Skills

The void of space is unforgiving, requiring that every traveler be well-versed in skill-sets both professional and martial. Men, women, and children are all smarter in this age than ever before, able to do and experience things past generations could only wonder after. Competition is heavy in this age - and the successful individual is one who leverages their strengths to minimize weaknesses both mentally and physically.

Starborn offers up a wide range of skills and abilities for players to pursue, developing their character uniquely to fit unique styles of play. Listed below are details on the paths that characters can take, each one providing a unique and powerful asset to player characters.

Where Can Skill Details be Found?

Skills are integrated into Starborn's Character Manager.

New and old players can view skill information by creating a character and entering the skill trainer or by viewing a character profile.

Skill Categories

Combat Skills

Combat Skills cover most personal combat abilities, from hand to hand battles to all out power armored duels.

Vehicle Skills

The universe is a very large place, and even on Terra or the Lunar Colony, once cannot always rely on public transportation. Being able to drive or fly your own vehicles is a serious advantage in nearly any circumstance.

Mystical Skills

Mystical skills are those skills, traits, and abilities that have not yet been able to be reproduced via science.

Augmented Skills

Augment Skills are skills that may be an inherent trait, a trained ability, or the result of biological or genetic manipulation.

Athletic Skills

Running, jumping, sports and the like.

Professional Skills

Skills for the skilled at heart. These are the bread and butter skills of the universe. Individuals apply these skills to make their living in the world or at least supplement it.

Crafting Skills

Skills that can be used to create items and objects, or repair items and objects.

Racial Skills

Skills that all members of a race have. These are traits that an individual can usually improve with training.

Aptitude versus Technology

The universe is torn between those who have embraced technology in human augmentation and those who fight against its application, against the alarming implications it brings for the future of mankind. Many of the skills above have emerged thanks to the careful dedication of science and dedication on the part of skilled practitioners, masters of new arts. These areas of focus, thanks to technological advances, have since seen a cheapening, or broadening as the supporters claim, that has allowed for more widespread utility of such skill sets.

Thanks to augmentation technologies rigid disciplines of mind and body have spread to those once barred from the experience. Feelings are mixed in almost every community on this purist versus augmentation mentality. "Are not the best things in life worked for through struggle", the argument of the purists states. Opposite is the theory that "all people should be free to explore the possibilities of life, same as any other person, despite any physical or mental difference."