====== Tanker ====== //“Age of mechs is over,” huh? That’s what they all say, every damn generation, right up until something big and angry rolls over the horizon and starts flattening cities again. Then suddenly everyone remembers the Tankers. The loud ones. The walking fortresses. The maniacs who think piloting a multi-ton death machine solo counts as a lifestyle choice. You don’t hire a Tanker because you need transport, you hire one because you want the loudest thing on your side when the world starts ending.\\ \\ Thing is, Tankers never really left. They just got faster, sleeker, meaner. Some fly, some crawl, some dig through the spirit-damned ground and some walk on legs the size of apartment blocks. Doesn’t matter what shape it takes, if it’s got a gun bigger than a shuttle and someone inside who calls it “baby,” it’s a Tanker rig. And those pilots? They don’t sit in cockpits — they wear them. Hooked up, synced in, body and machine in lockstep until you can’t tell which one’s steering the other. You can feel it when they’re close. The hum in the ground, the static in your teeth. That’s a Tanker, grinning somewhere, lining up a shot.\\ \\ They live heavy. Always have. Can’t help it. Even when they’re planetside, they’ve got half a dozen sidearms and a shoulder cannon that probably violates three treaties. Tankers love their guns the way poets love heartbreak. It’s messy, loud, and they’ll talk about it for hours. You’ll never catch one without a harness full of custom mods, extra mags, and some ridiculous grav-rig that lets them haul ordnance no one else can lift. Ask them why and they’ll tell you, “Because I can.” Then they’ll prove it.\\ \\ But where they really shine is in the gunnery bay. You ever seen a Tanker light something up? You don’t forget it. They don’t just hit targets — they announce them. Every tracer, every paint mark, every cursed word over comms turns into a homing beacon for everyone else. One Tanker fires, and the whole squad hits bullseye. It’s like watching an orchestra, if the instruments were all cannons and the conductor hated you personally.\\ \\ You can tease ‘em all you want about being outdated, but when the lights start flickering and something big enough to have a council representative starts moving your way, you’ll be glad there’s a Tanker around. They’ve been here since the first contact wars and they’ll be here after the last lights go out. Maybe the age of mechs is over for the rest of you, kid, but for a Tanker, it never even slowed down.// \\ \\ \\ // - Cpt. Evangeline 'Angel' Eversong, Away Team 1 of the Argonaut, Mark 5876.// \\ \\ ^ Rank ^ Job Die ^Abilities^ | 1 | - |[[:Jobs:Tanker#Bringing The Noise]] (1/10/1)| | 2 | D4 |[[:Jobs:Tanker#Targets Marked]] (D4/Marked), [[:Jobs:Tanker#Upgrade Job Die]]| | 3 | D4 |[[:Jobs:Tanker#Bringing The Noise]] (2/20/2), [[:Jobs:Tanker#Bonus Proficiency]]| | 4 | D6 |[[:Jobs:Tanker#Targets Marked]] (D6), [[:Jobs:Tanker#Upgrade Job Die]]| | 5 | D6 |[[:Jobs:Tanker#Bringing The Noise]] (3/30/3), [[:Jobs:Tanker#Bonus Proficiency]], [[:Jobs:Tanker#Alpha Strike]]| | 6 | D8 |[[:Jobs:Tanker#Targets Marked]] (D8), [[Tanker#Upgrade Job Die]]| | 7 | D8 |[[:Jobs:Tanker#Bringing The Noise]] (4/40/4), [[:Jobs:Tanker#Bonus Proficiency]]| | 8 | D10 |[[:Jobs:[Tanker#Targets Marked]] (D10), [[:Jobs:Tanker#Upgrade Job Die]]| | 9 | D10 |[[:Jobs:Tanker#Bringing The Noise]] (5/50/5), [[:Jobs:Tanker#Bonus Proficiency]]| | 10 | D12 |[[:Jobs:Tanker#Targets Marked]] (D12), [[:Jobs:Tanker#Upgrade Job Die]] , [[:Jobs:Tanker#Lead The Target]]| ==== Starting Package ==== \\ If you choose [[:Jobs:Tanker#Tanker]] as your starting [[:Jobs|Job]] during [[:Character:Character Creation]], gain the following bonuses:\\ \\ **[[:Ratings:Health|Health]] Bonus**: 15\\ **[[:Ratings:Mana|Mana]] Bonus**: 5\\ **[[:Ratings:Strain|Strain]] Bonus**: 10\\ \\ **[[:Game Mechanics:Proficiencies|Proficiencies]]**: Gain **3** [[:Game Mechanics:Proficiencies|Proficiencies]] from the following:\\ [[:Skills#Athletics]], [[:Skills#Coordination]], [[:Skills#Knowledge - Material]], [[:Skills#Knowledge - Social]], [[:Ratings: Reaction]], [[:Skills#Savvy]], [[:Skills#Socialise]] or [[:Skills#Tech]].