Players start with 200 Attribute points, and 200 character points. Character points are used for everything from Race to skills to equipment. There are several things that go into making/maintaining a character, and you should take the time to know how to manage all of them.

All players will start with 200 points to spend on the four attributes, enough to purchase an average score of 50 in each. Players may purchase more attribute points with their character points. Below are listed the bonuses and negatives for the various races. These are free and mandatory to anyone who has purchased a character of that race.

• Strength = STR - Strength determines the amount of damage you can do hand-to-hand.
• Manual Dexterity = MD - Manual Dexterity affects your ability to wield firearms.
• Constitution = CON - Constitution helps determine your body points and your ability to take punnishment.
• Agility = AGL - Agility affects your ability in hand-to-hand combat, to wield hand weapons, and (most importantly) helps determine your initiative.

Attributes may be raised at character creation on a point for point basis using character points, or between games in a two-for-one ratio, i.e. two character points spent equals one attribute raised by one point.

There are eight skills available to players, and they are self explanatory. For the sake of less work for me calculating modifiers, you must have skill with a weapon to use that weapon. A level of any skill costs 3 points, and each level increases your chances to hit (or sneak). No player may begin the game with more than five levels of any skill (EXCEPTION: races who have free levels may purchase up to five levels in addition to the free levels).

• Hand-To-Hand(AGL) helps you beat on people.
• Stealth(AGL) helps you sneak up on people.
• APW(MD) allows you to fire Archaic Powder Weapons.
• Hand Weapon(AGL) allows you to wield a hand weapon (must be purchased for each individual weapon).
• Beam(MD) allows you to fire laser weapons.
• Pulse(MD) allows you to fire Pulse weapons.
• Flame Thrower(MD) allows you to operate flame throwers.
• Grenade(MD) allows you to throw grenades.
• Body Points(N/A) increases your body points (maximum of five levels ever)

A Cizerak is a big cat, similar to the lion of Earth. All Cizeraks encountered will be female, as the males are enslaved. The cats can stand on their hind legs and manipulate objects with their front paws, but they are more comfortable on all fours. For this reason, they usually mount their weapons on their backs, in body harnesses. This means that changing to another weapon takes one entire round, during which the cat can move half the allowed distance.

An Eridani resembles nothing so much as a methane breathing samurai. They are fond of hand weapons, particularly swords, and are skilled at the use of such weapons. All Eridani can strike up to two squares away with any hand weapon.

That's us. The benefit of being a human is that it's free! You can save all your points to go buy expensive guns and armor. Let the Ram walk around with the .22 pistol, you're taking the auto shotgun.

Orions are basically seven-fingered, pointy-eared humans that like to party all the time. They only run 25 points, since all you're really getting (over a human) is a boost in Manual Dex and Agility.

Phentari are large bi-pedal squid. They have four tentacles in place of arms, and may use two weapons at once with no penalty. They may also attack two targets at once using those weapons.

A python lizard is a large, stupid, wet lizard, apt to run up to things and bash them in, although big guns are an attraction as well. It costs less to "purchase" this race than the Ram Python, but it's not the holy terror that a Ram is, either.

A ram python is a larger, more stupid, dry lizard, apt to run up to things and bash them into their composite elements, although big guns are an attraction as well. This race is the most expensive to "buy", but you get the cadillac of hand-to-hand. You won't get much else in the way of guns or armor, but you very well might not need them.