User blog comment:Bluegear93/Spacer background, Shepard's father ?/@comment-1942617-20110311204228/@comment-1858608-20120321185115

as an extension on that. spacer are the only background where you have contact with your folks. in Colonist background their dead if my memory serves me, and as u said, earthborn says your an orphan, so they are probz dead too, with the reapers and everything