Preceptor Archive

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This faction is or has close ties to a Preceptor Archive a place of learning operated by the learned Preceptors of the Great Archive. These Archives are peaceful institutions dedicated to the spread of practical knowledge and useful engineering to the wider cosmos. Their large numbers of educated personnel make advanced equipment more practical for deployment.
Effect: Purchasing an asset that requires tech level 4 or more costs one fewer FacCred than normal. The Preceptor Archive may also take the special action “Teach Planetary Population”, costing 2 FacCreds and allowing them to roll 1d12 for one world. On a 12, the world’s tech level permanently becomes 4 for the purposes and purchases of this faction.

Leaders:
^{Who leads the faction}

• White-haired professor seeking to improve the sector
• Mandate administration AI safeguarding its knowledge
• Corrupted First Speaker who wants to keep a monopoly on learning

Rules:
^{What are some universal laws or beliefs in the faction}

Anyone can learn from the archive

The archive takes no payment only donations

Archive Adepts must foreswear all previous allegiances

Enemies:
^{Which person inside the faction might oppose the group}

Stuffy professor - and member of the board - who never leaves the archive

Gruff preceptor adept team leader blaming the group for current troubles

Mole working for a different faction

Opposition:
^{What forces might engage the group in combat}

Preceptor adepts armed with improvised weapons

Locals protecting the local preceptor

Security team armed with the best the preceptors can provide

Obstacles:
^{How might the faction inconvenience the group}

Withholding information

Turning the locals against their target

Creative use of their knowledge

Friends:
^{Who might offer the group services or missions}

Itinerant archaeologist who keeps getting into trouble

Archive chronicler hungry for news

Preceptor Adept missionary visiting low-tech worlds to improve them

Complications:
^{How might negotiations be complicated}

The Archives frown upon the use of violence

Paranoid that their information might fall into the wrong hands

Philanthropy is expected from the group

The local Archive has taken a very religious and mystical attitude toward their teaching

Missions:
^{What missions might the faction offer}

Serve as bodyguards for a Preceptor Adept on a pre-steam world

Acquire a piece of lost knowledge from a known but dangerous location

Save a member who has been kidnapped by an unscrupulous faction

Things:
^{What items might have relation to the faction}

Datapad with step-by-step guides to build machinery to improve your technology base

Overgrown landing craft with Preceptor Archive marking; abandoned two decades ago

Maltech artifact hidden away in the vault

Bribe destined to the local Preceptor Adept

Places:
^{Where might the faction take you}

A cliff above a city on a lowtech world

Between shelves of crystalline data-wafers inside the main library

Archive lecture hall

Student dorms

Tags: Assets, Core, FacCred, Prescream, Tech