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|style="background: navy; color: white;" colspan="4" align="center"| '''Yazirian Priest'''
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|'''STR/STA ''' ||35/45 ||'''PS'''|| +2
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|'''DEX/RS'''|| 45/45 ||'''IM'''|| +5
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|'''INT/LOG'''|| 55/55 ||'''Ranged'''|| 28
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||'''PER/LDR'''|| 60/60 ||'''Melee'''|| 28
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|style="background: #eeeeee;" colspan="4"|'''Special Abilities:'''<br/>
''None''
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|colspan="4"|'''Skills:''' ''(Biosocial PSA)'' <br />
''Psychosocial 1, Medical 1''
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|style="background: #eeeeee;" colspan="4"|'''Equipment:'''<br />
''Standard Equipment Pack, holy book and symbol (given freely by cloister), 150Cr (or an Electrosword)''
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Even out on the Frontier, people need guidance. You
bring spiritual comfort and enlightenment to those in
need, and you know how to take care of yourself
and others, a valuable skill for when words aren't
enough.

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Editor’s Note: Priesthoods are not detailed at all in
Star Frontiers. It would be nice to see a supplement,
one for each of the core races, detailing
more culturally depictive elements such as religion
and various legends.
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==Wandering Holy Soul==
'''Concept:''' The cloistered and regimented lifestyle
just wasn't for you, so you left the seminary and
began to wander. Perhaps you were seeking the Divine,
or maybe you were seeking yourself. Your
skills allow you to help others when needed, letting
you make a living -- enough money to keep yourself
fed and clothed and let you move from one system
to another whenever the wanderlust strikes you.
When you find what you're looking for, you'll know
it, but in the meantime, you keep your eyes and
ears open.

'''Development:''' Boosting your Medicine and Psychosocial
will make you more valuable as a healer.
Adding in other skills will broaden your portfolio and
make you valuable in different ways, such as Computer
or a weapon skill. Remember that increasing
your character’s Psychosocial might help you understand
people and give you insight, but is your
character really going to be using his persuasion
much?

Intuition is a good ability score to work on improving
first. Secondly you should consider Dexterity and
Reaction Speed... since you’re not one to concentrate
on the ability kill others, being able to avoid
getting killed yourself might be helpful.
It would be a good idea to get some defenses right
away. You’ll favor screens over suits. Suits defend
yourself, while screens defend you and someone
you’re shielding.

'''Goals:''' Keep moving and searching, and eventually
you'll find that mysterious "something". NOTE: think
Kwai Chang Caine from "Kung Fu", minus the
badass martial arts. Those can be added in later if
the player wants.

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Editor’s note: The Wandering Holy Soul is well suited
to development of a cinematic martial arts
style (in this issue), if your campaign allows for
such acts of prowess.
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==Fatherly Redeemer==
'''Concept:''' Having completed your training, you want
to bring the serenity you have found to others. The
Frontier is a wild and dangerous place, and many
souls could use some peace of mind. Armed with
your faith and the ability to heal the body as well as
the soul, you have left the seminary and your home
to help others pick themselves up out of the dust.
You don't try to convert them, but if they want you
to, you're happy to tell them what you have learned.
A few have already heard more behind your words
than just parables, reaffirming your belief in your
mission.

You travel the Frontier, leaving a wake of redeemed
souls to give credit to your faith and your strength
of will.

'''Development:''' focus mainly on Psychosocial, as
your Medical is more first aid than anything else.
Self-defense skills are useful for battling “evil”, and
pickup skills like Computer or Robotics can come
into play at surprising times.

'''Goals:''' Stay true to your path and bring some light
to the wild Frontier.

==Righteous Defender==
'''Concept:''' ''You have tracked the man here. The cries of the little yazirian girl still ringing in your mind from your memory of when she related her tale to you. You know she was telling the truth – your training at the seminary helped equip you to understand people. What you don’t understand is evil, and that’s what’s waiting for you on the other side of this door.''

''The man in that apartment has done unspeakable atrocities. The girl told of others still kept in his groping clutches, and of what awaited them. You pull out your electric sword and flip the switch, closing your eyes as the electricity runs through its length. The slight vibration is not electricity – it is righteous indignation, the very fire that fuels the just. You kick in the door, speaking a prayer of forgiveness... not for him, but for what you are about to do.''

