Editing Procyon's Guide to Character Management (section)

== Promotions ==
In Somerset, if any of my scouts or mechanics gain a higher leadership skill than my faculty members, which is '''below''' 100, they are promoted to faculty and the faculty member becomes a scouting member.  Above 100, the faculty member has already been specialized, so they have achieved job security.  A faculty member Mechanic also gains job security when their Mechanic skill has reached 50, since they will eventually be motivators and they have trained engine tuning, a specialism that is not needed in scouting squads.  If any squad medic achieves a leadership level higher then the faculty medic, they get promoted to faculty medic regardless of the leadership level of the faculty medic.  This is because both field and faculty medics take "combat psychologist" as their leadership specialization, so there is no discrepancy.  Promoting the higher level leaders to faculty helps keep the new recruits leadership level down to allow motivators to continue to be trained.

There are also promotions between squads.  My 'A' squad is always composed of my best scout and my best medic.  My 'B' Squad is always composed of my second best scout, and my second best medic, and likewise for the rest of my squads. 

Mechanics are a bit different in how they are promoted.  Scouting mechanics have 2 very useful specializations; salvaging and jury rigging.  My "odd" squads only contain jury rigging mechanics, and my "even" squads only contain salvagers. Since I will normally send out 2 squads on a scout, this ensures that I have a top notch jury rigger and a top notch salvager in the event, and I do not have to split the specialization between the 2 skills resulting in a lower overall level of specialization.  Promotions therefore of mechanics once they have achieved a level of 50 are only between even or odd squads.

Sometimes a character caps their primary skill very low. In these cases, the ganger will likely end up being passed in skill level by the characters below them. When I find a capped character has been demoted back to Somerset, I will decide to use them for another purpose, such as PvP events.