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This saving throw represents your ability to notice something that you
are not specifically looking for and determining what it is. This may be a
battery lying on a dusty floor or a combat robot hiding in the shadows
preparing to strike. Failing the throw means that you either do not hear
the see it at all or you cannot interpret it’s meaning fast enough to make
a difference. For example, failing to see an enemy coming around the
corner might mean that you are surprised for the first round of combat.
If you wish to simply look around or search for something, this saving
throw is not used. Instead, the GM can either tell you what you see, make
a search roll, or call for a Wisdom test, if applicable.

A Wisdom test would have the same result, of course, but if you think something is easy to find and I'm actively looking for it, you can choose to give me a bonus or just say I find it.
On the other end of the spectrum, if I'm searching for something that is very difficult to find (a concealed switch, for example), you can give me a penalty to the check or make it take longer. An unmodified check is for when an average person has about a fifty/fifty chance of succeeding.

Name: Enton Sanatore
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Class: Medic
Major Ambition: Restore interstellar trade network.
Morality: Adherence 1, Consensus 4, Efficiency 2.
Languages: Human, Tassari, Oreamnos
Age: 46 (Mature)

Bio: My original idea fitted the empath more, but I'll see how it fits here.
Raised in a Tassari city before the Collapse, Enton always saw a variety of faces and travelled to many different places as he grew up. He always admired the interstellar society he lived in, but took for granted that so many different species lived harmoniously together.

When the Great War came, it shook Enton to his core. He was travelling back home at the time, and the ship he was in was boarded as it approached his home-world. Figures in masked uniforms pointed guns at the crew and searched the ship. Enton was held in a processing camp on the surface for eight days, while the soldiers questioned him about his loyalties, the contents of the ship, and other questions he couldn't answer plainly. It became clear that his planet had been annexed, but who by was unknown. Then the Tessari retaliation came. Great flashes in the sky signalled a battle for control of the space around the planet, but it only lasted a few hours. Soon, more figures, still masked and in a different uniform, presumably Tessari, freed him from the camp, only to hold him for further questioning. This only lasted a few more days before another counter-attack came, during which Enton slipped out into the outside world, only to see clearly for the first time the devastation that had been made of his home-world.

Since then, Enton ha seen that conflict only brings pain, and has done his best to end conflicts before they begin wherever he could. He distrusts authority, recalling his experiences in the war; that they work only to further their own power, rather than for the good of the people. He tells stories of the times before the Collapse, and remembers the grand scale of society wistfully. Like many, Enton wishes the Great War had never happened; like few others, he actually plans to undo it's effects. But first, he needs allies, and he needs a plan. He boards a ship bound for Prillium, hoping to speak to others there, and form an alliance.