OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
The Outer Rim, for all of its lackings and detriments, has an excess of pilots to buy and hire. Out of this large recruitment pool, those who are hardcore drug-free and able to pass relatively high testing standards are hired to serve under Captain-Admiral Alliser Roche. These pilots, typically going through even more training during their time of service, are then offered bonuses as incentives to stay in an effort for retention. For the most part it works, and that produces the pilot corps written here.
- Intent: As an aggressive capitalist, it stands to reason that I'll need a proper pilot roster to look on for when combat occurs.
- Image Credit: Pilots - Johannes Holm
- Role: To serve as an aerial force for combat against opposing pilots, ships, and concentrations of ground troops.
- Permissions: All of the starfighters and spacecraft linked in this post are said to be open market.
- Links: Alliser Roche
- Unit Name: Privateer Pilots
- Affiliation: Alliser Roche
- Classification: Fighter Pilots
- Description: While diverse in race, personal creeds, and general desire; these pilots are drawn together for the sake of one goal: money. For a contractual agreement of wages over a yearly deployment, with bonuses added for returning pilots (in effort to improve retention), they are slightly better coordinated and regimented than other dogfighters in the outer rim. Each squadron typically chooses their own sigil or emblem, though to separate them apart from other crew, they are required to wear a yellow armband around their right shoulder.
- Unit Size: Small
- Unit Availability: Uncommon
- Unit Experience: Trained
- Equipment: Zerek Zenith Series Multirole Starfighter, Shen Supa Series Long Range Assault Fighter, Tau Devastator Series Starwing Bomber, Trill T-Wing II Series Missile Boat, Ete Angel Series Fast Interceptor
- Combat Function: It differs from squadron to squadron, some may be tasked with long-range scouting and others may be focused for intercepting enemy starfighters in times of combat.
- High Standards of Training: Owing in part to their captain-admiral's focus on starfighter doctrine, these pilots often have large amounts of resources put forward to their training. Veteran pilots, flight simulators, and many flying hours are all key characteristics of these privateer pilots.
- Freedom of Customization: Within reasonable parameters of maintenance and part replacement, these pilots are allowed to outfit and modify their starfighters as they please with loot and salvage that they earn in service. While odd in practice, it is a point for personal morale and can lead to the best pilots of each squadron often being outfitted with special weapons or engine parts that improves their overall survival rate and kill-count.
- Mercenary Morale: While these pilots are certainly made of sterner stuff than the average pirate, they are still mercenaries on contract. If things begin to look bleak or casualties begin to mount high, its likely that they'll attempt to flee or at the least some of them will begin to lose their nerve.
- Ineffective Ground Troops: Their specialty is flying, not taking and holding a piece of land. If forced into a position where they are caught in the hangars before deploying or in a position where they are used as standard infantry, they'll be no use than a super-mall security squad.
The Outer Rim, for all of its lackings and detriments, has an excess of pilots to buy and hire. Out of this large recruitment pool, those who are hardcore drug-free and able to pass relatively high testing standards are hired to serve under Captain-Admiral Alliser Roche. These pilots, typically going through even more training during their time of service, are then offered bonuses as incentives to stay in an effort for retention. For the most part it works, and that produces the pilot corps written here.