2. Choose a primary Gig, and take a listed Quality from it. If it is a Solo Gig, pick a job tactic from it.

- [[Gig Props|#Gig Props]]

- [[Qualities|#Qualities]]

1. Choose a religion for your crusader, but not Knights of Liberty Corps (Knight) or Temple of Etheric Resplendence (Lightbearer).

2. Choose an operative that is your best friend or create one.

1. Decide on a empire world where you gained your Duke/Duchess title, and the province of that world that is your duchy.

1. Choose a religion for your missionary, but not Knights of Liberty Corps (Knight).

1. Decide on the method your operative employs to does their hits; quick-decay poisons, net code, freak accidents.

3. Choose your favorite spot to go and carouse.

* ==Meal with an Operative==: Have a meal with a fellow operative, and work them for good intel. Next time you Pay Your Dues, get +1 Wealth and ask the Director for a Spade.

* ==Work the Racket==: Collect protection holo (holocred) from an unregistered haven for the Network. You may set up an angle for free for the next job.

* ==Hold a Subnet Service==: Get on the local subnet and hold a service for your religion. Get +1 to Luck, Safety, or Wealth (one of your choice).

* ==Complete a Hit==: Take out a target for the Network. Get -1 Safety and +1 to both Luck and Wealth.

* ==Give a Sermon==: Set up and host a local service for your religion. Get +1 Wealth, and +1 Luck or Safety. One other operative may attend; if they do, you take one of their Fortune tokens, and they get +1 Comfort.

* ==Make a Courier Run==: Run data or messages for the Network across the stratosphere. Get -1 Safety and +1 to both Luck and Wealth.

* ==Leak Something to the Network==: Leak some intel you are providing to your Empire contact back to your Network Handler. Get -1 Safety and +1 Luck. If another operative is willing to accept a Fortune token from you, they get -1 Safety and a Heart.

A Chipper, or casually Chiphead/Chipped, has purchased a Mirrochip on the black market. While each person in Etheria is a node in the galactic ‘Net, each mind is blocked from accessing it directly by the thought barrier. Not the Chipper, they plug the Mirrochip into their port, and then can jack into the Matrix. This is a projection of the ‘Net as a virtual space a chipper can enter and exit. A serious Chipper also has a Sleeve, a device that wraps an arm, which can be loaded with caps containing single-use Matrix programs. Using these highly illegal tools, a Chipper can explore the ‘Net in ways no one else can.

A Face, or casually a Shill, is a particular type of confidence man with a focus on charisma and charm. A social tactician or merit, but unlike the Shark, the Face remains the same always. They embrace a charismatic persona and flex the power of a mighty Patron behind them. Building a web of support in all arenas as they go forth, the Face hides in plain sight.

**Tagline**: Baby you can trust me, I got you.

**Props**: Platinum Holocard.

- **Artfully Charming**: You have a sort of passive natural charm that works on whoever you want, usually with them not even realizing. When using this Quality for leverage you may mark down Luck for 1 leverage.

A Heavy, or casually a Hitter, is a combat specialist. Not a ground, air, or space warfare specialist, but a behind-the-scenes show up suddenly and take some people out kind of combat professional. There are many types of Heavies, but the most common is the Duplicator. You use a special single-use cap called Carbon-Copy to put yourself into a Red type Automata (combat synthetic), and essentially fall into a temporary coma. Then you do whatever you need to do in your synthetic body. Eventually, your body recovers, and the copy of yourself in the Auto burns out. In order to better serve your needs, you bought an Autoworks at some point. This is a toolkit that lets you tool up Automata, including straight changing their model type.

**Tagline**: Ok, so I go in and kick ass. Rinse and repeat.

**Props**: Autoworks, 1 Carbon-Copy cap.

- **Yes, that is a missle rack**: When you CC into a Red type Auto, it fabricates a serious business missle rack. When in a Combat Situation, your attack contests automatically have boths Means and one leverage. If you trade these in, you can instead attack all valid targets at once, and the rack is disabled for the current situation.

- **Code Breaker**: You have never met a code you couldn't crack. When applying this towards a Contest you may spend one Fortune to get Assistance.

The Mastermind has an additional Rating for their character: Focus. This begins at 6, and once per sequence between jobs they can meditate, reducing Comfort 1 level and increasing Focus 1 level. When Focus reaches 0, they meet a Sanity Crisis.

- **The Perfect Plan**: You may reduce Focus 1 step and earn 1 or 2 Progress towards the job.

A Technomancer, or, more casually, a Mage, is someone who has been taught the ways of technomancy by a mentor. This is an advanced skill set that can create direct effects, not unlike magic, from the use of pure ACE. Technomancy is a high crime in the Empire and is actively hunted. The rub to that is the first magic taught to the technomancer is cloaking magic. If the safe is beyond that wall, the technomancer walks through it.

- **Technomancy**: You may reduce Cloak 1 step and earn 1 or 2 Progress towards the job.

- **Just Built Different**: Your body hacking has given you stunning amounts of strength and toughness, even exceeding a Red Auto. If you apply this towards a Contest you may spend one Fortune and mark down Chill to earn Assistance.

- **Superiority**: You may reduce Chill 1 step and earn 1 or 2 Progress towards the job.

- **Carbon-Copy Cap**: A caplet that let's you duplicate into an Auto and your normal body falls into copy sleep for a few hours. Eventually your duplicate in the Auto burns out, generally within a day. Like many caps, these are single-use. It costs 1 Wealth (markdown) to buy 1 such cap on the black market.

- **Platinum Holocard**: A not quite unlimited line of holocred given to the Face from their patron.

- **Simsuit**: A very advanced suit that gives the wearer the ability to alter their appearance. It's complexity field creates more than just illusion, changing both the look and tactile feel of the wearer. This does mean it has the downsides of a coplexity field though (touching fields completely disrupt each other, and so on). The other limitation is that changing the field is a complicated mental process that takes a full minute.

- **Stareye**: A bio-engineered eye replacement allowing the technomancer to work magic.

Job Tactics are methods your operative can use at times when on the job to make sure it gets done.