Home World
Some of the special backgrounds specify the place you are from, in such use that.
World type
Else roll your home world type on one of the tables below.
Way more of the colonial and tertiary populations join rangers than other services, so as ranger(or patrol) you should use the following if you wish to simulate that:
3 core
4 colony
5-6 tertiary
7-10 primary
11-15 secondary
15-16 tertiary
17-18 colony
Full empire population distribution, use this for other imperial services:
3 core
4 tertiary
5-10 primary
11-16 secondary
17 tertiary
18 colony
Home/background type. Select or roll:
3 Gypsy: Lived childhood on a starship.
4 Belter: Lived childhood on a mining or manufacturing facility on a belt.
5: Closed facility: Lived childhood in a closed base but on a habitable planet, likely something like a mountaintop,desert or mid-jungle base.
6: Uninhabitable place: Lived childhood in a closed base on a planet with non suitable atmosphere/no atmosphere.
7-15: Normal planetary situation: Primary: City. Secondary: town/city. Tertiary: Small town. Colony: Wilds.
15: Abnormal planetary situation. Primary: Small town/wilds. Secondary: wilds. Tertiary: city. Colony: small town.
16: Arcology: Lived childhood in an underwater base
17: Station: Lived on a space station.
18: Junk jungles: Lived in a junk jungle of some star system. Likely at microgravity.
Home world location
Find your home world and note the standard planet universal code (SPUC). Use the Starsystem database to find a suitable system. Sectors 1-174 have the primary systems, secondary,most tertiary systems and about half of the colonies are located in sectors 175-4000, few tertiary and most of the remaining colonies are in sectors 4001-8000.
Note that the system should have a Terrestrial planet for all primary and secondary systems and almost all others.
Home world culture
If the culture is not specified use the following:
Standard imperial
Standard imperial
Latin:
1-5:French
6:1:French 2-5: Spanish
Germanic:
Others:
Italian
1-5:Spanish 6:Polish
1-3:Finnish, 4-6:Italian
1-3:Russian, 4:Hebrew. 5: Greek, 6:Hungarian
Chinese
1-5:Chinese 6:Other non major language grouping(minority)
Skills and advantages based on home world
Select the appropriate packages below based on your homeworld
Base package[8]
Area Knowledge: empire[1] home town[1], home planet[1], home sector[1]
Dabbler: History empire, History own planet, applied mathematics, Computer Operation. (if you buy some of these skills as full skills, replace with suitable scholastic skills that you learned basics of in school)[1]
From a core world
From a colony world
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Additional culture[0/7]
If your world has standard imperial culture use:
If your world has different culture than imperial standard then all following +7 points:
Speak, write imperial native[6], Cultural familiarity(Imperium)[1]
Speak, write own native[0], Cultural familiarity(own culture)[0]
Specific[15]
these are 15 points and replace the normal package for people from these.
From Haraza:
Speak, write One of the haraza languages native[0], Cultural familiarity(Haraza)[0]
Speak, write imperial native[6], Cultural familiarity(Imperium)[1]
Area Knowledge: empire[1] own area[1], Haraza[1], home sector[1]
Survial(radioactive wasteland)[4]
From Elvenhome:
Speak, write imperial native[6], Cultural familiarity(Imperium)[1]
Speak, write Elven[0], Cultural familiarity(Elven)[0]
Area Knowledge: empire[1] own area[1], Elvenhome[1], home sector[1]
Survival Woods[2]
Musical Instrument (any)[1]
Dabbler: History empire, History Elvenhome, Hobby skill(Elven lore from fantasy literature),Computer Operation. (if you buy some of these skills as full skills, replace with suitable skills that you learned basics of in school)[1]
From non imperial world:
Area Knowledge: galactic area[1] home town[1], home planet[1], home sector[1]
Dabbler: History galactic area, History own planet, applied mathematics, Computer Operation. (if you buy some of these skills as full skills, replace with suitable scholastic skills that you learned basics of in school)[1]
Cultural familiarity own world [1]
Survival(any)[2] or Savoir faire(any)[2]
Speak, write imperial native[6], Cultural familiarity(Imperium)[1]
Speak, write own native[0], Cultural familiarity(own culture)[0]
The own world/culture/language things might instead be some alien race if the world was dominated by them.
Other races[8]
Take instead of basic package.
Area Knowledge: empire[1], own race area[1], home town[1], home planet[1], home sector[1]
Dabbler: History empire, History own planet, History own race, Computer Operation. (if you buy some of these skills as full skills, replace with suitable scholastic skills that you learned basics of in school)[1]
+2 points in Basic skills/background.