Traveller: Character 28 of 31: Classic Bureaucrat

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Character 28 of 31: Classic Bureaucrat

Czee O'onian

966885 5 Manager, 5 terms Bureaucrat, age 42

Admin-2, Carousing-2, Blade-1, Cutlass-1, Wheeled-1, Recruiting-1

Cr80,000, High Passage, retirement Cr6,000/year

Growing up on Anther, Czee was an avid follower of the Swashbuckling Tales, and anthology series glamorizing the pirate life among the stars. She went straight from school to clerking at the starport, and spent her nights cosplaying as pirates and drinking an inordinate amount of alcohol. After a few years, she realized that her bleary eyes and constantly being late in the morning was affecting her job prospects. Buckling down, she started taking actual fencing and sword fighting lessons instead of the cosplay. But as the years seemed to drag inexorably on, she felt a loss of who she was. Finally retiring at 42, she decided to get back to her early cosplay days and head to the fringes of society.

A capable administrator who has a good eye for people and getting them to join her endeavors, Czee would make a good comptroller for larger ships. She is also ever moving outwards in the Imperium, so may be found anyplace. Hopefully at some point she will have found a good cutlass!

And I accidently bought a 2nd copy of Piracy And Privateering (Stellagama Publishing but it is the 4th vs 1st edition so there must be some updates in there; need to find a friend who wants the earlier copy) and realize, with her years of working at a port and her admin skills, she would be the ideal information-gathering source: see what is going out so that pirates can go after the more valuable cargos. Between admin, carousing and possibly even recruiting, she could cover this ground easily:

"The second and more effective way of conducting piracy operations is to gather as much intelligence about the merchant traffic going in and out of a given system and combine this intelligence with social engineering techniques to maximize chances of successful piracy."

I need to dig back to see if I have my old college notes for the "everything" watch. This was a smart watch that could record audio, video, holographic recording and display, health tracking and pretty much all the things modern cell phones do, including interfacing with the local comm systems or acting as a node on a local, private network. Probably even basic computer processing. At least this bureaucrat ended up with a watch!

Strength: 10
Dexterity: 6
Endurance: 8
Intelligence: 7
Education: 8
Social: 5
gender: 4, female
race: 2, major; 7: human, 5 regular Imperial
Book 1 (even) supp 4 (odd): book 4; 1d12: 8 = Bureaucrat

Yeah, not a lot of time today, so going old school. And what an interesting career - a bureaucrat! A roll of 9 with the +1 DM for our education and we get in. Interestingly you get a +2 DM if your strength is 8-. They want pencil pushers here, not body builders! And oddly - this is the 2nd bureaucrat I rolled up: when this sort of seemed familiar I went back over my list. I should have re-rolled for another career. Maybe I'll try a 2nd one today depending on how much time I have.

Term 1 18-22

Survive: 5

Position: 10, yes: Rank 1: Clerk (going with an extra skill roll for this)

Promotion: 5, no

Skill: Education: 1 = Recruiting

Skill: Personal: 6 = +1 dexterity UPP A78785

Re-enlist: 9, yes

Term 2 22-26

Survive: 7

Promotion: 7, no

Skill: Bureaucrat: 2 = Vehicle - wheeled

Re-enlist: 5, yes