\\ \\ **[[:Game Mechanics:Resistances]]**: Gain **1** [[:Game Mechanics:Resistances]] from the following:\\ [[:Ratings:Fortitude_Save|Fortitude]] or [[:Ratings:Will_Save|Will]].\\ \\ **[[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Starter Abilities]]**: You gain the following [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Ability]]:\\ [[:Jobs:Tanker#Riding Heavy]].\\ \\ **[[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Budget]]**: You gain **1** [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Budget]] from the following:\\ **Gearhead**: [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Budget:Personal Budget]]; 10,000c. [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Budget:Vehicular Budget]]: 100,000c.\\ **Balanced**: [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Budget:Personal Budget]]; 20,000c. [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Budget:Vehicular Budget]]: 75,000c.\\ ===== Starter Abilities ===== ==== Riding Heavy ==== //Tankers don’t believe in “too big.” If it fits in the hands, or doesn't, for that matter, it’s a sidearm. They favour weapons built for things with more brawn than brains: anti-armour cannons, repeater rifles the size of fence posts, launchers meant for fortified emplacements. Doesn’t matter. They’ll rig a sling, throw on a mag-harness, and call it portable. Their rides are the same story, every one of them bristling with guns that could flatten a building. And ask any Tanker worth their grease: a vehicle gun’s just a field weapon waiting to be unbolted. Give them a few seconds, some percussive maintenance, and something worth shooting at, and you’ll find out exactly how loose their definition of “mounted” really is.// \\ \\ [[:Traits|Trait]].\\ \\ You may install [[Items:Equipment:Weapons]] one [Class] higher than normally allowed into [Weaponry] [Components]. You may only ever have one over-[Classed] [[Items:Equipment:Weapons]] installed in this manner.\\ \\ **For Example**: You can install a [Class] 2 [Flashrifle] into a [Class] 1 [Super-Heavy Weapons Pod] [Component].\\ \\ In addition, you can store and [Equip] a single [Class] 2 [[Items:Equipment:Weapons|Weapon]].\\ \\ Furthermore, you gain the [[:Jobs:Tanker#Riding Heavy|Hell Yeah]] [[:Game Mechanics:Actions:Double Action]]:\\ \\ |< - 25% 50% 25%>| ^**Hell Yeah**^^^ | [[:Game Mechanics:Actions:Double Action]] | | | |You may remove or install a [Class] 1 or 2 [[Items:Equipment:Weapons|Weapon]] from a [Weaponry] [Component] or [Module] in an [Allied], [Uncrewed] or [Destroyed] [Vehicle].||| ===== Job Abilities ===== ==== Bringing The Noise ==== //Tankers don’t travel light, they bring the whole damn armoury. Even the scrawniest one can haul gear like a cargo loader, muscles working on some secret leverage the rest of us never figured out. Folks joke they’re “farm strong,” but that doesn’t quite cover it; they’re trained to move heavy things fast, uphill, through crossfire, and somehow keep a hand free for a sidearm. Harnesses dangle from them like extra limbs, each one holding a gun, a scope, or something that explodes. Need a tripod? They’ve got three. Need it set up before you finish the sentence? Already done. You can blindfold a Tanker in the dark, dump a crate of mixed parts at their feet, and they’ll have a functioning weapons platform running before you remember to duck.// \\ \\ [[:Traits|Trait]].\\ \\ You reduce the [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Ability:Ritual#Severity]] of the [[:Traits:Setup X|Set Up]] [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Ability:Ritual]] by 10. At [[Jobs:Tanker#Tanker]] ranks 3, 5, 7, & 9, the reduction is increased to 20, 30, 40 & 50, respectively.