Traveller Genesys Service Paths

Advancement Rolls

Providing your character survives their term they may roll for advancement in their service. If an Event has already automatically promoted the character this term this is in addition to the Advancement roll (so it is possible character may be promoted twice in a single term).

You start at Status 0 in your service (private, intern, lackey, etc). Each time you succeed at an Advancement roll, you move onto the next status and gain one rank in any Social or Knowledge skill..

Status is most important for military services, like the Army or Navy, but every service has its own internal hierarchies and levels of authority and responsibility. Not all ranks have a title.

Titles for each service's status levels can be found in the Traveller core book.

You may only attempt to advance once per term.

Triumphs & Despairs
Rolling t means you may enter another Service automatically, if you continue in this service for another term you instead gain +b on all checks for the next term.
Rolling d means you cannot continue in this service after this term. Either your services are no longer required, or events have caused you to leave, or perhaps you are simply bored and want a new challenge.

Advantages & Threats
Spend aaa to reroll one Benefit roll from this term.
The GM can spend hhh to apply +bb to your next Qualification roll.

Injuries

Characters that are wounded in combat or accidents during character creation must roll on the Injury table to see how bad their injuries were.

Changing Services

Moving to a new service requires a qualification roll to determine if you may enter the service. Make a check with a career skill from the service you are attempting to transfer to. You must then choose an assignment as normal.

If you fail this check then you cannot enter your chosen service this term. You must either submit to the Draft or take the Drifter service for this term. Increase the difficulty of qualification rolls by one for each previous service you have entered.

Once you leave a service you cannot return to it. The Draft and the Drifter service are exceptions to this rule – you can be Drafted into a service you were previously in but got ejected from and the Drifter service is always open.

When entering a new service you only gain the assignment skills as new career skills. You do not gain any free ranks in skills.

Triumphs & Despairs
A successful t grants +b on all service rolls this term.
A failed t allows you to try for another service qualification this term instead of drifting or drafting.
A successful d inflicts +b on all service rolls this term.
A failed d forces you into the Drifter service and inflicts +b on all service rolls this term.
As an optional rule a failed roll with a d means that the character has died.

Advantages & Threats
The player can spend aaa to be granted +b on their Advancement roll this term.
The GM can spend hhh to inflicts +b on their Advancement roll this term.

Agent

Law enforcement agents, spies, corporate operatives and others who work in the shadows.
Law Enforcement: You were a police officer or detective.
Intelligence: You worked as a spy or saboteur.
Corporate: You worked for a corporation, spying on rival organisations.

Career skills: Computers, Education, Perception, Ranged [Light], and Streetwise.

Army

Members of the planetary armed fighting forces. Soldiers deal with planetary surface actions, battles, and campaigns. Such individuals may also be mercenaries for hire.
Support: You were an engineer, technician, medic, cook or in some other role behind the front lines.
Infantry: You were one of the Poor Bloody Infantry on the ground.
Cavalry: You rode a tank or other ground vehicle.

Career skills: Athletics, Brawl, Driving, Ranged [Heavy], and Vigilance.

Aslan Military

You served in the military forces of your clan. Fighters or combatants in the Military service are male; support personnel are female.
Warrior: You were a front-line warrior in the Clan forces.
Cavalry: You drove a grav tank or other combat vehicle.
Flyer: You piloted an atmospheric fighter.
Support: You were a mechanic, medic, commtech or other support engineer.

Career skills: Athletics, Brawl, Ranged [Heavy], Vigilance, and Warfare.

• Warrior: Gunnery, Stealth, Survival.
• Cavalry: Driving, Gunnery, Mechanics.
• Flyer: Gunnery, Piloting, Sensors.
• Support: Admin, Mechanics, Medicine .

Aslan Scientist

Science is an almost exclusively female occupation among the Aslan. The exception is that of doctor, as by ancient tradition, males are allowed to practice the art of the physician. This custom is believed to date back to days when males fought on the battlefield and so had need of healers – and had plenty of practical anatomy lessons.
Healer: You tended the sick and wounded.
Researcher: You developed new inventions and technologies for your clan.
Explorer: You explored new worlds and catalogued useful resources.

Career skills: Admin, Computers, Discipline, Education, Knowledge [any], and Perception.

• Physician: Charm, Cool, Medicine.
• Researcher: Mechanics, Physical Sciences, Sensors
• Explorer: Piloting, Sensors, Survival.

