Archetypes

Archetypes (ATs) describe the bodily aspirations and specialisations of your character. They offer specific perks, techniques, and skills.

To acquire an AT, you must first buy a 'Genetic Template'. Templates can only be installed at a suitable medical facility, and will alter your body to suit the chosen Archetype.

To get (adhere to) an Archetype, you must first possess the pre-requisite Ability scores. Once you adhere to an AT, you receive perks, techniques and skills based on your core Ability scores and your equipment.

For example, the Dronesher technique "Shieldswarm" requires the Dronesher AT, Poise 6, and Smarts 9, as well as a Microswarm Drone and a Drone Bay (Carried or mounted inside the user).

Pure Archetypes

Pure ATs require only one developed Ability, and offer a deep selection of bonuses relating to a single ability, as well as a slight flourish towards a theme.

Tank - Body - Offers brute strength and resilience.

Wasp - Poise - Offers great agility and swordsmanship.

Saboteur - Wits - Offers deep intuition and explosives expertise.

Technical - Smarts - Offers mental skill and machinery expertise.

General Archetypes

General ATs are offer advantages more tightly tied to a theme such as defence, offence or tactics, with two Ability requirements

Combatant - Body, Poise - Offers general offensive skill and physical prowess.

Bionic - Body, Smarts - Offers enhanced use of bionic enhancements and tolerance thereof.

Knight - Body, Wits - Offers party-wide defensive bonuses and prowess with simple weapons.

Buster - Poise, Smarts - Offers skill with advanced weapons and bonuses against tough targets.

Shinobi - Poise, Wits - Offers stealth and agility abilities and prowess with light weapons.

Strategist - Smarts, Wits - Offers superhuman analysis of enemies and great computational skill.

Role Archetypes

Role ATs offer excellence in specific roles, but limited scope for other utility, requiring three developed Abilities.

Heavy Gunner - Body, Poise, Smarts - Offers extreme skill with large and heavy weaponry of all types.

Dronesher - Body, Poise, Smarts - Offers advanced control of sub-dermally concealed drones.

Cutthroat - Body, Poise, Wits - Offers extreme skill with melee weapons in conjuction with stealth.

Cleaner - Body, Poise, Wits - Offers precision skill with rifles and light weapons in conjunction with stealth.

Mechanist - Body, Smarts, Wits - Offers incredible proficiency repairing and operating machinery of all kinds.

Transhuman - Body, Smarts, Wits - Offers autonomous bionic implants of extreme complexity.

Black Hat  - Poise, Smarts, Wits - Offers highly developed hacking skills.

Field Medic - Poise, Smarts, Wits - Offers medical excellence and party-wide healing.