Character Background in Starfield is the story of your character's life, which happened before the start of the game. You can assign a Character Background to your character during Character Creation and you will not be able to change it during gameplay.
A specific Character Background does not block you from any other game path or gameplay style, but it can make it easier for you to play the way you have planned and add new Background-specific elements, such as additional Background Quest, Background specific dialog options or rewards you receive.
Each Background has 3 Starting Skills, the description of which will allow you to better understand what role you choose in the game.
Character Backgrounds in Starfield
There are 21 Character Backgrounds in Starfield. You can assign a Character Background to your character during Character Creation. Character Backgrounds in Starfield are:
Beast Hunter Background
From the Ashta of Akila to the Terrormorphs that plague the whole of the Settled Systems, hostile alien life abounds. You've learned the skills to track them, find them, and take them down.
Beast Hunter Starting Skills:
Bouncer Background
You've worked the line at the toughest clubs in the Settled Systems. Back then, you learned that most non-lethal confrontations can be solved one of two ways: a strong right hook, or a more strongly secured door.
Bouncer Starting Skills:
Bounty Hunter Background
Wherever there are wanted individuals, there are those who profit from their capture. And your quarry knows that in the vastness of space, they can run... but they can't hide.
Bounty Hunter Starting Skills:
Chef Background
While the unrefined masses scarfed down Chunks by the shipload, you catered to those with a more... discerning palate. In your kitchen, countless alien species became true culinary masterpieces.
Chef Starting Skills:
Combat Medic Background
Leave it to human beings to fight over something as infinite as outer space. That's where you come in. You've never been afraid to take on the enemy... but you'd much rather take care of your friends.
Combat Medic Starting Skills:
Cyber Runner Background
From Neon to New Atlantis, the megacorps stand as monuments to power, prestige and profit. You've worked both for and against them, on the inside and out, often sacrificing conscience for credits.
Cyber Runner Starting Skills:
Cyberneticist Background
Robots? Mere toys. Neuroamps? Good for parlor tricks. The Colony War may have made implants and upgrades available to veterans, but you once saw a greater future. Humans and machines, as one.
Cyberneticist Starting Skills:
Diplomat Background
The wars are over. Peace now reigns in the Settled Systems. But only because there are those quietly fighting to keep it. Because of you, agreements were signed, words were heeded... lives were spared.
Diplomat Starting Skills:
Explorer Background
They said exploration is a lost art. You didn't listen. As the major factions argued over the space they desperately tried to control, you were busy uncovering the wonders of the Settled Systems.
Explorer Starting Skills:
Gangster Background
You were always disgusted by suckers killing themselves to make an "honest wage." As soon as you were old enough to hold a weapon, you took what you wanted from anyone unlucky enough to have it.
Gangster Starting Skills:
