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| - | //Ruffians, thugs, street fighters and...// | + | //Ruffians, thugs, street fighters, and low-quality ‘muscle’ generally fall into this career. Some brawlers light for hard-won |
| + | purses to a variety of illegal street and station matches, while others might hone their combat skills simply by surviving in the worst ghettoes of overcrowded cities or fortress ships. Brawlers who don't go into the protection or prize—fighting businesses might end up in a military organization—every command has its share of barracks-room brawlers. However, hand-to—hand fighting doesn't offer much opportunity tor long—term success. The best a brawler can hope for is to hire on as muscle or to climb to the top of whatever lighting circle or underworld den in | ||
| + | which he happens to land.// | ||
| - | //**In The Verge:**// | + | |
| + | //**In the Verge:** The pit-fighters of Penates in the Lucullus system are famous throughout the Verge. These hardened street gladiators regularly fall in with all kinds of shady characters— | ||
| + | including free traders in search of muscle, or smugglers looking for extra hands.// | ||
| No matter how far humanity progresses and develops, it seems an unchanging fact that the drama of violent conflict makes a great spectator sport. Even in the 26th century, there is a place for the gladiator. Some of them are thrown unwilling into fights for their lives, like the slaves and criminals of old, most often in backwaters and on the fringes of galactic civilization. Many more, however, are professionals; trained athletes whose sport is combat. Be they boxers or wrestlers, the champions of martial arts competitions, or the bloody modern inheritors of those ancient heroes of the coliseum, humanity still throngs in its masses to see them fight, bleed, and sometimes die. | No matter how far humanity progresses and develops, it seems an unchanging fact that the drama of violent conflict makes a great spectator sport. Even in the 26th century, there is a place for the gladiator. Some of them are thrown unwilling into fights for their lives, like the slaves and criminals of old, most often in backwaters and on the fringes of galactic civilization. Many more, however, are professionals; trained athletes whose sport is combat. Be they boxers or wrestlers, the champions of martial arts competitions, or the bloody modern inheritors of those ancient heroes of the coliseum, humanity still throngs in its masses to see them fight, bleed, and sometimes die. | ||
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