Galactic Occupational Character Classes

Since the Aliens Unlimited Galaxy Guide was to be such a great source of galactic and space bound adventure, it seemed only natural to make it as universal as possible, including the standard Rifts conversions, but given the nature of galactic adventure with its free existance and widespread social structures, a strict, realistic education system seemed less appropriate than it did in the sourcebooks parent game, Heroes Unlimited. Because of these two factors, the adventuring environment and the compatability potentials with other games, I decided to use the Occupation Character Class approach to expanding education for Aliens. This system was also perfect for explaining why Aliens got such limited skill selections in the Heroes Unlimited game setting: many of their learned skills are useless in a terrestrial, Earth setting. The use of given skills in OCCs fit that perfectly. Aliens could be given full educations for adventuring within their native, technologically advanced environments (where Earth humans would be hard pressed to keep up skill-wise), but not all of the skills they had would be of use in an Earth based game (thus reflecting the limited skill options in a traditional HU game). All those 'missing' skills would now have names and might one day be useful on a limited basis.

Unfortunately, when the book went to edit, my reasoning wasn't voiced at the right time and the OCCs were edited down to bring them more in line with the traditional HU education system. The replacement system works, but I figured the fans might enjoy seeing the full classes as they were first written up. Below are links to the full section from the original manuscript, including special rules and the introduction, followed by more than a dozen galactic OCCs. I didn't do a final edit on them, so they may be rough in areas, and some of the equipment may not have made it into the galaxy Guide. If you notice something that isn't in the book, post on the Heroes Unlimited forum and I will see what I can do to fix it or post the missing info. Enjoy!