Rosaline Woods

A notorious space pirate and raider of extraterrestrial tombs, she plays by her own rules and loves getting under the skin of authority figures. Worked with Stephen as a mercenary back in the day.

Alternative to.

How to play
Rosaline is a full-time with some interesting variants, fitting a space pirate:  to pirate stuff,  for thefts,  for typical overconfident endeavors while shouting Yarr!,  to heroically(?) fight off pirates,  for... treasure hunting.

builds upon by granting reduced  costs, and chances of being hit. makes her an nigh-indispensable in Expeditions, unlike with  (he's useful, but not essential). Akin to, it will reduce combat chances, so might get angry he gets less  when you're here.

Her other skills range from utilities ('s emergency hacking or 's item theft) to outright combat ('s exploration strength and blade-fight bonuses).

Core skills

 * Rosaline is first and foremost a pilot. She is supposed to deal to piloting duties, such as hunter killing, scrap salvage efforts, and exploration launching.


 * One of Rosaline's many signature skills. It will support your duties thanks to a reduced cost (-1 ) for aircraft launching and landing, granting you two more shoots or one salvage action. With the, launches are free (but not landings).
 * It also grants a 50% chance to avoid incoming fire, which may be useful to bait hunters away from the ship, salvage while there are hunters, or to stay in the air for more than one cycle (beware, those remain very punishing).

Secondary skills

 * Rosaline's first signature skill. It enables to pickpocket people to either steal or plant people covertly, both for 2 . It may be used to steal someone's and read their chatlogs, to get the apron back or restrict its access, perhaps even giving a  to someone needing one.
 * pickpocket is however an aggressive action and does not allow to choose what to steal, so it will generally cost more than 2 . plant is free of those constraints.


 * Rosaline's second signature skill. This skill grants Rosaline with unparalleled combat prowess with any bladed weapon (most notably the ), assuring the won't let you even touch one unless you're as confirmed as it gets. Put your hands on a, however, and you can start slashing through  and  alike.


 * Rosaline's third signature skill. It grants her an additional chance of finding alien artifacts while on Exploration, making her extremely useful to try and find Eden, or simply to reduce combat-chances like.


 * Finally, IT Expert grants Rosaline free action points, to use on NERON Projects (especially Pilot upgrades), establishing the connection, or hack through terminals, like the BIOS or Moros' . It's more niche since both  and  (regular explo-goers) have access to it.


 * enables you to teach some stuff to NPCs such as, and possibly tame . You can for example teach them to carry items, thus having a second inventory, or to comfort people, such as.

Rosaline is a dangerous : if she gets her hands on a bladed weapon, she could go through the crew faster than a.
 * could allow you to steal the off 's hands, or to simply delay research by planting the apron on an inactive player.

Her role as a might however make a conversion play harder than most characters. You will be expected to use all of your on piloting, or stay rested up for the next waves. However, it may grant you a bed in, and access to the shower.
 * Beware of and  who may reveal your showers.

Useful tips
While you don't get as many from  as  and  do from, you get cheaper launches for both patrol ships and the , the latter being an exclusive bonus (along with ). The will make it even more worthwhile and even the field further.

Try to keep open slots so that you can counter Mostis raids with and possibly  or thrive for Eden with.
 * might prove useful in case you need emergency hacking, or for Moros.

Biography
TBD