Your order stresses the need to defend the right
against the darkness. Your youthful enthusiasm for
your mission has led you out into the Frontier before
you have fully mastered your order's teachings --
perhaps as part of your training, or perhaps against
it. Your ability to heal and persuade are part of your
order's teaching to try nonviolent solutions first, but
if that doesn't work, you're ready to battle for what
you know is right. You are always ready to answer a
cry for aid.

'''Development:''' pick up Martial Arts, Melee Weapons
or a ranged weapon skill as soon as possible to reflect
your progress in your order's martial
disciplines. Increase Psychosocial to represent your
charismatic ability to persuade and calm. Increase
your Medical if you wish to represent a more healing-
focused defender of the people.

Adding to your raw STA can keep you alive longer,
and don’t forget Battle Rage... although you probably
call it divine wrath instead.

'''Goals:''' continue learning your order's path and defend
against evil and villainy!

==Edges and Flaws==
If you’re using the optional Edge & Flaw system provided
at the back of the Alpha Dawn remastered book,
here are a couple ideas:

'''Knows Evil:''' You spent some of your life prior to
entering your seminal studies living on the wrong
side of the law. Your life wasn’t a grey area between
right and wrong: it was just wrong. Because
of your life as a sinner, you’re able to sense it much
of the time. Whenever you’re needing to know if
someone is harboring great evil in his soul, you can
invoke this edge. The Referee will determine how
much evil you sense in his essence and let you
know. Possible results are: None, Low, Significant,
Major, Greater, and Total (a scale of 1 to 6, just like
skills, and most people rate around 2).

'''Great Smite:''' If you truly enter a fight with a righteous
cause, you feel very confident because you
believe your actions are blessed by your divine being.
This can bring adrenaline rushes that bring you
to heightened levels of strength. Invoke this edge
while using a melee weapon after saying a brief
prayer, and you’ll receive a bonus of +25 to your
effective Strength (which should help your Melee
Weapons score and your Punching Score). You
must be convinced you’re battling evil to do this.

'''Parry Hurled Weapons:''' Your enhanced training
and discipline has given you the ability to deflect
hurled spears, fired arrows, thrown knives, and just
about any other archaic or melee weapon that relies
on throwing. You simply invoke this edge and treat
the previously rolled attack roll as if it were a miss.
You must be able to face your enemy and see the
attack coming. This is especially appropriate for the
Wandering Holy Soul.

'''Beacon in the Night:''' The weak and the weary see
you as a bastion of hope. You often find yourself
mired in their needs and causes, having to protect
the downtrodden whether it’s convenient to you or
not. Of course, you consider this to be the continued
trials of your divine path. Whenever the
Referee wants to complicate a mission, he can invoke
this flaw and have innocent lives that need
protected and healed suddenly in the way of your
mission’s successful completion.

'''Hunted by Evil:''' You have battled evil in one form
or another all your life. Along the way, you’ve
picked up a powerful enemy who is determined to
cause you great suffering. His conviction and beliefs
seem just as strong as yours, and although he is
diametrically opposed to you in terms of a moral
compass, he is very much your equal. You have
even been in his presence a few times, and talked
your talks of good and evil, and the philosophies of
your meetings are rivaled only by the fallout of your
battles. Some day one of you will have to defeat
the other, but you’re not sure that’s how your divine
being wants it to play out. You are both there to
test one another, two titans on opposite sides of a
great war not of blood and bones but of powers and
principalities. Whenever the Referee wants ton include
your evil counterpart in an adventure (as a
main enemy or just as a complication to your existing
plot) he invokes this flaw.

'''Haunted by the Past:''' Your character wasn’t always
walking in this righteous light – at one point in
his past he was very much in the dark. During that
time in his life, he had family and friends and people
he cared about. He left all of that to clean the blight
from his spirit at the seminary. Now, as he travels
the Frontier, he occasionally encounters remnants of
his past that need him, or that are a reminder of his
fragile soul. The Referee can invoke this flaw whenever
he wants to bring such components into the
game to complication a character’s mission.

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