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|style="background: navy; color: white;" colspan="4" align="center"| '''Vrusk Visionary Ecologist'''
|-
|'''STR/STA ''' ||45/45 ||'''PS'''|| +3
|-
|'''DEX/RS'''|| 45/45 ||'''IM'''|| +5
|-
|'''INT/LOG'''|| 60/60 ||'''Ranged'''|| 23
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||'''PER/LDR'''|| 50/50 ||'''Melee'''|| 23
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|style="background: #eeeeee;" colspan="4"|'''Special Abilities:'''<br/>
''Ambidexterity, Comprehension 15%''
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|colspan="4"|'''Skills:''' ''(Biosocial PSA)'' <br />
''Environmental 1, Computers 1''
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|style="background: #eeeeee;" colspan="4"|'''Equipment:'''<br />
''Standard Equipment Pack, Envirokit, compass, everflame, gas mask, holoflare, rope, toxy-rad guage, 10 vitasalt pills, water pack, 5 Cr.''
|}

By [[Bill Logan]] and [[Andrew Modro]]

Three scans and you smile that vrusk smile. You bend
down and feel the soil, smelling it carefully. You look to
the sky and you are sure. This planet may not be much
now, but you see it for what it can truly become. All it’s
going to take is a few programmed routines to simulate
the life you expect to sprout from the introduction of
those synthetic gestalt-tree seeds you discovered in the
jungles of Triad...

All it takes is one glance for you to see a world, not just
as it is, but as it could be. You manipulate ecosystems as
easily as you do computer programs, often modeling and
controlling the one with the other.

==Character Concepts==
===Terraformer===
A dead world is a wasted world. You specialize in
introducing life to places where it never took root
naturally, changing the faces of worlds to open them to
habitation. You do this out of a sense of wonder and
desire to help a world reach its maximum potential.

You study the locations where this has been done already.
You strive for the successes that launch you into the
record books alongside the terraformers from GodCo,
Araks, Athor... the list goes on.

When on inhabited worlds, you’re always testing and
measuring things to look for things that would help bring
life to the barren wastes of other worlds. When on dead
worlds, you know what it would take (or discover it if no
precedence exists) to bring atmosphere, ecosystems, and
life.

Some people say that you play God with the planets of the
Frontier. But to you, planets are just another type of
element that you can use to build the materials of the
modern day. Lifeforms are the subroutines and code
snippets to build a master program that governs an entire
world!

===Ecoterrorist===
When you were a young Vrusk, you lived near a river that
you swam in, played in, and fished in. You enjoyed your
simple life. Then the mega-corps came and built their
factories. The waste from their industries polluted the air
and spoiled the waters. Your fish became more and more
difficult to catch, and garbage found its way to your
riverbank.

Rampant exploitation of worlds makes you more than
angry; it makes you shed your fear of the law. Utilizing
both computer systems and the environment itself, you
work to fight against heedless, greedy corps in a neverending
battle to preserve life across the Frontier.

You may not be violently opposed to the concept or
existence of mega-corporations, but you are against their
carelessness. You’ll use hacking, infiltration, and personal
physical force if necessary. If you’re able to get Star Law
involved, you have the skills necessary to gather the
evidence they won’t be able to ignore.

===Planetologist===
You analyze the ecosystems of worlds in order to assist
your employers, be they corporations, the government or
private colonial charters. You might do a little
terraforming here and there, but you use your skills
primarily to analyze and exploit rather than change.

Perhaps you work for Streel corporation, eagerly seeking
new locations for mining expeditions. You never ignore an
asteroid you pass by. When on an inhabited world, you’re
more concerned with what is in the soil than who owns it.

Or maybe you are in the employ of PanGalactic
Corporation. You may be part of a response team sent
out to investigate new planets, equipped with the latest
survival gear and assistant robots. You seek to name
what you find, and enjoy the adventure that comes along
with investigating the unknown. It is your hope that you
will find that special something that changes everything...

You could be freelance. Maybe you investigate on your
own, or as part of a group of intrepid explorers. You fund
your missions by selling the information you come across.
Information is just as valuable as Credits in the modern
Frontier.

