Human
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Game Statistics
- Bonus Feat: A human can choose any feat that they qualify for at level 1 as a bonus feat.
- Culture Bonus: All Humans receive a Culture Bonus. See their Species page for brief suggestions and their Lore page for more information.
- Automatic Language: Terran Standard, plus an additional one dependent on origin location (see Species page).
- Origin Locations:
- AMERICAN (Former USA, any of the current Coalition of America)
Bonus Language: English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, or Japanese
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Adaptable, Cold Tolerance, Heat Tolerance, Jack-of-All-Trades, Vehicular Engineer, or Wealthy - ARABIAN (United Arab States [basically, any Middle Eastern nation not otherwise listed below])
Bonus Language: Arabic
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Desert Dweller, Guerrilla Fighter, Militaristic, or Religious Influence - ARGENTINIAN
Bonus Language: Spanish
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Adaptable, or Agricultural - AUSTRALIAN
Bonus Language: English
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Adaptable, or Explorer - BALTIC (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania)
Bonus Language: Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Belarusian, or Russian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Cold Tolerance, Militaristic, or Surgeon’s Touch - BRAZILIAN
Bonus Language: Portuguese
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Gregarious, Militaristic, or Specialist - CANADIAN
Bonus Language: English or French
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Cold Tolerance, Explorer, or Forester - CENTRAL AMERICAN (Anything south of Mexico and north of the border of South America)
Bonus Language: French or Spanish
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Guerilla Fighter, or Jungle Dweller - CHILEAN
Bonus Language: Spanish
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Militaristic, Mountaineer, or Trader - CHINESE
Bonus Language: Chinese [Mandarin] or Chinese [Cantonese]
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Agricultural, Efficient, Industrious, Trader, or Wealthy - COLOMBIAN
Bonus Language: Spanish
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Guerilla Fighter, or Jungle Dweller - EGYPTIAN
Bonus Language: Arabic
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Desert Dweller, Historian, or Militaristic - ENGLISH
Bonus Language: English
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Savoir-Faire, Unflappable, or Wealthy - FRENCH
Bonus Language: French
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Charming, Connoisseur, Savoir-Faire, or Wealthy - GERMAN
Bonus Language: German or Hungarian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Industrious, Militaristic, or Wealthy - GREEK/BALKAN
Bonus Language: Greek, Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Macedonian, Slovenian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Distrustful, Militaristic, Professional Sportsman, or Streetwise - INDIAN
Bonus Language: Hindi
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Efficient, Industrious, Religious Influence, or Trader - INDONESIAN
Bonus Language: Bhasa
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Guerilla Fighter, Jungle Dweller, Militaristic, Seagoing, or Streetwise - IRISH
Bonus Language: English or Gaelic
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Gregarious, Specialist - ISRAELI
Bonus Language: Arabic AND Hebrew
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Guerilla Fighter, Militaristic, or Religious Influence - ITALIAN
Bonus Language: Italian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Connoisseur or Professional Sportsman - JAPANESE
Bonus Language: Japanese
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Efficient, Industrious, Level-headed, Light Sleeper, or Wealthy - LAUNCHED (Emigrated from Earth to Luna)
Bonus Language: Chinese, English, or Russian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Cold Tolerance, Low-G Tolerance, Miner, Tunnel Rat, or Vehicular Engineer - LUNITE (2nd-generation Luna resident, i.e. the child of someone who was born on Luna)
Bonus Language: Chinese, English, or Russian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Born Pilot, Cold Tolerance, Low-G Tolerance, Miner, Tunnel Rat, or Vehicular Engineer - MARSIE (1st-generation Mars resident, i.e. the first generation born on Mars)
Bonus Language: English or Russian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Born Pilot, Cold Tolerance, Explorer [Exotic only], Low-G Tolerance, Vehicular Engineer - MOONIE (1st-generation Luna resident, i.e. the first generation born on Luna)
Bonus Language: Chinese, English, or Russian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Born Pilot, Cold Tolerance, Low-G Tolerance, Miner, Tunnel Rat, or Vehicular Engineer - MEXICAN
Bonus Language: Spanish
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Desert Dweller, Heat Tolerance, Militaristic, or Streetwise - NIGERIAN
Bonus Languages: English, Hausa, Igbo, or Yoruba
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Militaristic, Streetwise, Trader, or Wealthy (Nigeria controls the largest known deposit of Rigarium on Earth) - PALESTINIAN
