Your favorite backstory?

[LeoTessa]

Please be specific, no "I like the ones that do not disable hauling" type of answers please

Chess master, no bad traits and +4 social +2 resesr h is decent imo

Fallen prodigy Construction: +2
Growing: +2
Research: +5
Social: -3
Medicine: +3
Crafting: +2
No warderning is acceptable

Hive world child
Growing: +1
Research: +1
Shooting: +3
Artistic: +1
Crafting: +1
But no firefighting :/

Winerunner
Melee: +2
Social: +2
Cooking: +2
Crafting: +2
No bad buffs

Colony settler
Construction: +4
Growing: +4
Mining: +4
No bad buffs either

There are more, but these are my favorites, how about everyone?

[mumblemumble]

I think I saw one in the early versions, which was a farmstead boy, growing up to be a crazed butcher psychopath.

Very, very interesting, but sadly pacifism was given for his early days, yet not taken away from becoming a crazed butcher, and the butcher part disabled literally everything else, so despite having 20 melee skill, he couldn't fight... still a funny story.

I think the details were something like, he saw his favorite pet killed, lost it and hacked up the entire farm...

[cultist]

I prefer the simple ones that leave a bit to the imagination and don't shoe-horn the colonist too heavily into a certain role/character. Colony settler, Deep space miner, Bartender, Hive world Child etc. I do like some of the backer backstories, but others are just kind of silly or feel a little out of place in the setting. And while I understand that the co-existence of medievel and glitterworld planets is just how the setting is, I always find myself unable to come up with a reason a medieval slave would ever find themselves on a spaceship.

[erdrik]

... I always find myself unable to come up with a reason a medieval slave would ever find themselves on a spaceship.

Seems to me that lower tech communities would be the perfect place for that.
A space based slaver would have a pretty large advantage in knowledge and tech to convince and control the selling price.

[RoboticManiac]

I find the urb-world stories interesting. It'd be neat if they were fleshed out even more.