Leadership

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Leadership is a skill tree focused on commanding your Crew — your officers, rank-and-file crew, and captured prisoners. It is the newest of the player's skill trees and ties together the crew, officer and boarding systems.

Like every other skill tree, Leadership draws from your shared, level-based skill-point pool, obeys the same tier cap, and has its own mastery track. It is not a separate currency or a crew-only system — it is one of your captain's skill trees.

Unlocking Leadership

Leadership starts locked. It is unlocked by completing the story mission "Chain of Command", which tasks you with boarding and capturing a Marauder vessel — the same way other trees unlock through their own missions (see Skill Missions).

What it does

Leadership is the only tree that improves your personnel directly. Its nodes:

• Unlock officer idle income and officer passive buffs (these features do nothing until their Leadership nodes are taken).
• Strengthen crew — more boarding power, more combat resistance, and a tree-wide boost to all crew bonuses.
• Expand capacity — more crew per ship and a bigger brig for prisoners.
• Improve prisoners — better conversion-to-recruit chances and the ability to put prisoners to work.

Nodes

Node	Effect
Off-Duty Contracts	Unlocks officer idle income (officers not on your ship earn credits)
Assault Doctrine	Increases crew boarding power
Crew Conditioning	Increases crew combat resistance (fewer casualties)
Officer Expertise	Unlocks officer passive buffs
Extended Brig	Increases brig (prisoner) capacity
Forced Labor	Prisoners put to work provide a share of their bonuses
Unit Cohesion	Boosts all crew bonuses tree-wide
Combat Hardening	Further improves crew combat effectiveness
Stockholm Protocol	Increases the chance prisoners become willing to be recruited
Expanded Quarters	Increases crew capacity per ship
Rules of Engagement	Improves rewards recovered from enemy escape pods
Elite Officers	Substantially strengthens officer passive buffs

Tier cap note: most of Leadership's strongest nodes (Unit Cohesion, Combat Hardening, Stockholm Protocol, Expanded Quarters, Rules of Engagement and Elite Officers) sit in the upper rows of the tree, which stay locked until you raise the global skill tier cap via the Learning Ability quest.

Mastery

As with the other trees, investing and using Leadership raises its mastery level, which adds a small passive bonus — for Leadership, additional crew capacity per mastery level.

See also

• Skills — the skill-tree system overview
• Crew — crew, officers, idle income and passive buffs
• Boarding — boarding, capturing ships, and prisoners
• Personnel Center — where you recruit crew and officers