Career/Specialty Education (2 years)

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Accountant

(Min IQ12. 2 years training. Starting age: 20.)

Accountants are jokingly referred to across known space as the most boring people alive, however this is an incorrect stereotype for most of them. Accountants earn high wages, and young accountants commonly use this to lead exciting and fun packed lives. All accountants are paid to keep secrets. Some of those secrets, and their secretive activities, are less morally correct then others.

MOS Skills

• Math: Basic +25%
• Math: Advanced +15%
• Accounting +20%
• Computer Operation +10%

OCC Related Skills: 12

Actor

(Min PB8. 6 months training. Starting age: any.)

Actors can be found in many avenues of the entertainment business, such as movies, TV programs, advertisements, radio ads (voiceovers,) to theatre performances. Many actors live on very low wages, continuing to act for the love of the job. If they get their big break though, they can potentially make millions for each performance. However most will have their share of dead-end jobs whilst in between acting jobs or waiting for their big break.

MOS Skills

• Acting +20%
• Performance +15%
• Public Speaking +10%
• Research +5%

OCC Related Skills: 13

Administrator (Office)

(Min IQ8. 3 months on job training. Starting age: 16.)

Often overlooked, but an essential part of all businesses. Administrators makeup the bulk of most companies and are the gears that keep them working efficiently. Without the paperwork being done, phones being answered and sundry other office jobs being completed, most companies would grind to a halt. Most office administrators, be they doing simple data entry work, or the personal assistant to the president of a company, receive most of their training on the job, learning as they go. There are specialty schools set up to educate office administrators, but it is not a requirement to the job.

MOS Skills

• Computer Operation +10%
• Bureaucracy +15
• Business Management +5%
• Writing +10%
• Accounting +5%

OCC Related Skills: 14

Air/Space Traffic Controller

(Min IQ9 & ME10. 6 months training. Starting age: 18.)

Ensuring that air and space traffic over a planet or around an airfield is safe and does not cause a crash is an essential job on busily trafficked areas. Air and space traffic controllers must have sharp attentive skills and keen observation, being able to juggle and safely organize dozens, sometimes hundreds of vehicles at once. The job is a stressful one as such keen attention is required, so traffic controllers are given plenty of breaks on their shifts to keep their minds clear and focused.

MOS Skills

• Read Sensory Instruments +20%
• Lore: Flight Operations +20%
• Bureaucracy +10
• Radio: basic +15%

OCC Related Skills: 12

Animal Training

(Min ME9. 12 months training. Starting age: any.)

Animals are something that people on many planets love. Pets and other domesticated animals often require training to ensure that they are well behaved and do not destroy things. Animal trainers commonly train dogs, however they can specialize in any specific animal or group of animals. As a result, most animal trainers can be found in a zoo.

MOS Skills

• Animal Trainer +20%
• Tame Animals +15%
• Animal Husbandry +10%
• Lore: choose animal +15%

OCC Related Skills: 14

Artist/Graphic Designer

(Min IQ8. 2 years training. Starting age: 18.)

A photograph can capture a moment frozen for all time as it is. But an artist can paint a picture, or alter a photograph to give an image depth, emotion, soul and feeling. Artists commonly receive formal training by undertaking a 2-year art course. Some may even go on to study art at a university. Others will learn by their mistakes and undergo no formal training. Graphic designers are both regularly employed and work freelance. Luck at finding a job and personal choice are the deciding factors.

MOS Skills

• Art +25%
• Drawing - Pencil/Ink/Chalk +20%
• Computer Operation +15%
• Photography +15%

OCC Related Skills: 14

Cameraman

(Min IQ9. 2 years training. Starting age: 18.)

A cameraman learns in a 2-year media course everything these is to know about operating cameras and filming. From photography through to TV and movie film cameras. They do not learn the finer arts of production or directing, but they learn about framing a shot, camera angles, basic lighting, how to care and handle film and cameras and what sort of camera, lens and film should be used for each shot. In addition to any other additional equipment that may be required, such as nightvision adapters for the camera. Cameramen, (generic term referring to both sexes,) are also trained on how to make minor repairs to their equipment also.

