Creating a character in Zero Point is easy. Select which Alien Culture you want your character to be from, answer the Quick Start questions, and select a Division.

Then look at the Equipment List and plan what you want to get Clearance for and acquire or create the props for that Equipment. 

You’ll start with 300 CEUs. You’ll earn 180 CEUs for a 3 hour NPC shift (roughly 1 CEU per minute). You’ll have the opportunity to spend your CEUs and get Clearance for your chosen Equipment during the game.

Set-Up Lore

At the start of the game (and in your character’s backstory), none of the playable Cultures in the galaxy have made contact with or aware that other people live among the stars. Your arrival at Station Zero will be the first time your character has ever been faced with the existence of aliens. 

The reason for this is that even for the most advanced science, traveling at interstellar distances takes an incredibly long time. The UPC is the only playable Alien Culture that has colonized multiple planets and systems.

Each and every one of your characters will have been living their lives, whatever that may have looked like, and been faced with their imminent death. It might have been a crashing ship, random violence, an accident, even disease or old age. Moments before death took them, they suddenly find themselves whole and healthy (enough to survive a little while, at least) in a different, strange place. 

Station Zero.