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!Background!!Description!!Effect(s)
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|Accountant
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You were brought up in a shadowy world of balance sheets, credit notes, purchase ledgers and tax-deductible lunches. Since computers are used for honest tax statements, human accountants exist only to tease, stretch and reimagine tax law to provide exemptions for their clients.  After years of dodging the tax authorities you were glad to pack it all in and become something safer - like a pirate or bounty hunter.
|Bluff +10<br/>Computer +10<br/>Culture & Law +20<br/>Dodge +10
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|Anarchist
|The super-rich, corporate leaders and their stooge politicians have the whole of society stitched up and the very concept of freedom is a joke.  As a young person you threw rocks through police-station windows, belched at local dignitaries, assaulted corporate management and spent years in a variety of prisons.
|Dodge +10<br/>Fighting +10<br/>Grenade +20<br/>Intimidate +10
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|Army Trained
|You are a fully trained infantry soldier for one of the three great powers, Federation, Empire or Alliance.  Your comprehensive military training covered all aspects of modern warfare and you are an accurate and deadly opponent in personal combat.
|''Counts as two selections''
Dodge +10<br/>Energy Weapons +20<br/>Fighting +10<br/>Grenade +10<br/>Heavy Weapons +10<br/>Kinetic Weapons +20<br/>Medicine +10<br/>Vehicle Weapons +10
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|Borderland Homeworld
|You were brought up on the frontier, on a planet of lowlifes and criminals.  Such a society breeds tough people and you are no exception.
|Dodge +10<br/>Fighting +10<br/>Kinetic Weapons +10<br/>Repair +10<br/>Survival +10
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|Born on the Streets
|You are an orphan and have spent a good proportion of your life on the streets of some megacity, scrounging for scraps and stealing just to stay alive.  Your experience has made you tough, plain speaking and sneaky. 
|Stealth +10<br/>Streetwise +20<br/>Enhancement: ''Tough''
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|Boxer
|You are a professionally trained boxer, although you never made it to the big time.  You have a mean right hook and you’re as strong as they come.
|Fighting +20<br/>Parry +10<br/>Enhancement: ''Strong''
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