\\ \\ In addition, you increase your effective [[:Stats:Brawn]] for the purposes of meeting the [[Game Mechanics:Stat Requirements|Requirements]] for [[:Items:Equipment]] by 1. At [[Jobs:Tanker#Tanker]] ranks 3, 5, 7 & 9, this bonus is increased to 2, 3, 4 & 5, respectively.\\ \\ Furthermore, you gain 1 [[:Game Mechanics:Inventory#Holster Slot|Holster]]. At [[Jobs:Tanker#Tanker]] ranks 3, 5, 7 & 9, the amount of additional [[:Game Mechanics:Inventory#Holster Slot|Holsters]] is increased to 2, 3, 4 & 5, respectively.\\ ==== Targets Marked ==== //A good Tanker doesn’t just hit targets, they make everyone else hit them too. Their shots are loud, bright, and impossible to ignore, laced with tracers, EM painters, or whatever tech keeps the rest of the squad on the same page. Once a Tanker lights something up, it glows like a flare across every channel worth listening to, visual, thermal, astral, doesn’t matter. The rest of the crew just follows the signal and rains hell. That’s why every armoured push keeps a Tanker at the front: they see first, shoot first, and make sure nobody misses. Some call it strategy, some call it madness, but whatever you call it, it’s damn effective.// \\ \\ [[:Traits|Trait]].\\ \\ After successfully [[:Game Mechanics:Attack|Attacking]] a [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Target]] with a [[:Items:Equipment:Weapons|Weapon]], until the start of your next [[Game Mechanics:Turn Order:Turn]], you and any [Allies] that [[:Game_Mechanics:Attack]] the same [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Target]], with a [[:Items:Equipment:Weapons]], [Spell] or [Invocation], gain a [[:Game Mechanics:Bonus Die]] D4 to the [[:Game Mechanics:Attack]].\\ \\ In addition, you also apply the [Marked] [[:Game Mechanics:Conditions]] to the [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Target]] until the start of your next [[Game Mechanics:Turn Order:Turn]]. * At [[:Jobs:Tanker#Tanker]] rank 4, [[:Game Mechanics:Upgrading or Downgrading:Upgrading Dice|Upgrade]] the [[:Game Mechanics:Bonus Die]] to a D6. * At [[:Jobs:Tanker#Tanker]] rank 6, [[:Game Mechanics:Upgrading or Downgrading:Upgrading Dice|Upgrade]] the [[:Game Mechanics:Bonus Die]] to a D8. * At [[:Jobs:Tanker#Tanker]] rank 8, [[:Game Mechanics:Upgrading or Downgrading:Upgrading Dice|Upgrade]] the [[:Game Mechanics:Bonus Die]] to a D10. * At [[:Jobs:Tanker#Tanker]] rank 10, [[:Game Mechanics:Upgrading or Downgrading:Upgrading Dice|Upgrade]] the [[:Game Mechanics:Bonus Die]] to a D12. ==== Upgrade Job Die ==== [[:Traits|Trait]].\\ \\ You gain a [[Game Mechanics:Definitions:Job Die]]. A [[Game Mechanics:Definitions:Job Die]] is a [[Game Mechanics:Bonus Die]] that is added to [[Game Mechanics:Check|Checks]], [[Game Mechanics:Attack|Attacks]] or [[Game Mechanics:Save|Saves]] that you are [[Game Mechanics:Proficiencies|Proficient]] or [[Game Mechanics:Resistances|Resistant]] in, respectively. Your [[Game Mechanics:Definitions:Job Die]] is a D4.\\ \\ If you gain an additional instance of this [[Game Mechanics:Definitions:Ability]], and you already have a [[Game Mechanics:Definitions:Job Die]], you do not gain another; it is [[Game Mechanics:Upgrading Or Downgrading:Upgrade]] instead.\\ \\ At [[:Jobs:Tanker#Tanker]] rank 4, 6, 8 & 10, you gain an additional instance of this [[Game Mechanics:Definitions:Ability]]. ==== Bonus Proficiency ==== [[:Traits|Trait]].\\ \\ You gain an additional [[:Game Mechanics:Proficiencies|Proficiency]]. This can be [[:Ratings:Swagger]], [[Ratings:Presence]], [[Ratings:Initiative]], [[Ratings:Reaction]] or any [[:Skills]].\\ \\ **Please Note**: You can select any of the above options, not just the ones listed on the [[:Jobs:Ace#Starting Package]], so long as you are not already [[:Game Mechanics:Proficiencies|Proficiency]] in it.