Hi

We are currently playing the Haarlock`s Legacy campaign "tattered fates", but at a point we are going to switch over to Rogue Trader. I have this idea that the acolytes investigations are going to lead them to long abandoned ship of that Rogue trader dynasty. its still operational with a intergrated xeno artifical intelligence holo program (think of the nice woman hologram in the Halo games series and you get my idea). Instead of turning this abomination over to the Inquisition, they will..well turn Rogue. and escape with it. the ship is pre-programmed to take them to one of the safe havens of the lost Haarlock line. I almost forget to mention that one of the player is a direct descendant from the Haarlock rogue trader dynasty, he is not aware of it, but it makes him able to access the ship.

this place hold a big mansion and lands as well as loyal retainers of the rogue trader dynasty. Over the cause of many generations the servants have multiplied and build entire villages around the mansion, where they one day wait for their masters return. in an almost religous way they have tended the mansion, its land and resources as well as trained their youths to do service on a space ship ( yes it is from that place my players will get their first crew). They have developed as well, and generate a nice income to support their villages. This they have done on a relatively isolated planet, when my players arrive they will face many challenges as well as moral issues. Do they take what is now theirs from the villages, or do they allow them to keep some of the income to furhter support them? an the planet`s guvernor will be sceptical to their arrival, so some diplomatic arrangments have to be met. and the inquisition will harass them in the future. But they might get away with this if they can find some legal terms and evidence to clear their names.

but I can`t seem to find a way to convert my player characters to that of a Rogue trader. is there anything thing written or someone who can help me to make this easier?

the months it takes for the ship to reach this haven, will allow the players to make the neccesary adjustment and training as explorer by the ship`s xeno AI, who will act as a trainer and provide the information that are neccesary.

I'm actually having one of my players DH character converted over. A Scum to RT conversion. In this instance, there's nothing to really do., He's an 8th rank scum, and will convert over to something like a 4th rank RT. He'll get the RT special ability free of charge, and from that point forwards, he will purchase his characteristic advances from the RT listing instead of the Scum listing and all of his skills and talent purchases will come from the first four ranks of RT now as he is no longer a Scum, but that's it. That's all i feel is necessary. Granted, converting a psyker over would be more difficult, but most other characters, if you want them to have an RT career, should be able to find the new path that their character would have taken and simply start spending XP off of those pages instead of their old career. Simple and painless.