Being comparable to talents and talent trees of other MMORPGs, Skills improve existing abilities and/or grant passive bonuses by spending points on them. Skills have a direct influence on the overall strengths of your character and your bridge officers' space abilities, and, along with your traits and Captain Specializations, are a key to adapting your character to your play style. Additionally, purchasing a certain number of skills in a specific career, along with ground skills, will also unlock the option to craft new Training Manuals for your Bridge Officers, granting them higher ranks of abilities.

Skills are separated into space and ground skills. Space skills are divided into "Tactical", "Engineering", and "Science" columns. Additionally, there are five tiers of space skills, from Lieutenant at the top, to Admiral at the bottom. While space points can be immediately spent on skills as they are earned via gameplay, you must hold the required player rank in order to access the next tier of the skill tree. Ground skills consist of only one group and have no rank restriction.

Space

There are a total of 90 Space Skills. Players receive a total 46 Space Points, with the first point gained starting at level 5.

	Subsection	Title	Details
Lieutenant
	Engineering	Hull Restoration	This skill increases the amount of hull restored by your abilities that heal yourself and you target at allies. At maximum from the skill chain, you gain an additional 50% bonus to your base healing towards your hull.
	Engineering	Hull Capacity	This skill increases your ship's maximum hull capacity. Regardless of what ship you use, this skill will always apply the same amount. Small craft will gain a smaller benefit that is based on level. At maximum from the skill chain, you will gain 30% more hull for your starship.
	Science	Shield Restoration	This skill increases the amount of shield restored by your abilities that heal yourself and you target at allies. At maximum from the skill chain, you gain an additional 50% bonus to your base healing towards your shields.
	Science	Shield Capacity	This skill increases your ship's maximum shield capacity. Regardless of what ship & shield you use, this skill will always apply the same amount. Small craft will gain a smaller benefit that is based on level. At maximum from the skill chain, you will gain 30% more shield capacity with your starship.
	Tactical	Energy Weapon Training	This skill increases the base damage of most directed energy weapons. At maximum from the skill chain, your base damage will increase by 50%.
	Tactical	Projectile Weapon Training	This skill increases the base damage of most mines and torpedoes. At maximum from the skill chain, your base damage will increase by 50%.
Lieutenant Commander
	Engineering	Electro-Plasma System Flow	This skill increases the rate at which power is transferred between your subsystems, whether it is from you changing the powers manually or after using full impulse. At maximum from the chain, the transfer rate will be twice what it would normally be.
	Engineering	Full Impulse Energy Shunt	This skill provides bonus power to all your subsystems when you enter full impulse, allowing your to keep more power in your subsystems that would otherwise be set to a smaller amount without this skill.
	Engineering	Impulse Expertise	This skill increases the base turn rate and speed of your starship. At maximum from the skill chain, you gain 40% more turn rate and speed.
	Science	Control Expertise	This skill increases the effectiveness of Control Effects that you use while increasing the resistance to effects. At maximum from the skill chain, you gain 30% effectiveness toward your control effects and 60% control resistance.
	Science	Control Amplification	This skill will apply an all damage resistance debuff (-35) to an enemy under the effect of control abilities for 10 seconds.
	Science	Drain Expertise	This skill increases the effectiveness of Drain Effects that you use while increasing the resistance to effects. At maximum from the skill chain, you gain 30% effectiveness toward your drain effects and 60% drain resistance.
	Science	Drain Infection	This skill applies a short DoT electrical effect for 10 to your opponent whenever you apply energy or shield drain abilities on them. This effect is applied once per source and is refreshed upon further applications.
	Tactical	Targeting Expertise	This skill increases the chances that your attacks will successfully hit your target(s). If the hit chance goes in excess of 100%, you gain small bonuses to your Critical Chance and Severity.
	Tactical	Defensive Maneuvering	This skill increases the chances that your enemy's attacks will successfully miss you, based on your defense rating vs. Their accuracy rating.
Commander
	Engineering	Hull Plating	This skill grants you a bonus damage resistance rating that allows you to take less damage from energy and kinetic attacks.
	Engineering	Energized Hull Plating	This skill grants you further bonus damage resistance rating that allows you to take less damage from energy attacks.
	Engineering	Ablative Hull Plating	This skill grants you further bonus damage resistance rating that allows you to take less damage from kinetic attacks.
	Engineering	Damage Control	This skill increases the rate at which your hull gets healed passively over time while out of combat. The regen rate is only 20% of its full value while in combat.
	Science	Shield Regeneration	This skill increases the rate at which your shields gets healed passively over time. Having points in the shield subsystem modifies the regen value.
	Science	Shield Hardness	This skill increases the amount of damage that is negated by your shields.
	Tactical	Weapon Amplification	This skill increases the amount of bonus damage that all your weapons deal when you land a successful critical hit.
	Tactical	Weapon Specialization	This skill increases the chance that you will land a critical hit with any of your weapons.
Captain
	Engineering	Defensive Subsystem Tuning	This skill grants a flat bonus of power that is applied to your Shield and Auxiliary Subsystems.
	Engineering	Offensive Subsystem Tuning	This skill grants a flat bonus of power that is applied to your Weapon and Engine Subsystems.
	Science	Exotic Particle Generator	This skill increases the amount of damage that you deal with abilities that do exotic damage that do not require weapon activations in order to deal damage.
	Science	Long-Range Targeting Sensors	This skill reduces the damage penalty suffered when you are more than 2 km away from your target. By default, you loose half of the damage you can deal when you're 10 km away from your target.
	Tactical	Hull Penetration	This skill increases the damage that you deal with your weapons by penetrating your enemy's Resistances. This allows your weapons to act as though the damage resistance rating is lower than its actual value.
	Tactical	Shield Weakening	This skill increases the damage that you deal with your weapons to your enemy's shields. Shields normally soak up 90% of the damage that would otherwise be dealt to the hull.
Admiral
	Engineering	Warp Core Potential	This skill grants all of your subsystems a flat bonus of power.
	Engineering	Warp Core Efficiency	This skill grants a scaling amount of bonus power to any subsystem that is below 75 power.
	Engineering	Engineering Readiness	This skill provides a bonus to your engineering bridge officer ability recharge that is applied to the cooldown timer of the ability. The more points you have, the faster engineering abilities will recharge.
	Science	Scientific Readiness	This skill provides a bonus to your science bridge officer ability recharge that is applied to the cooldown timer of the ability. The more points you have, the faster science abilities will recharge.
	Science	Shield Mastery	This skill allows you to negate 1 critical hit per gain of Shield Mastery. You can gain 1 charge per 20 seconds.
	Science	Shield Absorption	This skill allows you to take 20% of the critical hit damage that was negated by Shield Mastery and apply it as a shield heal to you.
	Science	Shield Reflection	This skill allows you to take 20% of the damage from the negated critical hit and reflect it back at the attacker.
	Tactical	Coordination Protocols	This skill increases the survival of hangar pets and other allies. A smaller bonus is applied to teammates and summoned allies.
	Tactical	Defensive Coordination	This skill increases the defenses of hangar pets and other allies. A smaller bonus is applied to teammates and summoned allies.
	Tactical	Offensive Coordination	This skill increases the offense of hangar pets and other allies. A smaller bonus is applied to teammates and summoned allies.
	Tactical	Tactical Readiness	This skill provides a bonus to your tactical bridge officer ability recharge that is applied to the cooldown timer of the ability. The more points you have, the faster tactical abilities will recharge.

