Euclid Brash

= Euclid Brash Background =

Euclid Brash was born on Chandrila in 73 BBY (current campaign opens in 8 BBY). He had an unremarkable childhood and did well in school, but his adventurous spirit on such a boring world tended to get him into trouble. In 57 BBY, at the age of 16, he was recruited by the Republic Defense Force – an all-volunteer peacekeeping force comprised primarily of humans from the Core and mostly concerned with civil service. He was stationed on Corellia and trained as a starfighter pilot while he completed his education.

The Ninety-Five Percent Program
It was a time of peace, and while Euclid participated in various rescue and escort missions, he so no real combat during these early years. Beginning in 54 BBY, he became a test pilot as part of the Ninety-Five Percent Program, which referred to its goal of achieving speeds in excess of 95% of the speed of light without engaging hyperdrive. This, at last, promised to be exciting and dangerous work, and as he received briefings and training on the hazards he would face in the pilot seats of highly experimental prototypes, Euclid finally felt he was in his element.

The program was well-funded and captured the public imagination even before it was past the recruitment stage, so much so that the Galactic Republic Senatorial Committee for the Advancement of the Sciences dispatched a documentary film crew to follow, document, and publish the program’s key players. The filmmakers certainly expected to see a lot of failures. They probably expected that not every test pilot they profiled would see the program’s success. Nothing prepared them for the high casualty rate of the Ninety-Five Percent Program, which proceeded to consume more than 100 pilots over the course of a year – most of whom left on their own feet, but many of whom departed on stretchers or in coffins.

The body count rattled the film crew, one of whom is heard to quip off-camera, “I feel like we’re shooting a feature-length group snuff film.” Turnover was high as pilots filmmakers had gotten to know well suffered no end of serious or fatal accidents in the name of advancing science. Those who remained grew increasingly familiar with Captain Euclid Brash, whose intelligence, fearlessness, and charm (to say nothing of his continued survival) made him the natural face of the Ninety-Five Percent Program.

Euclid memorably stole the show during one sequence where he snuck the entire film crew into the hangar where his prototype, the Parallax, was kept and performed some aerial acrobatics for their entertainment. These weren’t really stunts – just simple maneuvers to test out the directional thrusters – but the Parallax was so much faster than most other fighters of the time that even a few dives, rolls, and banks were really impressive in their time.

In the end, Euclid was not the pilot who first achieved 95%, but when he inched past his colleague with a speed of 95.6%, the filmmaker used that immediately broken record as the documentary’s “science achieves and then goes beyond achievement, thanks to the courage of the brilliant scientists and brave pilots of the Republic Defense Force” message. Euclid-focused sequences bookended the documentary, with his smiling face and thumbs-up gesture on the ladder of the Parallax being the last shot before the lengthy in memoriam in the closing credits.

Film Career
The release of Ninety-Five Percent in 53 BBY catapulted Captain Euclid Brash into the public eye, making him a media darling overnight. He toured all the talkies, was a constant presence on public service announcements, and was a popular guest on virtually every educational children’s show in the Core. This last he enjoyed far more than he or anyone else expected.

Euclid began to get offers to star in action vids, which he was forced to decline because he was still under an obligation to the Republic Defense Force for the next ten years. One filmmaker refused to take no for an answer, however. Instead, he petitioned the Galactic Republic Senatorial Committee for the Advancement of the Sciences with a proposal: access to Euclid, the Parallax, and select members of the Ninety-Five Percent Project team for an educational children’s program celebrating the sciences and the values of the Galactic Republic. To Euclid’s surprise and delight, the committee approved the request, clearing the way for The Explorers.

The creator of The Explorers hoped to capitalize on Euclid’s early fame and so insisted that he play a fictionalized version of himself, including the name. This became Brash’s calling card, and he never took a leading role unless the character shared his name. He was more flexible with guest appearances and cameos, but most of the time writers billed him either as a nameless character or as himself.

This had the effect of blurring Euclid’s on-screen and off-screen identities, which has proven convenient in some situations and inconvenient in others.

Although The Explorers was his longest-running role, Euclid was in several feature length vids during his career. For more than a decade he was one of the most recognizable and prolific action heroes working, seemingly showing up in any vid whose creators could find an excuse to include him.

