How have you spent your life in the cosmos so far? What choices did you make—or were made for you—to end up here? Backgrounds detail what your character’s life was like before they took up voidrunning, their earlier jobs, crafts, and passions.

Backgrounds || Academy Graduate | Celebrity | Clone | Convict | Detective | Devotee | Diplomat | Employee | Gambler | Miner | Pilot | Preserver | Salvager | Socialite | Soldier | Space Pirate | Student

Cultures from the same world can be utterly different, and cultures that developed galaxies apart can be beyond comprehension to each other. Your character’s culture represents how they were raised, the type of community they grew around, and how they lived. Presented in this section are various cultures to choose from when building your character that have been designed to capture as wide of a scope of common science fiction upbringings as possible. As a Narrator, feel free to mix and match the features of these cultures as you see fit to better represent the cultures unique to your setting.

Cultures || Artificial | Backwater | Belter | Drifter | Enlightened | Honorbound | Imperium | Mercantile | Militant | Pre-Industrial | Rebel | Rustic | Stoic | Technetronic | Union | Underclass | Urbanite | Virtual | Warped