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There is also the matter of following that relate to automation
>Various talents automate things, turning regular actions to reflex ones (so automated)
>Other talents become automated if you rise them/use style points on them, so it can shift mid-session
>Your allies and followers both have their actions automated by default (so no standard "roll for familiar/hireling" bullshit)
>Allies and followers also count as automatic bonus to your stats, so you can gain automatic success via their presence in their field of expertise (like having as followers a pair of history post-grads, so you get +4 to your History and Archaeology checks, thus making them automatic success by default)
>Your allies can have their followers (eg. ship captain [your ally] and his crew [his followers]) that act both on full automation to each other, so there is a rather large mass of NPCs you kinda-sorta control, but never have to roll for them and you've been conditioned by other games you have to
And all of this also means your GM needs to get used to the fact how many things do themselves, which, again, is a great time saver, but requires to switch to a completely different way of organizing encounters and similar. So for example when the situation with those post-grads comes to play, your GM must understand to play this as a classic exposition scene in style of, dunno, Relic Hunter, than doing the standard research rolls, since that research already did itself and you know the outcome.
Plus of course this is the kind of game where you can (and even should be) pulling stuff from Cannon movies and film serials, so going with a party of 4 against a garrison of an entire company is perfectly acceptable, both in terms "we can take it", but also, and more importantly, "we won't spend a week rolling for all of this separately", but more in tune "it's going to be an insane ride to take" (you won't kill them all, but disrupt their camp plus gain access to whatever made you attack at all)

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