Player Character: “Hector Chavez”
Role-player: Beruk A.
Campaign: Gene D.’s " Vortex " space opera, using Fantastic Adventures in Tabletop Entertainment (FATE) 3e Starblazer Adventures / Mindjammer, Bulldogs, and Limitless Horizons

• Date created: 6 September 2010/“2 June 2194 A.D./C.E. or 0 Terran Galactic Era”
• Date revised: 10 June 2013/“13 August 2195 A.D./C.E. or 1 T.G.E.”)

Species: Human
Homeworld: Terra (Sol 3), South America

Aspects

1. High concept: “Burned” operative
2. Foibles: “Zeroed out” (no electronic records)
3. Starting out: By the book
4. Sidetracked: Saw the files
5. Guest star: Handler, Max(ine) T.
6. Motivation: Fresh start
7. Adventuring: What the glitch? (To get/restore: Kickin’ it old-school)
8. Hang-up: I have trust issues

Skills (39 points total):

• Apex, Superb (1 at +5; should be unique to the party):
  • Engineering (craft; at Tech Level) — includes Starship Engineering/propulsion, demolitions (with stunt), general repair (mechanic)
• Great (3 at +4):
  • Guns (combat) — includes energy weapons, slug throwers
  • Starship Systems (craft) — includes communications, scanning, life support, electronic
  • Deceit (social) — similar to D20 Bluff
• Good (3 at +3):
  • Athletics (physical) — acrobatics, agility, sports
  • Fists (unarmed combat) — includes Brawling, close combat, Micro-G combat
  • Sleight of Hand (subterfuge) — includes picking pockets
• Fair (4 at +2):
  • Resolve (social) — similar to D20 willpower
  • Burglary (subterfuge) — includes some security countermeasures
  • Stealth (subterfuge)
  • Weapons (combat) — includes hand-to-hand; see stunt for thrown
• Average (5 at +1):
  • Stealth (subterfuge)
  • Alertness (perception) — mostly passive, see Investigation
  • Drive (mundane) — surface vehicles
  • Science — Medicine
  • Investigation (perception) — more active, see Alertness
  • Resources (social) — resources
• To get/restore: Academics, Resources

Stunts (need page citations)

1. Computers (Engineering-hacking)
2. Demolitions
3. Dizzying Distraction
4. Hand-Eye Coordination — Shooting and throwing aren’t all that different, once you get familiar with ’em. You may use the Guns skill instead of Weapons to throw manual projectiles, such as rocks, grenades, boomerangs. (Dresden Files pg. 153)
5. Personal Gadget — electromagnetic coil harness (all depending on which crystal is activated; cost to be reviewed):
   • charge specific item — like a battery or explosive electrostatic?
   • electromagnetic pulse (EMP)?
   • personal force field generator (-2 consequences)
   • personal force screen (vs. psionics/nanites, +2 Resolve)?
6. Personal Gadget — portable multiscanner and microcomputer
7. Takes One to Know One
8. Universal Gadget

Refresh/Fate points left: 4

Stress

• Health: 5
• Composure: 5
• Consequences: Mild (-2) to Moderate (-4), Severe (-6), and Extreme (-8)

Equipment:

• Armor, military — absorbs 3 consequences, space worthy
• Belt, personal force screen, experimental from Zarkonian cultist Brother Nelvin on Phobos (-2 consequences)
• Harness, for computing and engineering tools; to add exoskeletal strength enhancements?
• Holster, spring-loaded, wrist (concealable/holdout, for small hand weapons; similar to Once Upon a Time in Mexico)
• Hovercameras, robotic drones (similar to “Scoop’s” and those in Prometheus)
• Multiscanner (telescopic, electromagnetic, microscopic, psionic, biosign)
• Vest armored (absorbs 1 consequence)

• Prime weapon: One combo slugthrower/heavy blaster
• Secondary weapons:
  • Baton, telescoping
  • Blaster pistol, heavy
  • Detonators, 4 (on person, 12 more in cabin) plus remote controls in palmtop microcomputer
  • Explosives, C-4
  • Gun, experimental electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
  • Karambits (finger blades)
  • Knives, survival and throwing
  • Munitions, marble-sized (electroshock, explosive, flash, knockout gas, and tear gas, with remote detonators)
  • Revolver, snub-nose
  • Rifle, sniper

• Ship function: Engineer, communications, internal security (for the Pina Colada )
• Other notes: Tape, fishing line, manual backups, armored vest (-1 consequence), doubloons (Spanish, from Vatican hoard)

• Vehicle name: Hoverbike, “Hector’s” custom job
  • Ship Aspect (1, using FATE 3e Starblazer Adventures): Scale/size, type/class: small (1)
  • Skills/components (3 points for general, defensive, and offensive systems)
    • 1 Fair (+2): Maneuver/Speed (200 mph)
    • 1 Average (+1): Stealth
  • Stunts (and related skills/crew; includes bonus from Starship Systems): Power Boost
    • Fate Points (Remaining Refresh): 1
  • Status:
    • Structural Stress: 2
    • Systems Stress: 1

• Vehicle name: Aircar, “Hector’s” custom job
  • Ship Aspects (1, using FATE 3e Starblazer Adventures): Scale/size, type/class: medium (2), “Mule”-class customized ground-effect vehicle (GEV)
  • Skills/components (3 points for general, defensive, and offensive systems)
    • 1 Fair (+2): Maneuver/Speed (200 mph)
    • 2 Average (+1): TBD
  • Stunts (and related skills/crew; includes bonus from Starship Systems): Power Boost
    • Fate Points (Remaining Refresh): 1
  • Status:
    • Structural Stress: 2
    • Systems Stress: 1