Citizen

Individuals serving in a corporation, bureaucracy or industry, or who are making a new life on an untamed planet.
Corporate: You are an executive or manager in a large corporation. Alternatively, you are a bureaucrat or functionary in some government or civil institution.
Worker: You are a blue-collar citizen on an industrial world.
Colonist: You are building a new life on a recently settled world that still needs taming.

Career skills: Charm, Computers, Driving, Education, and Streetwise.

Darrian Confederation Navy

The Darrian Confederation navy patrols the region of space between its star systems. The navy has a responsibility to protect the Confederation against invasion and to deter piracy by the lawless elements who cluster around the Darrian borders. Primary of these threats are the Zhodani and Sword World fleets against whom the Darrian navy has clashed numerous times.
Bridge: You are part of the bridge crew who control the ship and coordinate its different functions during battle.
Engineering: You are the mechanics, engineers and repair crews who ensure the ship remains functional both in and out of battle.
Marine: You are the ship’s troops who repel boarders or are sent to pacify resistance on crippled enemy vessels.

Career skills: Discipline, Gunnery, Piloting, Sensors, Vigilance.

• Bridge: Astrogation, Leadership, Operating.
• Engineering: Computers, Physical Sciences, Mechanics.
• Marine: Explosives, Ranged [Heavy], Warfare.

Drifter

Wanderers, hitch-hikers and travellers, drifters are those who roam the stars without purpose or direction.
Barbarian: You lived on a primitive world without the benefits of technology.
Wanderer: You lived hand to mouth in slums and starports across the galaxy, travelling at random.
Scavenger: You worked as a belter (asteroid miner) or on a salvage crew.

Career skills: Athletics, Brawl, Perception, Ranged [Light], Streetwise, and Stealth.

Entertainer

Individuals who are involved with the media, whether as reporters, artists or celebrities.
Artist: You are a writer, sculptor, holographer or other creative.
Journalist: You report on local or galactic events for a news feed, the TAS or another organisation.
Performer: You are an actor, dancer, acrobat, professional athlete or other public performer.

Career skills: Charm, Deception, Knowledge [any], Stealth, and Streetwise.

• Artist: Computers, Cool, Negotiation.
• Journalist: Computers, Sensors, Vigilance.
• Performer: Athletics, Coordination, Discipline.

High Guard - Naval Intelligence

Without faster–than–light communication, knowing when and where an enemy power will go is an exercise in analysis, prediction and luck. Naval intelligence characters are spies or tacticians, collating the reports of agents, scout ships and listening posts to determine the optimum placement of the Imperium’s fast–response navy and the defence forces of the subsector navies.
Analyst: You studied and predicted the actions of enemy fleets or governments.
Planner: You guided the movements of whole navies.
Black Operations: You don’t talk about what you used to do.

Career skills: Computers, Discipline, Piloting, Space Sciences, and Warfare.

• Analyst: Admin, Charm, Cool.
• Planner: Mechanics, Physical Sciences, Sensors
• Black Operations: Ranged [Light], Sensors, Survival.

Imperial Marines

Members of the armed fighting forces carried aboard starships marines deal with piracy and boarding actions in space, defend the starports and bases belonging to the navy and supplement ground forces such as the army.
Support: You were a quartermaster, engineer or battlefield medic in the Marines.
Star Marines: You were trained to fight boarding actions and capture enemy vessels.
Ground Assault: They kicked you out of a spacecraft in high orbit and said ‘capture that planet’.

Career skills: Athletics, Gunnery, Ranged [Heavy], Vigilance, and Warfare.

• Support: Driving, Medicine, Mechanics.
• Star Marine: Coordination, Melee, Sensors.
• Ground Assault: Melee, Perception, Survival

Merchants

Members of commercial enterprises. Merchants may crew the ships of the large trading corporations, or they may work for the independent free traders which carry chance cargoes and passengers between worlds.
Merchant Marine: You worked on one of the massive cargo haulers run by the Imperium or the mega-corporations.
Free Trader: You were part of the crew of a tramp trader.
Broker: You worked in a planetside brokerage or starport

Career skills: Computers, Driving, Negotiation, Social Sciences, and Streetwise.

• Merchant Marine: Coordination, Gunnery, Piloting.
• Free Trader: Mechanics, Operating, Sensors.
• Broker: Admin, Charm, Deception.

Navy

Members of the interstellar navy which patrols space between the stars. The navy has responsibility for the protection of society from foreign powers and from lawless elements in the interstellar trade channels.
Line/Crew: You served as a general crewman or officer on a ship of the line. An average naval career.
Engineering/Gunnery: You served as a specialist technician on a ship. This gives good technical skills, but is difficult to advance in unless you are highly intelligent.
Flight: You served as the pilot of a shuttle, fighter or other vessel. This gives excellent piloting skills and is the fast track to promotion, but is also the most dangerous.

