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