Ground

There are a total of 20 Ground Skills. Players receive one point every five levels from 5-50, for a total of 10 Ground Points.

	Title	Details
Weapon Skills
	Weapon Proficiency	This skill increases the base damage of your ranged weapons. Each point of Weapon Proficiency Skill provides a 0.5% increase to the base damage of applicable weapons. The total base damage your energy weapons deal is determined by a combination of the weapon's damage, your level, the mark and quality of your weapons, and many other permanent and temporary damage increasing effects.
	Weapon Expert

	Weapon Criticals	This skill increases both your chance of landing a Critical Hit, as well as your Critical Severity, for all weapons. Per point of Weapon Criticals skill, you gain +0.06% Critical Chance and +0.2% Critical Severity. Players start with a base Critical Chance of 2.5% and a Critical Severity of +50%. When a weapon or ability Critical Hits, it grants Bonus Damage equal to your Critical Severity
	Improved Weapon Criticals

	Weapon Penetration	This skill increases the damage dealt by your weapons by penetrating your enemy's Resistances. Each point of this skill grants your weapons +0.1 Armor Penetration. Armor Penetration causes your weapons to behave as if the target's Damage Resistance Rating is lower than their actual value by the same amount as your total Armor Penetration value.
	Improved Weapon Penetration
Health and Armor Skills
	Endurance Training	This skill increases your maximum hitpoints. Each point of Health Capacity skill grants you an additional .2% health. Your maximum hitpoints scale up as you level, starting at 200 and gaining +6 each time you gain a level. This skill increases the base scaling value by a fixed percentage, rounded to the nearest whole number.
	Improved Endurance Training

