u/JrienXashen

So unless I'm missing something, and I'm pretty sure I'm not. It seems the design team goofed.

The Core/CSC Gauss pistol is 3d6 AP3 on that same token, the gauss rifle is 4d6 AP5.

But when building from the MFC, you get:
Gauss Pistol 3d6-1 AP3
Enhanced Gauss Rifle 5d6-2 AP5

Am I in fact missing a ruling or should I just use my best judgement? My work around if there is bad referencing on the part of design is to say pen +2 ignores the damage fall-off but +3 and up does as listed.

Apologies if it's been answered, but can't seem to find it.

What proves a character is a mercenary, is it a roleplaying choice of the character in question or is there a more hard rule?

Best I've seen is having a military career at some point but I'd like to think there's a requirement more than 1-2 terms in a military career when trying to bypass Law Level restrictions. I know as GM I can just rule with whatever I like but I like to stick to RAW as much as possible.

So the group has received a mission to recover an artifact from a Yacht. Said yacht belongs to a Crime/Warlord; haven't decided yet, just have a NPC name and the main objective.

In any case, what in my mind should be an in-and-out (hopefully) stealth job or hit-and-run, the group seems to think they can takeover said yacht, pilot it back and sell it....

The group consists of

1. An SF military operative [infantry/marine ground assault/field agent career]

2. Merchant [noble/pirate/explorer/free trader]

3. An operational scientifist [flight officer/star marine/field agent]

4. Naval Officer Corpsman

They are all in their mid to late 30s so they got some skills but as deadly as Traveller is I'm not so sure.

In any case, I assume if Warlord it will likely be protected by a platoon worth of security. Far as selling it if they can somehow manage according to the previous posts here, it's possible but not likely.

Thoughts?