Step 2: Carrer
What is your character’s primary field of expertise? Are you a scientist, a hacker, a gun-for-hire, or something else?
Like your background, your career package provides you with skills. You might look for a package that gives you more diversity or one that complements the skills you’ve already acquired. Don’t worry about doubling up on skills — you can adjust that in a later step.
Your career also determines your starting gear packs.
Academic
You devote your efforts to the pursuit of knowledge.
| Interface | 30 |
| Research | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) | 40 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Administration, Instruction, Lab Ops | 30 |
Covert Operative
You are a spy, infiltrator, thief, or undercover agent, skilled at accessing places you don’t belong.
| Deceive | 40 |
| Infiltrate | 60 |
| Infosec | 30 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Security Ops, Smuggling, Spycraft | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Black Markets, Current Events, Politics | 30 |
Enforcer
You’re a thug, whether you’re wielding force for a hypercorp, cartel, habitat overseer, or autonomist militia.
| Fray | 30 |
| Guns | 20 |
| Melee | 50 |
| Provoke | 30 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Bodyguarding, Racketeering, Security Ops | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Cartel Politics, Gambling, Night Clubs | 30 |
Explorer
You’ve walked on alien worlds and seen things with your own eyes that others wouldn’t believe.
| Athletics | 30 |
| Medicine: Paramedic | 20 |
| Pilot: (Choose One) Common Fields: Air, Ground, Nautical, Space | 20 |
| Survival | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: First-Contact Ops, Gatecrashing, Surveying | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Astrobiology, Geology, Xenoarcheology | 30 |
Face
You excel at convincing others, even when it’s not in their best interest.
| Deceive | 40 |
| Kinesics | 30 |
| Persuade | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Fencing, Police Ops, Smuggling | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Black Markets, Drugs, Underground XP | 30 |
Genehacker
DNA is your artistic medium, proteins your weapon of choice.
| Medicine: Biotech | 60 |
| Medicine: Pharmacology | 40 |
| Program | 30 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Biology, Genetics, Physiology | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Lab Ops, Medical Services, Morph Design | 30 |
Hacker
Software heeds your beck and call, whether you seek to exploit systems or protect them.
| Infosec | 60 |
| Interface | 40 |
| Program | 30 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Computer Science, Cryptography, Mathematics | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Data Processing, Network Engineering, System Administration | 30 |
Investigator
Few details escape your scrutiny, whether you are a journalist, private investigator, detective, or insurance claims investigator.
| Kinesics | 30 |
| Perceive | 40 |
| Research | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Ego Hunting, Investigation, Journalism | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Black Markets, Current Events, Cartels | 30 |
Medic
You have a background in medicine and experience as a physician, surgeon, paramedic, body bank tech, or other type of medical specialist.
| Kinesics | 30 |
| Medicine: Paramedic | 60 |
| Medicine: Biotech | 40 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Biology, Genetics, Psychology | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Body Bank Ops, Emergency Services, Surgical Ops | 30 |
Mindhacker
You meld and shape minds and memories. You might be a therapist, memeticist, or psychosurgeon pushing the bounds of cognition.
| Infosec | 30 |
| Medicine: Pharmacology | 40 |
| Medicine: Psychosurgery | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Cognitive Science, Memetics, Psychology | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Body Bank Ops, Medical Services, Social Services | 30 |
Scavenger
You scrounge through wrecks and ruins of the Fall, seeking value in the destruction.
| Hardware: (Choose One) Common Fields: Electronics, Industrial, Robotics | 60 |
| Hardware: Demolitions | 40 |
| Pilot: (Choose One) Common Fields: Air, Ground, Nautical, Space | 30 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Flight Crew Ops, Scavenging, Smuggling | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Black Markets, Spacecraft, TITAN Machines | 30 |
Scientist
You seek to understand how the universe works — or at least certain elements of it.
| Hardware: (Choose One) Common Fields: Electronics, Robotics | 40 |
| Program | 30 |
| Research | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Astrobiology, Memetics, Physics | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Field Science, Investigation, Lab Ops | 30 |
Soldier
You serve a habitat polity, hypercorp, or mercenary outfit.
| Fray | 40 |
| Guns | 60 |
| Melee | 30 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Bodyguarding, Military Ops, Security Ops | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Conflict Zones, Gambling, Mercenary Groups | 30 |
Techie
You make and fix things. You might be a roboticist, habitat tech, or artifex nano-engineer.
| Hardware: (Choose One) Common Fields: Electronics, Industrial, Robotics | 60 |
| Infosec | 40 |
| Program | 30 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Construction, Habitat Ops, Mining, Nanofacturing | 60 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Computer Science, Engineering, Nanotechnology | 30 |
Random Career
If you’d rather determine your career randomly, roll 1d10:
Roll Result 1–5 Roll on Group 1 6–10 Roll on Group 2
Roll Group 1 Group 2 1 Academic Investigator 2 Covert Operative Medic 3 Enforcer Mindhacker 4 Explorer Scavenger 5 Face Scientist 6 Genehacker Soldier 7 Hacker Techie 8–10 Re-roll Re-roll