Regarding Mongoose Traveller's Book 1: Mercenary:
There is a "Survival" roll, but it's more like the "you must leave the service". You can still continue, but in another career.
I agree with Raellus in that SF characters are so common as to make their "special" nature almost commonplace. Still, in Mercenary there are careers loosely based on the classic Mercenary tickets: "Cadre, Commando, Guerrilla, Security, Striker and Warmonger". "Commando" would naturally work for special ops PCs, but pretty much most of the rest would apply with some imagination.
The combat rules seem to add some nice chrome, although the weapons by their nature are generic, of course.
Tony
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