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.

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)

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%.

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)

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.

How crew skills work

Skill list

See also