MOS Skills

• Photography +25%
• TV/Video +15%
• Basic Electronics +10%
• Optic Systems +10%
• Computer Operation +10%

OCC Related Skills: 9

Communications/Telecoms Engineer

(Min IQ9. 1 years training. Starting age: 18.)

Telecommunications engineers are trained to install, repair and upgrade telecommunications equipment, such as telephone networks and radio equipment. Many telecommunications engineers seek extra training in the area of satellite relay after their basic training, as it is an advanced area to study and leads into fold-space communications training, which is highly paid work everywhere in the known territories.

MOS Skills

• Telephone Networks +20%
• Electrical Engineer +15%
• Radio Basic +10%
• Radio Advanced +10%
• Basic Mechanics +10%
• Read Sensory Equipment +5%

OCC Related Skills: 8

Computer Hacker

(Min IQ9. 6 months self-training min. Starting age: any.)

Most computer hackers are school, college or university students and are learning about computers with a desire to one day have a job working with computers. Learning by trial and error and a few books they have bought about computers is their way of learning, and they learn at a slow rate, picking up hints and tips here and there on the Internet of the 21st century. There is another type of hacker, however, the type that commonly gets into the news. The hackers that are referred to by other hackers as crackers, as they crack into computer systems and cause mayhem and destruction.

MOS Skills

• Computer Hacking +20%
• Computer Operations +15%
• Computer Programming +15%
• Basic Electronics +5%
• Research +10%
• Streetwise (limited to hackers and crackers – those notorious on the local internet) +15%

OCC Related Skills:' 9

Computer SysAdmin/Op

(Min IQ12. 1-2 years training. Starting age: 18.)

System Administrators/Operators are responsible for administering and running computers and computer networks. They ensure that the system is working, up-to-date and available for users who wish to log in. SysAdmins and SysOps usually have some programming and hacking knowledge, as they need to be able to edit files and programs and defend their systems against computer attacks and viruses.

MOS Skills

• Computer Operations +25%
• Computer Programming +15%
• Computer Hacking +10%
• Computer Language: pick one +10%

OCC Related Skills: 8

Dancer

(Min PP12, 2 years training(For most types). Starting age: 16.)

There are many types of dancer and dancing. The types of dancing that are covered by formal training at a dance school are classical, ballet & modern. Exotic dancing requires no formal training. Exotic dancing, performed properly, requires a certain level of ability and physical strength. Classical, modern and ballet dancing all require poise, grace and co-ordination to be performed properly.

MOS Skills

• Dance: general +15%
• Dance: Choose style +25%
• Aerobics
• Athletics

OCC Related Skills: 10

Designer (Clothes)

(Min IQ10, 2 years training. Starting age: 20.)

High fashion is a cutthroat business and designers must ensure that they stay on top of what is and what isn't fashionable. Competition in the fashion market is fierce with designers always trying to get the most fashionable design with the latest model wearing it so that they can sell their designs and get more work. Most designers apprentice themselves to a known fashion house after completing their training so that they can pick up tips from the more famous designers.

MOS Skills

• Sewing +15%
• Weaving +15%
• Lore: Clothes design +10%
• Streetwise: fashion world only +15%
• Art +15%

OCC Related Skills: 9

Destroid Pilot

(Min IQ8, 6 months training. Starting age: 18.)

The Destroids that aren't used by the UN Armed Forces have either been scrapped or sold to civilian companies or collectors. The vast majority sold to construction companies require trained pilots trained to work in close coordination with unprotected workers in construction and demolition work. These well-trained pilots are also trained in operating the other heavy equipment found on construction sights.

MOS Skills

• Pilot Heavy Construction Equipment +10%
• Pilot Destroid +15%
• Read Sensory Instruments +10%
• Construction +15%
• Demolitions +10% (civilian types only)

OCC Related Skills: 12

Diver

(Min PE8, 18 months training. Starting age: 16.)

Divers are employed in and around seaports, coastal villages and water based construction and salvage operations. Divers are trained in SCUBA, with some even specializing in deep sea diving and piloting submersibles to get to things right on the sea floor that would cause a deep-sea diving suit to crack like an egg. Divers are extremely well compensated for the hazardous nature of the jobs that they routinely undertake.

