👮The Protector – Control

Description

The protector archetype strives in established market/value spaces, and either regulates or enforces norms erected as rules. It is good at deploying and maintaining an existing infrastructure.

Features

• Partially dependent on infrastructures/partially autonomous: range of action;

• Seek coordination with other established forces;

• Can endure longer-term conflicts;

• Resource & infrastructure specialist;

• Aim at enemy strategic resources: either destroy to confuse or acquire to control;

• Explicit internal rules/procedures/rituals to respond to difficult/unclear situations;

• Specialised crew members;

Typical behaviour

• Rely on the known

• Uses existing or creates new governing constraints

• Risk minimiser

• Pattern identifier and strategic/tactical planer

• Identify → Acquire → Secure

• In high-conflict with pirates

Affinity

• Ocean: Red and Grey Oceans

• Players: Buyer, Seeker

• Monsters: Greed, Fear, Obsession