On Using Characteristics

• DisciplineEgo

Integrity is how much punishment a character can take, in whatever shape it comes. Impairments stack against it; take on more than Integrity allows and the last one converts. A Wound cuts a point off Integrity itself, so the next Impairment sits that much closer to breaking something again.

• Grazes, from combat, clears on Wound or within 24h. Converts to Wound.
• Fatigue, from exertion or missed rest, clears after 4h of rest. Converts to collapse.
• Stress, from danger, clears after 2h of calm. Converts to panic.
• Toxicity, from poison, clears only with time. Converts to Wound.

• DisciplineCombat

Brawling covers unarmed strikes, grappling, and melee weapons. Knives, clubs, improvised weapons, or a rifle swung stock-first once a fight closes to arm's reach. It's the discipline that keeps working after every gun runs dry or gets knocked away. Pinning a guard in a corridor, breaking a chokehold, finishing what a firefight started once the range collapses to nothing.

• DisciplineCombat

Ranged covers sidearms, carbines, rifles, and crew-served weapons. Anything meant to put a shot on target from beyond arm's reach. Sighting a shot across a hangar bay, walking rounds onto a moving target, holding suppressing fire while a teammate repositions. All Ranged.

• DisciplineCombat

Explosives covers handling, placing, and disarming anything from a grenade to a structural charge. Blowing a breach in a bulkhead, shaping a charge to drop one wall and not the next one over, defusing something someone else left behind.

• DisciplineCombat

Defence covers armour, shields, and cover. Getting the most out of protection instead of just wearing it. Knowing which plate stops which round, moving cover to cover without exposing a flank, running heavy armour like a second skin instead of a burden.

• DisciplineAcademic

Medical covers keeping people alive. Battlefield first aid, surgery, diagnosing what's wrong and treating it. Stopping a bleed before someone bleeds out, stabilising a friend after a firefight, running down what's making a whole outpost sick.

• DisciplineAcademic

Computing covers operating, programming, and breaking into computer systems. Cracking a locked terminal, coaxing a damaged drone back online, writing a script under pressure to buy the team thirty more seconds.

• DisciplineAcademic

Security covers the systems that watch and guard. Cameras, alarms, access control, signals intelligence. Running them and beating them are both Security. Reading a stranger's intercepted traffic, spoofing a keycard reader, working out which sensor sweep a facility actually relies on.

• DisciplineAcademic

Larceny covers getting past locks and getting past people. Infiltration, lockpicking, forged documents, a fabricated identity that survives a second look. Slipping a sealed door, walking a fake ID past a checkpoint, forging a signature that clears a records check.

• DisciplineAcademic

Presence covers reading people and being read by them. Persuasion, command, catching a lie before it lands. Talking a guard into looking the other way, holding a room's attention with nothing but tone, spotting the tell in a fixer who's about to sell you out.

Level	Label	Points
0	Pathetic	0
1	Poor	1
2	Below Average	3
3	Average	6
4	Above Average	11
5	Good	19
6	Excellent	32
7	Exceptional	53
8	Amazing	87
9	Incredible	142
10	Magnificent	231
11	Awesome	375
12	Ultimate	608