Career skills: Computers, Gunnery, Space Sciences, Ranged [Light], and Warfare.

• Crew: Melee, Ranged [Heavy], Sensors.
• Eng: Mechanics, Physical Sciences, Sensors.
• Flight: Astrogation, Piloting, Operating.

Nobility

Individuals of the upper classes who perform little consistent function, but often have large amounts of ready money.
Administrator: You served in the planetary government or even ruled over a fiefdom or other domain.
Diplomat: You were a diplomat or other state official.
Dilettante: Like a drifter, only with more baths.

Career skills: Cool, Leadership, Knowledge [any], Melee, and Perception.

• Administrator: Admin, Coercion, Negotiation.
• Diplomat: Charm, Deception, Sensors.
• Dilettante: Deception, Piloting, Streetwise.

Rogue

Criminal elements familiar with the rougher or more illegal methods of accomplishing tasks.
Thief: You stole from the rich and gave to… well, yourself, usually.
Enforcer: You were a leg breaker, thug or assassin for a criminal group.
Pirate: You were a space-going corsair.

Career skills: Deception, Perception, Ranged [Light], Streetwise, and Vigilance.

• Thief: Athletics, Skulduggery, Stealth.
• Enforcer: Coercion, Driving, Ranged [Heavy].
• Pirate: Astrogation, Melee, Piloting.

Scholar

Individuals trained in technological or research science who conduct scientific investigations into materials, situations and phenomena, or who practice medicine.
Field Researcher: You were an explorer or field researcher, equally at home in the laboratory or the wilderness.
Scientist: You were a researcher in some corporate or Imperial institution, or a mad scientist in an orbiting lab.
Physician: You were a doctor, healer, or medical researcher.

Career skills: Computers, Education, Knowledge [any Science], Negotiation, and Perception.

• Field Researcher: Knowledge [any], Sensors, Survival.
• Scientist: Admin, Knowledge [any], Sensors.
• Physician: Charm, Cool, Medicine.

Scout

Members of the exploratory service. Scouts explore new areas, map and survey known or newly discovered areas, and maintain the communications ships which carry information and messages between the worlds of the galaxy.
Courier: You served lonely duty on the X-boat network, carrying the messages that keep the Imperium together.
Survey: You visited border worlds and assessed their worth to the Imperium.
Exploration: You went wherever the map was blank, exploring unknown worlds and uncharted space.

Career skills: Astrogation, Piloting, Ranged [any], Sensors, and Space Sciences.

• Courier: Computers, Coordination, Cool.
• Survey: Charm, Discipline, Streetwise.
• Exploration: Life Sciences, Stealth, Vigilance.

Vargr Corsair

Corsair bands are independent groups of pirates and mercenaries who are not constrained by laws and borders.
When most people think of the Vargr, the first thing that comes to mind is the corsair bands that operate throughout the Extents and along the Imperial borders. Indeed, this imagery comes foremost to many Vargr as well but whereas humans see pirates raiding free traders and merchant ships, the Vargr are more likely to see glamour and prestige.
Raider: You are part of the main attacking force in your band, specialising in boarding and looting ships.
Pilot: You are one of the pilots or navigators in your corsair band.
Reaver: You are part of the ship’s crew and function as an engineer, gunner or other supporting role.

Career Skills: Coercion, Melee, Stealth, Ranged [Heavy], and Vigilance.

• Raider: Explosives, Leadership, Warfare.
• Pilot: Astrogation, Operating, Sensors.
• Reaver: Computers, Gunnery, Mechanics.

Dolphin Civilian

Uplifted Dolphins who are engaged in aquatic non-military services.
Dolphin Liaison: You are acting as an intermediary between Human and Dolphin cultures or as a guide to Humans working underwater.
Dolphin Nomad: You are living the ‘barbarian’ life of an ancestral feral Dolphin, eschewing most technology and interaction with Confederation society.

Career skills: Athletics, Brawl, Charm, Coordination, and Resilience.

• Liaison: Negotiation, Social Sciences, Sensors.
• Nomad: Stealth, Survival, Vigilance.

Dolphin Military

Dolphins are usually welcome to enlist in any Army nautical force command. The Confederation Army maintains special Dolphin Commando units. Most Home Guards on worlds with ‘wet navies’ have professional units open to Dolphins with equipment provided.
Sea Patrol: You served as a member of a paramilitary or coast guard unit that engages in nautical search and rescue, fishery protection and nautical law enforcement duties.
Underwater Commando: You served in a combat unit that specialises in nautical recon, underwater demolitions and undersea combat.