MOS Skills

• Swimming +15%
• Swimming: S.C.U.B.A. +20%
• Boat: Motor and Hydrofoils +10%
• Navigation: Underwater +15%
• Radar/Sonar Operations +10%
• WP: Knife
• Underwater Construction +15%
• Underwater Demolitions +5% (civilian types only)

OCC Related Skills: 12

Driver (Professional Instructor)

(Min IQ9 & PP9, 9 months training. Starting age: 21.)

To teach other people how to drive takes a special kind of person: someone with calm nerves and quick reflexes. A driving instructor has to deal with nervous new drivers on a daily basis and they must be able to calm them and turn them into good and careful drivers.

MOS Skills

• Pilot Automobile +20%
• Automotive Mechanics +10%
• Lore: Driving +15%
• Teaching +10%
• Navigation +5%

OCC Related Skills: 10

Driver (Racing)

(Min IQ9 & PP12, 9 months training. Starting age: 21.)

Driving in excess of 100 Kmph takes nerves of steel and excellent reflexes. Which is why only a handful of people can handle the sheer speed of motor racing, being Formula 1, rally and so on. All race drivers have a good dose of bravado and fearlessness running through their veins. They are also well trained in the computers used to diagnose their racing cars so as to better assist the team in maintain the vehicles peak performance. Many racers also are well connected in the industry; mostly to recruit sponsors and a racing team.

MOS Skills

• Pilot Automobile +25%
• Lore: Racecar Driving +15%
• Automatic Mechanics +10%
• Computer Operation +5%
• Streetwise: racing world +10%

OCC Related Skills: 10

Electrician

(Min IQ9, 2 years training. Starting age: 18.)

Everyone needs an electrician. From construction companies who need newly built buildings wired, through to the average civilian whose electronics have blown and they requires someone to fix them. Some electricians study basic drafting skills to better read and/or assist plans of building wiring. Virtually all electricians have an aptitude for common mechanics, as they are similar, and sometimes necessary in the repair of the devices that they work on in their daily work.

MOS Skills

• Electrical Engineer +25%
• Basic Mechanics +15%
• Math: Advanced +10%
• Read Sensory Instruments +10%

OCC Related Skills: 12

FireFighter

(Min PS9 & PE9, 8 months training. Starting age: 18.)

Firefighters have a hard and dangerous job. They commonly rescue people trapped inside of burning buildings and must risk their own lives to save others. It is a job with low pay (compared to the risk level) but great rewards whenever the firefighter saves a life.

MOS Skills

• Lore: firefighting +25%
• Pilot Truck +15%
• Athletics
• First Aid +15%
• WP Fireman’s axe (training is focused on using the tool to assist in fighting fires. However, the average fireman’s aptitude for handling this weapon is quite skillful.)

OCC Related Skills: 10

Fitness Instructor

(Min PS9, PP10 & PE12, 12-18 months training. Starting age: 18.)

Fitness Instructors are people who are constantly working out as they lead customers and motivate those with less then stellar self-motivation to get in shape. These are the people that run gyms, fitness centers and sometimes are employed as the personal trainers of famous actors and musicians. Many of them are former professional sportsmen and women or athletes who have retired from the professional circuit.

MOS Skills

• Teaching: fitness instruction and motivation +10%
• Aerobics
• Body building
• Weight Lifting
• First Aid +15%

OCC Related Skills: 9

Florist

(Min IQ8, 6 months training. Starting age: 16.)

Creating artistic and emotion stimulating arrangements with various plants requires vision and imagination. The activity also takes trial and error learning how to get an arrangement of flowers to look and smell perfect. Top florists can charge exorbitant fees for their services and people will pay them as they can make flowers appear to do their bidding at will. Most florists strive to run their own business. Small business training is part and parcel with this occupation.

MOS Skills

• Lore: Floral Arrangement +20%
• Gardening +15%
• Lore: plants and flowers +15% (GM option: can upgrade this to botany.)
• Accounting +5%
• Business Management +10%

OCC Related Skills: 10

Hair Stylist

(Min PP8, 8 months training. Starting age: 16.)

