell, Environment Scanner
Law Enforcement
Law enforcement personnel include uniformed police, state troopers, federal police, federal agents, SWAT team members, military police, and bounty hunters.
- Prerequisite: Age 20+.
- Starting Bonus Income: $7,000
- Average Monthly Income: $2,500
- Credit Rating Range: 9 - 14
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Explorer's Pack or Settler's Pack
- Additional common items: Evidence Kits, Handcuffs, Truthtell, Environment Scanner
Mercenary
Mercenary covers both organized private contractors and independent guns for higher.
- Prerequisite: Age 22+. Strength or Dexterity or Constitution Skill Rank 1+
- Starting Bonus Income: $11,000
- Average Monthly Income: $4,000
- Credit Rating Range: 10 - 20
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Explorer's Pack or Settler's Pack or Outlaw's Pack
- Additional common items: Clothing Outfit Fatigues (1 worn, 1 good condition), Demolitions Kit, Ghillie Suit, Compass, Biocort
Military
Military covers any of the branches of the armed forces, including army, navy, air force, and marines, as well as the various elite training units such as Seals, Rangers, and Special Forces.
- Prerequisite: Age 18+. Strength or Dexterity or Constitution Skill Rank 1+
- Starting Bonus Income: $8,500
- Average Monthly Income: $2,250
- Credit Rating Range: 9 - 14
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Explorer's Pack or Settler's Pack or Outlaw's Pack
- Additional common items: Clothing Outfit Fatigues (1 worn, 1 good condition), Demolitions Kit, Ghillie Suit, Compass, Biocort
Religious
The ordained clergy of all persuasions, as well as theological scholars and experts on religious studies, fall within the scope of this starting occupation.
- Prerequisite: Age 23+. Knowledge Philosophy Skill Rank 1+
- Starting Bonus Income: $4,000
- Average Monthly Income: $1,500
- Credit Rating Range: 4 - 10
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Official's Pack, Settler's Pack
- Additional common items: Book (Digital/Physical) on religion, Religious object(s), Clothing Outfit Uniform x1 (for specific religion or group)
Rural
Farmworkers, hunters, and others who make a living in rural communities fall under this category.
- Prerequisite: Age 15+.
- Starting Bonus Income: $5,000
- Average Monthly Income: $1,500
- Credit Rating Range: 6 - 12
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Settler's Pack or Technician's Pack
- Additional common items: Clothing Outfit Casual x2 (worn), Outerwear, Tool Belt, First Aid Kit, Rural Map (Of Home)
Student
A student can be in high school, college, or graduate school. He or she could be in a seminary, a military school, or a private institution. A college-age student should also pick a major field of study.
- Prerequisite: Age 15+.
- Starting Bonus Income: $3,000
- Average Monthly Income: $500
- Credit Rating Range: 1 - 6
- NOTE: A Student can pick another Profession they wish to study for. Once they reach 4 credit rating through Rank improvements to the Profession skill they can automatically change there Profession to the one they have studied for regardless of prerequisites. They also change there Monthly Income and Credit Rating to whatever the new Profession is and transfer +3 Credit Rating. (They cannot pick the Dilettante)
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Explorer's Pack or Settler's Pack
- Additional common items: Books (Digital/Physical)
Technician
Scientists and engineers of all types fit within the scope of this starting occupation.
- Prerequisite: Age 23+. At least 1 Crafting Skill Rank in either Mechanical, Electrical or Structural
- Starting Bonus Income: $8,000
- Average Monthly Income: $3,500
- Credit Rating Range: 8 - 15
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Technician's Pack
- Additional common items: Profession Kit of choice, Clothing Outfit Uniform (worn) x2, Duct Tape
White Collar
Office workers and desk jockeys, lawyers, accountants, insurance agents, bank personnel, financial advisers, tax preparers, clerks, sales personnel, real estate agents, and a variety of mid-level managers fall within the scope of this starting occupation.
- Prerequisite: Age 23+. Wisdom Score 12+ and Intelligence Score 14+ or Wisdom Score 14+ and Intelligence Score 12+
- Starting Bonus Income: $14,000
- Average Monthly Income: $3,500
- Credit Rating Range: 14 - 20
- Suggested Start Pack(s): Businessman’s Pack or Official's Pack
- Additional common items: Clothing Outfit Business x2, Aluminium Travel Case (Small) (DC15 Lock), Urban Map (In starting city)