Unless you can make it work from your background, assume you all meet for the first time.
English is the lingua franca despite the decline of english speaking countries. Chinese has become common for obvious reasons.
2 points in background; A minor device. How about a biotech comp that can get increase power by feeding it psi?
It has a tolerance rating of 2, fail-safe 5 and runs the Agent Archimedes. Remember that using a minicomp in the 22nd century is mostly done by simple telling the Agent (Operating System) what you want done. Verious agent are better suited for different tasks. Obviously enough, Archimedes is a scentific agent.
With technokinetic 2 and electromanipulation 1, you can link to and use your computer during a psionic hacking attempt which grants a flat 2 dice bonus to hacking and allows you to access your minicomp at the same time as you are mentally digging into a foreign computer. Beside making downloading stuff a snap, it allows you to run computer searches (It's hellpful when wading through tons of technical data that you might be unable to make sense of otherwise).
As a plus, it's self healing (it's a BIO comp after all) and is shielded (3/3), including against hostile environment, so youc an take it in space or underwater with no particular precautions.
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BTW; considering your first post; you might want to edit.
http://www.enworld.org/forum/playin...-into-darkness-remnants-dead.html#post4462142
No Aberrant escaped from Cantor station. Two attacked. One was killed, supposedly by the guards (Ramirez has expressed doubt about it) and the other by the psions who rushed to the mining station's defense.
I realize that Ramirez didn't specifically say it and I'll edit it for clarity. I think the fate of the aberrants isn't made entirely clear in the briefings you have so it's an understandable mistake.