Determine the base skills and subsequent education opportunities for your character by:

a: determine Type of World and Settlement of origin (either by choice or randomly rolled)
b: roll for class
c: roll for education quality
d: roll for potential base skills

Note: As this step is primarily being used as a tool to determine skills, it is possible to have a totally different background for your character.

For über-simple creation:

• Any and all subsequent skills are skill "specialities" that a given class, occupation, or speciality provides. Such skills get a bonus when rolling the skill as related to that speciality. Simply add the skill under the section that it is found in.
• Note: Ignore ALL bonuses that are granted by skills to combat, stats, and SDC. Ignore skill bonuses granted by other skills.
  
• The base skills % start at IQ x3. Add the education table skill bonus (ETSB) when determined. The result should be (for a roll result of: Middle Class - You went with the flow):
  Base Skills IQx3 + ETSB%
  Language: English 98%
  Language: Pick 1 +15%
  Math +5%
  Computer Operation +8%
  Hand to Hand: None

link to Step 3

Table of contents

A: Determine Type of world:

• 1 Core World
• 2 Core World to Inner Rim World
• 3 Outer Rim Worlds and Beyond
• 4 Space Born and Bred Education

Note: Non-humanized Zentraadi characters are automatically Space Born and Bred and are of the Indigent Class.

B: Determine Settlement Type and Class

B2: Class:
The GM will roll 1D100 to determine your character's class. As this is primarily being used as a tool to determine skills, it is possible to have a totally different background for your character.

Type of World:	Core World		Core World to Inner Rim World		Outer Rim Worlds and Beyond		Space Born and Bred Education1
Settlement:	41-00 urban	01-40 Rural	51-00 urban	01-50 Rural	61-00 urban	01-60 Rural	26-00 Colonization Fleet	01-25 Other
Upper class	75-00	90-00	85-00	95-00	95-00	99-00	85-00	00
Middle Class	25-74	50-89	35-84	60-94	50-94	60-98	30-84	75-99
Lower class	05-24	10-49	10-34	15-59	15-49	25-59	05-29	50-74
Indigent Class	01-04	01-09	01-09	01-14	01-14	01-24	01-4	01-49

¹ Space born and bred characters have the following skills as part of their base skills:

Navigation +5%
Zero Gravity Movement +15%

Upper class

• 76-00 You studied hard!
  Your parents instilled a good drive to study/ you naturally have motivation to achieve your potential/ you had opportunity (scholarship).
  Modifiers: +30% to base skill chance rolls. +16% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: +5% to all base skills. +1 secondary skills.
• 50-75 You went with the flow
  You're pretty much a regular person.
  Modifiers: +20% to base skill chance rolls. +8% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: None!
• 16-49 You didn't apply yourself
  Just because you went to school doesn't mean that you studied hard. You always knew that you could rely on your parents - or at least their bank account.
  Modifiers: +10% to base skill chance rolls. +0% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: -10% on base skills. -1 secondary skills
• 01-15 You slacked off!
  You were fed by a silver spoon. If you couldn't do it your parents paid someone to do it for you. In school you slacked off and played video games in your spare time. You're a disappointment to your family and there's a remote chance that they've disowned you.
  Modifiers: -8% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: -1/2 the base % on all base, and secondary skills. -2 secondary skills.

Potential Base Skills: Add the modifier from the education quality roll, and roll 1D100.
(72% chance) Computer Operation +8%
(40% chance) Pick 1 Science or Technical +5%
(35% chance) Choose 1 Domestic Skill +5%
(10% chance) Pilot Wheeled Vehicles

Continue to Step 3.

Middle Class

• 91-00 You studied hard!
  Your parents instilled a good drive to study/ you naturally have motivation to achieve your potential/ you had opportunity (scholarship).
  Modifiers: +30% to base skill chance rolls. +16% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: +5% on base skills. +1 secondary skill.
• 61-90 You went with the flow
  You're pretty much a regular person.
  Modifiers: +20% to base skill chance rolls. +8% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: None!
• 26-60 You didn't apply yourself
  Just because you went to school doesn't mean that you studied hard. You always knew that you could rely on your parents - or at least their bank account.
  Modifiers: +10% to base skill chance rolls. +0% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: -10% on base skills. -1 secondary skills.
• 01-25 You slacked off!
  You were fed by a silver spoon. If you couldn't do it your parents paid someone to do it for you. In school you slacked off and played video games in your spare time. You're a disappointment to your family and there's a remote chance that they've disowned you.
  Modifiers: -8% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: -1/2 the base % on all base and secondary skills. -2 secondary skills.

Potential Base Skills: Add the modifier from the education quality roll, and roll 1D100.
(72% chance) Language: Pick 1 +15%
(72% chance) Math +5%
(52% chance) Computer Operation +8%
(30% chance) Pick 1 Science or Technical +5%
(30% chance) Pick 1 Domestic Skill +5%
(15% chance) Pilot Wheeled Vehicles

Continue to Step 3.

