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Skills

Skills in Chronos are arranged into three tiers. Tier 1 skills have no prerequisites, and relate to a broad field of study or practice (e.g. “Biology” or “Athletics”).

Tier 2 skills each require an associated Tier 1 skill (e.g. “Medicine” requires “Biology”) and relate to a more specific area within the field of the Tier 1 skill.

Tier 3 skills each require a Tier 2 skill (e.g. “Battlefield Medicine” requires “Medicine”), and relate to a specialisation of the Tier 2 skills.

Tier 3 skills will come with additional briefings (at the start of the game or during the game) to represent additional knowledge your character has. For example, if you choose to take the History skill in Turn 3, you will receive a briefing that highlights which events in the timeline are considered to be of particular importance.

At the start of the game, you may choose 10 (ten) skills, which must include the associated lower tier skills for any Tier 2 and 3 skills. For example: if you wish to take the Battlefield Medicine skill at game start, this will mean you must use up 3 skills out of 10 because having Battlefield Medicine requires having the Tier 1 Biology and Tier 2 Medicine skills. During the game, each turn you may (using an action) train one further skill which you have the prerequisites for (or a Tier 1 skill, which has no prerequisites).

Skill training will take effect immediately - unless there is a particular reason that one of your other actions must happen immediately after session, you will be able to use skills in the same turnsheet that you train them.

Biology

Biology			You have a good understanding of the life sciences - you can spot diseases (but only treat very simple ones) and triage medical patients, and you can generally work out if a plant or animal is edible and what it might do.
T2	Medicine		You can do basic first aid (up to putting a splint on a simple fracture), and diagnose most diseases.
	T3	Surgery	You can do more advanced medical procedures which involve working inside the body, up to and including installation of cybernetic components.
	T3	Battlefield Medicine	You can treat, or at least stabilise, most injuries as they occur, up to and including stopping traumatic bleeding, or stabilising a complex fracture.
	T3	Epidemiology	You understand how diseases spread, what makes a disease more infectious, deadly, and dangerous, and strategies for mitigating or enhancing the spread and lethality of a disease. This includes viral, bacterial, and fungal infections
T2	Ecology		You know how different organisms in a planetary environment interact, and how to ensure healthy biodiversity on a planet or spot the early warnings for biosphere collapse.
	T3	Organism Modification	You know how to cause biological changes in an organism (including humans), whether by genetic modification, symbiosis with another organism, or other means.
	T3	Habitat Maintenance	You know how to ensure a healthy biosphere even in non-planetary habitats (i.e. space stations), including the use of plants for food production, and the maintenance and design of life support systems using standard components.

Technology

Technology			You have a decent head for new technology - given something you have never seen before, you can probably take a decent guess at what most of the buttons do. If you have the chance to experiment, you can probably make it do what you want in a reasonably short amount of time.
T2	Engineering		You can build just about anything if you have the blueprints and materials, and can come up with your own designs for reasonably simple devices (i.e. things that are not in the category below, and are not larger scale projects such as power plants).
	T3	Weapon Development	You have an excellent knowledge of weaponry (including personal, planetary, and shipboard armaments), and can devise new designs for weapons, or adapt existing designs (e.g. to compensate for a lack of certain materials).
	T3	Spacecraft Development	You have an excellent knowledge of the workings of spacecraft (including spacefaring vessels, free-floating space stations, and stations on asteroids, moons, or planets with hostile atmosphere), and can devise new designs for spacecraft, or adapt existing designs (e.g. to compensate for a lack of certain materials).
	T3	Cybernetics Development	You have an excellent knowledge of cybernetics (including replacement limbs, external cybernetics, and cybernetics integrated into the body), and can devise new designs, or adapt existing designs (e.g. to adapt to a non-human subject). You only have a passing knowledge of the biology they interact with - unless you also have the Biology skill, and cannot install cybernetics safely without the Surgery skill.
T2	Hacking		Given a computer or computer controlled system you do not have access to, you can gain access and/or break the system. It will not be subtle (unless you take Subterfuge). If someone else has hacked a system, and does not have Subterfuge, you can find out what they have done and clues to who they might be. You can program an Optimisation Engine, and it will generally do what you want it to do - but there may be unwanted side effects.
	T3	Counter-hacking	You can fix what another hacker has broken. You can find out what a hacker with Subterfuge has done in a system. In addition, you can secure a system so that it will be harder to hack in future, and can set it up to alert you if an attempt is made.
	T3	Subterfuge	You know how to get in to a system and modify it or extract information without leaving obvious traces of your attempt.
	T3	Software Development	You can create new software to perform specific tasks, including programming of Optimisation Engines with suitable goals that are likely to achieve the desired result.
T2		Piloting	If it has an engine, you can fly or drive it. You can navigate both in space and on planets, and know which readings on scanners are hazards to avoid and which can be safely ignored.
	T3	Space Combat	You are adept at evasion and targeting at slower than light speeds (FTL combat is not possible), and can react quickly if your ship is knocked out of FTL by an interdiction.

