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Select your character’s race. The choices offered in Chapter 3 of the Starfinder Core Rulebook are always available, as are the Legacy races in Chapter 13. Additional races may be available if they are listed in the Additional Resources document, provided you own a copy of the appropriate source book. Alternatively, you may play a race provided by an appropriate adventure appendix printout. Other races are available as campaign boons; the Chronicle sheet on which such a boon is listed must be the first Chronicle sheet applied to a character.
If this is the section you're thinking of, a bit more context may be in order.
In Pathfinder Society, as more and more sources were published, the Campaign added exotic races to the list of "always available" selections. Beginning in Season 4, for example, you could play a Tengu, Aasimar or Tiefling in addition to the standard races.
So far, Starfinder Society seems to be heading in the same direction. At the beginning, you could only play Core races. Now, you can play Core and Legacy races. Eventually, you'll probably be able to play additional races beyond that. If that becomes the case, you would have to own the sourcebook to play that race.
But right now, if you want to play something from outside of the Core Rulebook, you would need a boon to unlock it, and you would also need to own the sourcebook.