Bonus Language: Arabic AND Hebrew
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Guerilla Fighter, Militaristic, Religious Influence, or Streetwise - POLISH
Bonus Language: Polish
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Repetitious or Team Player - REDDIE (Emigrated from Earth or Luna to Mars)
Bonus Language: English or Russian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Cold Tolerance, Explorer [Exotic only], Low-G Tolerance, or Vehicular Engineer - RUSSIAN
Bonus Language: Russian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Cold Tolerance, Industrious, Level-Headed, Militaristic, or Vehicular Engineer - SCANDINAVIAN (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, or Sweden)
Bonus Language: Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, or Danish
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Cold Tolerance, Forward Thinking, or Militaristic - SCOTTISH
Bonus Language: English, Gaelic, or Scottish
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Explorer or Stubborn - SOUTH AFRICAN
Bonus Language: Afrikaans
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Forward Thinking, Streetwise, or Trader - SPANISH
Bonus Language: Spanish, Portuguese
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Glib Tongue or Open-Minded - SWISS
Bonus Language: Swiss
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Cold Tolerance, Militaristic, or Mountaineer - TURKISH
Bonus Language: Turkish
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Heat Tolerance or Militaristic - UKRANIAN
Bonus Language: Russian or Ukranian
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Agricultural, Militaristic, or Vehicular Engineer - VATICAN (OR MONASTIC/PRIESTLY UPBRINGING)
Bonus Language: Latin
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Good Listener, Historian, or Religious Influence - WELSH
Bonus Language: Welsh
RECOMMENDED CULTURE OPTIONS: Jack-of-All-Trades or Specialist
- AMERICAN (Former USA, any of the current Coalition of America)
Backgrounds
HOMELAND
Are you from Earth? If so, what nation? Did you grow up in a single place, or did you move around a lot? Are you from a metropolitan area, or did you live in a suburban or rural area? For the most part, Humans still identify themselves by what nation they are from, and old national rivalries still run deep. If you don’t have a nation in mind, use the table below to determine where you are from.
- CHARACTERS FROM EARTH: For characters old enough to have lived through (and remembered) World War 3 or even fought in the conflict, your choice of where you are from will play a large part into your perception of other people in the world. Europeans tend to not trust people from the southern parts of the former USA, Russians and Scandinavians do not get along, and Japan is wary of the continuing rise of China as a global power – just to give a few examples. Where you are from also determines what languages you know.
- CHARACTERS FROM LUNA: The Earth’s moon began to host full-time colonists in the early 1990s, when advancements in starship drive technologies made it easier to resupply lunar bases. If your character is from Luna, you should determine if you are a 1st-generation “Moonie” (20-40 years old), 2nd-generation “Lunite” (18-20 years old), or an immigrant from Earth (AKA “Launched”).
- Launched – The most freeform background. What brought you to the moon? Are you a first-waver and old, or a bright-eyed new immigrant?
- Lunites – Luna has been independent for the vast majority if your formative years - what does this mean to you?
- Moonies – You saw the fight for Lunar independence first-hand - how did it shape you?
- CHARACTERS FROM MARS: Mars didn’t see full-time colonists until the early 2000s, and didn’t see native-born children until 2010. If your character is from Mars, you should determine if you are a 1st-generation “Marsie” (18-20 years old), or an immigrant from Earth (AKA “Reddie”).
- Marsies – Marsies tend to have a lower STR score then people from Earth. Marsies also operate off a 24-hour, 40-minute circadian rhythm, which can lead to some weirdness when comparing them with Earth-dwellers.
- Reddies – Reddies adapt to the 24-hour, 40-minute day/night cycle on Mars after a few months of using light-therapy.
- CHARACTERS FROM ALPHA CENTAURI (ALPHA PRIME COLONY): If you’re from Alpha Centauri, then you originate from either Earth, Luna, or Mars (or you’re too young to be a player character in 2031). See those respective sections above. Living in Alpha Centauri means you have greater exposure to Proximans, due to the proximity between the Centauri systems. Proximan would be a logical language choice for you, if you can meet the requirements to speak it (DEX of 14 or higher) and understand it (INT of 14 or higher).
- 'CHARACTERS FROM BARNARD’S STAR: Theoretically, your character could have been a Barnard’s Star colonist or colonial officer, or military personnel stationed in Barnard’s Star when the Dweller attack took place. If this is the case, you were either not home when it happened, or managed to flee the assault as one of the survivors. You would originate from either Earth, Luna, or Mars, so see those respective sections above. How did you get away? How has the attack on Barnard's Star shaped your worldview?