The Explorers
This vid series ran for most of Euclid Brash’s career (52-40 BBY) and featured Euclid as the captain of a deep space exploration ship. His crew consisted of a protocol droid and three female humans, all of whom were similarly on loan from the Republic Defense Force. Dr. Barbara Finch, the roboticist (actually a software engineer specializing in ship astrogation and navigation systems) was the eldest at 40. Melody, her daughter (Barbara’s actual 10-year-old daughter), was a master at both making friends with alien intelligences and getting into dangerous situations that the adults would need to rescue her from. Penelope Rue, the xenologist (actually a physicist and rocket scientist two years Euclid’s senior), was always the one who saw the scientific solution to every problem of the week. Euclid was the captain and nominal leader of the expedition, but his main role was to find some excuse to execute a death-defying stunt in the Parallax and then talk up the benefits of joining the Republic.

The plot formula was the discovery of some backwards alien species that hadn’t yet mastered space travel and had some obvious problem (hunger, disease, large predators, boredom, etc.). Euclid’s crew would try to convince the locals to join the Galactic Republic, touting any of its many benefits. The aliens would balk at this for most of the episode while Penelope solved their problems with science, Melody befriended their children and grandmothers, and Euclid found an opportunity to showcase his amazing piloting skills in the Parallax. All this, coupled with the droid’s insights into the local culture and Barbara’s gadgets, would somehow lead to Euclid making an impassioned speech about the wonders of democracy that convinced the planet to join the Republic.

Euclid, his co-stars, and the Parallax were loaned to the production company with the caveat that the series have educational value (each episode includes a real scientific principle used to solve a key problem) and encourage young people to join the Republic Defense Force or otherwise participate in the sciences through programs like the Republic Futures Program. For the most part, kids watched it for the weekly stunt and got the science (and propaganda) as side effects.

As the series progressed, it became increasingly obvious that Euclid and Penelope were in love with one another, reflecting a reality between the show’s co-stars. The showrunners decided to lean into this hard, writing a season-long romance plot for the couple that culminated in an onscreen wedding in 44 BBY.

In the lead up to this event, the showrunner manufactured a multifaceted blanket of media coverage. Some sources focused on Euclid’s contribution to the advancement of science and children’s programming. Some focused on Penelope’s scientific pedigree (with a small amount of additional attention paid to the credentials and careers of their co-stars). Others focused on the fairy tale love story of it, wherein a smart girl from humble roots gets to marry the smart, attractive, and charismatic pilot.

The two continued playing as an on-screen couple. When Penelope was visibly pregnant in 41 BBY, the xenologist was also pregnant. Filming stopped while she was recovering from childbirth, but when she returned, the first episode of the season featured the xenologist going into labor – explaining the science of human childbirth along the way.

It proved difficult to write engaging scripts that featured a human infant (Roger, born 40 BBY). By now, Melody was a young woman, so her naivete was beginning to stretch credulity. The decision was made to pass the torch to the daughter and give her a spin-off series, after which Euclid and his growing family retired on-camera and off.

Although the backwater species were fictional, many bore enough likeness to real species to be identifiable as members of those species, and it was never popular outside of human culture. Worse, some shots from episodes of the show have been deployed as xenophobic memes by human supremacists. The Empire still replays episodes, although they’ve taken to either redubbing Imperial friendly dialogue over Euclid’s earnest praise of the Republic’s democratic principles or cutting those scenes entirely.

Stunt Racers
Having opened the door with The Explorers, the same filmmaker convinced the RDF to sponsor a feature film with an action-oriented theme. Released in 51 BBY, Stunt Racers was a fictionalized account of a group of traveling stunt pilots. On one planet with particularly dramatic geography, they encountered a rival group of stunt pilots. They spent most of the rest of the movie trying to one-up one another, to the amazement of the locals. It culminated in a showdown between Euclid and the leader of the rival stunt pilots, who claimed to be Jedi-trained. They take turns flying various impossible routes faster and more dangerously, after which Euclid is declared the winner.

Stunt Racers was filmed in cooperation with the Republic’s Defense Force with pilots on loan to the film studio, and although there were a couple of nods at the original agreement that the film include some science education elements, it is first and foremost an action movie. Some of the stunts are real, but most are enhanced with movie magic or retrieved from stock footage of Ninety-Five Percent Project test flights. Notably, the climactic race at the end is not enhanced. In fact, Euclid performed both his own stunts and those of his rival. Basically, he’d fly through a canyon/cave/whatever once in an impressive way and then find a way to fly through that same canyon/cave/whatever again while performing an even more ridiculous set of stunts.

