{
  "version": "0.3.1-draft4",
  "source": "SLA Industries -> Mothership species conversion notes",
  "species": [
    {
      "name": "Human",
      "startingScl": 10,
      "starterPackage": "Strike Squad",
      "choiceBonuses": [
        { "count": 3, "bonus": 10 }
      ],
      "identity": "Adaptable generalists. No racial extremes; their edge is flexibility and social access to SLA's systems.",
      "fieldPressure": "Humans are expected to fill doctrine gaps, improvise, and absorb sponsor demands without complaint.",
      "mothershipStats": {
        "strength": "2d10+25",
        "speed": "2d10+25",
        "intellect": "2d10+27",
        "combat": "2d10+25",
        "sanity": "2d10+30",
        "fear": "2d10+33",
        "body": "2d10+10"
      },
      "mothershipDescription": "Baseline human template with a slight Intellect and Sanity edge reflecting bureaucracy, social resilience, and operational flexibility.",
      "notes": [
        "Flexible Mort City baseline. No species stat is pushed hard, which keeps Humans broadly useful across all packages."
      ],
      "specialRules": [
        {
          "key": "adaptable",
          "label": "Adaptable",
          "summary": "Once per session, reroll one Stat check and take the better result.",
          "optional": false,
          "default": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Frother",
      "startingScl": 10,
      "starterPackage": "Kick Murder",
      "skillBonuses": [
        { "skillRef": "Melee Blade 2H", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Brawl", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Athletics", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Intimidate", "bonus": 10 }
      ],
      "identity": "Clan-human berserkers born with a physiological gift for combat drugs, violence, and recovery.",
      "fieldPressure": "Keep them pointed at the problem and away from delicate evidence chains or sponsor-facing civilians.",
      "mothershipStats": {
        "strength": "2d10+33",
        "speed": "2d10+28",
        "intellect": "2d10+20",
        "combat": "2d10+35",
        "sanity": "2d10+2",
        "fear": "2d10+35",
        "body": "2d10+25"
      },
      "mothershipDescription": "Extreme Strength, Combat, and Body with a weak Intellect line and dangerously fragile Sanity. Frothers are terror weapons, not balanced operatives.",
      "notes": [
        "High physical ceiling, fragile mind, terrible at precision or reflective tasks."
      ],
      "specialRules": [
        {
          "key": "berserkState",
          "label": "Berserk State",
          "summary": "When failing a Sanity Save, the Frother may enter Berserk instead of gaining Stress: +10 to Combat and Strength checks for the scene, but they must pass a Combat check to avoid attacking the nearest target.",
          "optional": true,
          "default": true
        },
        {
          "key": "drugMetabolism",
          "label": "Drug Metabolism",
          "summary": "No addiction roll for standard SLA combat drugs. One combat drug per scene can be taken without a Body Save penalty.",
          "optional": true,
          "default": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Ebon",
      "startingScl": 10,
      "starterPackage": "Ebb Operative",
      "skillBonuses": [
        { "skillRef": "Biofeedback", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Formulate", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Medical", "bonus": 10 },
        { "skillRef": "Psychology", "bonus": 10 }
      ],
      "identity": "Mystical, emotionally volatile Ebb users whose greatest strength is disciplined mental focus rather than physical resilience.",
      "fieldPressure": "They are trusted when the mission needs calm precision, but every Flux spike is watched and every psychic event hits them harder.",
      "mothershipStats": {
        "strength": "2d10+20",
        "speed": "2d10+25",
        "intellect": "2d10+47",
        "combat": "2d10+22",
        "sanity": "2d10+25",
        "fear": "2d10+14",
        "body": "2d10+5"
      },
      "mothershipDescription": "Exceptional Intellect backed by weak Strength and Body. Ebons solve impossible problems through Ebb discipline, not brute force.",
      "notes": [
        "Physically frail, emotionally sensitive, and deeply tied to the psychic environment around them."
