Saboteur Specialization

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

Engineer Career Skills: Athletics, Computers, Knowledge (Education), Mechanics, Perception, Piloting (Space), Ranged (Light) and Vigilance

Saboteur Specialization Skills: Coordination, Mechanics, Skulduggery and Stealth

Almost anathema to the usual technician's mentality, the Saboteur specializes in disrupting and destroying technical and mechanical assets. His job is to diminish the enemy's capacity to wage war by denying the enemy use of its weapons and vehicles. Of course, it takes a high degree of understanding about how something works in order to ensure it ceases working, or better still, to ensure it never works again.

Saboteurs are, by nature, covert operation specialists with a strong need to be able to sneak in and out of enemy facilities. In addition, they understand that disrupting the computer networks that run such facilities is a key to success.

Blowing things up is a popular way to commit sabotage, and Saboteurs are often the best at handling demolitions tasks (often using a combination of Mechanics and Skulduggery). However, there are many other ways to disrupt and destroy machinery, and the Saboteur knows them all. Most often, he will seek a way to cause the most damage and the most chaos at just the right moment. For the Saboteur (especially one with a sense of style), timing is everything.

The Alliance makes quiet yet effective use of its Saboteurs. Though terrorism is not a part of the battle plan (and is expressly forbidden by Mon Mothma and the rest of the Alliance Council), acts of military sabotage are known to be highly effective in evening the odds before a battle. Most commanders in the Rebellion will simply indicate a target and a time frame, allowing the Saboteur to use his creativity and resourcefulness to achieve the objective.

Potential Backgrounds

Academic: Saboteurs in academia, much like their Sapper cousins, are typically military instructors. With their in-depth knowledge of explosives, engineering, and covert operations, academic Saboteurs teach the fine art of eradicating enemy materiel and infrastructure. In addition to offering more traditional classroom instruction, they often instruct insurgents and irregular troops in guerrilla tactics. Academic Saboteurs are rare in the Alliance, and indeed they are relatively uncommon throughout the galaxy. Skilled Saboteurs who can pass on their knowledge to Rebel troops are highly sought after.

Eccentric: Eccentric Saboteurs combine vast technical know-how and cavalier, often heedless attitudes into one terrifying package. These are the reckless bombers, the devil-may-care explosives experts who keep a block of detonite as a doorstop and make fireworks that put some military ordnance to shame. Their in-depth knowledge of explosive devices and compounds is often warped by their inability to take anything seriously and their love of huge explosions no matter the risk or cost. Eccentric Saboteurs make excellent Rebel operatives, even though they make their colleagues extremely nervous.

Journeyman: Journeyman Saboteurs are typically traveling mercenaries and cold-eyed killers who sell their services to the highest bidder. They are the journeymen most likely to have a criminal record, and many syndicates, crooked political organizations, and shady mercenary groups employ them to deal with enemies and rivals. Some journeyman Saboteurs have found a home in the Alliance, where their steady nerves and knowledge of underhanded tactics make them a welcome addition to commando units and black ops teams.

Talented Amateur: Amateur Saboteurs are relatively rare. Their specialized knowledge and unique skill set are typically found only in professionally trained and licensed demolitions experts. That being said, a surprising number of enterprising individuals, especially those from agricultural worlds or who have construction backgrounds, have experience setting and disarming explosives. They make excellent apprentices to trained engineers, and many of them eventually gain the skills needed to become professional Saboteurs.