Terrence Archer

	Terrence Archer
Terrence earns 4 every time you upgrade a drone.
Disabled Terrence gets 2 less during to conversions. However, he can freely leave a room when it contains another crew member.
Skills:
1	Robotics Expert
2	Technician
3	Pilot
4	Shooter
5	IT Expert
6	Metalworker
Position on title lists:
#12	Commander
#2	NERON Administrator
#13	Communications Officer

Seriously injured during an over-ambitious raid against the rebels on Sol, Terrence spent 6 months in a coma. He returns to civilian life broken and bruised, stuck in a wheelchair. Terrence decided to dedicate his life to advanced engineering and the creation of drones. His life's dream is to develop unmanned fighter craft and remote-controlled drones.

How to play

Terrence is very tricky character. As him you will have many tasks: upgrading Drones and collecting scraps for your personal objective, helping with NERON projects, repairs and PILGRED as a technician, and sometimes killing Hunters. Also you cannot move like normal person, so you should plan your movements while using the fact that leaving an occupied room has no cost for you.

Bronze Tips

Terrence is not a good choice if you are Bronze, because you will have limited potential and only the possibility to focus on one of your tasks.

Your first three skills determine your function on the ship:

Robotics Expert (upgrading Drones): Your first and unique skill. It allows you to upgrade your Drones, but it does not help you with anything else (except a few insignificant projects). It is good choice if you already have technicians on board.

Technician (NERON projects / repairs): If no one else has this you have to take it, else there will be no Swedish Sofas and nobody to effectively help Raluca with PILGRED. But without Robotics Expert, you will not be able to recive from your character's personal objective.

Pilot (killing Hunters, collecting scrap): You need to take this if you have only one or no active Pilots. Technician is more valuable, but a ship without pilots is doomed.

Next three skills support your first skills. You should not take them when you are Bronze:

Shooter: Supports killing Hunters, but only effective as a pilot.

IT Expert: Versatile skill, supports NERON projects.

Metalworker: Alternative Scrap Metal source, your second unique skill.

Silver Tips

You can focus on two of your tasks (which is recommended) or specialize in one discipline.

Robotics Expert / Technician (upgrading Drones & NERON projects): The first possible set of skills, but also the most effective. You can work in the Nexus, waiting for the opportunity to improve your Drones. You have to rely on others when it comes to acquiring scrap.

Robotics Expert / Pilot (upgrading Drones, collecting scrap & occasionally killing Hunters): If your crew has Technicnians but you do not have enought Pilots for them to spend acquiring scrap, you can take this matter into your own hands.

Robotics Expert / Metalworker (upgrading Drones & acquiring aditional scrap): Like RE as Bronze, you should choose this only if you have active Technicians and Pilots. In another case, not taking Technician or Pilot would be a great loss.

Technician / IT Expert (improved NERON projects): If you don't like Drones, you can focus entirely on the projects, which is also a possibility.

Technician / Pilot (NERON projects, killing Hunters & collecting scrap): If your crew does not have enough Technicians and Pilots, you can choose this skill set as a last resort to help out your ship. Both jobs are rather -intensive though.

Pilot / Shooter (improved killing Hunters, collecting scrap): Worse than the set above. You should take it only if all other Pilots are inactive.

Gold Tips

You should always take your main skills: Robotics Expert, Technician and Pilot. The fourth skill depends in which of your character's tasks you want to specialize in. (If you don't want use space ships, though, you can drop Pilot and take both IT Expert and Metalworker)

Useful tips

You can negotiate with Eleesha and Gioele about taking the Anti-Grav Scooter, so you will move like a normal character. While sometimes helpful, be aware that doing this is still a waste, though, because for every & used, you still only get 3 where others would get 5 .

The fact that you move for free can be an incredible boon to the ship when doing initial inventory. If you can convince a few other characters to stand in convenient positions, you can reorganize the entire ship in a single cycle by moving back and forth between occupied rooms for minimum of .

Biography

3110 

Born on a military base on Encelade.

3126 

Terrence was enrolled in the space scouts of Encelade for 16 years where he learned to handle a weapon and a Jet vacuum. There he discovers a talent for wheeling and dealing.

3129 

After failing his studies in military engineering, Terrence joins the SDF flotilla. His talents as a pilot are recognized, but he has some issues integrating with the team.

3146 

During the Sol war, Terrence's fighter craft explodes in mid-flight within Mars' atmosphere. he manages to eject but due to a faulty thruster his survival capsule crashes into the ground at over 120 Km/h. Terrence survives the impact but lost the use of both legs.

3147 

Terrence was a late starter in his robotics studies on Ganymede. He is particularly interested in nanorobotics and artificial intelligence courses. It was in the latter that he came to meet Janice Kent, a young cyber-psychology student.

3148 

Janice and Terrence created the first drone with a class C learning capability and it's own evolving character together. They receive the Redmoon prize for this and set up their research laboratory on Callisto.

3149 

The SDF military subsequently propose funding for the project. Their goal is to improve the learning capabilities of the drone looking to employ the drones in armed conflicts on Tau-Ceti and Ross154. The absence of a biological nervous system make these drones the perfect weapon against the Mush.

3150 

Janice leaves the project. Terrence continues the work alone, but is soon stalled by another difficulty: The SDF funding payments become more and more infrequent and eventually stop altogether. The announcement of the construction of the IOM cannon confirms Terrences suspicions as to the reasons behind their sudden disinterest. He now has to find another source of investment.

3152 

Terrence receives a disturbing message from Janice. The Mush invasion of the Federation has been going for at least two years. The directors of the Federation and the SDF are infected and the retaking of the rebel systems is simply a cover-up. Terrence leaves for Xyloph-17 where he meets Janice's new team. Their project is to build a new ship capable of leaving this galaxy.

3153 

Terrence's drones turn out to be extremely useful in the construction of the Daedalus. By linking them to the vessel's AI core, named NERON, Janice manages to further increase their productivity.

3154 

After the SDF seize control of the laboratory, Terrence has no choice but to flee with the crew of the Daedalus. He is safe, but wiped out: All his work along with his 32 assistant drones have been left behind on Xyloph-17.