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 For others select either: (all are 300 points total)
-  * [[Important background]]  These are 300 point packages that give interesting and powerful abilities.
+===== Important background =====
+  *[[Important background]] These are 300 point packages that give interesting and powerful abilities.
      * From Haraza -Your home world had a full global nuclear war a long time ago, and you are not quite human after the mutations.
      * From Elvenhome - You are from the planet Elvenhome. A place where the population tries to resemble “elves” from prehistoric tales.
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      * Mystic Knight - You belong to an order that kept the secrets of the Mystics Knights of the Federation alive.
      * Superior - This is a “general great improvement” lens on the base training package, which increases the overall competence of the template a lot without changing its flavor.
+===== Edge =====
   * [[Edge]] These are less powerful and character defining than the important backgrounds being only 150 points but in addition you get 150 points in [[Training/Experience packages]].
+     * Psionic - You can do things with your mind that others cannot.
+     * Bionics - While not rich, you have an extensive collection of cybernetic implants
+     * Rich -While not truly rich as the nobles, you are certainly richer than those who are merely well to do.
+     * Educated - You have had extensive schooling, likely something like an advanced university degree.
+     * Fast Guy - You’re what most people think of as a “martial artist”: lean, agile, and lethally skilled at unarmed combat.
+     * Big Guy - You’re a master of barehanded combat and favor physical strength and grit over acrobatics.
+     * Homo superior - You are a "new human", result of a mutation or deliberate genetic tinkering to create a better human.
+     * Veteran Ranger - You have been in the service for a long time, heck, back when you were an old hat, you trained newbies that are now considered old hats.
+     * Immortal - You are immortal, aged more than 1000 years and mildly psionic.
+     * Other service background - You served 20 years ("20 year man") in one of the other imperial services before joining rangers.
+     * Salarian Lystheni - You [[Salarians|Salarian]] Lystheni. A offshot that is not welcome in the Salarian worlds and have chosen to be in the Empire.
+     * Enhanced - This is a “general improvement” lens on the base training package, which increases the overall competence of the template without changing its flavor.
+     * Hard to kill -  You are just very hard to kill permanently.
+     * Renaissance Man - Your capabilities are at the upper end of the normal human spectrum, or a little past it.
+     * Tough to Take Out - You are one tough son of a bitch, being really hard to take out most of the ways.
+     * Bionically enchanced - You have been engineered to be better than normal humans. This is a combination of generic engineering,training and implants.
+===== Genie =====
   * [[Genie]](Genetically engineered), these are the case where you have been generically changed, most of them are even less powerful than Edges. These are two classes:
     * The low power backgrounds give you the generic modification an Edge and less other training