Councilors

**Councilors** are a faction's primary proxies on Earth and may also go to space to advance its interests there. Factions may initially have four councilors but certain projects allow them to expand the size of their council to six. Their primary role is to perform missions for their faction.

Councilors can equip organizations or "orgs" to enhance their attributes, increase faction income, and even gain access to new missions.

## Professions

A councilor's profession determines the range of his or her initial stats, available missions, and possible traits.

#### Activist

An Activist seeks social change through persuasion rather than violence.

#### Astronaut

Astronauts are among the lucky few who have been to space and often merge military and scientific backgrounds.

#### Celebrity

An influential entertainer, artist, athlete or scion with a substantial public following.

#### Commando

Commandos are experts in small-scale combat operations and protecting others from attacks.

#### Diplomat

Diplomats are influential communicators who promote peaceful and profitable relations between nations and their peoples.

#### Evangelist

Evangelists are public figures whose influence is built around promoting an ideology to a sometimes fanatical cadre of followers.

#### Executive

Executives are senior leaders in government and business who may not have a high public profile but are good at getting things done.

#### Fixer

Fixers are troubleshooters and generalists who can solve an array of problems ... quietly.

#### Hacker

Hackers are experts in extracting information from computer networks and promoting agendas at important nodes.

#### Inspector

An Inspector is a senior police official charged with protecting the public.

#### Investigator

Investigators gather scattered bits of information and piece together the truth, usually for a private audience.

#### Journalist

Journalists uncover hidden information and deliver it to the public, sometimes challenging powerful interests.

#### Judge

A Judge is a government official with the power to interpret law and order the arrest of powerful people.

#### Kingpin

A mastermind of executing operations of questionable legality.

#### Officer

Officers are senior commanders and experts in military affairs.

#### Operative

Operatives are trained experts in both espionage and small-scale violent action.

#### Politician

A Politician is a senior government official who ostensibly represents the public interest.

#### Professor

An academic who has developed expertise in important matters and conveys it to an audience.

#### Rebel

A Rebel is willing and able to take violent action against the powers that be.

#### Scientist

Scientists organize and lead research efforts to uncover some new understanding of how the world works.

#### Spy

Spies are trained to gather information by a variety of covert means.

#### Tech Mogul

Tech Moguls are entrepreneurial visionaries who have turned inventions into a successful business.

#### Tycoon

Tycoons are owners of older industries or come from inherited wealth.

## Attributes

Persuasion

Investigation

Espionage

Command

Administration

Science

Security

Loyalty

## Traits

Traits are innate characteristics of a councilor. They may grant permanent or conditional stat bonuses or maluses, incomes, or access to certain orgs. Some traits may be removed or upgraded by spending XP.

## Missions

Councilors advance you factions interests by carrying out missions. Players assign their factions' councilors to missions all at once, at the beginning of each 'mission phase'.