(Answered) Protocol Skill for Mercenary Contracts

[Armitage72]

AToWC, pp. 217-219.

For the Protocol Skill rolls used to determine number of mercenary contracts, Employer, and Mission Type, is it Protocol (Mercenary) or Protocol (Where the Hiring Hall is located)?

e.g. if working on Galatea, would it be Protocol (Mercenary) or Protocol (Lyran Commonwealth/Federated Commonwealth/Lyran Alliance/etc.)?  I assume the former, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

[Paul]

The former. The latter might be used if the employer has overlap, IE, a Lyran hiring you, Protocol/Lyran may be useful. But I'd resolve that at a penalty since it's not exactly on the mark, and it means you're playing by your employer's "rules", rather than those of the merc business.

Paul