Some Force users have an innate skill with tools and machines. These skilled artificers can use their skill with the Force to enhance their abilities, and even intuitively understand a machine's form and function. After all, while tools and machines may not be alive, the Force envelopes everything in the galaxy. Artisans feel the Force that surrounds their tools and the items they work on, using this connection to build creations of wondrous beauty and precision. An Artisan does not creat scores of the same item for sale or distribution. Instead, each of their creations is individual and iconic, a true work of art.

Artisans acquire Astrogation, Computers, Knowledge (Education), and Mechanics as additional career skills. If this is the character's starting specialization, they may choose two of these skills and gain one free rank in each, without spending starting experience. In order to fully integrate their Force abilities with the devices they menipulate, Artisans must first have a solid understanding of how those tools work. This requires a fundamental educational grounding in the principles of technology.

Within urban environments, individuals who never learn to recognize their Force talents are prone to follow the Artisan's path. This is because they are surrounded by technology, and if these individuals take an interest in how things work and how to repair them, their Force abilities may naturally develop in concet. When faced with a broken machine, they can often identify the problems in an intuitive way - some even claim that the machines "speak" to them. Some Artisans live up to the stereotype of the messy inventor while others remain meticulously neat or even take pains to disguise their craftsmanship from casual observers.

In the ancient days of the Jedi Order, Sentinels worked tirelessly to police the galaxy's criminal underbelly. However, a small subset of these enforcers focused their attentions on a far greater and more dangerous threat. They trained tirelessly to find and eliminate those who had fallen to the dark side of the Force and willingly embraced corruption. These Sentinels were called Shadows, and they hunter the Sith.

For many years, the Sith were thought destroyed, and the Jedi Shadows gave up their calling or pursued other dark side Force users. They never realized that the Sith had not been eliminated, and were hiding right under their noses.

Now, with the Jedi Order destroyed and a Dark Lord of the Sith ruling the Galactic Empire, those who would follow the path of the Shadow find their roles reversed. No longer the secret investigators of an established order who searched the shadows of civilization, they are now the ones who must stay hidden. However, within these dark corners, Shadows still work tirelessly to bring justice to untouchable criminals and dark side Force users alike.

Shadows acquire Knowledge (Underworld), Skulduggery, Stealth, and Streetwise as additional career skills. If this is the character's starting specialization, they may choose two of these skills and gain one free rank in each, without spending starting experience. These characters recognize that stealth and deception are integral to finding the targets they hunt. Criminal organizations are often mired in secrecy, and uncovering these secrets requires underhanded methods. While their techniques are frequently of questionable moral character, Shadows firmly believe their ultimate accomplishments more than justify the tools that they must use.

Of course, an initiate who has turned to the dark side can prove to be a powerful opponent for a Shadow. Working against such an adversary can require all of an adept's mundane and Force talents. A Shadow's willingness to examine and utilize every tool and asset can play a major factor in overcoming such capable foes.

A lightsaber is a potent weapon. When wielded forcefully, it can even overpower an opponent who has a weapon capable of parrying it. Further, its ability to deflect blaster bolts can make it an effective ranged weapon as well. Those who consider themselves Shien Experts - masters of the Shien lightsaber form - embrace the seeming contradiction between those two uses. They know that true lightsaber masters must possess the cunnign to use such weapons to their full potential. It takes clever precision to reflect a ranged attack back toward an adversary, but just as much shrewd brilliance to recognize the right time to overpower adversaries through raw force.

Shien Experts acquire Athletics, Lightsaber, Resilience, and Skulduggery as additional career skills. If this is the character's starting specialization, they may choose two of these skills and gain one free rank in each, without spending starting experience. In order to effectively follow this path, a character needs to be flexible and to recognize the best approaches for different types of physical conflicts. Resilience and Athletics are critical tools for engaging in and enduring a prolonged battle while Skulduggery enables the character to case out and prepare possible combat locations ahead of time to exploit the environment against an opponent.

Whenever possible, a Shien Expert prepares a battleground well in advance of a conflict. Often, these individuals take the time to study a range of different locations soon after they arrive in a city. Once combat begins, they can carefully exploit the environment and trigger any traps they may have prepared to unleash upon their opponents.

During combat, Shien Experts continue to analyze the situation. While they take advantage of the terrain throughout a battle, they are also selective in choosing the best way to use their training as well as their lightsaber. This can change with each passing instant, in reaction to the armament, position, and stance of their enemies. For these individuals, and extended conflict is a sure route to victory as they react to every move their opponents make with a clever counter or powerful strike.

Investigators examine unsolved crimes, using their knowledge and skills to figure out the who, what, when, where, and why. They don't seek this information merely to satisfy some obsession over the ugly side of society but rather to honor the victims by bringing the perpetrators to justice.

Racers race. Whether by landspeeder, airspeeder, starship, or on foot, the Racer speeds forward to be the first and the fastest. However, the Force grants not only extra-sensory insight about the race, but also guides Racers to think about what the race means.

Despite the grand legends of the Jedi and their sweeping battles in half-forgotten wars, neighborhoods still needed day-to-day protection. Padawans may have dreamt of striking down an evil general or forging alliances between powerful armies, but when they became Sentries, they patrolled the streets, city blocks, and alleyways to help the overlooked, the common people. These foot soldiers gained non of the glory of their peers, and their thankless tasks have not been preserved in Jedi myths, but their work has benefited countless lives throughout the years.