Explorer Motivations

What drives an Explorer? What sends someone from the relative comfort and security of civilization into the vast void of space? What commits them to delving into the hidden places to seek that which has been lost? What moves them to hunt the most dangerous creatures ever encountered? What compels them to grab the stick of a pile of bolts, plastics, and rusted metal and push the machine beyond its breaking point over the most treacherous terrain imaginable.

Explorers often have at the core of their very being an unyielding passion for Discovery; the powerful call to find something out there in the galaxy is their true Motivation. An Explorer may wish to discover the limits of a machine, the capabilities of an infamous beast; the lost secrets of an ancient civilization, the mercantile potential of a hidden society, the resources of a newly discovered planet, or the uncounted opportunities among the limitless stars.

Often, what happens after making a Discovery is far less important than the journey to make it in the first place. Explorers regularly turn the task of exploiting and managing their Discoveries over to others (though usually at a tidy profit to themselves). Staying put is anathema to the Explorer; there are always new Discoveries out there waiting for them.

The following chart can be used during character creation or advancement to replace the one in the Core Rulebook, incorporating the new Discovery Motivation:

The chart on below gives the specific results for the Discovery Motivation. If a player selects Discovery or rolls the Discovery category at random, they may then roll a random specific Discovery-driven result or choose the one that best suits the Explorer character concept they had in mind.