Is there a reason you are putting limits on defining facts like this?
Yea, the system's meant to do all sorts -
- provide a limited deus ex machina
- encourage making backstories (once there's a lever, players will pull it)
- pre-emptively gather new characters to replace dead PCs, without shoehorning a randomer [ Hail strangers! I notice your party has no mage... ]
- provide a limited system to gather 'henchmen' for dangerous missions.
- provide a system which prompts backgrounds being 'fair' (this character's rich, the other knows many languages, et c.)
- slot backstory into the world, rather than asking players to do homework for a backstory
It's not so much a Storytelling system, as an anti-storytelling system, designed to complete the job of a backstory systematically, so the rest of the game continues procedurally.
Also, Meteor looks nice. I notice it's CC; are the source files available? It's pretty much impossible to build on a pdf without them, unless you want to spend a month resetting everything by hand.