Step 3: Interest
What else does your character do? Did they have a previous career, a second career, or are they learning a new one? Do they pursue other interests as a hobby, out of curiosity or necessity? Is there an area of work they have specialized in?
Your interest provides you with a package of skills, just like your background and career.
This will be your final skills package, though you might purchase extra skills or tweak the ones you’ve already acquired in later steps.
Animal Handler
You’ve learned to raise, train, and care for animals, particularly partially uplifted smart animals.
| Exotic Skill: Animal Handling | 40 |
| Medicine: Veterinary | 40 |
| Provoke | 20 |
| Know: Smart Animals | 40 |
Artist/Icon
You are a musician, performer, celebrity, or other type of creative or public figure.
| Deceive | 40 |
| Kinesics | 20 |
| Provoke | 40 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Dance, Music, Sculpture | 40 |
Async
You are infected with the Watts-MacLeod strain of the exsurgent virus, which gives you a number of unique mental talents and disadvantages. You must purchase the Psi trait in Step 10.
| Deceive | 40 |
| Perceive | 20 |
| Psi | 40 |
| Know: (Choose One) | 40 |
Commander
You are accustomed to leadership roles as an executive, officer, elected official, or autonomist organizer.
| Interface | 20 |
| Persuade | 40 |
| Provoke | 40 |
| Know: Administration | 40 |
Fighter
You’ve picked up some self-defense and offensive capabilities along the way.
| Fray | 20 |
| Guns | 40 |
| Melee | 40 |
| Know: Security Ops | 40 |
Forensics Specialist
You’ve trained to analyze crime scenes and perform autopsies.
| Medicine: Forensics | 40 |
| Perceive | 40 |
| Research | 20 |
| Know: Physiology | 40 |
Jack-of-all-Trades
You’ve seen and done a little bit of everything.
| Guns | 25 |
| Infosec | 25 |
| Persuade | 25 |
| Research | 25 |
| Know: (Choose One) | 40 |
Jammer
You’re a drone operator, with a talent for manipulating machines.
| Hardware: Robotics | 40 |
| Interface | 20 |
| Pilot: (Choose One) | 40 |
| Know: Bot Models | 40 |
Networker
You know how to engage and connect with people.
| Deceive | 30 |
| Persuade | 40 |
| Provoke | 30 |
| Know: Rep Nets | 40 |
Paramedic
You have picked up some first aid training.
| Fray | 20 |
| Kinesics | 40 |
| Medicine: Paramedic | 40 |
| Know: Emergency Services | 40 |
Pilot
You prefer to do the driving yourself, no matter how skilled the AI is.
| Hardware: (Choose One) | 30 |
| Pilot: (Choose One) | 30 |
| Pilot: (Choose One) | 40 |
| Know: Flight Crew Ops | 40 |
Rogue
You are as shifty as you need to be.
| Deceive | 40 |
| Fray | 20 |
| Infiltrate | 40 |
| Know: (Choose One) | 40 |
Slacker
You prefer to enjoy the good things in life.
| Interface | 40 |
| Persuade | 30 |
| Research | 30 |
| Know: (Choose One) | 40 |
Spacer
You’ve spent your fair share of time in ships and smaller habitats.
| Free Fall | 40 |
| Hardware: (Choose One) Common Fields: Electronics, Industrial, Robotics | 40 |
| Interface | 20 |
| Know: (Choose One) Common Fields: Astronomy, Flight Crew Ops, Gas Mining | 40 |
Student
You are in the process of learning.
| Interface | 40 |
| Program | 20 |
| Research | 40 |
| Know: (Choose One) | 40 |
Survivalist
The Fall reinforced the notion that you need to be prepared.
| Guns | 40 |
| Medicine: Paramedic | 30 |
| Survival | 30 |
| Know: (Choose One) | 40 |
Random Interest
If you’d rather determine your interest randomly, roll 1d10:
Roll Result 1–5 Roll on Group 1 6–10 Roll on Group 2
Roll Group 1 Group 2 1 Animal Handler Networker 2 Artist/Icon Paramedic 3 Async Pilot 4 Commander Rogue 5 Fighter Slacker 6 Forensics Specialist Spacer 7 Jack-of-All-Trades Student 8 Jammer Survivalist 9–10 Re-roll Re-roll