Heres the Factions and Backgrounds I listed, with my own personal notes on the kinds of skills they generally have. I find it useful in making a general skeleton for an EP character to grow from. This is for Dream Lover, but I figured I'd paste them here for everyone to benefit from. :)<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Backgrounds, with common morphs</div><div class="spoiler_body">Ape Uplift = Fearless, intimidating melee; Neo-Homonids.<br/>Bonobo Uplift = Face uplift, sex addiction; Neo-Homonid, Pleasure Pod, Sylphs.<br/>Cetecean Uplift = Singing Face, familially social; Neo-Beluga, Neo-Orca, Neo-Dolphin, Neo-Porpoise, Neo-Whale<br/>Chimp Uplift = climbing/parkour, Hypercorp networking; Neo-Homonid.<br/>Corvid Uplift = Perceptive Flyer, scrounger and klepto; Chickcarnie, Neo-Avian, Ripwing.<br/>Drifter = Space pilot and navigator; Bouncers and Hibernoids most common.<br/>Emergent AGI Uplift = Hack/programmer, naive and anti-social; Must be an Infomorph/Eidolon.<br/>Fall Evacuee = Ground pilot, poor; Flats and Splicers.<br/>Feral Uplift = intimidating but instinctual melee, naive and antisocial; Any Uplift.<br/>Humanities Infolife = Academic psychologist, naive but still social; Infomorph/Eidolon; Pods: Basic, Pleasure, Specialist.<br/>Hyperelite = Face: Rich, etiquette, hypercorp linked; Exalts and Sylphs (cannot have flat, splicer, uplift, pod or synth)<br/>Indenture = Professionals with hypercorp link; Cases, Splicers, Rusters.<br/>Infolife = Tech user, hacker/programmer, Not Social; Infomorphs and synths.<br/>Isolate = two skills of choice, reduced rep; uses all morphs.<br/>Lost = Psi and educated, mental issue; Futura.<br/>Lunar Colonist = ground pilot, hypercorp link, specialist occupation; Flats, Splicers.<br/>Machine Infolife = Technician fixer, Programmer and hacker; Infomorph/Eidolon; Pods: Basic, Pleasure, Specialist.<br/>Maker Nomad = Fixer, educated mechanic and Terraformer, jury-rigger; Dragonfly, Martian Alpiner, Ruster.<br/>Martian = same as Lunar colonist; Flats, Splicers, Rusters.<br/>Neanderthal Uplift = musician, parkour, good worker; Neanderthal or Splicer.<br/>Octopus Uplift = stealthy and deceptive swimmer, desensitised, solitary; Flying Squid, Octomorph, Takko.<br/>Original space colonist = space pilot, specialist worker, open networker; any morph, exotic ones common.<br/>Parrot Uplift = Impersonating Face, Flyer; Neo-Avian.<br/>Pig Uplift = Perceptive hypercorp Investigator (with blinkers on); Neo-Pig<br/>Re-Instantiated = ground pilot and networker, edited memory, no credit; Cases, Infomorphs, Synths.<br/>Research Infolife = Technical Academic, Hacking and research; Infomorph/Eidolon, Specialist Pod, Synth.<br/>Scumborn = Autonomist Face, scrounger; all, especially Bouncers.<br/>Sufi Nomad = Artist, scout and scrounger; Martian Alpiner, Olympian, Ruster.<br/>Titanian Hulder = educated prospector, animal handler; Hulder.<br/>Uplift = Intellect and dodging; Neo-Avian, Neo-Homonid, Octomorph.</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Factions, with common morphs</div><div class="spoiler_body">Anarchist = Autonomist Face; all morphs.<br/>Argonaut = Knowledge, Scientist networking; all morphs.<br/>Barsoomian = Parkour, Autonomist Face; Case, Flat, Martian Alpiner, Ruster, Splicer, Synth.<br/>Belter = 0G professional, networker; Bouncer, Splicer, Synth.<br/>Bioconservative = hypercorp pilot + other profession; must have a Flat or Splicer, cannot own nanotech.<br/>Brinker (lone exiles from transhumanism) = space pilot, networker; all morphs.<br/>Criminal = Intimidation and network:criminal; all morphs.<br/>Europan = water-dweller; Cetus, Europan biomorph varities, Selkie.<br/>Exhuman = Exotic weapon user, medic &amp; psychosurgeon, mental issue, modded behaviour &amp; stigma; any heavily modified<br/>Extropian = Face of Autonomists &amp; Hypercorps; all morphs.<br/>Hypercorp = Etiquette, Networker; Exalt, Olympian, Splicer, Sylph.<br/>Jovian = hypercorp, weapon-user; must have a Flat or Splicer, cannot own nanotech.<br/>Lunar = Face for hypercorps &amp; ecologists, extra language; Case, Exalt, Flat, Splicer, Synth.<br/>Mercurial (AGI/uplift pride) = open networker; Infomorph, synth, uplift morphs.<br/>Orbital (Earth lagrange points) = 0G pilot, networker; Case, Splicer, Synth.<br/>Out'ster (kuiper belt hikikomori) = shut-in comp user &amp; space-pilot; Bouncer, Flexbots, Infomorphs.<br/>Precautionist (tech needs to be tested) = academic professional, networker; any morph.<br/>Reclaimer = pilot, extra language, Network:ecologist; any morph.<br/>Ringer (Saturn rings-dweller) = Flyer &amp; space pilot; Bouncer, Courier, Novacrab, Ring Flyer.<br/>Sapient (AGI/uplift rights) = Etiquette, professional Face; any morph.<br/>Scum = 0G, Autonomist Face; all morphs.<br/>Sifter (Miners of Mercury)= pilot, professional miner; Arachnoid, Case, Synth, Worker Pod.<br/>Singularity Seeker = Psychosurgery, tech &amp; TITAN otaku, Network:criminal, stigma'd; Hyperbright, Menton, Savant.<br/>Skimmer (Ice Giant dwellers) = Flyer and air-pilot; any morph.<br/>Socialite = Media &amp; etiquette Face; Exalt, Sylph, Olympian (cannot use Flat, pod, uplift or synth models)<br/>Solarian = 0G scout &amp; guide; Salamander, Sundiver, Surya.<br/>Titanian = Autonomist Face &amp; Techy/Academic; all morphs.<br/>Ultimate = open networker; Exalts, Remades (cannot use Flats, Splicers, uplifts or pods)<br/>Venusian = Hypercorp pilot; Case, Exalt, Menton, Splicer, Sylph, Synth.</div></div><br/>Hope these help... Also sorry for the text walls, I seriously couldn't face bold tagging every title of them...  :D Luckily they're basically just two sentences on each and don't run on to extra lines. :)