Hair stylizing is not just cutting someone’s hair, but the skills needed to not only cut hair to match the image that the customer wants while adjusting to the customer’s face shape, while the stylist is being both trendy and an interesting conversationalist. Military hair stylists rarely need to worry about fashion trends, as their usual style is a grade 1 all over. Their knowledge of applying cosmetics and beauty products is not any official training, just accrued knowledge. Many stylists run their own business or strive to do so.

MOS Skills

• Lore: Barbering +25%
• Lore: Cosmetics +15%
• Lore: Fashion +15%
• Lore: Trends +5%
• Streetwise (limited to the fashion world) +10%
• Small Business Management +10%

OCC Related Skills: 12

Healer (Natural Medicine)

(Min IQ12, 2 years training. Starting age: 18.)

Trained in the art of recognizing, preparing, and applying natural medicines made from plants and/or their parts (roots, leaves, fruit, etc..) The holistic doctor is a natural pharmacist and naturalist who create drugs from vegetation and studies common ailments. They specialize in using plants to create salves, balms, ointments, and lotions, to soothe burns, boils, rashes, and insect bites; reduce swelling; create local anesthetics, and to heal wounds faster (twice normal.) Natural healers also create potions and tonics for upset stomachs and sleep disorders. The natural healer also has knowledge of where to find healing plants, edible fruit, roots, and bark, as well as how to use and/or avoid dangerous flora. The character can also preserve foods and knows how to set and mend bones, bandage cuts, and suture cuts.

MOS Skills

• Holistic Medicine +20% (Base skill is 20% + 5% per level)
• Paramedic +10%
• Biology +15%
• Chemistry +10%
• Botany +15%
• Lore: Plants and Herbs +15%

OCC Related Skills: 8

Journalist

(Min IQ9, 2 years training. Starting age: 18.)

Journalists are champions of the news. They tirelessly endeavor to bring us the news from around the galaxy, and sometimes put themselves in harms way to get it. Many journalists are more than a little ruthless and have no problems with `bending the law' to get a better story. News anchormen and women are also journalists, contrary to common belief. They have simply gone to the highest ranks of the journalist profession.

MOS Skills

• Journalism +25% (Using 1 extra skill gives an additional +10% bonus)
• Investigate +15%
• Research +15%
• Writing +15%
• Computer Operation +20%

OCC Related Skills: 10

Makeup/Beauty Artist

(Min PP8 & IQ9, 18 months training. Starting age: 16.)

The makeup/beauty artist receives a similar training as the hair stylist when it comes to hair stylizing. The similarity ends there. They also receive training in the application of makeup and beauty products. Many makeup/beauty artists cater to well paying clientele and train themselves in such techniques as massage and aromatherapy to offer more choices to their customers.

MOS Skills

• Make-up Application +25% (Base skill is 45% + 5% per level)
• Lore: barbering/hair stylizing +20%
• Streetwise: Fashion Industry +15%
• Business Management +5%

OCC Related Skills: 9

Miner

(Min PE9, 6 months training. Starting age: 16.)

Planets, asteroids and the vastness of space may seem to many to be wide and empty. But to those who know better, planets, asteroids and other stellar objects contain enormous amounts of resources. Miners will specialize in one area normally, although it is common for those who have been miners for a significant period of time to train in both earth and space based mining techniques. The more intelligent of those who wish to become a miner will go to university and learn mining engineering. These higher educated miners will often coordinate and organize resource extraction operations and searches for new extraction sights. Some of these educated miners go on to run their own prospecting and mining companies – starting from searching for sponsors, to running the day-to-day operations of a mine.

MOS Skills

• Mining - Earth/Space +20% (choose either earth or space, not both)
• Read Sensory Instruments +10%
• Computer Operation +10%
• Construction Demolitions +15%
• Pilot Truck/Spaceshuttle +10% (Choose one to match the terrain of the mining specialty.)

OCC Related Skills: 7

Miners who attend university receive the following (at a starting age of 20):

• Lore: Mining Engineering +25%
• Math: advanced +5%
• Business Management +10%
• Both earth and space based mining skills.
• +3 other skills

Music Producer

(Min IQ9, 2 years training. Starting age: 18.)

