Difference between revisions of "SW Contact Networks"
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* '''Core Worlds:''' Core Worlds contacts are usually cultural or political groups aligned with the Core Worlds, Colonies, and Inner Rim regions. | * '''Core Worlds:''' Core Worlds contacts are usually cultural or political groups aligned with the Core Worlds, Colonies, and Inner Rim regions. | ||
* '''Education:''' Education contacts are usually universities, as well as those involved in various bureaucratic endeavors, scientific think-tanks, and medical facilities. Corporate contacts focused on research and scientific profit lines are of this type as well. | * '''Education:''' Education contacts are usually universities, as well as those involved in various bureaucratic endeavors, scientific think-tanks, and medical facilities. Corporate contacts focused on research and scientific profit lines are of this type as well. | ||
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* '''Warfare:''' Warfare groups are military, paramilitary, and insurgency groups. | * '''Warfare:''' Warfare groups are military, paramilitary, and insurgency groups. | ||
* '''Xenology:''' Xenology groups are either groups that specialize in the academic, political, medical, cultural or other study of individual species, or groups within a given species' culture themselves. | * '''Xenology:''' Xenology groups are either groups that specialize in the academic, political, medical, cultural or other study of individual species, or groups within a given species' culture themselves. | ||
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* Contacts can provide information about their given field. In order to do so, the character must contact them, usually through a "face character" (that is, an NPC who represents the "interface" with that group). | * Contacts can provide information about their given field. In order to do so, the character must contact them, usually through a "face character" (that is, an NPC who represents the "interface" with that group). | ||
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Contact Ratings
Contacts have two ratings: Scope and Expertise. Scope is how wide of a net your contact network casts, while Expertise describes their level of skill and knowledge. Each contact network is also associated with a single Knowledge skill. This skill determines what fields the contacts work in.
| Rating | Scope | Expertise |
| 1 | A handful of individuals, such as a street gang, or staff of a single department in a small university. | Dabblers and dilettantes with the bare minimum of knowledge to be worth consulting. The network consists of students, amateurs, or those new to the field. |
| 2 | Up to fifty individuals working closely together, or around two dozen in correspondence across a planet. | Typical professionals within their fields, such as professors, doctors, scientists, or gang leaders. |
| 3 | Fifty to one hundred individuals operating across an entire world or star system. | The members of the network are accomplished members of their field. |
| 4 | One hundred or more individuals, spread across several star systems. | Network members include noteworthy and well-known figures in their various fields, such as widely-published scholars, cartel bosses, or the discoverers of new worlds or hyperlanes. |
| 5 | A vast network stretching across an entire sector of space or more. | Leading members of the field in question are included in the network. |
Contact Types
- Core Worlds: Core Worlds contacts are usually cultural or political groups aligned with the Core Worlds, Colonies, and Inner Rim regions.
- Education: Education contacts are usually universities, as well as those involved in various bureaucratic endeavors, scientific think-tanks, and medical facilities. Corporate contacts focused on research and scientific profit lines are of this type as well.
- Lore: Lore contacts are also often academics, or otherwise mystical or religious traditions (either those who study them or those who actually practice them).
- Outer Rim: Outer Rim contacts are usually various species groups, colonies, and the like.
- Underworld: Underworld contacts are criminal figures or those who interact with them: bounty hunters, peacekeepers, pirates (and privateers) and the like.
- Warfare: Warfare groups are military, paramilitary, and insurgency groups.
- Xenology: Xenology groups are either groups that specialize in the academic, political, medical, cultural or other study of individual species, or groups within a given species' culture themselves.
Using Contacts
- Contacts can provide information about their given field. In order to do so, the character must contact them, usually through a "face character" (that is, an NPC who represents the "interface" with that group).
