Officer Skills

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Crew Skills are the passive bonuses that hired crew members contribute to your ship. Every crew member is generated with a fixed set of skills drawn from their profession, and those skills switch on as the crew member gains levels — each unlocked skill adds one rank to the matching node in your captain's skill trees.

How crew skills work

• Profession pool. A crew member only rolls skills flagged for their profession — Mining, Salvaging, Combat, Engineering or Industrial. A single skill can belong to more than one profession.
• Skill slots by rarity. Higher rarity grants more skill slots:

Rarity	Skill slots	Tiers filled
Standard	3	1, 2, 3
Enhanced	6	1–5 + tier 6
High-Grade+	9	1–8 + tier 9

Slot counts are fixed by rarity, but the current build only defines crew skills up to tier 6 — the tier 7–8 minor slots and the tier 9 major slot on High-Grade+ crew have no skills to fill yet.

• Minor vs. major. Tiers 1–2, 4–5 and 7–8 roll minor skills — multi-rank passives that stack. Tiers 3, 6 and 9 roll a single major skill — usually a one-rank ability or a powerful threshold effect.
• Level gates. A skill unlocks once the crew member reaches its required level: tier 1 from level 1, then +5 levels per tier (tier 2 at 5, tier 3 at 10, tier 4 at 15, tier 5 at 20, tier 6 at 25, and so on).
• Stacking onto your trees. Each unlocked crew skill adds +1 rank to that node in your own skill trees, on top of any points you invested. Several crew members carrying the same skill stack their ranks together, and a skill can be active from crew alone even if you never spent a point in it.

Skill list

The skills below are grouped by tier. Class shows which crew professions can roll each skill.

Tiers 1–2Tiers 3Tiers 4–5Tiers 6Tiers 7–8

Icon	Tier	Class	Skill	Effect
	1	Combat, Engineering	Assault Doctrine	Increases the boarding power of all your crew by 10%, making them more effective in ship-to-ship boarding combat. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	1	Combat	Composite Drone Armor	Drones will receive a 3% increase to Damage Reduction. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	1	Engineering	Crew Conditioning	Increases crew resistance by 10%, reducing the chance of casualties from hull damage and boosting HP in boarding combat. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	1	Mining, Salvaging, Combat	Drone Agility	Boosts the engine thrust of all drones by 10%. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	1	Salvaging	Enhanced Beams	Increases Salvage Power. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	1	Mining, Salvaging, Combat, Engineering, Industrial	Excavation Actuators	Boosts your turret rotation speed. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	1	Engineering	Experience Penalty Reducer	Reduces the experience penalty by 2%. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	1	Engineering, Industrial	Faster Production I	Increases refinery and forge production speed by 8%. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	1	Engineering	Fieldwork Power Efficiency	Reduces the penalty reduction to Mining and Salvage Power by 2%. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	1	Mining	Miner's Edge	Increases Mining Power. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	1	Combat	Optimized Drone Tools	Increases Drone Power. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	1	Engineering, Industrial	Overwhelming Resolve	When 3 or more enemies are within range, gain 2% damage reduction. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	1	Combat	Precise Targeting	Improves Critical Chance. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	1	Salvaging	Precision Scraping	Increases Yield. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	1	Mining, Salvaging, Combat, Engineering	Range Amplifier	Increases turret Range. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	2	Combat, Engineering	Annihilator	Increases Critical Damage. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	2	Mining, Engineering	Armor Repair Bot	When you take armor damage, deploy 1 repair bot(s) that each restore 1% of your armor every 2 seconds. Each bot lasts 20 seconds. (Cooldown: 60 seconds). (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	2	Engineering	Extended Brig	Increases the brig capacity of your ships by 10%, allowing you to hold more prisoners. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	2	Mining, Industrial	Ore Hold Retrofit	Increase your ship's cargo capacity. (stacks up to 2 ranks)
	2	Engineering, Industrial	Quick Rebuild	Drone rebuild time is reduced by 7.5%. (stacks up to 4 ranks)
	2	Combat	Rapid Assault	Increases Attack Speed. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	2	Engineering, Industrial	Rapid Deployment	Drone deployment accelerated by 40%. (stacks up to 2 ranks)
	2	Mining, Engineering	Resource Maximizer	Improves yield. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	2	Salvaging	Salvage Racks	Increases Cargo Capacity. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	2	Engineering	Smart Extraction	Reduces the penalty reduction to Mining and Salvage yields by 2%. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	2	Combat	Veteran's Might	Increases Combat Power. (stacks up to 5 ranks)