Athletics

Athletics			You are fitter, stronger, and more agile than average - you can generally outrun someone, carry heavy objects, climb a rough surface, or dodge out of the way of danger.
T2	Fighting		You can keep a cool head in a fight, and are aware of your opponents. You are at least decent with both melee and ranged weapons. You will tend to win, unless your opponent has training in the weapon they are using, or is armoured against your weaponry. This only makes a difference when you are fighting personally - not if you are in a tank or starfighter.
	T3	Unarmed Combat	You don't need a weapon. You can punch, kick, and grapple your way to victory, even against armed opponents, provided you can close the distance.
	T3	Melee Combat	If you can hit someone with it, stab someone with it, or cut someone with it, you can use it to win a fight. You are as good with an improvised weapon (e.g. a pipe) as someone without this skill would be with a purpose-built weapon (e.g. a sword), and with a purpose built weapon you can exploit the weak spots of armoured opponents.
	T3	Ranged Combat	When armed with a gun, laser, or other ranged weapon, you can shoot further and more accurately than most people.
T2	Stealth		If you are sneaking through an area with cover, people will not notice you unless you want them to. You can evade basic security systems (cameras, low sensitivity microphones), but will still be caught by more advanced ones if you test your luck.
	T3	Sleight of Hand	You can steal items that will fit up your sleeve without being noticed - and if noone is paying attention to you specifically, then you can pilfer football-sized items provided you have somewhere to put them. You can pick mechanical locks or pick the pockets of a nearby person who is not suspicious of you. This skill may not be used against players in session.
	T3	Security Bypass	You can evade or disable most security systems - avoiding sensors, opening electronic locks, or just shutting down the system entirely.

Investigation

Investigation			You can spot patterns in data, and put together clues better than most. You are likely to see more relevant information in a situation, or get better hunches about the subtext of what someone is saying.
T2	Social Investigation		When talking to people, you can steer the conversation towards certain topics, and they will tend to be more forthcoming than they might expect. You have a good sense of when people are lying to you.
	T3	Interrogation	When directly questioning someone, you know how to ask the right questions to extract relevant information, and how to deliver the questions to get them answered.
	T3	Gossip	When in a crowd, you can get a sense of the conversations going on, and a good idea of what is being discussed and the prevailing opinions. You will tend to pick out relevant information that others might miss.
T2	Physical Investigation		You are adept at picking up details from objects or scenes, spotting elements that others would miss. You tend to spot hidden objects, where items in a room have been moved, or where an object has been modified.
	T3	Forensics	When examining a scene, you can reconstruct a good idea of what happened in your head - if there is any evidence to find, you will find it, and can reason through what mush have happened there.
	T3	Analysis	Given an item and suitable lab equipment, you can determine the nature, purpose, and potentially recent use of the item - e.g. given a vial which previously contained liquid and and a chemistry lab, you can determine what the liquid is, and how recently it was emptied.
T2	Scholarship		You can read through paperwork, especially academic writing, and pull out a summary of the most relevant information
	T3	Science	You have a good knowledge of physical sciences (chemistry/physics/etc. Not biology), and can interpret or sense check scientific data. You will be told if an assumption you state in a turnsheet is false, and can check
	T3	History	You have a deep knowledge of history (particularly the last few decades), and can quickly study new historical periods you are not familiar with. You can pick out pivotal events which will have made a large difference to what happened, and their causes and consequences.

Management

Management			When people are well disposed towards you and share the same general goal, you are good at organising them to do things - whether that means making sure everyone is working in tandem, or making sure that the work is suitably divided according to people's abilities.
T2	Planning		Given an achievable goal, you can generally work out what steps will be required to achieve it, and what resources you will need at each stage.
	T3	Logistics	You are adept at getting hold of resources, and getting them to the right place at the right time - whether those resources are physical, information, or people.
	T3	Military Strategy	You can command anything from a small commando unit to a full scale operation involving both space and ground troops - and you will increase the effectiveness of the combatants on your side while doing so. You can quickly analyse and prioritise information about military engagements.
T2	Persuasion		You are good at convincing people to do things - when in conversation with a person or a small group, you can generally sway them to your point of view, or at least agree to disagree.
	T3	Propaganda	You can craft messages which will sway the opinions of large groups, up to entire system populations, through a combination of speeches, advertisements, and carefully crafted gossip. You are also more likely to notice when popular opinion is more the result of propaganda than of natural debate.
	T3	Diplomacy	You are good at the kinds of negotiation needed to strike deals between large groups (such as systems), able to come to an agreement which keeps all sides happy, while giving yours a nice advantage.

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