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Basic and needing fleshing out, dice and specifics to be determined.

Human Stats

Attitude Your general personality, gives bonus. PCs grade people have 2, elite mooks 1.

Smug: You get a large, flat bonus until you fail at something, then you get a penalty

Hot Blooded: You gain an escalating bonus depending on how damaged and outpowered you are

Laid back: Gain a bonus after each successful role you make

Serious: Gain a bonus to everything that's less than other attitudes situational bonus

Plucky: Gain a bonus every time you fail to do something

Traumatized: You may damage yourself (mental stress) for a bonus

Intense: Pick a certain objective each battle (Defeat a particular opponent etc.) gain a bonus towards that objective, but a penalty to everything else

Person

This is the section about you as a person and your life outside a robot.

Born

Your basic stats

Strong: How physically strong you are

Fast: How quick and dexterous you are

Tough: How good your endurance and resistance to damage is

Knowledge: How book learned you are

Planning: How good you are at making judgement calls

Noticing: How good you are at perceptual tasks and noticing

Personable: How good you are at talking to people

Conscious: How good you are at reading social atmospheres and self analysis

Dealing: How good you are at negotiation and instrumental dealing

Learned

Learned have two catagories, broad life skills (which give bonuses across multiple born stats) and special skills and aptitudes which give much higher bonuses in specific situations.

Life Skills

Infantry Training

Gain a +X bonus to rolls in combat

Commando training

Gain +Y bonus to rolls in combat. and anything involving sneaking

Idol

Gain +X bonus to social skills, and enjoy the benefits of fame, as well as its drawbacks

Squad Leader

Gain +X bonus to rolls involving squad leadership or tactics

Specific Skills

Trained by a Master

Once a session you automatically succeed at unopposed roll or gain +X automatic successes on an opposed one in a particular area

WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS

You can negate the normal requirements for materials when repairing or building something

Telepath

Somehow, you can determine the thoughts of others with a successful conscious roll

Bring a Sword to a Gun Fight

Gain X bonus to dodge and attack when you use a melee weapon against someone armed with a projectile weapon

Pilot

Pilot skills are bought with a seperate bucket of points from personal skills. However, most things about piloting a robot derive from your skills as a person.

Control

Your ability to control a robot with a high output, and the currency for maneuvers you have each round.

Aleph

How good a Newtype you are. Gives access to newtype maneuevers

Confidence

How comfortable you are with flying. High Confidence can be applied as a bonus to certain rolls, and makes exceptional rolls count more

Trickiness

Roll this to change maneuver based on what your enemy is doing

Recovery

Your ability to revive a damaged suit and repair temporary damage

Advantages and Disadvantages

Transhuman Template

Everyone gets one of these free. S-class transhumans are better

Robot Stats

Archetype

Each robot has an archetype. An archetype is its role, design philosophy or the like, and gives bonuses outside of the stats. All archetypes have a cardinal statistic, which allows someone with lower pilot skill to get more out of them.

Generalist

A all purpose type suit with no particular strong or weak points. No bonus, no penalties. It's cardinal statistic is balanced, gain +X effective control if you have all stats within 2 of one another

Armoured

Fast

Close Combat

Heavy Weapons

Sniper

Technology

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5