As you take the first step in creating your character, you determine which Volume they belong too. A Volume is like a special book from which you can choose things for your character. You just answer three simple yes or no questions, and you get the **Volume** given the exact combination. Here are the questions:
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As you take the first step in creating your character, you determine which Volume they belong too. A Volume is like a special book from which you can choose things for your character. Each of the eight Volumes in the game gives your character a place in the Network, but not a specific job. You just answer three simple yes or no questions, and you get the **Volume** given the exact combination. Here are the questions:
1. Does your Operative live under a false identity? _There are many reasons to do so, but this gives life another level of complexity. Operative will end up a Runner, Professional, Insider, or Crusader._
2. Has your Operative killed someone before? _Murder is extreme, but sometimes necessary. Operative will end up a Irregular, Professional, Rector, or Crusader_
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## Volume: Crusader
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Your Operative belongs to a recognized Religion, and has taken brutal action in the name of the cause, under the direction of Control. This status gives you special dispensation from Control, but the Empire has an active file on your actions and does not approve.
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Your Operative belongs to a recognized Religion, and has taken brutal action in the name of the cause, under the direction of Control. This status gives you special dispensation from Control, but the Empire has an active file on your actions and does not approve. Within the Network Crusaders are pretty common, and often seek to promote their Religion via actions in the criminal syndicate. However unlike their brethren the Missionary, they don't usually evangelize their cause.
## Volume: Insider
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Your Operative is an erased member of Control infiltrating the Network to keep tabs on their operations. Unlike the Spook, the Network can never know you are a part of Control, as they have a zero tolerance policy do to history gone awry.
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Your Operative is an erased member of Control infiltrating the Network to keep tabs on their operations. Unlike the Spook, the Network can never know you are a part of Control, as they have a zero tolerance policy. The Insider is truly erased, they can never return to their identity as part of Control. This gives them certain advantages in maintaining their secrecy. You'll have a handler from Control that knows you are an Insider, and feed information about the Network back to that handler.
## Volume: Irregular
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Your Operative is a Mercenary, a gun for hire. You probably have earned a Duke title of an Empire world, having done a recognized Service for the Empire.
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Your Operative is a Mercenary, a gun for hire. You probably have earned a Duke title from an Empire world, having done a recognized Service for the Empire. Often this means you led an action team and dealt with a Pirate group, making you at least a leader of some manner, and often a soldier. Irregulars comprise a large bulk of the Network, as they are the ones that often directly get their hands dirty.
## Volume: Missionary
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Your Operative belongs to a recognized Religion, and seeks to spread the word. This status gives you special dispensation from both Control and the Empire.
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Your Operative belongs to a recognized Religion, and seeks to spread the word. This status gives you special dispensation from both Control and the Empire. This recognition makes you powerful both inside and outside the Network. While you evangelize your cause, it is often the case that you don't fully believe at all and are in just in the game for the power you can gain. Though, that isn't ever public knowledge as you would quickly lose your position of power.
## Volume: Professional
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Your Operative is a Professional killer, assassin for hire.
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Your Operative is a Professional killer, assassin for hire. Along with the Rector, the most rare of the Operatives in the network. While you can make a straight-up cold-blooded killer type, that isn't the norm for these Network Operatives. Most Professionals are clever accident makers, employ Net Code, or engineer quick decay poisons to get their work done. These people are often the most feared of the Operatives.
## Volume: Rector
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Your Operative belongs to a recognized Religion, and has taken brutal action in the name of the cause. This status gives you special dispensation from the Empire, but Control has an active file on your actions and does not approve.
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Your Operative belongs to a recognized Religion, and has taken brutal action in the name of the cause. This status gives you special dispensation from the Empire, but Control has an active file on your actions and does not approve. Unlike the Crusader, the Rector has taken a title from the Empire, and in return gained standing and power. As a Rector you are head of a small church, which both grants many benefits at the cost of time vested maintaining it.
## Volume: Runner
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Your Operative trades in secrets and operates as a fixer forging connections between people and the Network.
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Your Operative trades in secrets and operates as a fixer forging connections between people and the Network. Runners and Irregulars make up the bulk of the Operatives in the Network. You likely have a Mirrochip, which lets you interface with the 'Net in ways normal people can't. However using the Mirrochip is tricky work, and you have spent either much expense or time to get mastery over it.
## Volume: Spook
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Your Operative reports to a World of the Empire or a Union. You are a not-so-secret agent, which is to say that the Network is in general quite aware of your infiltration. You are good at what you do though, and tolerance is granted as long as you play ball with Network Security - known internally as Sec Ops.
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Your Operative reports to a World of the Empire or a Union on the activities of the Network. You are a not-so-secret agent, which is to say that the Network is in general quite aware of your infiltration. You are good at what you do though, and tolerance is granted as long as you play ball with Network Security - known internally as Sec Ops. Even though you work for the given organization of power, its secret work. You don't get any standing or protection, and are in fact walking a very dangerous tightrope every day. To add to you risk, to maintain your security you often have to leak what information you are reporting to a Network handler, which would obviously make your organization quite unhappy with you if ever discovered.