Career skills: Athletics, Mechanics, Ranged [Heavy], Sensors, and Survival.

• Sea Patrol: Charm, Negotiation, Piloting.
• Underwater Commando: Explosives, Gunnery, Vigilance.

Mustering-Out

In the course of a character’s service, he may manage to save some money. He may also acquire equipment and other benefits from his previous employers – a scout might be mustered out of the service with a reserve scout ship, a marine might get to keep his battle armour and so on. These are determined by Benefit Rolls.

Benefits are gained when a character leaves a service for any reason other than failing a Service roll (willingly leaving the service, an event, an aging crisis, or just wishing to finish character generation).

A character gets one Benefit Roll for every full term served in that service. You also get extra benefit rolls if you reached a higher status.

There are two tables for Benefit Rolls – the Cash table and the Other Benefits table. You may only roll on the Cash table a maximum of three times no matter how many services you have had.

You get one benefit roll per full term served. Leaving due to a mishap means you lose the benefit roll for that term, but not previous full terms in that service.

If you reached status 1 or 2, you get an extra benefit roll when leaving that service.
If you reached status 3 or 4, you get two extra benefit rolls.
If you reached status 5 or 6, you get three extra benefit rolls and may apply a +1 to rolls on the Benefits table that you gain from that service.

You get an extra benefit roll per t rolled on any Service roll.

Agent

Army

Aslan Military

Aslan Scientist

Citizen

Darrian Confederation Navy

Drifter

Entertainer

High Guard - Naval Intelligence

Imperial Marines

Merchants

Navy

Nobility

Rogue

Scholar

Scout

Vargr Corsair

Dolphin Civilian

Dolphin Military

Other Benefits

When you leave a service in good standing with your previous employers, you are permitted to keep various pieces of equipment or even shares of a vessel. Different services give different benefits.
For details of material benefits, see the Equipment chapter. For details regarding Allies and Contacts, see page 76 of the Traveller core book.

Air/Raft: You receive an air/raft. If you roll this benefit again, gain a rank in Piloting.

Armour: Select one of the following types of armour – Cloth, Reflec, Vacc Suit, HEV Suit, Combat Armour or Subdermal Armour. If you roll this benefit again, then the suit of armour is of the next TL up.

Ally: Gain an Ally.

Blade: Select any blade weapon. If you roll this benefit again, you may take another blade of the same type, a different blade, or one rank in Melee.

Combat Implant: Gain any one of the following augmentations: Skill Augmentation, Wafer Jack, Subdermal Armour or Characteristic Augmentation. You must take the lowest-TL Augmentation of that type. If you roll this benefit again, then you may either take a different Augmentation or the upgrade one you already possess to the next higher TL.

Contact: Gain a Contact.

Corsair: You receive 5 ship shares towards the use of a Corsair raider, or 2 ship shares towards the use of any other vessel.

Free Trader: You receive 5 ship shares towards the use of a Free Trader merchant ship, or 2 ship shares towards the use of any other vessel.

Gun: Select any common or military ranged weapon. If you roll this benefit again, you may take another weapon of the same type, a different weapon, or one rank in the appropriate Ranged skill for a weapon already received as a mustering-out benefit.

Lab Ship: You receive 5 ship shares towards the use of a Laboratory Ship research vessel, or 2 ship shares towards the use of any other vessel.

Skill: Gain one rank in a skill you have no ranks in. If rolled again, you may increase a rank 1 skill to rank 2, and so on. To a maximum of 3.

Talent: Gain a Tier 1 talent. If rolled again, gain a Tier 2 talent instead, and so on. Prerequisites must be met as normal.

Scientific Equipment: Gain any one piece of scientific equipment: a communications device, a toolkit, a sensor, a computer or a computer program, gained at the lowest Technology Level if multiple TLs are listed. If you roll this benefit again, then you take another piece of scientific experiment or gain one rank in Computers, Sensors or any one Science skill.

Scout Ship: You receive a Scout ship. The first receipt provides use of the ship, but the ship is still the property of the Scout service, and can be called back into active duty if needed. Alternatively, you can take 1d6 ship shares instead.

Ship’s Boat: You receive a Ship’s Boat. If you roll this benefit again, gain one rank in Piloting.

Ship Shares: You obtain one or more ship shares that can be put towards obtaining a ship.