Music Producers may not always be able to play a musical instrument or carry a tune, but they usually know what good music sounds like. A music producer can record a singer or musician’s song, provide creative input to make the song that much better, organize it on a recording (CD, MD, memory stick, etc.,) and successfully market the song and the artist. Music producers are normally hard taskmasters and will commonly make the people singing or playing for them redo a piece over and over until it is perfect. Music producers also have extensive connections in the music industry, allowing them to wade through the cutthroat production companies and sign other artists to a production.

MOS Skills

• Lore: Recording Engineer +30%
• Music - Composition +20%
• Basic Electronics +10%
• Business Management +15%
• Marketing +15%
• Computer Operation +10%

OCC Related Skills: 5

Musician

(Min PP9, 1-3 years training. Starting age: any.)

Musicians are people with extraordinary skill with a musical instrument or instruments. Many of them live and breath only to play their musical instruments and would be lost without them. They may not know how to make a recording or organizing a world or galactic tour, but that’s not what they truly desire after all. They desire to ‘make magic’ with their musical instruments. Of course making a living is important (though some do end up as buskers on the street corner playing for change.) Making marketable music is both a joy and a pain in the ass for the average musician. Making millions and sharing their skills with as many people as possible is a joy – but the stifling of creative freedoms is sometimes not worth it.

MOS Skills

• Play Instrument (choose one) +35% (Professional quality)
• Music - Composition +20%
• Lore: the classics of the chosen instrument +20%
• Lore: showmanship/performance +1D20%
• Streetwise: the music industry +10%

OCC Related Skills: 5

Photojournalist

(Min IQ9, 1 years training. Starting age: 18.)

Photojournalists are some of the most risk taking (and occasional ruthless) people when it comes to completing their jobs. The will commonly do anything to get ‘the shot,’ as their careers may depend on it. Some of the more unscrupulous are commonly referred to in the derogatory as ‘the Paparazzi’ – basically those that follow celebrities anywhere, even to the point of intrusion and bending the law, to get any photo. Not all photojournalists are without scruples. Some become famous for their capturing of emotions on planetary or galactic leaders, and others are the heroic, and always risk taking war correspondent – bring your own life insurance. All photojournalists are skilled in journalism – they simply prefer to tell the story in pictures, not words. Note for players choosing the war correspondent role: as long as the photojournalist wields only a camera and film, they are considered noncombatants (by the majority of human opponents in the known galaxy.) Once they wield a weapon they become a moving target. Most wear body armour, few pack a gun. After all, one wants to capture the news, not make it.

MOS Skills

• Photography +25%
• Journalism +15% (Using 1 extra skill gives an additional +10% bonus)
• Investigate +15%
• Research +15%
• Writing +10%
• Streetwise +10%

OCC Related Skills: 8

Pilot (Aircraft/Helicopter)

(Min PP9, 2 years training. Starting age: 20.)

Aircraft pilots are trained to pilot everything from small crop-dusting airplanes to large passenger jumbo jets (Airbus A380, etc..) Some of the pilots in this line of business are former military pilots that have outgrown the need to risk their life, but not the need to fly. All of these pilots are trained in helicopter piloting as well to maximize their employability in the civilian sector. The constant progression of avionics and trend towards ‘hands free’ handling of aircraft has eased the burden on pilots and increased cross compatibility between different types of aircraft. The majority of these pilots will be able to pilot a VF – in jet mode only – in an atmosphere. Without training in piloting fighter aircraft and using weapon systems, they will be completely inept at combat. Note: unless if they have space fighter training they will be at a complete piloting loss once out of an atmosphere.

MOS Skills

• Pilot Aircraft +25%
• Pilot Jets +20%
• Pilot Helicopter +15%
• Read Sensory Instruments +10%
• Navigation: Air, Land, Sea +10%
• Radio Basic +10%
• Computer Operation +10%

OCC Related Skills: 9

Pilot (Boat)

(Min PP9, 1 years training. Starting age: 18.)

Trained to pilot everything from small inflatable dinghies through to large ocean-going freighters and tankers. These trained professionals can pilot anything on the water – and sometimes under it too! (With additional training of course.) They can find employment doing anything from teaching high school students how to sail through to ferrying fossil fuels across great oceans. In general, experienced pilots who have reached the maturity that they wish to settle down and grow roots in one area end up being harbor pilots, guiding large ships into port.

