Medic

Combat healer and trauma responder.

The Medic is the squad's standing medical response. They are not the Sawbones -- the Sawbones heals in the ward, after the fight, with proper facilities and time. The Medic heals during the fight, with a kit, on the move, under fire. They are booked as a casualty-reduction specialist: the person whose job is to keep a wounded trooper producing value until the trooper reaches the Sawbones or the Sawbones reaches them.

On the Kadiss, the Medic rides the grid as qualified medical staff. Their kit is logged, their credentials are checked, and their rek is measured in trooper-hours-preserved. They work fast because the alternative is the casualty list, and the casualty list is the paperwork the Medic is trying to avoid generating.

Combat Medicine is the kit-charge economy: every heal costs one charge, every kit has ten, the kit costs rek, and the Medic knows exactly how many charges are left at all times. Triage Protocol is the eye that reads the battlefield as a medical problem -- who is about to die, who can wait, who is already gone. Pharma Application is the Medic's relationship with the chemist: every compound is more effective in trained hands, and the trained hands know which crash to soften, which side-effect to halve, which duration to extend.

Operating on the Support chassis (d8 HD, 3/4 BAB, Fort/Will good, Ref poor). Light and medium armour -- the kit must be reachable. WIS and CHA primes: the judgment to read a wound and the bedside manner to keep the patient calm enough to be treated.

Rules Reference

Field	Value
Armor Allowance	Light, Medium
Bab Tier	three-quarters
Base Skill Points	4
Hd	d8
Hd Sides	8
Max Level	20
Multiclass Notes	Medics can multiclass with Sawbones and Chirurgeon archetypes. Non-humans use simultaneous multiclassing rules.
Primary Abilities	WIS, CHA
Prime Requisites	WIS, CHA
Save Tiers / Fortitude	good
Save Tiers / Reflex	poor
Save Tiers / Will	good
Weapon Allowance	Pistol, Knife, Medical injector

Notes

Archetype Niche: The Medic is the party's combat healer. Combat Medicine provides reliable, scaling in-combat healing without tech -- a skill-based system that rewards WIS investment and kit charge management. Triage Protocol provides instant battlefield assessment and mass-casualty coordination. Pharma Application makes the Medic the ideal partner for a Chemist Pharma, enhancing and extending compound effects. The Medic's niche is keeping the party vertical in combat -- they heal faster than the Sawbones (standard action vs full-round) but with shallower healing, creating a distinct role.

Level Table

Corpsman

Field	Value
bab	0
fortitude	2
level	1
reflex	0
skillPoints	16
title	Corpsman
will	2
xp	0

Field Medic

Field	Value
bab	1
fortitude	3
level	2
reflex	0
skillPoints	4
title	Field Medic
will	3
xp	1500

Medic

Field	Value
bab	2
fortitude	3
level	3
reflex	1
skillPoints	4
title	Medic
will	3
xp	3000

Senior Medic

Field	Value
bab	3
fortitude	4
level	4
reflex	1
skillPoints	4
title	Senior Medic
will	4
xp	6000

Master Medic

Field	Value
bab	3
fortitude	4
level	5
reflex	1
skillPoints	4
title	Master Medic
will	4
xp	13000

Grand Medic

Field	Value
bab	4
fortitude	5
level	6
reflex	2
skillPoints	4
title	Grand Medic
will	5
xp	27500

Chief Medic

Field	Value
bab	5
fortitude	5
level	7
reflex	2
skillPoints	4
title	Chief Medic
will	5
xp	55000

Medical Chief

Field	Value
bab	6
fortitude	6
level	8
reflex	2
skillPoints	4
title	Medical Chief
will	6
xp	110000

Life-Saver

Field	Value
bab	6
fortitude	6
level	9
reflex	3
skillPoints	4
title	Life-Saver
will	6
xp	225000

High Life-Saver

Field	Value
bab	7
fortitude	7
level	10
reflex	3
skillPoints	4
title	High Life-Saver
will	7
xp	450000

Ward Surgeon

Field	Value
bab	8
fortitude	7
level	11
reflex	3
skillPoints	4
title	Ward Surgeon
will	7
xp	675000

High Ward Surgeon

Field	Value
bab	9
fortitude	8
level	12
reflex	4
skillPoints	4
title	High Ward Surgeon
will	8
xp	900000

Angel of the Void

Field	Value
bab	9
fortitude	8
level	13
reflex	4
skillPoints	4
title	Angel of the Void
will	8
xp	1125000

High Angel

Field	Value
bab	10
fortitude	9
level	14
reflex	4
skillPoints	4
title	High Angel
will	9
xp	1350000

Death's Bane

Field	Value
bab	11
fortitude	9
level	15
reflex	5
skillPoints	4
title	Death's Bane
will	9
xp	1575000

High Death's Bane

Field	Value
bab	12
fortitude	10
level	16
reflex	5
skillPoints	4
title	High Death's Bane
will	10
xp	1800000

The Unkillable Crew

Field	Value
bab	12
fortitude	10
level	17
reflex	5
skillPoints	4
title	The Unkillable Crew
will	10
xp	2025000

High Unkillable Crew

Field	Value
bab	13
fortitude	11
level	18
reflex	6
skillPoints	4
title	High Unkillable Crew
will	11
xp	2250000

Life Incarnate

Field	Value
bab	14
fortitude	11
level	19
reflex	6
skillPoints	4
title	Life Incarnate
will	11
xp	2475000

Supreme Medic

Field	Value
bab	15
fortitude	12
level	20
reflex	6
skillPoints	4
title	Supreme Medic
will	12
xp	2700000

Special Abilities

Combat Medicine

Field	Value
level	1
name	Combat Medicine

description: Medicine is a class skill with +3 competence bonus. Standard action: heal an adjacent ally for 1d8 + WIS HP. Costs one charge from a medical kit (standard kit: 10 charges, 50 rek). At level 5, 2d8 + WIS. At level 10, 3d8 + WIS. At level 15, 4d8 + WIS. Usable 1 + half Medic level times per encounter (minimum 1). Each target benefits once per encounter. Free action to stabilise a dying creature (normally standard action) once per round. The kit-charge economy: every heal costs one charge; the Medic knows exactly how many are left.

Triage Protocol

Field	Value
level	3
name	Triage Protocol

description: Free action: assess medical status of all visible creatures within 60 feet (HP percentage, active conditions or diseases, who is closest to death). In mass-casualty, direct up to 4 untrained helpers to assist with stabilisation, doubling creatures stabilised per round. At level 8, Combat Medicine on two adjacent allies simultaneously (one standard action, two targets, two kit charges). At level 14, Combat Medicine at range (30 feet, injector dart). The eye that reads the battlefield as a medical problem.

Pharma Application

Field	Value
level	5
name	Pharma Application

description: Administer compounds with superior efficiency. Target gains +2 to any save the compound requires; beneficial duration extended by 50%. Counteract combat stim crash with a Medicine check (DC 15 + stim potency), reducing crash duration by half. At level 11, two compounds to one target in one standard action. At level 17, compounds' negative side effects halved. Every compound is more effective in trained hands.