Campaign Book

The Good Guys

The Galactic Champions

Background

(How did the group start? What's it do? Where's it fit into the setting?)

Organization (What's the heirarchy?)

Membership Levels (Describe the various "ranks" and perks of those ranks)

Important NPCs (detail a few personalities that PCs are likely to encounter)

Other NPCs (detail a few "average members" of the group)

The Commonwealth Protectorate, Naval and Marine Corps

Background

Shortly after the formation of the Commonwealth, there was seen the need to pull the military forces of the various member worlds into a single, Commonwealth controlled, organization.

(How did the group start? What's it do? Where's it fit into the setting?)

Organization (What's the heirarchy?)

Membership Levels

Ranks and Rates

The use of the word "rank" for Corp enlisted personnel is incorrect. The term is "rate." The rating badge is a combination of rate (pay grade) and rating (occupational specialty).

Important NPCs

(detail a few personalities that PCs are likely to encounter)

Other NPCs

(detail a few "average members" of the group)

Protectorate Corps Package Deals

Additional information:

Ranks and Rates:
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/allhands/ah0197/rankrate.html

Military occupation skills:
http://www.monmouth.com/~marines/mos.htm

Standard Corps Enlisted Rates

The use of the word "rank" for Corps enlisted personnel is incorrect. The term is "rate." The rating badge is a combination of rate (pay grade as indicated by the chevrons) and rating (occupational specialty as indicated by the symbol just above the chevrons). Chief Petty Officers (E-7 through E-9) wear collar devices on their standard uniforms, and rate badges on their Service Dress uniforms.

Corpsmen in pay grades E-4 through E-6 can be addressed as "Petty Officer (name)" or [as example] "Boatswain's Mate Third Class (name)". The latter would be written as BM3. Chief Petty Officers are always referred to as "Chief", "Senior Chief", or "Master Chief" as appropriate. As example: "Chief Jones" or in subsequent references, just "Chief".

Corpsman Recruit / Private (E-1)

The lowest form of life in the Corps, a raw recruit, not yet finished basic training.

There is no package deal for an E-1: Corpsman Recruit. If you are a Corpsman Recruit, the Corps hasn't taught you anything yet, so you don't know anything yet.

Corpsman Apprentice / Private First Class (E-2)

Along with the E-3s, the Corpsman Apprentices make up the rank and file of the Corps. A Corpsman Apprentice has been learned the basics, know who to use his weapons, knows about the Corps and the Commwealth, but hasn't had any advanced training yet. He has just received his first duty assignment.

Corpsman Apprentice (E-2)
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
2	KS: Enemies of the Commonwealth	11
2	KS: Protectorate Corps	11
2	WF: Small Arms
0	Rank: E-2, Corpsman Apprentice
	Disadvantage
10	Watched by The Corps, More Powerful, 15. Appearance: 11 or less, +5. Non-combat Influence: Extensive, +5. Geographical Area: Limited, -5. Only Watching: x½
5	Distinctive feature (Military look and bearing, uniform) Easily Concealable, 5. Noticed and recognized, +0
1	Package Bonus
-10	Total

Corpsman / Lance Corporal (E-3)

Along with the E-2s, the Corpsman Apprentices make up the rank and file of the Corps. Unlike the Corpsman Apprentice, a Corpsman has the beginnings of advanced training yet, and has started working towards a specialized COS (Corps Occupational Skills). An E-3 has been at his first base or port assignment long enough to have learned his way around.

Corpsman (E-3)
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
2	KS: Enemies of the Commonwealth	11
2	KS: Protectorate Corps	11
2	PS: ____________________ (Job or Rating)	11
2	WF: Small Arms
3	Rank: W-1, Corpsman Apprentice
2	AK: Base or "Port" stationed at.	11
5	Combat Skill: +1 with (pick one: Ranged or Hand-to-hand Combat)
	Disadvantage
10	Watched by The Corps, More Powerful, 15. Appearance: 11 or less, +5. Non-combat Influence: Extensive, +5. Geographical Area: Limited, -5. Only Watching: x½
5	Distinctive feature (Military look and bearing, uniform) Easily Concealable, 5. Noticed and recognized, +0
3	Package Bonus
-3	Total

Non-Commissioned Offiers (E-4 through E-9)

Non-coms make up the backbone of any military organization, handling the day to day operations of their platoons and, to a lesser extant, companies. By the time someone has reached this level in the Corps, they are firmly entrenched in their chosen speciality and are usually experts in some form of combat.