MOS Skills

• Boat: Sail Type +25%
• Boat: Motor and Hydrofoils +20%
• Boat: Ships +15%
• Boat: Warships/Patrol Boats +5%
• Read Sensory Instruments +10%
• Navigation: Air, Land, Sea +10%
• Radar/Sonar operations +10%
• Radio Basic +10%
• Computer Operation +10%

OCC Related Skills: 7

Private Investigator

(Min IQ8, 6 months training. Starting age: 18.)

Private Investigators occasionally are former police officers who have left the force and have decided to establish a more financially rewarding business that challenges and utilizes their investigation skills. Others are people who failed to join a police force and take up this profession, as it is a cousin of their unattainable dream job. The usual work that a PI (Private Investigator) receives is divorce or infidelity investigations, which require photographic evidence. A PI must know the local law to know what he can and can't do legally in the pursuit of the investigation. However, most PIs bend the law as much as they can get away with. PIs also tend to have a lot of contacts on the street and ensure that they know everything that’s happening as it may help with a present job, or set them up with a new one. When investigative work is slow, PIs down on their luck often hire themselves as body guards or muscle.

MOS Skills

• Streetwise +25%
• Investigation +15%
• Law +10%
• Research +10%
• Photography +10%
• Computer Operation +25%
• Athletics
• Hand to Hand: basic

OCC Related Skills: 10

Singer

(Min PB8, 1-3 years training. Starting age: any.)

Singers breathe life into the words written for a song, giving it emotion and life. Singers, along with actors, are sometimes the more famous, or notorious, members of society. They can become living legends during their careers due to their ability to sing, or compose lyrics and music. There are generally two types of singers: homegrown and discovered. Homegrown singers grew up with the desire to sing. These singers keep going no matter how bad and bleak their singing career becomes. Those that are discovered almost always have others who compose their music. Homegrown singers tend to have long-term careers, and slowly gain popularity. Discovered singers are like meteors – they flare brightly and at the top of the charts, but usually for only a short time. In both cases, if they make it big and get signed by a music label, they are usually guaranteed high wages, and lots of publicity.

MOS Skills

• Sing +35% (professional quality)
• Music - Composition +20%
• Dance +10%
• Lore: performance/showmanship +1D20%
• Computer Operation +10%
• Lore: famous songs and musicians +15%

OCC Related Skills: 4

Spacecraft Crew

(Min IQ8, 1 years training. Starting age: 18.)

Large Spacecraft cannot function efficiently or for long without a crew. There are a myriad of jobs that are needed to be completed on any spaceship – no matter the size, from engineering and maintenance, to piloting, communications and even cooking for other crew. Note that ocean going vessels also need crew.

MOS Skills

• Pilot: Spacecraft (or a water going vessel for planet based crews) +15%
• Read Sensory Instruments +10%
• Navigation: Air, Land, Sea +10%
• Navigation: Space +15%
• Basic Electronics +10%
• Basic Mechanics +10%
• Radio Basic +10%
• Pick one (1): any one mechanical, electrical or piloting for spaceships, Radio Scramblers, Cooking – institution food, or paramedic +20% (this is the area of specialization the crew person is stationed at.)

OCC Related Skills: 10

(UN) Government Official

(Min IQ9, 1 years training. Starting age: 18.)

Governments don't manage themselves. They need administrators, bureaucrats, officials, and leadership personnel, all experts in the bureaucracy of government. Most of their education isn’t learned on the job. There are generally two types of government official – those that want to relax (hide?) in a cushy job and those go-getters that are going gangbusters to break their way into politics and become the *real* decision makers. (It is debatable that in modern democracies, the people who control those that make the decisions are the bureaucratic leaders of various departments and ministries that remain in their positions through successive governments.) Even though anybody can (attempt to) become a politician, the vast majority who attempt are lawyers.

MOS Skills

• Computer Operation +10%
• Lore: bureaucracy +20%
• Business Management +10%
• Economics +10%
• Accounting +10%
• Writing +10%
• Research +10%
• Streetwise: political connections +15%

OCC Related Skills: 8

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