Some of the special backgrounds specify the place you are from, in such use that.

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.

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.

If the culture is not specified use the following:

1. Standard imperial
2. Standard imperial
3. Latin:
   • 1-5:French
   • 6:1:French 2-5: Spanish
4. Germanic:
   • 1-4:German
   • 5: 1-4 Scandinavian 5-6: Non imperial world
   • 6: 1-3 Dutch 4-6: Standard Imperial
5. Others:
   1. Italian
   2. 1-5:Spanish 6:Polish
   3. 1-3:Finnish, 4-6:Italian
   4. 1-3:Russian, 4:Hebrew. 5: Greek, 6:Hungarian
   5. Chinese
   6. 1-5:Chinese 6:Other non major language grouping(minority)

Select the appropriate packages below based on your homeworld

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]

• Cultural familiarity core worlds[1]
• Savoir faire(any)[2]

• Cultural familiarity colonies [1]
• Survival(any)[2]

• Cultural familiarity spacers[1]
• Spacer[1]
• Vac suit[1]

If your world has standard imperial culture use:

• Speak, write imperial native[0], Cultural familiarity(Imperium)[0]

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]

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.

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.