This is the vid that propelled Euclid into the public consciousness as a truly larger-than-life figure. Although the vid clearly states that the rival was lying about being a Jedi, and it was unabashedly a work of fiction, in the popular perception, Euclid was so skilled a stunt pilot that his skill exceeded even that of a Jedi pilot. Innocent enough in its own time, the Empire has since coopted this accidental message.

The Explorers: Secrets of Atalantia
Capitalizing on the popularity of The Explorers, this feature film released in 48 BBY took the series to the big screen but twisted the formula. Instead of finding a non-spacefaring species, Euclid’s crew finds a planet whose inhabitants are the descendants of a spacefaring civilization that has lost that technology. Rather than the species having a problem that only science can solve, they were ruled by an evil, lightsaber-wielding mystic with mind-controlling force powers that work on a planetary scale. And instead of winning over the populace using science and diplomacy, the team liberates them by killing their evil overlord.

It isn’t clear how this one got greenlighted by the Republic Defense Force, as it definitely isn’t educational and is much more fanciful than realistic in its portrayal of the Force. In particular, it attributes wide-reaching mind control powers to its force-wielding antagonist that gives the impression that a single Jedi could easily enslave an entire planet’s population. The Empire uses clips from this film as anti-Jedi propaganda.

Despite these failings, the vid was wildly popular, particularly among humans.

Pirate Hunters
In a sort of alternate universe take that ran 46-43 BBY, Euclid is the captain of a pirate hunting corvette. He has a different crew from the one on The Explorers, one better equipped for violence. The corvette has several fighter bays, and most of the crew are skilled fighter pilots who also have extensive experience in infiltration, demolitions, martial arts, and other action-oriented fields. The rest of the crew stays with the corvette to monitor sensors and man the big guns.

The stories focused on tactical strikes against space pirates, spice smugglers, and other purveyors of lawlessness and misery. The crew sometimes took down bigger fish such as crime bosses and financiers, but the short form didn’t lend itself to storylines that lasted more than two episodes (and even double-episodes were reserved for season-ending cliffhangers).

As always, each episode was essentially a thinly veiled excuse to showcase the stunt flying talents of Euclid and other pilots. Euclid performed his own stunts, most of which focused on dogfighting maneuvers in and out of atmosphere. It was aimed at an older audience and was somewhat more graphic in its violence and adult in its language and humor.

Siege-Breaker
Released in 41 BBY, this vid featured Euclid as a lone mercenary who took jobs meant to lift sieges and break planetary blockades by a variety of methods, whether it was smuggling in critical weapons and supplies, carrying secret messages past enemy pickets, or cutting the supply lines of besiegers through violence, deception, or sabotage. This time, his abilities are tested to the limits against a superior foe with the advantage of numbers and equipment.

It is loosely based on a historical event more than a century ago in which the Jedi Council dispatched seven Jedi to liberate several member planets that a small empire outside the Republic was attempting to annex by force. Only one of those Jedi was human, and none of them flew an experimental starfighter that inexplicably possessed a cloaking device.

The film was widely panned less because of any of those faults than that its stunts were lackluster and workaday compared to the ones in Euclid’s earlier work. Most were no more impressive than the ones he was executing each week on The Explorers.

In truth, at 32 years of age, Euclid Brash was beginning to lose his edge. His reflexes weren’t a young man’s anymore. His eyes weren’t quite as sharp. And the impending birth of his first child had made him considerably more risk averse than he had once been. The media spin was that Euclid Brash was still a brilliant pilot, but maybe the time had finally come for him to hang up his G-suit.

Purrgil Ultra
In this 38 BBY feature film, Euclid played an ancestor of himself from before the discovery of hyperspace travel – one who happened to share his name. The ancient Euclid was studying the remarkable ability of purrgils to travel through hyperspace in hopes of emulating it. Aside from the obvious fact that humans were not the first spacefaring species to discover hyperspatial travel, the vid does a pretty good job of explaining the scientific principles of hyperspace travel in laypeople’s terms.

