Bruce Johnson wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 3:19 PM, Eris Reddoch wrote:
>
>> Engineering with a side of gunnery works for me. :) Bob
>> appears to want to do a cargomaster/trader with a dash of
>> bridge skills. You could do the engine room thing with gunnery
>> and a dash of either steward.
>>
>> Still waiting to see who else wants in...army/marine type
>> might be handy, as would somebody with medic skills, and
>> another bridge or engineering type wouldn't go wanting.
>
> Ok, been a long time since I worked up a CT character, so here's the
> description:
>
> Issac Chowdhury, born of lower middle-class parents, got into med
> school, got kicked out of med school in his second year over some
> incident he won't talk about unless you get him really drunk,
> enlisted in the marines, got additional medical training there on the
> basis of his previous qualifications, served as a MASH nurse/
> assistant/etc to the docs, (I'm guessing kinda like a nurse
> practioner level of training)
>
> He saw combat, most notably while working a frontline aid station
> during the retaking of Jewel (it was Jewel the Zho's took, then we
> got back, right? I'd have to find my old TNS printout...) anyway,
> something like that.
>
> Using Paul Walker's Excel CT generator (books 1-4),
>
>
>
> and recalculating until I saw a few with medical, I ended up with:
>
> Marine Lieutenant 5346B8 Age 30 3 Terms Cr 7,000
> Admin-1, Computer-2, Cutlass-1, Medical-1, Revolver-1
> 1xBlade
>
> I'd kick Medical up to 2, and drop Computer to 1 (if it had been 2 he
> wouldn't have been caught and kicked out of Med School :-) and trade
> Soc for Dex, since a doctor with a low dex doesn't work for long.
>
> B education works as Med school is post secondary. Admin works if he
> was working in a hospital-type setting, like a MASH unit. Docs and
> med personnel typically have sidearms, hence revolver.
>
> so:
>
> Issac Chowdhury
> Marine Lieutenant 5846B3 Age 30 3 Terms Cr 7,000
> Admin-1, Computer-1, Cutlass-1, Medical-2, Revolver-1
> 1xBlade
>
> Sound about right?
Sounds just fine to me! :)
> The 1xBlade is a war trophy Zho Officer's sword. tide.com/scimitar2.jpg> made of some Zho Damascus Unobtanium type
> 'light-but-strong' metal. Very nice. Very sharp.
>
> Thanks to his Cutlass-1 he can even swing it around without lopping
> off his ear.
>
> Issac is pretty sanguine fellow. His stint in the marines awoke his
> inner traveler, so he's bummed around from place to place; with his
> med qualifications he can always get good paying temp work.
Eris
Akus
