[Astromancer]

"Try to Remember that kind of September..."

This is a science fantasy idea that rifts off certain of the works of H. Beam Piper. Piper wrote some stories involving the concept of voluntary reincarnation, and assumed we had the power to select our parents, but most people couldn't keep their minds focused while disincorporated long enough to make good choices.

In this world Reincarnation has become a proven scientific fact. Recent treatments allow individuals to remember past lives. (This is a great reason to buy the Racial Memory advantage, many skills that would be wildly out of place in the modern world our allowable this way.)

Recently, scholars have discovered that individuals who had their past life memories reawakened are far more conscious and aware between lives. They can choose the bodies they wish to reincarnate in and prevent others from challenging this fairly easily. Result, death becomes an easy means to ditch debts and gain advantages.

Society is already shaken by the introduction of proof of reincarnation. The courts are crammed with suits for return of property from other lives. Murder victims are out for revenge. Death no longer wipes any slates clean. Without forgetting, forgiveness is dying.

Add in voluntary choice of reincarnation and suddenly both society and families are radically transformed.

This can be used in several ways.

Cyberpunk Horror seems obvious.

In a Post-Apocalyptic setting this allows the PCs to be both hard-bitten survivors of the new world, while at the same time being people from the past exploring the world after their time.