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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GlassEye" data-source="post: 6612026" data-attributes="member: 40413">The idea was rough and not fully thought out but I would guess that the civilization doesn't stack up well to the Culture.  A lower technological skill might mean that they hadn't developed neural mesh or the ability to transfer personality from a meat body to another body (of whatever sort).  Their conservative nature might manifest as a reluctance to accept technology they haven't developed or hashed out the philosophical quandries for themselves and may result in a ban on their world until they do work out social implications.  They may even consider AI to be nothing more than a fancy trick of programming.  Not sure how the Culture would deal with a backwards world like this, though.The character would be a free-thinker, a radical for his world, whose contact with Culture resulted in whole-hearted acceptance of their strange ways to the extent that he is fringe even for a citizen of the Culture.  His use of neural mesh would mean a loss of trust in his objectivity and maybe ostracism and/or exile from his homeworld if the proscription against tech were strong enough.Again, this is just me spitting out whatever ideas surface first.  I'm not sure how well this fits in the Culture or your campaign idea.</blockquote>