Career Paths

INTRODUCTION
Listed below are the three careers and corresponding command styles recognized by the Inner Andromeda Alliance.  An individual's career is semi-permanent, and may only be changed at the start of a new phase at the IAA Resistance Command Station if desired.




REVOLUTIONIST (OF)
You are a revolutionist, a freedom fighter, a rebel with a cause.  You are the voice of the people, and it is with your mighty sword that the strongest blows will be dealt upon the wretched bourgeoisie.  You command a robust ship of the line, conquered by the Alliance during the initial strikes on Wellspring, and one of the toughest hulls in space.  Your crew are laymen, unskilled fugitives with little experience in the dark skies, but fuelled by a passion to depose the corrupt and avenge the fallen.  The future is yours to discover, and the universe will become your empire.  For the People.  For the Revolution.


STRENGTHS
+25% maximum integrity
-20% power cost for point-defense and adaptive safeguard modules (flagship only)
-50% core system repair cost


WEAKNESS
+50% burn cost (flagship only)


FLAGSHIP SPECIALTY
Sacrifice for Survival
Reduces enemy weapon damage and core system vulnerability by 50%, but negates all local offensive capabilities while active




BUCCANEER (PR)
You are a buccaneer, a hijacker, a saboteur, in command of a mighty warhorse and a company of loyal hands.  You indulge in your new-found freedom as a pirate, preying on the wealth of the capitalist regime. You are loyal to the cause as any other, but your motivations are more self-serving than most.  You look upon the bourgeoisie with great contempt, and devote your efforts to crippling the powers that be in fierce defiance of the status quo.  Your ship is largely stripped of its former industrial glory, but you prefer to get what you want at the point of a gun and let someone else break the sweat; you've worked long enough.  Now it's your time for glory, but the long voyage will be nothing short of treacherous.


STRENGTHS
-50% power cost for folding interdiction modules
-50% power cost for exhaust booster modules (flagship only)
-20% power cost for artillery modules


WEAKNESS
-50% hull hangar size (flagship only)


FLAGSHIP SPECIALTY
Sacrifice for Victory
Increases damage projection by 50% at the risk of overloading offensive modules to destruction (20% chance)




OPPORTUNIST (UT)
You are a opportunist, a smuggler, one of the fortunate few to avoid a hard life under the bourgeoisie.  Your feigned loyalty to the Commission has served its purpose, and now you take up arms with your new-found kin.  Your crew are weathered and your ship is worn, but the fire raging inside propels you evermore.  You specialize in independent industry, salvage recovery, and unconventional warfare, which complement your cunning knack for keeping out of trouble.  You are no gladiator; your flagship is bereft of armor, making her versatile but exceptionally vulnerable, and neglecting to act on such will surely end your career in a hurry.


STRENGTHS
x 3 DRV salvage efficiency
+50% moorings (flagship only)
+40% ware storage capacity
-20% power cost for remote support modules (flagship only)


WEAKNESS
-40% maximum integrity (flagship only)


FLAGSHIP SPECIALTY
Sacrifice for Evasion
Provides immunity to folding interdiction at the risk of hull damage (50 to 150 points; 20% chance)