Star Rangers

As my skirmish rules progress, I jotted down some ideas for generating heroes and allowing them to advance in ability. I decided to try out the rules by creating 2 new characters.

The Adventures of Ace & Spades
Alan "Ace" Malone and Samantha "Spades" Mendoza are partners in the Star Rangers (a law enforcement / paramilitary organization of the Federation; the Rangers patrol the fringe worlds of the Federation).

Mission 1
Our heroes' first mission is to retrieve some stolen medicines from space pirates who have holed up on the jungle world of Thunia VII.

Ace (blue R) engages a pirate in melee; the pirate flees.
Note: I have introduced morale rules for NPCs. In this case, the pirate was wounded and then failed his morale.

Spades blasts another pirate.

And then Ace takes out a third. The last pirate flees.
He failed morale after seeing all his comrades fall.

Our heroes are victorious!

Aftermath

Ace and Spades return to base with the stolen medicines. They receive an Attaboy from their commander. In addition, they each earn 1 experience point. It takes a minimum of 2 points to improve a stat, so they bank their points for the time being.