DOWNTIME ACTIVITIES Between jobs, your crew spends time at their liberty, attending to personal needs and side projects. These are called downtime activities. During a downtime phase, each PC has time for two downtime activities. When you’re at War with a faction, each PC has time for only one. You may choose to do the same activity more than once, and the crew may do these in any order. You can only attempt actions that you’re in a position to accomplish. If an activity hinges on another action, resolve that action first. A PC can make time for more than two activities, at a cost. Each additional activity costs 1 CRED. This reflects the time and resource drain while you’re “off the clock” and not earning from a job. When you complete a new job, you reset and get two “free” activities again. Activities on the downtime list are limited; normal actions are not. During downtime, you can still go places, do things, make action rolls, gather information, talk with other characters, etc. In other words, only activities that are on the list are limited. For any downtime activity, you may spend CRED after the roll to improve the result level. Increase the result level by one for each CRED spent. So, a 1-3 result becomes a 4/5, a 4/5 result becomes a 6, and a 6 becomes a critical. If the action requires a roll and you can involve a contact on your sheet or the ship sheet, take +1d. Frequently players will want to decide on what job they’re about to do next, so they can prepare for it by acquiring assets, and gathering information. Didn’t think of the right thing to bring on a job? You can flash back to a downtime activity by paying a CRED as normal. GM: If a player can’t decide which downtime activity to pick, offer them a long-term project idea. You know what the player is interested in and what they like. Suggest a project that will head in a fun direction for them. Suggest they look into what their rivals or factions they’re interested in are up to.
“Remember that strange song you heard when you opened the drive core before you passed out? Yeah, do you want to get to the bottom of that? Okay, start a long-term project—six segments—called ‘Songs in the Way.’ What action do you use to work on that?”