Operative Practice

Operatives have many features in common, including their emphasis on perfecting their skills, their precise and deadly approach to combat, and their increasingly quick reflexes. But different operatives steer those talents in varying directions, embodied by the operative practices. Your choice of practice is a reflection of your focus—not necessarily an indication of your chosen profession, but a description of your preferred techniques.

**Acquisitions Practice**

Many operatives are hired for the procurement of valuable artifacts, but only the true masters of the art can slip through the tightest security and make off with untold riches, whether they do it for a profit, or for sport. Those operatives who choose the Acquisitions Practice apply a mixture of stealth and impressive acrobatics to surpass any kind of defenses they are met with.

**Gunslinger Practice**

Those operatives who choose the Gunslinger Practice are the masters of the trick shot. The Gunslinger and his blaster are the perfect team, utilizing knowledge of their enemies’ vulnerabilities to take advantage of every opportunity.

**Sharpshooter Practice**

Those operatives who choose the Sharpshooter Practice are bringers of death. Striking from a safe distance, the Sharpshooter uses precision shooting to control the battlefield and bring targets down quickly.

**Bolstering Practice**

Those operatives who choose the Bolstering Practice use precise strikes and brilliant use of small unit tactics to overwhelm enemies through superior teamwork.

**Disabling Practice**

Those operatives who choose the Disabling Practice utilize a variety of pushes, pulls, weight shifts, and joint locks to immobilize their opponent. They use these techniques to manipulate their opponent, moving them across the battlefield before incapacitating them.

**Lethality Practice**

Those operatives who choose the Lethality Practice use disguises to get close to their enemies, then leverage the toxic power of poisons to debilitate them and capitalize on their weaknesses.

**Performance Practice**

Some operatives choose to master finesse and timing through performance art. Those operatives who choose the Performance Practice become skilled performers who prove especially deadly in close combat, able to find the rhythm of an attacker’s strikes as easily as any song.

**Pugnacity Practice**

Those operatives who choose the Pugnacity Practice apply an atypical versatility to their actions, comfortably dispatching foes from afar or face to face.

**Ruffian Practice**

Those operatives who choose the Ruffian Practice use rough-and-tumble tactics to handle any fight, big or small. They incite chaos and make devious moves that keep their enemies reeling.

**Saboteur Practice**

Those operatives who choose the Saboteur Practice enhance their fine-honed skills of stealth and agility with tech, using advanced technology with the aid of a tracker droid to sustain a longer assault.

**Sawbones Practice**

Those operatives who choose the Sawbones Practice have studied the humanoid body on a more intimate level than other operatives. While others may know where best to stab in order to kill, you also know how to repair the wounds you inflict, as well as how to make them even deeper. You delve into the secrets of the body, learning as much medical knowledge as you can get your hands on, regardless of how dirty the work becomes.

**Scrapper Practice**

Those operatives who choose the Scrapper Practice don’t have the time or patience for the fair fight. They utilize close-quarters blaster combat blended with underhanded tactics to surprise and disable their foes.