Cycler
Rooving Space Nomads
Career
Qualifications
There is a very high activity requirement with all members of a cycler crew. This is to keep all pilots in touch with their purpose and maintain cooperation amongst members.
Payment & Reimbursement
Grey Market Trading
Clandestine efforts are regularly made to transfer smuggled good to corporate enclaves representing clients or entities simply wishing to undermine their rivals.It is also believed, they engage in several secret research projects, mostly involving missile development.
Perception
Purpose
Cyclers typically spend most of their time scouting or roaming large swaths of space looking for things to poach.
Social Status
Cyclers tend to want to keep their identities secret from even the wider gammian population to reduce the odds that they be taken unawares while in port. Such threats are ever present from the GAA and other cycler crews.
Demographics
Gammians
Every member of a cycle crew is active within all aspects of every operation.Everyone scouts, everyone fights, everyone flies logistics.This is to make it easier to remain nomadic. Elsewise, a new cycler may grow bored from the advance planning required for every score. Along with the added benefit of encouraging resilience and leadership skills.
Operations
Workplace
Colonies
Gammians often take over random asteroids or derelict ships in void pockets to create civilian-staffed mining colonies that they protect with their fleets and defense turrets. Cyclers are responsible for maintaining those fleets and stations. Additionally, several secondary and tertiary staging points need to be constantly stocked with supplies of ships, reinforcements, modules, drones, ammo etc.Provided Services
Faction Warfare
They are constantly on the lookout for a fight.Though it is true that many Gammians are nominally at war with the pantheons, they are often also contracted by them to target their rivals instead. Mercenary missions taken on behalf of pantheon stations against each other include incursions, fleet fights, suicide runs, information exchange and carrier contracts.
Dangers & Hazards
Greater exposure space hazards like asteroids collisions and cosmic radiation. To say nothing of supply lines between the areas of action and home are at constant threat of being severed by rival action.
Alternative Names
Type
Illicit
Demand
Very High
Legality
Many ships with inactive transponders have a kill-on-site bounty placed on them
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