Abilities & Attributes

Things get weird when you leave Earth’s gravity. Although there’s no such thing as true “zero-G,” the radically altered gravitational forces found in strange Realms, spacecraft or Etherspace demand specialized training and experience. Without the Microgravity Operations Skill, a character in such environments cannot use dice from any Physical Ability; sure, he’s still strong or dexterous, but that martial arts training won’t do him a damn bit of good when the physics upon which those arts depend have been replaced by micro-gravity.

A rare skill-set outside the ranks of Technocratic Void Engineers, Microgravity Operations teaches you how to move and act in altered gravity. Each dot in this Skill allows your character to use a dot in his other physical Abilities. Let’s say that the guy mentioned above has four dots in Martial Arts; he could use one of them at Microgravity 1, two at Microgravity 2, and so on. Without such training, a person bounces and floats with very little control of personal physics; with this Skill, that same person knows how to use that environment to his advantage.

• Novice: Don’t hyperventilate and don’t throw up.

•• Practiced: You’re good so long as you have something to hang on to.

••• Skillful: It feels weird, but you’ve started to get the hang of things.

•••• Expert: You move almost as well in micro-G as you do on Earth.

••••• Master: You’ve spent so much time in space that you’re not sure what earthly gravity feels like anymore.

Possessed by

Void Engineers, Astronauts, Ethernauts, Space Marines

Specialties

Low-G, Micro-G, Vacuum Suit, Combat, Extra-Vehicular Maneuvers

Ratings