Hive-Gang Operator
Born in the lower decks.
Lower-deck raised, gang-affiliated, and already booked on Asset Realisation's books by adolescence. Hive-gang operators run the small-time asset realisation -- debt collection, fencing, unlicensed augs, Door-Hacker cover, snitch-and-snare. Their Kadiss tier is worker-class on paper and ghost in practice -- they know how to spoof and how to run dark by minutes. They leave the Hive by arrest, by debt-sell, by gun, or by the next ship out. The leash is the local crew boss; the debt is the gang's, which is the Core's, which is the Nine's.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Archetype Combinations / Academic | Bad fit. State schooling was skipped at fourteen. |
| Archetype Combinations / Chaplain | Awkward fit. The closest is Day One -- and the gang might be watching that, too. |
| Archetype Combinations / Face | Good fit. Deception and Streetwise are Face-ready. |
| Archetype Combinations / Officer | Bad fit. Confed rank is the Other. |
| Archetype Combinations / Operative | Natural fit. The operator's life is the Operative's prologue. |
| Archetype Combinations / Psion | Awkward fit. If the gene-screen flagged them, the gang hid it -- for a price. |
| Archetype Combinations / Sawbones | Awkward fit. Black-clinic training is partial and risky. |
| Archetype Combinations / Scout | Bad fit. The Rim is hearsay. |
| Archetype Combinations / Soldier | Workable fit. Lower-deck muscle has seen blood, but the rig is irregular. |
| Background Trait / Cause | Because the gang is the operator's employer, school, and prison at once. |
| Background Trait / Name | Off-Book Cadre |
| Background Trait / Trigger | Active; suite of small advantages and one structural liability. |
| Birthplace | neo-industrial-hive |
| Pipeline | hive-gang-asset-realisation |
| Starting Kadiss Tier | 1 |
| Starting Rek | 250 |
| Verse Anchor | Hive-Gang Operator |
Notes
Background Trait / Effect: Once per session the character may roll Streetwise or Deception with advantage (a standing favour with a hive fixer). +2 bonus to Deception checks performed against Argus surveillance (years of practice). However, Asset Realisation lists the character as a flagged asset in the lower-deck ledger: any Bureaucracy check performed by a Confed official against the character is made with advantage, and any attempt to enter Confed-tier space while carrying the registered ID is met with detention.
Social Hook: The operator knows which janitor closet hides a black-clinic door, which Kadiss-beacon is spoofed for the next hour, and which Argus patrol walks the wrong corridor tonight. They have a record, a crew, and a tattoo that says what they owe. They can spoof a Tier 4 long enough to walk into a corp lobby, and they know which questions not to ask.
Starting Gear: Lower-deck cover ID (spliced chip, Tier 1 nominal, Tier 0 actual), Jury-rigged datapad (loose-grid, beacon-spoofed), Light armour jacket (hive-cut, concealable, knife-rated), Hold-out pistol (ITEM-HOLD-OUT-slug pistol), Three reloads, Multitool (jailhouse special), Rek chip with starting balance of 250, Crew tattoo or token (the gang's mark; admission to one safe-deck per story), Bag of unlicensed aug parts (no install, no install slot, value ~300 rek on the black market)
Trained Skills
| Skill | Ranks | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Deception | 3 | Lying to the lie-detector is childhood-learned. |
| Stealth | 2 | Lower-deck corridor movement. |
| Streetwise | 2 | Hive black markets, fixers, and safe-deck geography. |