stillfleet

Have a secret higher-dimensional pet or friend (even you are not entirely sure how intelligent it is) that follows you everywhere and gives you sound advice. No one else can detect this entity, and you can't "see" it, exactly. But you are (fairly) sure it's real. Do you ever mention it? When did it appear?

Open, close, or change the destination of a stiffworks. Costs and mechanics vary by the works. Open stiffworks remain open for 10 Minutess per tack… usually. Some stiffworks may be retacked (i.e., their destinations changed), although this varies by type.

The ship is on fire—you have to get your party through the stuck bulkhead before the O2 combusts! (Or whatever!) This is your big getaway power. Burn 6 GRT and make a MOV check: if you succeed, you and some or all of your party make it out safely. You can bring 1 +your level humanoid-sized beings along with you to safety, or burn an additional 6 GRT to bring one additional being beyond your limit. Small sapient beings (0.5-M tall/long) count for half a slot; large sapes (3-M tall/long) count double; small pets (cat/beagle-sized) are free. If you fail your MOV check, you alone get away but injure yourself for 2d6 HEA damage.

Use, alter, or repair tech. Burn XY GRT, where X is the stratum (type) of tech (ranked 1–7, clank [medieval], bio [contemporary on-Spin], code [Ancient, Early Tephnian], force [High Tephnian], nano [Late Tephnian, Snakeman], bug [cryptocerid, heechee, mantid, mi-go], Escheresque) and Y is the level of complexity (ranked 1–6, simple, standard, complex, corporate, military, godlike). Thus, a force artifact of standard complexity costs 4 × 2 = 8 GRT to interact with. Once this cost has been paid, the artifact functions as designed, within reason. A laser (standard force) keeps firing until it runs out of juice, which is up to the GM to determine (e.g., d20 charges). Repowering requires access to the appropriate resources and an additional use of this power.

• ҂ Note: It is possible to heal informatic beings using this power at a 2 to 1 GRT to HEA cost. A pepper elf’s body is complex force tech (3 × 4), so a banshee can burn 12 GRT (the minimum required to interact effectively with the technology) in order to heal the pepper elf 6 HEA.
• ҂ Bonus Item: Instead of a standard envirosuit, you begin play with a perfect environment suit that you have repaired. This allows you to safely operate in the void for 36 hours.
• ҂ Bonus Item: you also begin play with a fannypack-sized sample collection kit.

You can, with effort, actually pilot spacefaring vessels. Cost to command a vessel is based purely on its class (a combined 1–6 rating based on its size, complexity, and condition), with each point of vessel class costing 6 GRT. Burning this GRT grants you the ability to pilot or otherwise command the ship, within reason. (If the hyperdrive’s broke, it ain’t jumpin; mining vessels may not sport armament, etc.) While piloting, you are essentially stuck and unable to otherwise venture. You must pay the astrogation cost each time you chart a course into or out of a system, or each time the ship is damaged or upgraded. Doing anything with the ship other than moving from point A to B (firing weapons, scanning a mysterious craft, remotely salvaging damaged life support systems, etc.) requires relevant checks, typically REA or, in a dogfight, COM and MOV.

You gain +125 voidguilders at character creation.

You gain a +1 bonus on rolls related to clank-, code-, or force-stratum tech.

Whenever the GM requires you to roll a WIL check because something in space is scary, you gain a +1 to the roll and don’t appear as phased as non-Fleeter characters. This does not apply to Escheresque nausea.

You gain a permanent bonus of +1 REA.