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Engineer

Name

Engineer

Skill Attribute & Difficulty

Int - Hard

Defaults

Special

Prerequisites

Mathematics (Applied) at TL5+, plus others as noted.

Description

This is the ability to design and build technological devices and systems. A successful roll lets you design a new system, diagnose a glitch, identify the purpose of a strange device, or improvise a gadget to solve a problem. Time required for each attempt is up to the GM. Note that engineers are designers and inventors; they are not necessarily skilled at the routine operation or maintenance of the things they design! For instance, Engineer (Small Arms) lets you design a new assault rifle, but you need Armoury skill to maintain it and Guns skill to shoot it.

Specializations

Artillery

Defaults: Armory (Heavy Weapons)-6 Designing whatever passes for artillery at your tech level, from trebuchets to smart missiles.

Civil

Defaults: Architecture-6 Planning highways, aqueducts, buildings, etc.

Clockwork

Defaults: Mechanic (Clockwork)-6 Designing wind-up gadgetry such as watches, mechanical men, etc.

Combat

Defaults: Explosives (Demolition)-6 Building or removing fortifications, trenches, etc.

Electrical

Defaults: Electrician-6 Designing electrical systems, such as power cells and transmission lines.

Electronics

Defaults: Electronics Repair (Any)-6 Designing and building electronic apparatus, from computers to sensor arrays. (The specific technologies involved: "Vacuum tubes, transistors, photonics, etc." will depend on the tech level.)

Materials

Defaults: Chemistry-6, Metallurgy-6 Prerequisites: Chemistry or Metallurgy Concocting new structural materials.

Microtechnology

Defaults: Mechanic (Micromachines)-6 Designing Micromachines

Mining

Defaults: Explosives (Demolition)-6, Geology (Any)-6 Designing underground structures.

Robotics

Defaults: Mechanic (Robotics)-6 Designing robotics and cybernetics.

Small arms

Defaults: Armory (Small arms)-6 Designing personal firearms, such as guns and portable rocket launchers.

Vehicle Type

Defaults: Mechanic (Same vehicle type)-6 Designing a single, broad class of vehicle. Examples include Engineer (Automobiles), Engineer (Ships), and Engineer (Starships).

Exotic Specializations

Parachronic

Defaults: Electronics Operation (Parachronic)-6. No default if your society has not discovered dimensional travel. Prerequisites: Physics Designing apparatus for crossing dimensions

Psychotronics

Defaults: Electronics Operation (Psychotronics)-6. No default for individuals from backgrounds where psionics do not exist. Designing psionic technology, such as telepathic shield and amplifiers.

Engineer specialties normally default to one another at -4; however, there is no default between exotic specialties (Parachronic, Psychotronics) and more mundane ones (Civil, Combat, Mining, etc.).

Modifiers

Equipment modifiers. Up to +5 to build a gadget if you can give the GM a good description of what you want it to do.

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Sirplyot.

System

Homebrew / In Development

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Starfire Rebranded Skills Template

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Homebrew / In Development Starfire Rebranded Skills Template: Engineer

Engineer

Artillery

Civil

Clockwork

Combat

Electrical

Electronics

Materials

Microtechnology

Mining

Robotics

Small arms

Vehicle Type

Exotic Specializations

Parachronic

Psychotronics

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