==Development==
===Developing Abilities===
Intuition and Logic are the most important ability scores
you’ll want to spend experience points improving. They
help you find and understand what you’re exploring.
Reaction Speed, although less important, can be helpful
for avoiding the dangers that the new worlds have to
offer. Characters who freelance should consider working
on their social ability scores: Personality and Leadership.
A character without a specific employee will need these
social skills in order to make money doing what he does.

Don’t forget the Comprehension racial ability, especially if
your Vrusk is a freelance character. Being able to detect
a sour deal before agreeing to it might save your career –
or your life!

==Developing Skills==
Although you might see it as obvious to spend experience
improving your Environmental and Computer skills, don’t
underestimate the value of Robotics in your field. Some
environments aren’t suitable for a Vrusk (or any other
living being, for that matter). Having the ability to
program a robot to get samples and perform basic
exploration operations would be helpful – and nobody else
has done it yet! Be the first to come up with a
standardized Explorer Bot and get rich!

Since your character spends a lot of time on foreign
worlds, it might be helpful to pick up a fighting skill of
some sort. Since your primary skill area is Biosocial, it
might be helpful to pick up at least basic Medical skill...
then you’d be able to administer stimdose and staydose,
or bandage up your friends when your thirst for
knowledge gets them hurt.

==Equipment==
It’s important to keep a variety of survival equipment on
your person at all times. Spending money on vehicles and
robots also makes sense. Don’t worry drastically about
weapons (although a single weapon wouldn’t hurt!) but
get a skeinsuit right away: it not only absorbs damage
from bullets and punches, but from scrapes, falls, and
rockslides.

<div style="border:thin solid black; background:#eeeeee; padding:0 5px;">
'''Company Equipment:''' This optional rule works for the
Dralasite Spymaster as well. If your character works
for an employer, you can always lean on him/her for
the equipment you need. The amount of equipment he
or she is willing to provide is based on the most
important skill relevant to the nature of your
employment (the referee will inform you of which skill is
appropriate to your employment, but generally it’s
obvious).
{|
|- align="center"
|width="100px"|'''Skill Level'''|| '''Equipment Allotment'''
|- align="center"
|1|| 500Cr
|- align="center"
|2|| 1,000Cr
|- align="center"
|3|| 2,500Cr
|- align="center"
|4|| 5,000Cr
|- align="center"
|5|| 10,000Cr
|- align="center"
|6|| 25,000Cr
|}

For example: your character works as a Planetologist
for the United Federation of Planets. You have a level 3
Environmental skill. Your character could bring along
on a mission up to 2,500Cr of gear he doesn’t have to
pay for, and does not belong to him.

'''Losing/Damaging Equipment:''' You will be charged
for that gear if it gets damaged or lost. Upon return
from your mission, when pay is given, you’ll be
assessed for replacement of any gear that you don’t
return with. This includes used up power supplies and
ammunition!
</div>

==Edges and Flaws==
If using this optional system found at the back of the
Alpha Dawn Remastered book, you might want to consider
some of these ideas.

===Highly Observant===
This edge allows you to catch a clue or hint that you
otherwise would have missed, either by failed die roll or
just because you – as the player – weren’t paying
attention! If used with a die roll, you may invoke this
edge to get a +25 to a single Intuition roll. The referee
may invoke this to give you information that none of the
other players grasped.

===Boss’ Pet===
The character is well-liked by his employer and is highly
trusted. He is able to act in a completely inappropriate
manner or do something that someone else would be fired
for doing, but then invoke this edge and get away with it.
Or, when trying to equip for a mission, he may invoke this
edge to get an extra d10x100 Credits worth of gear –
simply given to him by the equipment bureau of his
organization!

===Danger Junkie===
The character loves the unknown, not necessarily for the
truths he uncovers but for the sheer thrill of the danger
itself. The referee invokes this flaw to force the character
to take unnecessary risks. The risks shouldn’t spell out
immediate death for the character, but might lead to a
situation the player didn’t want or expect.

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