Non-Commissioned Officer (E-4 through E-9)
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
2	KS: Enemies of the Commonwealth	11
2	KS: Protectorate Corps	11
2	PS: ____________________ (Job or Rating)	12
2	WF: Small Arms
2	AK: Base or "Port" stationed at.	11
5	Combat Skill: +1 with (pick one: Ranged or Hand-to-hand Combat)
3	Combat Skill: +1 with (pick one: Martial Arts or a specfic weapon group)
2	Rank: E-4, Petty Officer, 3rd Class
1	+1 to "PS: ____________________ (Job or Rating)"
9	Choose 3: Bureaucratics, Interrogation, Survival, Systems Operations, Oratory, Tactics, 3 point combat skill level
	Disadvantage
10	Watched by The Corps, More Powerful, 15. Appearance: 11 or less, +5. Non-combat Influence: Extensive, +5. Geographical Area: Limited, -5. Only Watching: x½
5	Distinctive feature (Military look and bearing, uniform) Easily Concealable, 5. Noticed and recognized, +0
3	Package Bonus
1	Total

Standard Corps Officer Ranks

Officers in the Corps are either Line officers or Staff Corps. Among these are also Limited Duty Officers and Commissioned Warrant Officers. Those of the Staff Corps are specialists in career fields which are professions unto themselves, such as physicians, lawyers, civil engineers, etc.

Staff Corps officers wear their specialty insignia on the sleeve of the dress uniforms and on their shoulder boards in place of the star worn by Line officers.

Some have advanced through the enlisted rates and are designated for duty in certain technical fields. These are Limited Duty Officers and commisisoned warrant officers. CWOs and Staff corps LDOs wear their specialty insignia on the sleeve of the dress uniforms and on their shoulder boards in place of the star worn by Line officers.

Warrant Offiers

Tradiationally, Non-Commissioned Officers do not get promoted into the ranks of Officers, but many non-Coms who have served in the Corps for an extended period of time become trained in very specialized skills and jobs - jobs that would typically require being of an officer rank. Highly skilled as well as highly respected and valued, Warrant Officers in the Corps are made of these types of former non-coms.

Warrant Officer
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
2	KS: Enemies of the Commonwealth	11
2	KS: Protectorate Corps	11
3	PS: ____________________ (Job or Rating)	12
2	WF: Small Arms
2	AK: Base or "Port" stationed at.	11
5	Combat Skill: +1 with (pick one: Ranged or Hand-to-hand Combat)
3	Combat Skill: +1 with (pick one: Martial Arts or a specfic weapon group)
9	Choose 3: Bureaucratics, Interrogation, Survival, Systems Operations, Oratory, Tactics, 3 point combat skill level
3	Rank: W-1, Warrant Officer
8	Combat Skill Levels: Choose 8 points worth
1	+1 to "PS: ____________________ (Job or Rating)"
	Disadvantage
10	Watched by The Corps, More Powerful, 15. Appearance: 11 or less, +5. Non-combat Influence: Extensive, +5. Geographical Area: Limited, -5. Only Watching: x½
5	Distinctive feature (Military look and bearing, uniform) Easily Concealable, 5. Noticed and recognized, +0
3	Package Bonus
4	Total

Commissioned Officers

Attaining a commossion in the Corps is a difficult and highly selective process. Consequentially, Officers in the Corps are highly intelligent, motivated, and (above all) educated individuals. A typical Staff Officer in the Corps is qualified specialist in a career field which is a profession unto itself, such as physicians, lawyers, civil engineers, etc... Line Officers, in additional to having the equivalent of a "standard higher education" are trained in command, tactics, other fine points of warfare.

