On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Onno Meyer <[email protected]> wrote: > * A halfway decent society recruits special units from convicts who > are considered unfit for normal life, but who can sort of "redeem > themselves" by military service. The officers come from normal > units, the NCOs are especially tough and experienced convicts. > The penal battalions will be harsh places -- discipline might > turn the convicts into sober citizens or better criminals. They > get dangerous missions, but with regular gear. > > Social Stigma if the past is officially forgotten but not quite > gone, otherwise a Secret. Plus disads with a reasonable > Self-Control number. The troopers must be able to control > themselves while the NCOs are watching or they will be drummed > out of the unit.
This would be something like the French Foreign Legion in my opinion. A criminal on the run could make up a new name and join, and while people might "know" he's a criminal of some kind, or even guess who he really is, no one does anything about it as long as he's in the Legion. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