Lower class

• 96-00 You studied hard!
  Your parents instilled a good drive to study/ you naturally have motivation to achieve your potential/ you had opportunity (scholarship).
  Modifiers: +30% to base skill chance rolls. +16% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: +5% to all base skills. +1 secondary skill.
• 76-95 You went with the flow
  You're pretty much a regular person.
  Modifiers: +20% to base skill chance rolls. +8% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: None!
• 31-75 You didn't apply yourself
  Just because you went to school doesn't mean that you studied hard. You always knew that you could rely on your parents - or at least their bank account.
  Modifiers: +10% to base skill chance rolls. +0% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: -10% on base skills. -1 secondary skills.
• 06-30 You slacked off!
  You were fed by a silver spoon. If you couldn't do it your parents paid someone to do it for you. In school you slacked off and played video games in your spare time. You're a disappointment to your family and there's a remote chance that they've disowned you.
  Modifiers: -8% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: -1/2 the base % on all base and secondary skills. -2 other skills.
• 01-05 You had to work to live.
  There was no time for homework and sometimes no time to go to school!
  Modifiers: +30% to base skill chance rolls. -16% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: +15% on base skills. +4 secondary skills.

Potential Base Skills: Add the modifier from the education quality roll, and roll 1D100.
(52% chance) Language: Pick 1 +5%
(52% chance) Math +5%
(32% chance) Computer Operation +5%
(15% chance) Pick 1 Science or Technical +5%
(30% chance) Pick 1 Domestic Skill +5%
(15% chance) Pilot Wheeled Vehicles

Continue to Step 3.

Indigent

• 96-00 You studied hard!
  Your parents instilled a good drive to study/ you naturally have motivation to achieve your potential/ you had opportunity (scholarship).
  Modifiers: +30% to base skill chance rolls. +16% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: +5% to all base skills. +1 secondary skill.
• 76-95 You went with the flow
  You're pretty much a regular person.
  Modifiers: +20% to base skill chance rolls. +8% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: None!
• 31-75 You didn't apply yourself
  Just because you went to school doesn't mean that you studied hard. You always knew that you could rely on your parents - or at least their bank account.
  Modifiers: +10% to base skill chance rolls. +0% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: -10% on base skills. -1 secondary skills.
• 06-30 You slacked off!
  You were fed by a silver spoon. If you couldn't do it your parents paid someone to do it for you. In school you slacked off and played video games in your spare time. You're a disappointment to your family and there's a remote chance that they've disowned you.
  Modifiers: -8% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: -1/2 the base % on all base and secondary skills. -2 other skills.
• 01-05 You had to work to live.
  There was no time for homework and sometimes no time to go to school!
  Modifiers: +30% to base skill chance rolls. -16% to education table roll.
  Bonuses: +15% on base skills. +4 secondary skills.

Potential Base Skills: Add the modifier from the education quality roll, and roll 1D100.
(72% chance) Language: Pick 1 +15% (Non-humanized Zentraadi characters are limited to Language: Protoculture)
(72% chance) Math +5%
(52% chance) Computer Operation +5%
(20% chance) Pick 1 Domestic Skill +5% (Non-humanized Zentraadi characters choose 1 Physical Skill)
(5% chance) Pilot Wheeled Vehicles (Non-humanized Zentraadi characters get Pilot Hovercraft)

Continue to Step 3.

Education in the Macross Universe

Education in the years 2020-2050 matched and then surpassed the educational systems of the 19th and 20th centuries. Typically giving students full primary and secondary education to the clones upon their being released into society, and natural teaching methods graduating students at the ages of 16 and 17; both having the option of taking post-secondary education thereafter. However, this only held true on the core worlds, major colonies and the emigration fleets. The further one stretches ones hand into the reaches of known space, the lower the quality of the education becomes.

By 2050 the UNG lists literacy at 97%. However, inaccessibility to a large portion of the population for census skews this number by between 10 to 25%. A general literacy rate in the outlying and un-unified or identified colonies is believed to be just shy of 70%. By the same factor, UNG citizens sport a bold figure of 99% junior high school graduation, with 80% of those further graduating from high school and 52% of non-military educated citizens receiving post secondary education. These numbers are only true in the core worlds. Even as close as Britannia and New Patagonia, we see the number drop considerably, frighteningly so for post secondary education, at little over 10%. This is a repeat of the Renaissance age of earth, the days of Medieval Warlords and constant battle to the tears of the peasants. Even those colonies started by emigration fleet show an immediate and striking drop in education levels. Certainly with a stronger unification of the populated systems, and a greater focus and freedom of movement this trend will change, however, we see a predictable trend that will leave the human race gasping for literate air for yet one hundred years and beyond.

Even though the above general information is true, there are always exceptions to every rule. In the core systems, there are a large number of people living below the poverty line, unable to even receive the basic education requirements set out by the UNG. Conversely, in the more distant systems, where the majority of the population are poorly educated, there are upper class families that can afford higher quality education then is available in the core systems to the elite of the UNG's youth. Such is the nature of humanity when other needs, such as immediate survival and propagation of the human race supercede egalitarian values.

Example character:

REFERENCES USED

Palladium Books Game Engine

Numerous players of the MRG and MRC over the years who have play-tested these.