This Euclid has a crazy idea – fly into the maw of a purrgil ultra and use the time spent as a stowaway to get critical readings that will allow him to emulate its abilities. Along the way, the pilot chases purrgils through asteroid fields, dangerously close to blackholes, and past hungry vacuum-dwelling monsters – all in a version of the Parallax with a slightly different paint job. Although most of the stunts are real, some of the effects in this film are artificial. Finding enough purrgils to chase was an ordeal, so most of them were rendered in post-production.

However, the famous stowaway maneuver wherein Euclid flew into the mouth of a purrgil ultra was very real. In fact, it was main the reason the vid took so long to finish. The pilot and film crew spent years attempting to locate and track a purrgil ultra and film the stunt, which involved many failed or abortive attempts.

When it finally succeeded, the purrgil ultra made the jump to hyperspace, which was more or less as expected (and convenient from a filmmaking perspective). What was not expected was the unusually long duration of the jump, which tested the limits of the Parallax’s life support systems and supply of consumables. As well, once the journey ended, the purrgil ultra proved uncooperative about opening its mouth so that Euclid could fly back out, and he ended up needing to blast his way through its belly with concussion missiles.

The Parallax was destroyed, and Euclid nearly died of hypothermia before a patrol ship from a nearby planet answered his distress call. Even so, he would have lost several fingers and at least one foot to frostbite had the patrol ship not had a bacta tank available. The experience shook Euclid to his core and was the last straw in his decision to accept his discharge papers and retire (despite his acting career, he was still a pilot in the RDF – a necessity for him to continue using the Parallax).

In the final cut of the film, Euclid enters the maw of the purrgil ultra, has a trippy experience as he zips through hyperspace in its belly, and escapes out of its opening mouth with the secret of hyperspace travel safely captured on the Parallax’s computer. If film critics occasionally pointed out differences in the markings on the purrgil ultra in the entry and exit shots, they mostly chalked it up to proof that Euclid actually carried out the stunt multiple times with different purrgil until he finally got a take that worked for the vid. After all, if they had needed to edit in a purrgil to fake the stunt, they wouldn’t have made such an obvious and careless error.

At the premier of Purrgil Ultra, Euclid Brash announced his retirement from the RDF and action films, having in his words “performed every stunt one human could accomplish in a lifetime.” He left behind a legend that has not yet been eclipsed by a younger pilot, although many have died trying to emulate him. Standing in front of a nonfunctional replica of his signature starfighter, Euclid Brash waved farewell to the billions of people (most of them humans) who had grown up watching his exploits on the large and small screens.

Other Roles and Appearances
Throughout his career and until the death of Roger (his eldest child), Euclid made more guest appearances and cameos than he can count, and that’s without reckoning his many tours of variety shows and talkies as part of media blitzes when he had a new project coming out.

Filmmakers have been inserting the likeness of Euclid and the Parallax into action vids for decades since his retirement. Pilot and ship alike are as ubiquitous to the genre as the Wilhelm scream is to Star Wars movies and shows. Before his withdrawal from public life, Euclid often offered to appear in the work of up-and-coming filmmakers whose work he liked as a way of bolstering their careers. Many other filmmakers who were inspired by his films invited him to make cameos as an homage to his legacy, and many more didn’t even bother asking his permission before including frame-by-frame recreations of his stunts in their own action vids.

Although Euclid often suggested he’d like to direct his own vids eventually, he only made one brief attempt before deciding it was neither his skillset nor his real interest in film. He did extensive consulting work as a stunt choreographer for the eight years between his retirement and the beginning of the Clone Wars.

Euclid in Retirement
Following his retirement in 38 BBY, Euclid settled on Alderaan and raised a family. He served as a consultant on several civilian and military projects. Roger was a young man at the start of the Clone Wars in 22 BBY and joined the Republic military. The galaxy was a much more violent place than it had been when Euclid was young, and his son was killed in action.

Euclid’s life took a downward turn after that. He stopped taking on consulting work and withdrew from public life. Penny divorced him in 20 BBY, taking their children off-world and out of his life. Euclid spent more and more time tinkering with his personal labor of love – an improved version of the Parallax, which he assembled from scratch partially from his memory of the original (which he knew down to the smallest bolt) and partially through the application of decades of knowledge of shipcraft.

The Clone Wars had made Euclid question the values of the Republic for the first time in his life. The tragedy didn’t help, but the sudden cultural shift from scientific curiosity to all-consuming war made him feel a stranger in a galaxy where he had once been a role model for a generation of scientists and pilots (and a guest lecturer at the Republic Futures Program for young people). When the Empire rose from the bitter ashes of the Clone Wars, Euclid threw up his hands in disgust and turned his back on all of it.

By 18 BBY, the Parallax was spaceworthy, and Euclid found himself drawn to the stars once more. He was more interested in sightseeing than in wild hijinks, but he found himself embroiled in local problems now and again – although seldom ones requiring violent solutions (but certainly not never!). He never took payment for these, since his pension was more than enough to sustain his rambling lifestyle.

Five years ago (13 BBY), the Galactic Senate, acting under the leadership of Emperor Palpatine, drastically cut pensions for retired Republic officers. It was done in the name of unavoidable belt-tightening, but it’s no secret to anyone that the Empire had grown increasingly greedy for resources to sustain its massive military build-up – one that makes no sense given that the Clone Wars ended several years previously.

In addition to serving as a painful reminder of why he quietly despised the Empire that had parasitized his beloved Republic, the sudden loss of income forced Euclid to find other ways to sustain himself. He started taking on work as a courier, carrying small packages between Core worlds. As the Holonet became increasingly regulated (and monitored by Imperial intelligence), Euclid also found himself carrying private messages. Although he was discreet, Euclid noticed the gradual shift in his clientele from respectable folks sending gifts (and sexy holovids of themselves) to friends and lovers across the stars to people with shifty eyes who insisted on anonymity and delivery to dead drops.

This latter work paid better, and while Euclid suspected his nervous clients might be engaged in enterprises of a less-than-legal nature, he took it all the same. He did modify his flight helmet to include a tiny hidden compartment where he hid any datachips he thought might cause trouble if he was found with them. Because the helmet includes some electronics related to its heads-up display, the datachip is virtually undetectable shy of completely disassembling the helmet, which Euclid always kept tucked under his arm while his ship was being searched. He also built a less well-hidden compartment in his cockpit where he hid a decoy datachip – usually a salacious holovid from an attractive young human woman to her unnamed lover in another system. Over the next five years, the decoy was discovered several times (and confiscated more than once), but no one found Euclid’s secret hiding place.

Immediately before the events of the game begin, Euclid was delivering a datachip to a dead drop on the planet where the current Rebel cell is operating. He had no idea that he was carrying an Alliance message from an undercover agent on a Core world. When he arrived, he was hailed by an Imperial destroyer and ordered to dock for inspection. From here, there are a couple of ways events could have unfolded, depending on:


 * What he was carrying
 * Whether the Imperials found it
 * How soon after his arrival the Rebel strike force took over the destroyer to liberate their captured compatriots
 * And whether Euclid was in the brig or being treated as a guest.
 * Whether the Rebels recognized Euclid
 * And whether this made them more or less likely to trust him (given that his likeness and old footage of him are still used in Imperial propaganda)
 * Or whether they regard him as a potential propaganda weapon for the Rebellion.
 * Whether they recognize the Parallax
 * And the ship’s condition at the time
 * And whether they regarded the Parallax as a potential military asset, propaganda tool, or both.
 * As well as how Euclid felt about all this.

In short, his access to the Parallax could be curtailed of necessity (badly damaged, for example, or too recognizable for the first mission) or because the Rebellion was using it as leverage to ensure Euclid’s cooperation and good behavior. And Euclid could be a somewhat unwilling rebel or one long since radicalized but now given a real opportunity to fight back. And his cargo could be what triggers the first mission, something that hints at a larger issue on the horizon, or a veritable footnote beyond its bringing him into the Rebellion.

Other characters' histories and reasons for becoming involved could also influence all this. If five of the other six characters show up with a secret message of an urgent nature to kick off the campaign, I ain't gonna bring in a sixth, you know?


 * If I operate under that assumption that this time, the search of Euclid's person was very thorough, I could well start out in the brig with nothing to my name but my boxers. And if the Parallax has been shipped off somewhere (along with the helmet and its hidden secret message), it's not impossible that no one will initially believe I'm the Euclid Brash. I'm up for some wacky hijinks where the only way I can convince anyone to bring me along on whatever is to mention my point of origin (Coruscant) and destination (a known Rebel dead drop), which makes it clear that my errand for the Rebellion is legitimate, even if I'm an old man claiming to be a famous pilot and vid star. I guess it depends on whether we're all prisoners on this Imperial ship, picked up on our way to or from the planet, or whether some of you have much longer records in the Alliance and free me more or less as a courtesy while carrying out your actual mission. I don't think the Imperials found the datachip, but they suspect that I had something somewhere, so they're going to tear apart all my possessions until they find it - including my beloved ship. Dayzdark (talk)

Where Are They Now?
Euclid’s co-stars have led interesting lives of their own following the pilot’s retirement.

