Yes, we disagree here, but I'm not entirely sure I understand your reasoning, so bear with me.<br/><br/>Having to take over a ship, while using spare morphs because they're all that was available, when that ship is full of possibly exsurgent-infected biocons intent on obliterating a habitat using the ship's AM cargo to pull a kamikaze while docking, and pulling it off isn't heroic? It's<em>less </em>heroic because the heroes had to do it using 'Roombas'? Or is it more heroic because they were willing to go in with that handicap, because the situation was just that desperate, and nothing larger could slip the ship's sensors? Is destroying the Death Star less heroic because it had to be done by itty-bitty horribly outgunned fighters instead of bringing in a battleship?<br/><br/>The ship scenario I talked about with the 'Roombas' is the Transhuman equivalent of the movie<em>Die Hard</em>. The hero starts out with a pistol, luckily, because he's an off-duty cop...A competent individual, but hardly special forces material. He then loses his pistol in the first moments of the struggle, and has to physically subdue an opponent who is armed with a submachinegun. An opponent who is larger than him, stronger, and better trained...So it's a losing fight until they tumble down the stairs and the hero manages to hold onto his opponent's head, breaking his neck in the fall and tumble. This is a classic and modern motif, in which the hero is NOT super powerful and above his enemies, but rather overcomes them through a combination of virtue, cleverness, and desperation, and the desperation is<em>made </em>virtuous because other people are depending on the hero. The hero doesn't struggle for his own survival...John McClane could have hid in a closet, or a roof, and survived the whole shindig quite happily, if the only person he cared about was himself.<br/><br/>Seems to me an awful lot of heroes in both ancient and modern context aren't Gilgamesh or Elric or Gandalf or Luke Skywalker...People with powers beyond that of mortal ken. They're slightly-above-ordinary people who are outclassed, yet who struggle, bootstrap themselves up to the task, and beat it despite being disadvantaged.<br/><br/>Just because of the type of campaign we chose, we will be dealing with exsurgents and TITAN technology. That means that sooner or later, we<em>will</em>be disadvantaged. Odds are good that sooner or later someone will 'pick up' something that will 'pick them up' instead. These things aren't Mario Brothers power-ups, they're alien deathtraps meant to infect and destroy. I agree that a hero shouldn't die of blood-poisoning after stepping on a rusty tack mid-journey, but I don't think that heroes necessarily have to be powerful, or that fighting through dreadful setbacks is non-heroic.<br/><br/>And given the exsurgent-interests of this team, I don't think 'hero' is necessarily a motivator for all of the party.<br/><br/>P.S., remember that the SolArchive is basically useful when you do NOT have access to the Mesh. It's there for making research rolls, etc., limited to a cap of the type of knowledge that would be available at skill 60...It doesn't make the rolls for you. It doesn't replace not knowing anything about the subject. It can't let you access 61+ elements of that knowledge. 60 is about what a normal PhD with a little work experience has...So an Astronomy SolArchive won't let you turn into Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson. But it'll let you search up anything that, say, a PhD with a few years of work would know, and it'll be full of a lot of raw data and well-established theories...Not cutting-edge or unapproved 'wild' speculation or genius-level work above and beyond what a PhD would be taught and trained in.<br/><br/>It's basically like having the Library of Congress on a USB drive. Lots of information, but not capable of replacing a real, knowledgeable specialist in an emergency.