Commissioned Officer
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
2	KS: Enemies of the Commonwealth	11
2	KS: Protectorate Corps	11
2	WF: Small Arms
4	Rank: O-1, Ensign
3	Bureaucratics	PRE
8	8 points of Knowledge Skills or Science Skill representing completion of a college degree program (or equivalent).
3	Choose 3: Conversation, High Society, Interrogation, Oratory, Persuasion, Streetwise, Tactics, +3 PRE, 3 point combat skill
	Disadvantage
10	Watched by The Corps, More Powerful, 15. Appearance: 11 or less, +5. Non-combat Influence: Extensive, +5. Geographical Area: Limited, -5. Only Watching: x½
5	Distinctive feature (Military look and bearing, uniform) Easily Concealable, 5. Noticed and recognized, +0
1	Package Bonus
-8	Total

Ratings and Specialities

All of these package deals require that the character also have one of the rank/rate package deals listed above.

Amored Infantry

Corps personel (Marine only) in this field operate, employ, maneuver, and maintain tracked vehicles. They are a central part of the combined arms team during both orbit-to-land assaults and subsequent planet-based operations.

Armored Infantry
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
2	TF: Ground Vehicles
3	Combat Driving	DEX
1	WF: Vehicle Mounted Weapons
3	Mechanics	11
3	Electronics	11
3	Systems Operations	INT
15	Total

Engineering

Corps personel in this field repair, maintain, and operate heavy equipment. These Corps personel construct and repair military structures and facilities; they clear and emplace obstacles and minefields. Combat Engineers also construct standard and nonstandard bridging, and emplace and detonate explosives for construction and demolition projects.

Engineering Specialist
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
3	Demolitions	11
3	Electronics	11
3	Mechanics	11
3	KS: Communication Systems	INT
2	KS: Construction Techniques	11
2	KS: Explosives	11
3	KS: Military Engineering	11
2	KS: FTL Drive Technology	11
2	KS: Shield Systems	11
2	KS: Starship Weapons	11
2	KS: Shuttlecraft	11
3	Systems Operations	INT
30	Total

Medical

Corps personel in this field are (depending on rank and experience) doctors, nurses, corpmen, medics, lab technicians, etc... and are responsible for the health of Corps personel. They are also, at times, deployed into the civilal front; particularly in times of disaster or other, unexpected, needs that the civial medical community can not deal with on their own.

Medical Specialist
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
3	Computer Programming	INT
3	Paramedic	INT
2	LS: ___________________ (fluent)	DEX
6	Pick 3 (SS: Botany, SS: Ecology, SS: Exobiology, SS: Genetics, SS: Zoology)	11
4	SS: Any general medical science	INT + 1
3	SS: Any medical speciality	INT
2	SS: Another medical science	11
23	Total

Navigation

Corps personel in this, in addition to the operating the navigational systems on board ships, are also trained to navigate through space without the aid of the computer systesm. They are also trained in piloting and helm control, although most have not logged the flight time required to handle piloting in a combat situation.

Navigator
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
3	Computer Programming	INT
7	Navigation	INT + 2
3	Systems Operations	INT
2	KS: Shield Systems	DEX
2	SS: Astronomy	11
2	SS: Astrogation	11
2	SS: Astronautics	11
2	SS: Mathemetics	11
1	Pick 1 (TF: Large Spaceships, TF: Small Spaceships)
24	Total

Operational Communications

Corps personel in this field install, interconnect, and operate electrical and electronic equipment and systems used to transmit messages and data.

Communications Specialist
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
7	Systems Operation	INT + 2
3	Electronics	11
2	KS: Damage Control Procdures	11
2	LS: _______________________ (fluent)
2	LS: _______________________ (fluent)
2	LS: _______________________ (fluent)
2	KS: Commonwealth History	11
22	Total

Piloting

Corps personel of this speciality either pilot small space and aircraft or are helm control officers in large spacecraft. Corps pilots are also receive basic training in the operation and use of other starship systems and are quailified (if unremarkable) navigators. Marine Corps personel are not trained to pilot large spaceships.

