Dream Lover;<br/><br/>One thing to consider is that when picking your homeworld, you must take all the available trade code skills for it, before picking whatever background skills you have left from the table.<br/><br/>Hi-Pop worlds are 9+ for population though Traveller Map seems to not use the Mongoose 1e version of trade codes (though the UWP is still the same). The planet closest to the start that is a Hi-Pop world would be Mirriam. It is a Jump-1 trailing from Emape.<br/><br/>Essentially look here and find a world you like that has Population at 9+ on the UWP. Your choice of world may shift your background skills though.<br/><br/>https://travellermap.com/?x=-102.183&y=42.031&scale=32