Sounds like the cremembers description and has no benefit in the voyages. I don't think you can see any traits before you buy them? whoa slow down there bucko if you hover over their individual stat types, it'll give a breakdown of what composes that stat the amount listed under "personal bonus" is what they get from having that background (as opposed to the trait bonus which is an actual SEPARATE bonus from the personal bonus) this isn't shown when you're hiring them though, the bonus is only applied AFTER you hire them kind of dumb that it works that way but it's the only way to know! well, at least until somebody is crazy enough to actually record each and every background into a guide I went to look at what some of the personalities do and I have three captains with the same personality and different personal bonuses. Now I'm confused. EDIT: Actually it seems none of my crew members that have matching personalities have the same personal bonus.