Zealot

Zealot
Type	Fighter
Acquisition	Contacts Starting Captain
SKILLS
Primary Skill	Intimidate
Secondary Skill	Command
Tertiary Skill	Blades

A zealot is a devotee to a faction, excelling at rapid acceptance and advancement in military ranks especially. The zealot is skilled at actively seeking faction enemies or advancing through missions.

Starting Captain Traits

A captain whose first job is Zealot will gain the following traits:

Single-Minded	Diehard and inflexible, +2 Resilience, +2 Initiative, +10% All Damage, Morale never breaks in Crew Combat	Profession	+3 *
Warhawk	Antagonistic faction supporter, gains extra +3-4 Conflict Score and a personal XP bonus whenever impacting a Conflict	Profession	+3 *

Skills

As a character advances in the Zealot Job, he or she gains the following Skill points at each Rank.

Ranks 1 to 12

Rank	Blades	Command	Intimidate
1	1	1	2
2	1	3	3
3	2	3	3
4	2	3	4
5	2	4	4
6	3	4	4
7	3	4	5
8	3	5	5
9	3	5	6
10	4	5	6
11	4	6	7
12	4	6	8

Ranks 13 to 24

Rank	Blades	Command	Intimidate
13	5	6	8
14	5	7	8
15	5	8	9
16	5	8	10
17	5	9	10
18	5	10	10
19	5	10	11
20	6	10	11
21	6	10	12
22	6	11	13
23	6	12	13
24	6	13	13

Ranks 25 to 36

Rank	Blades	Command	Intimidate
25	6	13	14
26	7	14	14
27	7	14	14
28	7	14	15
29	7	15	15
30	8	15	16
31	8	15	17
32	9	16	17
33	10	17	17
34	11	17	17
35	11	17	18
36	12	17	19

Talents

Each Job provides a series of Talents representing the special abilities granted by this specific training. As a Character progresses through Job Ranks, more and more Talents become available.

SKILL SAVE	Rank: 1 Famous Fury 3 weeks Cooldown Automatically passes a failed Intimidate test in any situation, including deep space travel, mutiny, or during a mission
RANK	Rank: 1 Righteous Rank 3 weeks Cooldown Price for military Rank is discounted by 10% + Command Skill
VICTORY	Rank: 1 Rough Interrogation 9 weeks Cooldown Upon victory in ship combat, thoroughly questioning the enemy crew creates up to your Intimidate Skill in Intel Records but causes further Rep loss
DESERTER	Rank: 1 Unbending Law 3 weeks Cooldown When landing in a zone, the highest level crew member who attempts to abandon the ship reconsiders, but their salary increases by $2
MISSION	Rank: 1 Devoted Service 9 weeks Cooldown When completing steps in a Mission, increase Faction Reputation bonuses by 10% + Command Skill
	Rank: 1 Unstoppable Force 6 Initiative In crew combat, Buff yourself with +20% Armor, +75% To Resist Debuffs for 3 Turns, Restores (20 + 0 Intimidate) Morale
	Rank: 1 Incensed Strikes 1.5X Weapon's Initiative In crew combat, Crippling Blade Attack with +10% Critical; successful hit causes -3 Initiative, -10% Melee Defense, -10 Bleed Resist for 2 Turns and removes all Buffs from target

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BLOCKADE	Rank: 5 Fanatical Siege 3 weeks Cooldown During a Blockade of a system, replace a risk card with a Tithe or Influence Conflict reward card
PATROL	Rank: 5 Obsessive Defense 3 weeks Cooldown When Patrolling a system, replace a risk card with a Pirate reward card
CONFLICT	Rank: 5 Retribution Justice 3 weeks Cooldown Increase Conflict Score bonus by 10% + Faction Rank when impacting a Conflict through Missions, Spying, Blockade or Patrol
	Rank: 5 Bloodletting Blow Weapon's Initiative In crew combat, Crippling Blade Attack causes +8 Bleeding, -20% Deflection for 3 Turns, knocks target back 1 slot

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	Rank: 8 Fervor 6 Initiative In crew combat, Removes all Debuffs; Buffs 3 targets with +2 Initiative for 3 Turns and Restores for (10 + 0 Command) Morale
MUTINY	Rank: 8 Summary Execution 26 weeks Cooldown Capital punishment of the lowest Morale mutineer quickly reminds the crew who is in charge. The mutiny ends and Morale of the entire crew is increased by 40 + Intimidate Skill

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ON INIT	Rank: 11 Infliction Rage On Initiative When making Initiative Roll in Crew Combat, Buff yourself with +3 Initiative, +25% All Damage, +20% Armor for 3 Turns, Restores (5 + 0 Intimidate) Morale
PATROL	Rank: 11 Diehard Defense 3 weeks Cooldown When Patrolling a system, replace a risk card with Mission success reward card

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VICTORY	Rank: 15 Fanatical Court 36 weeks Cooldown Seize a defeated enemy ship during a Conflict at a local prize court (limited enemy types by Conflicts). Requires Military Rank or Edict and a tithe of 60% of the ship's value but strike a blow in the Conflict, losing 10 Reputation with the enemy
PATROL	Rank: 15 Enduring Defender 21 weeks Cooldown When Patrolling a system, reroll all 5 cards and draw a new hand

Combat Talent Strategy

Unstoppable Force

An incredible defensive buff. This pairs very nicely with a Swordsman job that uses Sharp Counter and other buffing moves to create a front-line tank capable of taking hits and resisting debuffs. Armor with strong damage soak will be magnified more than armor that focuses on dodging.

Bloodletting Blow

One of the more powerful Damage over Time attacks in the game. It works well on enemy Swordsmen in position 2 that you can knock out of attack range, potentially wasting their next action as they reposition while letting the bleeding finish them off. Be wary, however, as enemy Swordsmen can use their Blade Skill to help parry this melee attack.

Fervor

Fervor lends itself to an interesting strategy where you rely on your Zealot to remove debuffs instead of a healer job such as the Combat Medic. Being able to clear debuffs and give a small buff to three of your combat crew at the same time shouldn't be underestimated.

Infliction Rage

This on-init talent will continually refill the Zealot's morale while granting a universally useful buff. The bonus armor stacks with Unstoppable Force making a Zealot using both a very hard target to harm without high penetration weapons. If you are using both, you should strongly consider using high damage soak armor instead of high evasion armor.