Icon	Tier	Class	Skill	Effect
	3	Engineering	Armor Plating	Increases Armor HP.
	3	Salvaging	Clean Sweep	Destroying a wreck grants +20% Salvage Power for 2 minutes. (Cooldown: 5 min).
	3	Combat, Engineering	Drone Handler	Increases Drone Power by 5%.
	3	Mining	Efficient Miner	Increases Mining Power.
	3	Combat	Fire Control Officer	Increases Attack Speed.
	3	Mining, Salvaging, Industrial	Harvester	Increases Yield.
	3	Mining, Salvaging, Engineering, Industrial	Loadmaster	Increases Cargo Capacity.
	3	Mining	Lode Sense	Each ore drop has a 5% chance to be upgraded to its next quality tier (if possible).
	3	Salvaging	Lucky Haul	Each salvage hit has a 1% chance to instantly drop an item from the wreck. (Cooldown: 1s).
	3	Mining	Reactor Rest	-50% reactor energy usage for 30 seconds after hitting an asteroid. (Cooldown: 60s).
	3	Combat	Reactor Technician	Increases Energy Capacity.
	3	Salvaging	Salvage Surge	On arriving at a salvage field, gain +12.5% Salvage Power for 60 seconds. (Cooldown: 180s).
	3	Salvaging	Scavenger	Increases Salvage Power.
	3	Engineering	Shield Boost	Increases Shield HP.
	3	Engineering	Sustained Operator	Every 10 minutes of continuous Autopilot grants +1% efficiency (max 10%).
	3	Combat	Targeting Specialist	Increases Critical Chance by 2%, and Critical Damage by 5%.

Icon	Tier	Class	Skill	Effect
	4	Engineering, Industrial	Armor Leech	Dealing damage restores armor equal to 0.5% of the damage dealt. (stacks up to 4 ranks)
	4	Mining	Equipment Bonus	Bonus when extracting equipment (10% per rank). (In-game tooltip is currently a placeholder.)
	4	Engineering, Industrial	Faster Production II	Increases refinery and forge production speed by 15%. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	4	Mining, Salvaging, Engineering, Industrial	Hazard Leech	There is a 25% chance when taking damage from a hazard you increase Yield by 5% for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 20s). (stacks up to 2 ranks)
	4	Engineering, Industrial	Hidden Crystals	When refining ore, there is a 0.3% chance to attain a random crystal. (stacks up to 2 ranks)
	4	Engineering, Industrial	Power Tools	Increases drone power. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	4	Mining	Precision Module	Increases mining power, and a bonus to Yield. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	4	Engineering, Industrial	Shield Leech	Dealing damage restores shields equal to 0.5% of the damage dealt. (stacks up to 4 ranks)
	4	Mining	Smugglers Stash	You have a 1% chance each extraction to find a Locked Container hidden within an asteroid. (stacks up to 2 ranks)
	4	Combat	Target Weak Spots	Increase Critical Chance. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	4	Mining, Salvaging, Combat, Engineering, Industrial	Turret Rotation	Boosts your turret rotation speed. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	5	Combat	Critical Recursion	Critical Hits can trigger 1 additional times. Critical hit chance is halved each time. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	5	Engineering, Industrial	ECHO The Conqueror	Idle Conquest missions grant 20% more Fleet Strength. (stacks up to 5 ranks)
	5	Combat	Instant Reload	2% chance to instantly reload a turret. (stacks up to 3 ranks)
	5	Combat	Redline	Critical hits have a 5% chance to grant a Rage stack for 15s (max 25 stacks). Each stack grants +0.5% Combat Power. (Cooldown: 1s). (stacks up to 5 ranks)

Icon	Tier	Class	Skill	Effect
	6	Engineering	Drone	Increases all Drone Power by 2.5% and drone Attack Speed by 5%.
	6	Mining	Fault Line	Critical hits on asteroids have a 25% chance to grant +10% Yield for 8 seconds.
	6	Mining	Field Focus	On arriving at an asteroid field, gain +12.5% Mining Power for 60 seconds. (Cooldown: 180s).
	6	Combat	Iron Rage	When your hull takes a hit, increase Combat Power by 25% for 10 seconds. (Cooldown: 60s).
	6	Salvaging	Sharp Eye	Critical hits on wrecks grant +5% Yield for 10 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times. (Cooldown: 2s).
	6	Combat	Shock Assault	While boarding, enemy defenders have their Boarding Power reduced by 5%.
	6	Salvaging	Strip Focus	Each salvage hit grants +5% Salvage Power for 60 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times. (Cooldown: 1s).
	6	Engineering	System Optimizer	Reduces Autopilot activity delay by 0.5 seconds.
	6	Combat	Warpath	Each kill grants +3% Attack Speed for 2 minutes. Stacks up to 5 times.
	6	Combat	Weapons Free	On arriving at a combat zone, gain +10% Attack Speed for 30 seconds. (Cooldown: 180s).

No crew skills occupy these tiers in the current build. High-Grade crew members have skill slots at tiers 7–8, but the skill pool currently contains no tier 7–8 entries to fill them.

See also

• Crew — recruiting and managing crew members and officers
• Skills — the captain's skill trees these ranks feed into
• Leadership — the tree that strengthens crew and officers