Cool!!! I have two ideas starting to brew.
Idea 1: Friendly jock-coded hardware/electrical engineer. Perhaps a terran, perhaps with a few prosthetics from some work accidents. Very smart guy, very friendly, perhaps a touch overconfident, but charasmatic enough to make up for it. Was definitely raised on some backwater planet, no clue who his parents are, but had a strong community around him. Adventerous and just wants to explore the galaxy, to see things, try new drinks, perhaps pocket some trinkets along the way - perhaps trinkets that are advanced pieces of technology, perhaps landing him in trouble with the law reguarly. However, he is a brilliant engineer and tinkerer, making him a valuable asset on a ship as he can fix almost anything, shoot the shit with anyone, and drink almost everyone to the moon and back. He really just wants to explore, collect cool shit and make cool shit and meet cool people. No thoughts, only vibes on his days off. No major goals in life, he's just here to have fun.
Idea 2: An ex-exployee of the Spacer Commerce League. She found it more profitable to steal and sell information to the highest bidder from inside the League than to co-operate with it. If (GM willing for this) someone was willing to pay enough, she could give them access to the Hyper-Rings. This black market trade was high risk, high reward, and she was inevitably caught. She knew that things would fall through and was able to escape with nothing but the clothes on her back and a frankly obscene amount of credits (or whatever currency). Since then she has been zipping around the galaxy, unable to integrate back into society for fear of being caught, and avoids using the Hyper-Rings for fear of being recognised. Unsure what her job on the ship would be.... Perhaps some kind of communications manager/hacker/general tech support?
Lore idea: SCL employees may have some kind of implanted chip that gives them access to company files/facilities/etc which she now needs to remove because it will DEFINITELY ping if she goes through a Hyper-Ring.
What's the ratings for this in terms of language/violence/explicit scenes/romance? Obvs keeping to the site rules, but what's your limits?