Sunday, July 1, 2018

Last Parsec Archetypes: Cerato Labor Organizer


All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
While the union makes us strong. 
- Ralph Chaplin, "Solidarity Forever"

Standing seven feet tall and weighing over half a ton, the gentle giants from Chordat Tau are one of the most imposing species in the Know Worlds. Descended from large herbivores the Cerato are defined by two things - their horns and the herd. The Cerato dominated their planet through cooperation and defensive thorniness. It was easier to get along than to take them on. Something JumpCorp surveyors learned when they made first contact during an age of steam powered exploration. Falling under the Cerato's pheromones, the surveyors jump-started the saurians' introduction to the Known Worlds. Distressed at the deep cultural divisions and corporate indenture in the Big Empty, the Cerato adopted the Sisyphean task of re-defining civic discourse through the milieu of shared interest and labor solidarity. Calling their venture the Intersolar Freelancers Union, they actively recruit from a wide range of vocations and species, making tremendous headway among synthetics. Adopting android emancipation as a tent pole issue, the IFU is currently engaged in legal action against Tykon Corp in several fringe systems.
Cerato is singular and plural.

SPECIES - CERATO - Natural Weapons (their horns deal Strength + D6), Cooperative Pheromones (+2 Charisma), Sponsorship (Rich Edge) -or- Solidarity (Common Bond Edge), Environmental Weakness (Cold), Low Tech Society

STATS - Strength D6 Agility D6 Vitality D6 Smarts D8 Spirit D6
SKILLS - Fighting D6 Investigation D8 Shooting D6 Persuade D6 Streetwise D8 Notice D8
PARRY 5  TOUGHNESS  Rich 11(6) -or- Bond 9(4) CHARISMA +2
EDGES - Connections -or- Lucky
HINDRANCES -  Heroic -or- Death Wish (Major) Gotta make quota- 500 new members, Vow (Minor) The herd is all, Enemy (Minor)
EQUIPMENT - Rich- Gatling Particle Accelerator (2d8+4, AP 2, ROF 4), Combat Armor (Armor 6), Molecular Knife (D6+D4+2, AP 2), Personal Data Device, Water Filter, Rebreather, a brand new Hovercycle, Intersolar Freelancer Union Automemberships for new members, $100 spending cash 
-Common Bond- Particle Accelerator Rifle (2d8+2, AP 2) Body Armor (Armor 4), Molecular Knife (D6+D4+2, AP 2), Water Filter, Rebreather, Intersolar Freelancer Union Automemberships for new members, $850
Austomemberships are form-fillable ID cards that take photos and genetic information of an IFU member.


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