So I'm making my Navy Career character using High Guard, and a few different questions come up... This probably applies to every other Book that has similar same service options (haven't looked at the Mercenary book in depth yet, but it might apply to that too).
If I have a character (say, a Crewman, for example) who finishes his current term at O2 rank.
He changes career focus to something else (we'll say Engineering, why not) within the same Naval Career "path".
1/He has the choice of EITHER a Qualification Roll with appropriate mods OR no roll required as long as he has the listed Previous Service requirements, right?
2/If he is/was a certain Rank in his previous term under a different Naval Career branch (i.e. Crewman O2 last term, and new to Engineering this term) does he get the O2 bonus skills for Engineering (if any) just for entering this career branch now or do those skills only apply if he becomes that rank as result of an advancement roll?
3/Does he pick up any prior Rank bonus skills (say if he enters a career branch that has O1+ and he enters at O2 or more.) for this new career branch? Or does he only get bonus skills for ranks he earns while in that particular term?
4/Does a change of Career "branch" (i.e. From Crewman to Engineering as above example) count for earning a new Basic Training 0-level skill or is it just counted as being the same blanket career, and thus only count if he leaves the Navy and take up a non-Naval Career?
5/If you get thrown out/let go from one Navy sub-type (i.e. drummed out of the Imperial Navy only to re-apply to the Subsector or Planetary Navies) does that count for another 0-level skill a la Basic Training? And is there any criteria for NOT being accepted into the naval fold?
(Common-sense stuff like 'Crashed a ship' type mishap would surely make you a candidate for being rejected for any further Naval career i would think.)
If I have a character (say, a Crewman, for example) who finishes his current term at O2 rank.
He changes career focus to something else (we'll say Engineering, why not) within the same Naval Career "path".
1/He has the choice of EITHER a Qualification Roll with appropriate mods OR no roll required as long as he has the listed Previous Service requirements, right?
2/If he is/was a certain Rank in his previous term under a different Naval Career branch (i.e. Crewman O2 last term, and new to Engineering this term) does he get the O2 bonus skills for Engineering (if any) just for entering this career branch now or do those skills only apply if he becomes that rank as result of an advancement roll?
3/Does he pick up any prior Rank bonus skills (say if he enters a career branch that has O1+ and he enters at O2 or more.) for this new career branch? Or does he only get bonus skills for ranks he earns while in that particular term?
4/Does a change of Career "branch" (i.e. From Crewman to Engineering as above example) count for earning a new Basic Training 0-level skill or is it just counted as being the same blanket career, and thus only count if he leaves the Navy and take up a non-Naval Career?
5/If you get thrown out/let go from one Navy sub-type (i.e. drummed out of the Imperial Navy only to re-apply to the Subsector or Planetary Navies) does that count for another 0-level skill a la Basic Training? And is there any criteria for NOT being accepted into the naval fold?
(Common-sense stuff like 'Crashed a ship' type mishap would surely make you a candidate for being rejected for any further Naval career i would think.)