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=== Advancement ===
Instead of choosing to place earned Karma in an advancement fund, all Karma awarded to a character (including their starting amount) automatically generates a matching amount of ''advancement points'' (AP) which can be then spent to improve the character's abilities. 
* Increasing the rank of a physical stat, mental stat, or power costs 100 times the ''new'' rank.
* Raising Resources costs 80 AP plus 10 times the ''new'' rank.
* Raising Popularity costs 10 times the ''new'' rank, and cashes in one headline (see above).
* Gaining a new power costs 600 AP, plus 40 times its starting rank. 
** A robotic character with access to a suitably skilled inventor can add powers for 600 AP plus 10 times the starting rank. 
** A sorceror can learn a new magical spell for only 300 AP plus 20 times the starting rank.
* Learning a new Talent requires 400 AP. Receiving instruction from a character who already possesses that Talent allows a character to add AP toward learning that equal to the instructor's own effective rank in the ability (once per day).

Power Stunts are purchased with AP rather than Karma.