Prerequisites: N/A
Description: This skill is used to identify and assess the inner workings of a business, including management, communications, worker attitudes, etc. Business consultation also falls under this heading. Successful application of this skill allows a character to recommend changes that can increase net profits by 10% x skill level. Benefits gained through a successful skill check last for six months. This special ability can only be applied to a business successfully once every six months.

Prerequisites: N/A
Description: This skill allows the user to analyze any sort of social system: social strata, religious organization, cult, sub-culture, native social unit, etc. This skill adds a +10% bonus to PER checks and other skills (such as diplomacy, bluff, haggling, etc.) in situations where the character has successfully analyzed a social system.

Astronomy
(SF module 2010)
Prerequisites: Optics 1, Astrophysics 1, Mathematics 1, Physics 2
Description: Characters with this skill study galaxies, stars, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteors. The skill requires at least one of the following pieces of equipment: telescopes, radar, energy sensors, cameras, and computers. Each piece of equipment astronomers use to make their observations adds +5% to their success rate.
  Astronomers can identify objects in space, from planets to space vessels. Identifying takes a half-hour for objects closer than 10,000 km, 1 hour for objects further away. Astronomers can also calculate the age, speed, mass or orbit (course) of any object in space. Astronomers can only make one calculation at a time, each calculation taking one half hour to complete.

Astrophysics
(Roy Crisman)
Prerequisites: Physics 2
Description: A character with this skill is schooled in the science of advanced astrophysics. This skill is a fundamental part of several other skills. It is used extensively in piloting in space, engineering, and astronavigation.