Thanks Omer :) (and Los)
It seems we have a puzzle here, and i love a good puzzle. Ok, from this I think the following happened, The Starman stole the damage bonus from the Cosmonaut (table p.58 has damage bonus, pg 56 does not but should if its full fighter). I thought they were traded off, the perfect crime.
More seriously (for those recovered from the theft above), I think somewhere along the line between the design notes and the final version the Terran racial ranks got edited but the class XP did not. The Terran build in the book seems reasonable so I’m going to go with it being the correct version. (I must admit that rank 4 Terran is giving me ideas...)
Assuming both of the above are correct the build should be = HP 1 (500), FTR 2 (no tradeoffs, 1000), THF 1 (200, daredevil, the right stuff, firearms training), Terran 1 (450) = 2,150 at first level, 5 point build = 12 base with 13 after heroic spirit.
Now that’s interesting, the levels after second seem to fall in line closer to this... It’s only the level two listing that is really out. Reversing the third level down implies a build of 2250 at second level.
I think for house rule purposes i will add back the damage bonus and use this table (putting it here in case others want it):
Lvl - XP
1 - 0
2 - 2,150
3 - 4,300
4 - 8,600
5 - 17,200
6 - 34,400
7 - 70,000
8 - 140,000
9 - 270,000
10 - 400,000
11 - 530,000
12 - 660,000
13 - 790,000
(PS Starman also must be a 1HP, 1FTR, 2THF build so it has the same problem, Aside from the ability table theft, then again with the damage bonus factored in as presented its XP may be fine.)