Hi Banez, welcome to the boards.
What ruleset are you using? v2.2 has rules for using background and secondary skill activities like running (CON), weightlifting (STR), night classes (EDU), and a few others, to give modest attribute bumps.
If you're going to grant players bonus points to apply towards attributes, I'd imagine that it would cause fewer hurt feelings and headaches just to give every player the same extra points to apply towards buffing/customizing their respective PCs.
As for starting the campaign off as civilians, v2.2 has rules for that as well.
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