      ],
      "specialRules": [
        {
          "key": "ebbSensitivity",
          "label": "Ebb Sensitivity",
          "summary": "Automatically senses nearby Ebb use within Close Range. Sanity Saves against xenoesoteric or reality-warping events are rolled at Disadvantage.",
          "optional": false,
          "default": true
        },
        {
          "key": "fluxPool",
          "label": "Flux Pool",
          "summary": "Begins with Flux equal to Intellect / 4 with a minimum reserve of 20. Flux recovers at 1 point per hour of rest.",
          "optional": false,
          "default": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Brain Waster",
      "startingScl": 10,
      "starterPackage": "Ebb Operative",
      "skillBonuses": [
        { "skillRef": "Formulate", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Biofeedback", "bonus": 10 },
        { "skillRef": "Intimidate", "bonus": 10 },
        { "skillRef": "Firearm (Rifle/Shotgun)", "bonus": 10 }
      ],
      "identity": "Violent evolutionary offshoots of the Ebon; hateful, aggressive Ebb users who are more dangerous in a fight than in a briefing room.",
      "fieldPressure": "Command expects results fast, but collateral panic and the psychic shockwave around them are never far behind.",
      "mothershipStats": {
        "strength": "2d10+28",
        "speed": "2d10+25",
        "intellect": "2d10+43",
        "combat": "2d10+32",
        "sanity": "2d10+33",
        "fear": "2d10+10",
        "body": "2d10+13"
      },
      "mothershipDescription": "A harsher Ebb profile than Ebon: stronger, more aggressive, and more immediately dangerous, but socially and psychically corrosive.",
      "notes": [
        "Better fighters than Ebons, worse diplomats, and much harder on the people around them."
      ],
      "specialRules": [
        {
          "key": "ebbAggression",
          "label": "Ebb Aggression",
          "summary": "Uses the same Flux Pool rules as Ebon, including a minimum reserve of 20. When dealing damage with Ebb abilities, add +1d5 damage.",
          "optional": false,
          "default": true
        },
        {
          "key": "unnervingPresence",
          "label": "Unnerving Presence",
          "summary": "Close-range friendly operatives roll Fear Saves at Disadvantage when the Brain Waster uses an Ebb ability.",
          "optional": true,
          "default": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Wraith Raider",
      "startingScl": 10,
      "starterPackage": "Scouting",
      "skillBonuses": [
        { "skillRef": "Athletics", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Dodge", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Spot Hidden", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Firearm (Rifle/Shotgun)", "bonus": 10 }
      ],
      "identity": "Feline ice-world hunters with lightning reflexes, superior senses, and the fastest natural movement profile in the World of Progress.",
      "fieldPressure": "Use them for pursuit, flank work, and live target acquisition before a scene turns static or heavily scripted.",
      "mothershipStats": {
        "strength": "2d10+25",
        "speed": "2d10+40",
        "intellect": "2d10+28",
        "combat": "2d10+33",
        "sanity": "2d10+22",
        "fear": "2d10+18",
        "body": "2d10+12"
      },
      "mothershipDescription": "The speed apex among natural species. Wraith Raiders react, pursue, and strike before most opponents have processed the danger.",
      "notes": [
        "Race Raider is treated as a more feral Wraith Raider variant rather than a separate baseline species template."
      ],
      "specialRules": [
        {
          "key": "predatorSenses",
          "label": "Predator Senses",
          "summary": "Advantage on Speed-based checks for perception, detecting ambush, or initiative. Never surprised in natural or urban environments unless by supernatural means.",
          "optional": false,
          "default": true
        },
        {
          "key": "naturalWeapons",
          "label": "Natural Weapons",
          "summary": "Claws deal Strength / 10 + 1d5 damage at Adjacent range and count as primary species weapons.",
          "optional": false,
          "default": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Shaktar",
      "startingScl": 10,
      "starterPackage": "Death Squad",
      "skillBonuses": [
        { "skillRef": "Melee Blade 2H", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Tactics", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Command", "bonus": 10 },
        { "skillRef": "SLA Info", "bonus": 10 }
      ],
      "identity": "Saurian warriors of honour and martial tradition, combining brutal strength with disciplined battlefield intent.",
      "fieldPressure": "Doctrine has to respect their code or the squad risks discipline fractures at the worst possible time.",
      "mothershipStats": {
        "strength": "2d10+37",
        "speed": "2d10+30",
        "intellect": "2d10+20",
        "combat": "2d10+37",
        "sanity": "2d10+18",
        "fear": "2d10+40",
        "body": "2d10+32"
      },
      "mothershipDescription": "A front-line martial species with exceptional Strength, Combat, and Body backed by formidable Sanity and Fear saves.",
      "notes": [
        "Tactical and martial intelligence are strong; abstract cognition is weaker than their battlefield presence."
