New Roles

Courier
	Couriers are the low end of the Runner / Panzerboy spectrum. Famous for their ability to get anything anywhere within the downtown core of whatever metropolis you live in, the couriers keep the well-oiled cogs of business running. But at the same time they are idolized as a bastion of "alternative" that has survived even when gainfully employed. Most often today couriers transfer secure chips containing data that cannot be transfered electronically, but they also get the odd job running hardcopy or even flowers and gifts from one corp HQ to another. Couriers use two-thirds of the Fixer payscale. RapidTrans is the 1/2(INT+COOL) based courier special ability to get anywhere in no time at all. With RapidTrans a courier can find shortcuts to his destination (dif 10), amazing shortcuts (dif 20), back doors in or out of a building (dif 15) as well as secret access routes (dif 25). All rolls are at +5 dif in another city except for back doors as courier is familiar with general building design.	RapidTrans Awareness Hide/Evade Persuasion Drive/Bike/Skate Basic Tech Interview Athletics Pick Locks Streetwise

 

CipherPunk - Hacker
	Welcome to the world of the old-school paranoid hackers. Instead of hacking systems a la classic NetRunner, CipherPunks hack passwords and access codes. Using a combination of obscure computer knowledge, information gleaned about their targets and pure intuition, a CipherPunk will hack through almost any codegate, given enough lead-time. CipherPunks are prone to paranoia and conspiracy theories, and are inherently distrustful of the modern net, having been re-built by a major corporate sponsor. Intuition is the special ability for CrystalJocks from Hardwired. CipherPunks use the Fixer payscale.	Intuition Awareness Programming System Knowledge Expert: Encryption / Decryption Library Search Education Forgery Electronic Security Electronics

 

CipherPunk - Trasher

Trashing Awareness System Knowledge Programming Stealth Hide / Evade Streetwise Library Search Electronic Security Pick Locks

The Trasher CipherPunks are often looked at as the lower-tech cousins of the Hackers. Instead of relying on intuition and luck, Trashers will usually dig through a target's garbage to find hints for passwords, directory structures and so on of the target system. Trashing is the ability to gain information on someone by going through their garbage. Subtle things can be found, such as favourite brand names, or friend's names and numbers, or even just old post-it's with your actual password on it. It also involves surveillance techniques and general spy-craft. Trashers use the Cop payscale.

 

Military - Grunt
	"Congratulations, you're everything we've come to expect from years of government training." The few, the chosen defenders of our nation (or religion, or cult, or para-military enclave), these are the grunts. Soldiers trained in boot camps, desensitized to killing the "enemy", trained day in and day out in almost inhuman bootcamps to respond instantly to shouted orders and to kill on command. These are also the troops of the IPC (Inmate Penal Corps), some paramilitary corporations (Lazarus Group, Militech) and of some militia groups. Grunts receive extensive training in following orders (thus their tactics skill - the ability to listen to orders given by someone with some good tactical ideas, and to execute them in a tactically advantageous fashion) and some minor training in actual useful combat skills. Some military groups provide Martial Arts training instead of brawling. Grunts use the Techie payscale	Tactics Awareness Rifle Op Hvy Machinery Endurance First Aid Weaponsmith Brawling Wilderness Survival Heavy Weapons

 

Military - Officer
Tactics Awareness Rifle Handgun Leadership Interrogation Martial Arts Education Intimidation SK: Military Proceedure	The elite leadership of the military machine. The Military officers combine tactical expertise with leadership and combat skills. Officers are, usually, better paid and less desensitized than their troops. Officers enjoy better quarters, a personal sidearm, martial arts training and quite often better food than the rest of the grunts. Officers use the Corporate payscale.

 

Sniper
	Snipers are the far-too famous military and police tactical control teams, set up on distant rooftops to attempt to control the fallout of a bad situation with a few well-placed rounds. There are several misconceptions about snipers, mostly about their guns. A standard sniper's weapon is a very simple, no-gadgets rifle to increase the weapon's reliability. Since a sniper is firing from some distance away, weapons are almost never silenced. Recently a new debate has arisen because of smartguns. Some snipers use them because of the vastly increased accuracy while others shy away from them because they are inherently less reliable than the rifle they are mounted on. Snipers use the Solo payscale	Combat Sneak Awareness Rifle Weaponsmith Heavy Weapons Hide / Evade Wilderness Survival Stealth Endurance Brawling