Medic

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

Soldier Career Skills: Athletics, Brawl, Knowledge (Warfare), Medicine, Melee, Ranged (Light), Ranged (Heavy) and Survival

Medic Specialization Skills: Knowledge (Xenology), Medicine. Resilience and Vigilance

The Alliance cannot afford to fight a war of attrition the way the Empire can. The enemy can pour thousands of stormtroopers and other forces into a meat-grinder of a battle, taking horrific casualties, without blinking an eye over its losses. Every soldier of the Rebellion is, on the other hand, a valuable asset whose loss Alliance High Command feels keenly. The Medic serves to prevent as many of those losses as possible.

Medics know how to keep their head when everyone else is panicking, and they know how to be prepared for any contingency. They are skilled at treating the wounds of anyone in their unit, regardless of species.

Many folks think Medics are inherent pacifists. While a Medic might prefer to save a life rather than take it, most realize the necessity of fighting and violence for a greater cause, and are more than ready to strike down an enemy in order to save a comrade. Medics tend to see no one as expendable, which can make them difficult to deal with when a commander wants to pull a team out of a situation and there's a chance any of those on the deck could still be alive.

The vast majority of Alliance troopers greatly revere the Medics in their units, knowing these brave men and women are often the only thing standing in the way between them and death. Alliance Medics are famous for taking ridiculous risks in the middle of terrible battles just for the chance to save one more Rebellion fighter.

Potential Backgrounds

  • Avengers: Medics might have been doctors on Imperial worlds, forced to abandon patients in critical condition to provide Imperials preferential treatment, or who had their practice nationalized by the Empire. Others might have been first responders to the site of an Imperial atrocity. Alternatively, pacifist survivors of the horrors inflicted on Alderaan and Caamas might learn field medicine as a way to resist the Empire without compromising their ideals.
  • Idealistic Recruit: Medics typically come from more urban areas, where most children receive higher education and have wealthier parents. The Alliance takes great care in recruiting these soldiers, and knows it must win them over by showing them the horrors of the Empire, rather than tempting them with adventure. Most of these recruits had good lives before joining, and completed courses in a medical program of some sort.
  • Imperial Defector: Imperial Medics might have worked in an Imperial hospital or already have field combat experience from the Imperial Army or Navy. They often have to make a significant adjustment to life in the Alliance, as they are accustomed to having a near limitless supply of bacta, bandages, medical droids, and replacement cybernetics. Rebels treasure every skilled professional who joins their ranks, but never have enough medical equipment or personnel available, so most Medics are limited to first aid and local remedies.
  • Mercenary: Mercenary Medics are often trained to operate under fire, and are particularly skilled at dealing with battlefield injuries. Blaster wounds, shrapnel, and lost limbs are all just another day at the office for the seasoned mercenary field medic.
  • Veteran of the Clone Wars: Medics might have served at one of the Republic Mobile Surgical Units, or RMSUs, during the Clone Wars, patching up wounded clones near the fighting on countless worlds. Alternatively, they might have worked far from the front lines at Coruscant’s Republic Central Medcenter, rehabilitating the war’s wounded.