	Armor Expert	This skill increases the effectiveness of any Combat Armor you currently have equipped. This skill amplifies the Damage Resistance Ratings offered by your armor, as well as many additional scaling effects such as hitpoint bonuses. Each point of Combat Armor skill offers a 0.5% bonus to the base values of these scaling benefits.
	Armor Master

	Regeneration	This skill increases the rate at which your hitpoints are passively restored over time. Each point of Health Regeneration skill increases your Regeneration Rate by 0.5% of its base value. Players begin with a Regeneration Rate of 1, which translates to naturally restoring 10% of maximum hitpoints every 6 seconds. The effects of this Skill are disabled while in Combat on a ground map.
	Improved Regeneration
Personal Shields Skills
	Personal Shields Expert	This skill increases the effectiveness of any Personal Shields you currently have equipped. Each point of Personal Shields skill grants a 0.25% increases to the base capacity of your shields.
	Personal Shields Master

	Personal Shield Resilience	This skill increases the amount of damage prevented by your Personal Shields. By default, 90% of incoming damage is applied to your Personal Shields (the remaining 10% bleeds through and applies to your health). For each point of Shield Hardness skill, your shields will negate 0.2% of the damage they block.
	Improved Personal Shield Resilience
Kit Skills
	Kit Performance Expert	This skill provides an increase to the effectiveness of Kit Module abilities. The benefit this skill provides will vary on each module, but will always increases at least one aspect of the ability. These increases may include any of the following: Damage Output • Duration of Control Effects • Duration of Buffs and/or Debuffs • Health and/or Shields of Constructs • Magnitude of Repel/Knock Effects
	Kit Performance Master

	Kit Efficiency	This skill provides a bonus to your Ability Recharge for all Kit Module Abilities. For each point of Kit Readiness skill, these abilities will recharge 0.2% faster 100% Ability Recharge bonuses would reduce an ability's recharge time to half of its base value. Most abilities have a minimum recharge time which varies. This skill (and all other Power Recharge bonuses) can never push an ability past their minimum recharge.
	Improved Kit Efficiency

Unlock Paths

Each Engineering, Science, Tactical, or Ground skill purchased also advances an unlock path for that specific track. Nodes along this unlock path allow players to choose from one of two performance boosts. Unlock paths also unlock the ability to craft specific bridge officer training manuals, or choose from two manual choices in the case of ground skills.

Space Points	5	10	15	20
Engineering	Hangar Health	Maximum Hull Capacity	Engine Subsystem Power	Weapon Subsystem Power
Engineering	Battery Expertise	Subsystem Repair	Shield Subsystem Power	Auxiliary Subsystem Power
Science	Sector Space Travel Speed	Maximum Shield Capacity	Starship Perception	Subsystem Energy Drain Resistance
Science	Transwarp Cooldown Reductions	Starship Stealth	Control Resistance	Shield Drain Resistance
Tactical	Threat Control	Projectile Critical Chance	Energy Critical Chance	Accuracy
Tactical	Hangar Weaponry	Projectile Critical Severity	Energy Critical Severity	Defense

Ultimate Abilities

Investing 24 points into a career track in space unlocks an "Ultimate" active ability for that career. Additional points invested can be used to purchase up to three "Enhancers" for this ability.

Engineering

EPS Corruption: - 1 min 30 sec recharge; - Affecting skills: Exotic Particle Generator, Drain Expertise; - 10.2 plasma DoT for 15 sec; - When target fires energy weapons, 3.6 plasma damage to self

Enhancers: - Weakening Corruption: When target fires energy weapons, -2.6 all power for 4 sec; - Ablative Corruption: Sets the target's hull regeneration to 0% and halves their incoming healing; - Explosive Corruption: When target fires energy weapons, 3.6 plasma damage to foes within 3 km

Science

Probability Manipulation: - 1 min 30 sec recharge; - Affecting skills: ? (if any); - 50% crit chance for 15 seconds

(Note: only affects Energy and Kinetic Weapon Damage crit chance. Does not stack with Particle Manipulator)

Enhancers: - Probability Shell: +100% Hull and Shield healing for 15 sec; - Probability Penetration: a chance on crit to gain a stacking Armor Penetration Buff (max. 5 stacks); - Probability Collapse: gives a flat accuracy rating/defense rating buff for the duration

Tactical

Focused Frenzy: - 1 min 30 sec recharge; - Affecting skills: ? (if any); - +8% firing cycle Haste when damaging marked foe, up to 5 stacks; - Stacks expire after not hitting the target for 2.5 seconds

Enhancers: - Frenzied Reactions: -0.5 sec abilities recharge time per hit; - Frenzied Assault: +4% all damage per Frenzy stack for 15 sec; - Team Frenzy: Allies firing on marked foe also gain Frenzy stacks and enhancers

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