Pilot
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
1	Pick 1 (TF: Large Spaceships, TF: Small Spaceships)
3	Combat Piloting	DEX
2	SS: Astronautics	11
2	SS: Astronomy	11
3	Navigation (Space)	INT
2	KS: Shield Systems	11
2	KS: Starship Weapons	11
2	KS: Shuttlecraft	11
2	TF: Space Vehicles
19	Total

Science

A large part of what the Corps does, particulary in times of peace, is exploration. For exploration to have any meaning or use, people capable of understanding the discoveries made must be present. Every Corps spacecraft capable of interstellar travel has a Science Specialist assigned to its crew, and medium to large vessels will have a Science crew (number of staff depending on the size and purpose of the vessel).

Corps Science Specialists are competant and trained scientists, although very few who serve aboard ship are highly specialize.

Science Specialist
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
3	Computer Programming	INT
3	Electronics	11
2	LS: _______________________ (fluent)
2	KS: Computer Technologies	11
2	KS: Starship Sensors	11
3	Scientist
4	SS: ____________________	INT + 2
4	SS: ____________________	INT + 2
3	SS: ____________________	INT + 1
3	SS: ____________________	INT + 1
2	SS: ____________________	INT
1	SS: ____________________	11
32	Total

Security

Corps personel in this field work as police officers and correctional guards. Other duties may include registering privately owned vehicles and weapons, countering terrorism, handling prisonors of war, investigating offenses and providing flightline security.

Security
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
4	Combat Level: +2 OCV with (pick one: Pistol or Rifle)
1	TF: Small Spaceships
1	TF: Air transports
3	Combat Piloting	DEX
2	KS: Investigative Procedures	11
2	KS: Police Procedures	11
2	KS: Small Weapons	11
2	KS: Security Procedures	11
2	KS: Terrorist Techniques and Practices	11
3	Tactics	INT
22	Total

Special Forces

Dedicated combat specialists, the Corps Special Forces are the people sent into the most dangerous combat situations. Trained to handle themselves in any situation, a members of the Corps Special Forces can operate in a squad, fireteam or alone (grouping larger than a squad would be unusual and possibly counterproductive). In addition to the combat and survival training they receive, CSF personel are also taught basic infiltration techniques.

Special Forces
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
4	Combat Level: +2 OCV with (pick one: Pistol or Rifle)
5	Combat Level: +1 with Hand-to-Hand
3	Combat Piloting (Shuttlecraft)	DEX
3	Computer Programming	INT
3	Disguise	11
5	Stealth	DEX + 1
3	Survival	11
3	Tactics	INT
1	TF: Small Spacecraft
3	Weaponsmith (Pick one: pistol or rifle)	11
33	Total

Special Operations

Corps Special Operation is a specialized infiltration division. Special Ops personel typically operate completely alone in the field with Inntelligence support from the Corps. Trained in a wide variety of skills, Special Ops personel are all quite adept at their task. The Special Ops division is the smallest Corps division, with only a couple of dozen trained operatives at any given time. This division also has the highest mortality rate, higher even then Special Forces when taken has a percentage of the total number of peronal involved.

Special Ops
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
5	Acting	PRE + 1
3	Bugging	INT
6	Choose 2: Bureaucratics, Conversation, Demolitions, a 3 point Language Skill, Mimicry, Streetwise, Tracking
3	Choose 1: Acrobatics, Breakfall, Gambling, Tracking
3	Combat Piloting (Shuttlecraft)	DEX
3	Computer Programming	INT
5	Concealment	INT + 1
5	Disguise	12
3	Security Systems	INT
5	Shadowing	12
1	TF: Small Spacecraft
42	Total

The Commonwealth Peacekeeper Force

Background

A Commonwealth-wide, combined, organization charged with keeping the peace, enforcing the law, and protecting the citizen of the Commonwealth. The CPF exists exists the office of the Minister of the Interior.

(How did the group start? What's it do? Where's it fit into the setting?)

Organization (What's the heirarchy?)