      ],
      "specialRules": [
        {
          "key": "honourBound",
          "label": "Honour Bound",
          "summary": "Breaking a code of honour forces a Sanity Save or the Shaktar gains 1d3 Stress.",
          "optional": true,
          "default": true
        },
        {
          "key": "naturalWeapons",
          "label": "Natural Weapons",
          "summary": "Claws deal Strength / 10 damage at Adjacent range. Shaktar gain Advantage on grappling or restraining Strength checks.",
          "optional": false,
          "default": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Stormer 313 Malice",
      "startingScl": 10,
      "starterPackage": "Death Squad",
      "skillBonuses": [
        { "skillRef": "Brawl", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Melee Axe", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Firearm (Auto/Support)", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Persuade", "bonus": -10 },
        { "skillRef": "Fast Talk", "bonus": -10 }
      ],
      "identity": "Karma's standard biogenetic combat unit: a massive regenerating killing machine with overwhelming power and minimal subtlety.",
      "fieldPressure": "They solve breaches, riots, and hard resistance, but subtlety evaporates the moment they become the main plan.",
      "mothershipStats": {
        "strength": "2d10+43",
        "speed": "2d10+30",
        "intellect": "2d10+17",
        "combat": "2d10+40",
        "sanity": "2d10+20",
        "fear": "2d10+47",
        "body": "2d10+25"
      },
      "mothershipDescription": "Near-ceiling assault biology: immense Strength, Combat, and Body with deliberately shallow abstract reasoning and social finesse.",
      "notes": [
        "Purpose-built for violence, shock entry, and surviving damage that would kill almost anyone else."
      ],
      "specialRules": [
        {
          "key": "prometheusRegeneration",
          "label": "Prometheus Regeneration",
          "summary": "At the end of every fourth combat round, recover 1d5 Health. Once wounds are fully healed, continue regenerating 1 Health per round.",
          "optional": true,
          "default": true
        },
        {
          "key": "biogeneticAggression",
          "label": "Biogenetic Aggression",
          "summary": "Disadvantage on Intellect checks involving diplomacy, deception detection, or abstract reasoning.",
          "optional": false,
          "default": true
        },
        {
          "key": "financeChipMandatory",
          "label": "Finance Chip Mandatory",
          "summary": "The Karma finance chip is a built-in hindrance and cannot be removed.",
          "optional": false,
          "default": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Stormer 711 Xeno",
      "startingScl": 10,
      "starterPackage": "Scouting",
      "skillBonuses": [
        { "skillRef": "Athletics", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Dodge", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Firearm (SMG)", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Streetwise", "bonus": 10 }
      ],
      "identity": "Karma's fast insectile camouflage unit: a stealth biogen built for pursuit, ambush, and pressure from impossible angles.",
      "fieldPressure": "Best used where speed and feral pressure matter more than conversation, procedure, or sponsor optics.",
      "mothershipStats": {
        "strength": "2d10+30",
        "speed": "2d10+40",
        "intellect": "2d10+23",
        "combat": "2d10+35",
        "sanity": "2d10+15",
        "fear": "2d10+42",
        "body": "2d10+18"
      },
      "mothershipDescription": "Matches Wraith Raider speed with biogen resilience, regeneration, and camouflage systems in place of natural grace.",
      "notes": [
        "Fastest movement profile in the game, backed by natural chitin armour and unsettling inhuman presence."
      ],
      "specialRules": [
        {
          "key": "chameleonChitin",
          "label": "Chameleon Chitin",
          "summary": "Spend 1 action to become near-invisible. Detection is at Disadvantage while still; moving breaks the effect.",
          "optional": true,
          "default": true
        },
        {
          "key": "prometheusRegeneration",
          "label": "Prometheus Regeneration",
          "summary": "At the end of every fourth combat round, recover 1d5 Health.",
          "optional": true,
          "default": true
        },
        {
          "key": "inhumanAppearance",
          "label": "Inhuman Appearance",
          "summary": "Social Intellect checks against other species are at Disadvantage because the Xeno's appearance is deeply unnerving.",
          "optional": true,
          "default": true
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Advanced Carrien",
      "startingScl": 10,
      "starterPackage": "Tech Ops",
      "skillBonuses": [
        { "skillRef": "Brawl", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Melee Axe", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Streetwise", "bonus": 20 },
        { "skillRef": "Persuade", "bonus": -10 },
        { "skillRef": "Command", "bonus": -10 }
      ],
      "identity": "Cunning survivor-mutants with strong instincts and an uneasy fit inside official SLA structures.",
      "fieldPressure": "They thrive in broken districts and dirty jobs, but prejudice follows them into every briefing room.",
      "mothershipStats": {
        "strength": "2d10+30",
        "speed": "2d10+26",
        "intellect": "2d10+30",
        "combat": "2d10+26",
        "sanity": "2d10+14",
        "fear": "2d10+14",
        "body": "2d10+18"
      },
      "mothershipDescription": "Legacy draft Carrien template retained until a source-grounded 1st Edition conversion pass is written.",
      "notes": [
        "This entry is still using the project's legacy Carrien draft because the new conversion notes did not include a Carrien profile."
      ],
      "specialRules": [
        {
          "key": "socialPrejudice",
          "label": "Social Prejudice",
          "summary": "Track district or sponsor prejudice penalties where relevant.",
          "optional": true,
          "default": true
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}