Character Challange 2022 1: Baroness Aidy Redic, Noble

 Rolls: 48244A, So, not strong, horrible endurance, not too bright nor educated, but a high social rank. Rolled even for M/F so going with female. And in looking at the raw stats, either nobility or Navy seems the best bet, though using Classic she is unlikely to actually live. And I'd hate for the 1st character of the challenge to die in character generation!

And got to thinking: I could run this same character through both LBB1 and Supplement 4 careers, then try some of the expanded careers. I have several Navy careers and noble careers she could go through. Funny - 1 character done 31 times for the challenge. But it would get boring after a bit. 

However, I'll stick with classic for right now. And as I do with my players, let me re-roll one stat roll. Anything is better than a 2!

With the updated rolls, we have our basic UPP as 48844A. So at least she'll last more than 2 rounds in a fight! Reviewing the chances of survival, nobles give her a 3+ vs the Navy's 5+. So going with the nobles from supplement 4.

Term 1

• Survival roll: 11. So nothing challenging here.
• Position: 9, so she moves up to Baroness. Now I am thinking GI Joe. And I never watched those cartoons but am vaguely familiar with them.
• As we got a position, seeing about a promotion. 6, so no. Needing a 12+ it is unlikely she'll ever get above a baroness. 
• Skills: we get 3 rolls this term, 2 for the 1st term, and 1 for the position. I'll roll once on each of the table she is allowed to get roll on.
• Personal development: 4 = +1 intelligence. 
• Service skills: 1 = gun combat. Picking rifle also gives her a +1 to hit due to her dexterity just making it. She often goes hunting on the estates. 
• Advanced Education: 2 = ship's boat.
• Re-enlistment: a 6 allows her to stay a care-free noble for another term.

Term 2

• Survival: another 11, so she is living a care-free life with no worries or stress!
• Promotion: 5, so not promoted
• Skills: back to personal development: 6 = Brawling. Which is an interesting skill for our budding baroness. Perhaps some of those hunting trips she had to defend herself from untoward advances. 
• Re-enlistment: 7, so our 26-year-old baroness can continue on.

Term 3

• Survival: 6. So a bit more threatening this term, but still easily survives.
• Promotion: 3. well, that was horrible, and perhaps she was acting out or something. 
• Skills: Service Skills, 1 = gun combat. Though not getting a DM for her dexterity, I think she'll go for the laser rifle. 
• Re-enlistment: 5. We'll go for 1 more term as at the end of the next term, those dreaded aging rolls pop up

Term 4

• Survival: 11, If only I could roll this well on the promotions!
• Promotion: 4. Magic 8 ball says unlikely,
• Skill: Advanced education: Pilot. Hmm, nice combo should she get a yacht.
• Aging rolls. Okay, this went bad, and she lost a dexterity & endurance point. No more terms! 

Benefits

• Benefit: High Passage
• Cash: Cr10,000
• Benefit: Rifle
• Benefit: Yacht

I was going to go with cash roll for that last roll, but that 6 means a yacht. So decided I'd allow myself to switch that to the benefit. As she can pilot it as well as any ship's boat it may have. And that gives me an idea for the character, and how she could come into play.

Baroness Aidy Redic, Noble, age 34 47754B

Rifle-1, Laser Rifle-1, Pilot-1, Ship's Boat-1, Brawling-1.

Yacht, hunting rifle, high passage, Cr10,000

Growing up on a rich world, Aidy was part of the on-crowd in the upper-middle echelons of her society. Spending years hunting, and learning to pilot the ships to ever farther hunting grounds, Aidy led mostly a charmed life. A bit brash, and on one trip she got in over her head, so she learned some basic fighting to protect herself. Her last big trip she managed to get sick from eating some of the wrong foods. She never fully recovered, and decided she needed to rethink her life a bit. Her mother, a noble, gifted her with the Lady Prosperity, a traditional type Y ship. However, after her initial travelling, Aidy was running out of funds for running a yacht. Letting the crew go, she is now docked at the high port of a distant world. Aidy herself, to pass the time while waiting, is one of the data girls at a data shop on the high port. She lives in the yacht, saving some living expenses but barely breaking even on port fees with her job. She may rent the yacht out, with herself as pilot, for those needing a private space or to get somewhere with a bit of luxury.

The documat on the main concourse. Offers electronic and hardcopy books, periodicals and news. This is from the Points In Space PDF. A bit old, but I figured as I did buy this years ago may as well use in various places! From the description:

Four years ago, Dinem Garle purchased the tiny, failing Bezeca Booking Agency, convinced that a datastore would fare better in its place. DocuMat still offers the same travel agent services Bezeca did (selling over-priced passage, courier services, and flight insurance) but, as Garle predicted, 91% of the shop income comes from the sale of data: news, entertainment journalism, and popular fiction. DocuMat ís most popular items are News Titles. The news lines combine daily reporting, weekly commentary, and holographic footage of everything from wholesale tragedies to team sports. News Comps. These are compilations, or comps, of news about a single topic, culled from all available commercial news lines and network wires, organized for browsing and comparison. You can, for example, choose to buy a comp including all coverage of a recent planetary election, or news of a specific sports team, or about a murder trial. Popular comp topics are prepackaged and listed on a display board, or customers can work with the datagirls to create unique ones based on key phrases. Comps are old by the byte, so very broad topics can result in an expensive comp (the news lines charge stiff licensing fees) but if a customer is concerned with broad coverage of a single topic, they're still a lot cheaper than buying all the relevant source titles. Assorted Periodicals: DocuMat carries all kinds of titles that are not news-oriented, from trashy favorites like True Spacer Stories to sober, brain-desiccating fare like the Quarterly Journal of Hyperspace Engineers. Garle focuses on Human-oriented stuff but carries a random mix of alien titles supplied by his primary license vendor and does his best to keep anything available if it ís trendy. Non-Periodical Titles: The lines between novels, plays, films, television, and computer games have blurred into vast spectra, but pure versions of each are still available. Dinem keeps a thorough stock of the kinds of overblown, lurid bestsellers that travelers like to buy to occupy them for long trips, from gratuitous sex and romance to gratuitous tech-no-thrillers and horror novels. Dinem seldom shells out the large credits necessary to keep current versions of academic titles available; celebrity biographies represent the extreme limits of depth, here. DocuMat sells most titles on data crystals or via direct download to the customer's portable. The charge is based on licensing fees charged by the publisher (Dinem is scrupulous about his sources; he tried pirating romance novels two years ago and got temporary blacklisted from the newswires owned by the same conglomerate). For pure news and many forms of periodical and entertainment, hardcopy versions are available, printed and bound smartly in a matter of seconds.

In truth, Garle hired Aidy after actually selling a somewhat lurid biography of her. She does bring in some occasional big purchasers, but they have a deal and he handles the legal side of the travel services she can provide. Aidy, though not as young as the other "data girls", is still on the front desk unless she is leading a trip. She is still trying to figure out what she wants to do in life. The Lady Prosperity is an expense she does not want to give up, but she is not sure she can afford to keep it.