Membership Levels

Ranks

The use of the word "rank" for Corp enlisted personnel is incorrect. The term is "rate." The rating badge is a combination of rate (pay grade) and rating (occupational specialty).

Important NPCs

(detail a few personalities that PCs are likely to encounter)

Other NPCs

(detail a few "average members" of the group)

Peacekeeper Force Package Deals

Officer Trainee

There is no package deal for an officer trainee. If you are an oficer trainee, the CPF hasn't taught you anything yet, so you don't know anything yet.

Officer / Corporal

The rank and file fo the CPF. De to the lack of any strong delinitaiton of the skillset for each rank, the standard office/corporal package is the only rank written up in this book. Gms are, of course, free to write up more detailed packages for the various ranks in the CPF.

Officer / Corporal
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
3	Rank: Officer/Corporal
2	TF: Air vehicles
3	Combat Driving	DEX
3	Criminology	INT
3	Deduction	INT
3	Streetwise	PRE
2	KS: Police procedures	11
2	KS: Criminal Law	11
2	WF: Small arms
2	Perk: Local Police powers
2	AK: Area of jurisdiction	11
	Disadvantage
-3	Package Bonus
-15	Hunted: Local Criminal Element 8-
4	Total

Specialities

Anti-terrorist squad

CPF personel of this speciality are specifically trained to combat terrorists and terrorists attacks on civilians and civilian installations.

Anto-terrorist Squad
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
1	TF: Small spaceships
2	TF: Aircraft
3	Combat Piloting	DEX
4	Combat Level: +2 OCV with (pick one: Pistol or Rifle)
5	Combat Level: +1 with Hand-to-Hand
3	Bugging	INT
3	Concealment	INT
3	Demolitions	11
3	Interrogation	PRE
3	Shadowing	11
3	Stealth	DEX
3	Tactics	INT
36	Total

Medical

CPF personel in this field are (depending on rank and experience) doctors, nurses, corpmen, medics, lab technicians, etc... and are responsible for the health of CPF personel. They are also, at times, deployed into the civilal front; particularly in times of disaster or other, unexpected, needs that the civial medical community can not deal with on their own.

Medical Specialist
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
3	Computer Programming	INT
3	Paramedic	INT
2	LS: ___________________ (fluent)	DEX
6	Pick 3 (SS: Botany, SS: Ecology, SS: Exobiology, SS: Genetics, SS: Zoology)	11
4	SS: Any general medical science	INT + 1
3	SS: Any medical speciality	INT
2	SS: Another medical science	11
23	Total

Piloting

CPF personel of this speciality pilot small space and aircraft. CPF pilots are also receive basic training in the operation and use of other starship systems and are quailified (if unremarkable) navigators.

Pilot
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
1	TF: Small spaceships
3	Combat Piloting	DEX
2	SS: Astronautics	11
2	SS: Astronomy	11
3	Navigation (Space)	INT
2	KS: Shield Systems	11
2	KS: Starship Weapons	11
2	KS: Shuttlecraft	11
17	Total

Science

CPF Science Specialists are competant and trained scientists, although very few are highly specialize. For the most part the are Forensic's experts and speciliazed investigators.

Science Specialist
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
3	Computer Programming	INT
3	Electronics	11
2	LS: _______________________ (fluent)
2	KS: Computer Technologies	11
3	Forensic Medicine	INT
3	Scientist
4	SS: ____________________	INT + 2
3	SS: ____________________	INT + 1
2	SS: ____________________	INT
1	SS: ____________________	11
26	Total

Security

CPF personel in this field work as correctional guards and as a security force for civilian officials. Other duties may include registering privately owned vehicles and weapons, countering terrorism, and transporting prisonors.

Security
Cost	Ability	End/Roll
4	Combat Level: +2 OCV with (pick one: Pistol or Rifle)
1	TF: Small spaceships
1	TF: Air transports
3	Combat Piloting	DEX
2	KS: Small Weapons	11
2	KS: Security Procedures	11
2	KS: Terrorist Techniques and Practices	11
3	Tactics	INT
18	Total

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