PMC vs SCAV

AURORA has two operators. They run in parallel and serve different goals.

PMC: your operator

• Uses your own gear and is the one who pushes the campaign (stages and worlds).
• Only the PMC earns world mastery.
• Only the PMC finds Aurora Tokens: in about 3% of extractions, plus 1 for the first clear of each world. Tokens the PMC is carrying are lost on death.
• On death, the kit stays behind. The secure container is kept, and insured gear comes back after 4 hours (see Insurance and saved kits).
• Offline, a raid in progress resolves when you come back, but no new PMC raids start while you are away.

SCAV: the automatic scavenger

• It is automatic only: there are no manual SCAV raids.
• It uses its own free kit, rolled for every raid. The kit improves with PMC level: from level 10, 10% of rolls get +1 rarity; from level 20, 18% get up to +2.
• It works inside a daily budget of 5, 8 or 12 hours (your choice). Only time spent in raids counts, offline included, and the budget renews at local midnight. There is no cooldown between raids.
• While the game is closed it keeps going for up to 12 hours per absence.
• It brings back only the loot it found: no FIR, no shared XP and no campaign progress. Returns wait in a depot until you collect them into your stash.
• If the SCAV dies, that raid’s finds are lost — but the kit was free.

Summary

	PMC	SCAV
Gear	Yours	Free rolled kit
Campaign and mastery	Yes	No
FIR loot	Yes	No
On death	Loses the kit (except secure container and insured items)	Loses that raid’s finds
Offline	Resolves the raid in progress	Up to 12 h, inside the budget

Tip: let the SCAV bring back materials while the PMC repeats stages you have already mastered.