\\ \\ At [[:Jobs:Tanker#Tanker]] rank 5, 7 & 9, you gain an additional instance of this [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Ability]]. ==== Alpha Strike ==== //Every spacer knows how to fire their guns. Only a Tanker knows how to make them sing. An Alpha Strike is what happens when experience, timing, and a total disregard for safety meet in perfect harmony. Most crews spend their whole careers learning to avoid overloading the sub-systems with rolling bursts, watching heat gauges, praying the generator doesn’t turn itself inside out. Tankers do the opposite. They study the hum, memorize the flicker in the diagnostics, feel the lag between charge and recoil. Then, right at the edge of meltdown, they pull every trigger they’ve got. For a few glorious seconds the whole rig becomes a sun, dozens of guns, all spitting death in perfect sync, the air shaking with the sound of it. It’s reckless, it’s unsafe, but when the smoke clears, there’s usually nothing left standing. They didn’t invent the broadside, but they sure as shit perfected it.// \\ \\ [[:Game Mechanics:Actions:Double Action]].\\ \\ You gain the [[:Jobs:Tanker#Alpha Strike]] [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Ability]]:\\ \\ |< - 25% 50% 25%>| ^**Alpha Strike**^^^ | [[:Game Mechanics:Actions:Double Action]] | [[:Traits:Tiring]] | | |You may perform the [[Basic Abilities:Combat]] [[:Game Mechanics:Actions:Action]] with each [Weaponry] [Component] installed on the [Vehicle] you are [Crewing], up to a maximum of five [Components], provided each could normally be used to perform the [[Basic Abilities:Combat]] [[:Game Mechanics:Actions:Action]]. For the purposes of this [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Ability]], you count as being mounted to every relevant [Console]. \\ \\ Once these [[Basic Abilities:Combat]] [[:Game Mechanics:Actions:Action|Actions]] have been resolved, you trigger [Overload] for each [Component] after the first.||| \\ ==== Lead The Target ==== //Space fights don’t happen in straight lines, and Tankers learned that the hard way. They spend their lives tracking things that move faster than thought, fighters, interceptors, Orcish Windriders, you name it, and they still manage to land the shot. They don’t aim at a target; they aim at where the target’s about to be, three heartbeats from now, across half a sky. While everyone else is still calculating trajectory, a Tanker’s already fired, and by the time the shell arrives, it meets the mark dead centre. They read motion like language, feel gravity wells and thrust signatures the way others feel a punch coming. Regardless of whether they’re dogfighting in the void or duelling it out with a tweaked-out chrome junkie in some dingy alleyway, Tankers never miss twice. You can call it instinct, experience, or sorcery, but whatever it is, it turns every battlefield into their shooting range.// \\ \\ [[:Traits|Trait]].\\ \\ When you perform [[:Game Mechanics:Definitions:Distant]] [[:Game Mechanics:Attack|Attacks]] with [[:Items:Equipment:Weapons]] or [Weaponry] [Components], you do so under the effects of the [[:Traits:Arc]] [[:Traits|Trait]]. ==== Changelog ==== Version 0.5 - Nov 2025 * **Riding Heavy** * No longer doubles Brawn Requirement of chosen Weapon. Version 0.5b - Dec 2025 * Wording updated. Version 0.5c - June 2026 * Wording updated. * Starting Proficiency list updated to include Knowledge - Social and Reaction * Bug Fixed: The Starting Proficiency list incorrectly listed Natural as a possible option and has been removed * Riding Heavy no longer requires the Tanker to specify a specific Vehicle. They may instead wield and install a single Class 2 Weapon, individually * Finders Keepers Action is now easier to use and has more use cases * Finders Keepers Action has been renamed to the Hell Yeah Action * Targets Marked has been adjusted to no longer apply Properties, in addition to the Bonus Die * Targets Marked now applies the Marked Condition, in addition to the Bonus Die * Alpha Strike reworked to allow you to perform Combat Actions with all Weaponry on a Vehicle, regardless of Consoles