Step 2: Career

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.

Covert Operative

You are a spy, infiltrator, thief, or undercover agent, skilled at accessing places you don’t belong.

Enforcer

You’re a thug, whether you’re wielding force for a hypercorp, cartel, habitat overseer, or autonomist militia.

Explorer

You’ve walked on alien worlds and seen things with your own eyes that others wouldn’t believe.

Face

You excel at convincing others, even when it’s not in their best interest.

Genehacker

DNA is your artistic medium, proteins your weapon of choice.

Hacker

Software heeds your beck and call, whether you seek to exploit systems or protect them.

Investigator

Few details escape your scrutiny, whether you are a journalist, private investigator, detective, or insurance claims investigator.

Medic

You have a background in medicine and experience as a physician, surgeon, paramedic, body bank tech, or other type of medical specialist.

Mindhacker

You meld and shape minds and memories. You might be a therapist, memeticist, or psychosurgeon pushing the bounds of cognition.

Scavenger

You scrounge through wrecks and ruins of the Fall, seeking value in the destruction.

Scientist

You seek to understand how the universe works — or at least certain elements of it.

Soldier

You serve a habitat polity, hypercorp, or mercenary outfit.

Techie

You make and fix things. You might be a roboticist, habitat tech, or artifex nano-engineer.

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

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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