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d20 Sci-Fi Character Backstories d20 table · 20 entries
  1. Rika Tanaka – A rogue AI researcher who faked her death after exposing a government mind-control project. Now she lives off-grid, helping fugitives erase their digital footprints.
  2. Jaxon Vire – A cybernetically enhanced bounty hunter haunted by fragmented memories of a mission that wiped out an entire colony… possibly by his own hand.
  3. Amara Quell – Former diplomat turned resistance leader after Earth's alliance surrendered to a synthetic overlord. She now coordinates attacks from a hidden asteroid base.
  4. Thorne Yil – A cloned soldier who deserted after discovering he was one of thousands made from a war criminal's DNA. He's now on a quest to rewrite his genetic legacy.
  5. Sela Orun – A deep-space miner who uncovered a sentient alien mineral. The two are now psychically bonded, hunted by corporate extraction teams.
  6. Lio Drenn – A hacker raised inside a VR commune. When the servers were seized, he escaped into the physical world—now a stranger in a decaying megacity.
  7. Cass Iridian – A pilot who survived a black hole transit and returned with fragmented knowledge of alternate timelines. She sees outcomes before they happen… but only moments too late to stop them.
  8. Malik Greaves – An ex-space marine with memory implants that were meant to suppress PTSD. Instead, they unlocked a secondary personality: a brilliant tactician with no moral filter.
  9. Nova Cael – An ex-celebrity turned scavenger after the entertainment network she worked for was revealed to be a front for alien propaganda.
  10. Dax Roan – A cargo hauler with a mysterious alien artifact embedded in his chest after a crash. It pulses when he lies—and so do the people around him.
  11. Evryn Sol – A biologist on a terraforming team who realized the planet was not lifeless—it was dreaming. And now it dreams of her.
  12. Ruin Kal – A synthetic human designed for infiltration, who believes he's real until a failed mission triggers a backup protocol… and his real memories.
  13. Zera Venn – A smuggler immune to warp-sickness, making her invaluable for deep-jump deliveries. She's wanted by multiple governments for what she might become.
  14. Toren Makk – A genetically modified gladiator who escaped the entertainment pits. Now he travels between worlds, seeking those who funded the blood sport.
  15. Iris Vale – A linguist who cracked the code of an alien transmission. The message: “Don’t answer.” But it's too late.
  16. Rhett Varo – A former child prodigy raised aboard a generation ship. When it returned to Earth, no one was there—and no one remembered launching the ship.
  17. Kira Andell – A medic who reverse-engineered a healing nanobot swarm and turned it into a virus that brings the dead back… different.
  18. Juno Tal – A space station bartender with eidetic memory and a secret past as a planetary assassin. Her guests don't know she never retired.
  19. Myrren Qel – A psychic who communicates with planets. She's slowly going mad, speaking in tectonic metaphors and solar flare riddles.
  20. Dr. Callen Vox – A disgraced exo-archaeologist who believes an ancient alien species seeded human evolution. His latest dig might prove it—or destroy him.