Dr. Penelope (Penny) Rue-Brash: Born 75 BBY. Penny left Euclid because his behavior after Roger’s death showed that she had “fallen in love with the man he pretended to be, rather than the one he actually was.” Euclid has no idea what she expected him to do about the Clone Wars and the rise of the Emperor, but “retreat into your workshop and rebuild the Parallax for several years” apparently wasn’t it. The divorce left Euclid heartbroken, especially after Penny took their three daughters – Molly (born 39 BBY), Elizabeth (born 38 BBY), and Carol (born 36 BBY) – off-world and disappeared from his life entirely.

Dr. Barbara Finch: Born 92 BBY. During the Clone Wars, she joined the Separatist movement as a scientist working on the hyperspatial bomb – a weapon that could be sent through hyperspace to bombard planets and other large masses from light years away. The program didn’t get far before the Clone Wars ended. Rumor has it that Dr. Finch is still in exile somewhere on the Outer Rim.

Melody Finch: Born 62 BBY. The Explorers was a different show than it had been in Euclid’s day – much more focused on being educational and entirely lacking in starfighter stunts. Melody had idle fancies of one day passing the show to her own daughter (Terra, born 35 BBY), but the girl was force sensitive and was taken to train with the Jedi in 32 BBY. Melody continued to star in the next generation of The Explorers until the start of the Clone Wars, when its new showrunner decided to give it a decidedly martial message. To the best of Melody’s knowledge, Terra (no doubt a padawan at the time) died along with her master and all the other Jedi in Order 66. Melody therefore doesn’t have any love for the Jedi or the Empire.

The Explorers: Now in its third generation, it is one of the longest-running educational programs currently producing new episodes. It’s decidedly more violent and imperialistic than it used to be, and if it was carelessly pro-human in Euclid’s time, it is deliberately so now. Some bright spark in the Empire’s propaganda department hit upon the idea of hiring body doubles for Euclid and the rest of the original crew to make guest appearances, spouting Imperial propaganda.

Movie Quotes
Euclid Brash’s movies have many memorable lines, some of which he repeats out of habit and others because they get him recognized by the people he wants to recognize him.

I'm still working on these. Dayzdark (talk)

= Mechanics =

Two competing builds have emerged for this character. Let's call them I've Still Got It and I'm Too Old for This Shit. I can go either way on these, the final choice of builds likely hinging on what others will be bringing to the table.

I've Still Got It
Human Ace (Rigger)

Brawn 2, Agi 3, Int 4, Cun 2, Will 2, Pre 2

Astrogation 1, Mechanics 2, Piloting (Space) 2, Gunnery 2, Ranged - Light 1, Knowledge (Core Worlds) 1, Knowledge (Underworld) 1, Warfare 1

Talents: Underworld Contacts, Grit, Gearhead

This is a tightly focused build that reflects that maybe his reflexes aren't as quick as they used to be, but he's still one of the finest pilots in the galaxy. I'll be fantastic at piloting, ship combat, and mechanics, great at generally Knowing Things, and good at Agility Stuff. Going to fall down in an espionage-focused game, however, and that high Intellect won't stand out much if lots of other folks have high Int, too.

I'm Too Old for This Shit
Human Ace (Rigger) + Smuggler (Scoundrel)

Brawn 2, Agi 2, Int 3, Cun 3, Will 2, Pre 3

Charm 1, Cool 1, Deception 2, Mechanics 2, Piloting (Space) 2, Ranged - Light 1, Knowledge (Underworld) 1

This is a more well-rounded build that reflects the slings and arrows of the last couple decades of his life. He still thinks of himself as a pilot, but he's been forced to do some things he's not proud of just to survive. It assumes that I might have to make a Piloting check now and again (and Piloting 3 is probably one of my first post-chargen buys), but that it's not a thing I roll constantly. Outside of my piloting role, it makes me a good secondary character for a lot of things and is much more suited to an infiltration and espionage game.