Councilors

Council view

Councilors are a faction's primary proxies on Earth and may also go to space to advance its interests there. Factions may initially have four councilors but certain projects allow them to expand the size of their council to six. Their primary role is to perform Missions on behalf of their faction.

Periodically, the game will enter the assignment phase, during which all factions will assign their councilors to missions. These missions will be resolved in a random sequence over the next few weeks. While some missions are automatically successful, most require a success roll. Missions can target nations, control points, habitats, and other councilors.

Factions can recruit councilors by spending Influence. Each month there is a new group of potetial recruits to choose from. You can also turn councilors from other factions to work for you.

The name and appearance of recruired councilors can be changed at any time.

Profession

Each councilor has a profession, which determines the range of their initial stats, available missions and possible traits.

Profession	Description
Activist	An Activist seeks social change through persuasion rather than violence.
Astronaut	Astronauts are among the lucky few who have been to space and often merge military and scientific backgrounds.
Celebrity	An influential entertainer, artist, athlete or scion with a substantial public following.
Commando	Commandos are experts in small-scale combat operations and protecting others from attacks.
Diplomat	Diplomats are influential communicators who promote peaceful and profitable relations between nations and their peoples.
Evangelist	Evangelists are public figures whose influence is built around promoting an ideology to a sometimes fanatical cadre of followers.
Executive	Executives are senior leaders in government and business who may not have a high public profile but are good at getting things done.
Fixer	Fixers are troubleshooters and generalists who can solve an array of problems ... quietly.
Hacker	Hackers are experts in extracting information from computer networks and promoting agendas at important nodes.
Inspector	An Inspector is a senior police official charged with protecting the public.
Investigator	Investigators gather scattered bits of information and piece together the truth, usually for a private audience.
Journalist	Journalists uncover hidden information and deliver it to the public, sometimes challenging powerful interests.
Judge	A judge is a government official with the power to interpret law and order the arrest of powerful people.
Kingpin	A mastermind of executing operations of questionable legality.
Officer	Officers are senior commanders and experts in military affairs.
Operative	Operatives are trained experts in both espionage and small-scale violent action.
Politician	A politician is a senior government official who ostensibly represents the public interest.
Professor	An academic who has developed expertise in important matters and conveys it to an audience.
Rebel	A Rebel is willing and able to take violent action against the powers that be.
Scientist	Scientists organize and lead research efforts to uncover some new understanding of how the world works.
Spy	Spies are trained to gather information by a variety of covert means.
Tech Mongul	Tech Moguls are entrepreneurial visionaries who have turned inventions into a successful business.
Tycoon	Tycoons are owners of older industries or come from inherited wealth.

Councilor Characteristics and Stats

Councilors have Attributes, Traits, Incomes and Orgs.

Attributes

Many of councilors' Attributes determine how good they are at Missions. The eight Attributes councilors have are:

1. Persuasion
2. Investigation
3. Espionage
4. Command
5. Administration
6. Science
7. Security
8. Loyalty

The first four are typically used in Missions – Control Nation, for example, uses Persuasion, while Assassinate Councilor uses Espionage and Assault Alien Asset uses Command.

Persuasion, Command, Administration and Science grant bonuses to your councilor’s influence, ops, money, and research incomes.

Administration also sets how many Orgs you can control. Security and Loyalty are defensive stats.

Traits

Traits are characteristics of the councilor that provide conditional bonuses to Missions, Incomes, and occasionally penalties and restrictions to the councilor’s Missions and movements. The Demagogue trait, for example, grants an Influence Income, plus bonus persuasion in nations with low education, but penalizes persuasion in high-education nations.

Orgs

Organizations, or Orgs, are essentially your councilors’ gear. These are government agencies, NGOs, criminal organizations, and private companies under a given councilor’s control. These are acquired with money, influence and rarely ops (typically for criminal cartels). They provide stat bonuses, incomes, missions, bonuses to research, and bonuses to certain priorities for nations under your control. The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, for example, grants a bonus to faction research, a bonus to the science stat for the individual councilor, and helps your nations develop their military and spaceflight programs more quickly.

Orgs can be transferred between councilors and sometimes stolen by other factions via the Hostile Takeover mission.

Councilors gain experience from successful missions, which can be spent on improving the councilor by improving their attributes, adding missions, or adding or removing certain traits.

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