Gadgeteer

Of the 8 Career Skills, choose 4 to get a free rank. Of the 4 Specialization Skills, choose 2 to get a free rank.

Bounty Hunter Career Skills: Athletics, Brawl, Perception, Piloting (Planetary), Piloting (Space), Ranged (Heavy), Streetwise and Vigilance.

Gadgeteer Specialization Skills: Brawl, Coercion, Mechanics and Ranged (Light)

Considering how often a single Bounty Hunter finds himself faced with terrible odds (more often than not, an acquisition has friends or employees who work hard to protect him), it's not surprising how many specialize in high-tech gear and weapons. The Gadgeteer excels at presenting himself as a one-person battle force, at least for a short time. Using both the latest tech and his own personally-modified gear, a Bounty Hunter with this specialization can be hard to stop. Gadgeteer talents lean heavily towards gear use, taking down targets, and adapting to tough situations.

Gadgeteer-specialized Bounty Hunters are in many ways the ultimate hybrid of tech expert and combatant; for smaller groups, this may be a perfect choice. Gadgeteers—especially those that are operating as Independent Bounty Hunters—have little trouble signing on for nearly any job. After all, the credits they need for that next nifty piece of tech have to come from somewhere.

Potential Backgrounds

  • In It For the Money: Many Gadgeteers are constantly looking for that next job, for that next score. Not out of a pursuit of excitement, or the challenge or thrills, or for a chance to uphold some high-minded ideal, but for cold, hard cash. They are the flashiest, often wealthiest members of the bounty hunting trade. They wear their successes on their sleeves in the form of their beloved gear. Fast ships, powerful weapons, and dazzling, high-tech equipment are not cheap, however. From the initial purchase prices to the constant cost of maintenance, Gadgeteers often spend more on technology in a month than an average galactic citizen makes in a standard year.
  • Lawbringer: Gadgeteers who are driven by a dedication to the law are often extremely talented slicers employed to hunt down other slicers through the galactic HoloNet. They use their knowledge of computers and high-tech equipment to capture hostile terrorists, fraudsters, and others who break the many laws governing computer and HoloNet communications throughout the Empire.
  • Thrill of the Hunt: Gadgeteers dedicated to the hunt are masters of surveillance and information gathering. These hunters love a good stakeout, a long night in an anonymous speeder truck kitted out with a high-tech array of sensors and listening apparatus. They spend their time building surveillance systems of ever-increasing complexity and sensitivity, and studying any security used by the target. Patient listening and watching are these hunters’ most fundamental techniques, and only after everything has been recorded and analyzed do Gadgeteers strike.