Skills

Permanent growth

Skills are permanent pilot upgrades, installed from skillbooks and shards. They are grouped by discipline - gathering, combat, engineering, and more - and each adds passive bonuses that scale with level. Your attributes set the ceiling on how far a discipline can go.

Skill disciplines

Gathering

Skill
Asteroid Reclamation
Astro Mining
Cryomining
Drone Mining Ops
Gas Harvesting
Mining
Ore Surveying
Refined Extraction
Salvaging
Scavenging

Industry

Skill
Alloy Smelting
Circuit Fabrication
Component Manufacturing
Industrial Logistics
Maintenance
Modular Hull Design
Nanotechnology
Refining
Reverse Engineering
Ship Construction

Science

Skill
AI Research
Astrocartography
Astrophysics
Cryptanalysis
Engineering
Materials Science
Psionics
Quantum Mechanics
Theoretical Physics
Xenobiology

Combat

Skill
Armor Resistance
Boarding Operations
Capital Ship Doctrine
Cyber Warfare
Damage Control
Drone Swarm Tactics
Drones
Electronic Warfare
Energy Weapons Specialization
Gunnery
Heavy Weapons
Missiles
Predator Instinct
Projectile Weapons Specialization
Shield Operation
Stealth Ops
Tactical Command
Targeting Systems

Exploration

Skill
Anomaly Theory
Archaeology
Cosmic Phenomena
Deep Scan
Distant System Probing
First Contact Protocol
Hacking
Scanning
Signature Triangulation
Wormhole Navigation

Command

Skill
Base Management
Contracting
Crew Management
Diplomacy
Fleet Command
Strategic Planning
Supply Chain
Trade

Account-wide progress

Unlike fitted modules, skills are never lost: they are the steady, account-wide growth under every ship you fly.