[Astromancer]

Try this parallel. People generally remember a few lives before their own. This tends these people to believe in reincarnation as firmly as we believe in the sky and earth. (Some Cabalists suggest Reincarnation isn't needed to explain the phenomena, but their counter theories freak most folks out).

The vast majority of people gain clear memories of from three to eight past lives (1D6+2) during puberty. Skills seem to be remembered as well. Mental advantages seem to get remembered as well, but mental disadvantages are less commonly remembered. Remembering no past lives is seen as a handicap, a few people remember larger numbers of past lives. More people remember past lives closer in time to them, but there are verified (I don't know how) cases of life memories from several thousand years ago. Unusual Background advantages might be required for both larger numbers of past lives and rare or especially useful to the present individual past lives. Past lives bringing valuable skills, vital national secrets, or the way to gain hidden treasures stowed away for future lives, would all require the Unusual Background advantage.

The average person gains about IQ*5 character points worth of skills and mental advantages per past life. An average kid with a GURPS IQ of 12 and 5 past lives would get 300 points to work with. These skills and Mental advantages would have to come from that life. Thus a Breton Classics instructor born 1845 died 1912, could be an excellent source for several languages and high skills in literature and writing, but a poor source for Kendo or Judo. Similarly a Japanese martial artist born 1695 died 1763 wouldn't be a great source for TL7 metallurgy or computer programing, forget Latin.

As people remember being male, female, rich, poor, different races, cultures, and life paths, most of these people tend to be very tolerant (except when they are profoundly intolerant, some bad memories stick) and to be bisexual (been there, done that, loved it once try it again;-)).

Death penalties aren't really seen as a big deal. It's really a sort of exile.

Suicide is a form of escape known to work.

An out time team has been approached by a teenaged boy (he's about 14) who claims to have been from Homeline in a former life. He was killed here by a Centrum agent who had infiltrated the Icops!

How do you deal with this security leak (other agents were killed and will probably get reborn here) and with tracking down the centrum mole?