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Description
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Ranks
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Challenge
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Tier
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Astrodynamics
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Advanced technology is one thing, but it takes skill, patience, and a little bit of love to coax even more capability out of a ship's grav drive.
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- RANK 1 - Increased grav jump range of jump drives by 15%.
- RANK 2 - Reduced fuel cost of jump drives by 15%.
- RANK 3 - Increased grav jump range and reduced fuel cost of jump drives by 30%.
- RANK 4 - Reduced fuel cost of jump drives by 50%.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress -
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress -
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Make 15 grav jumps.
- RANK 4 Challenge Progress - Make 30 grav jumps.
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Novice
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Geology
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Newly discovered minerals mined from alien planets and moons have directly led to some incredible technological advancements.
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- RANK 1 - Get more common and uncommon inorganic resources from surface objects.
- RANK 2 - Get more rare inorganic resources from surface objects.
- RANK 3 - Get more exotic inorganic resources from surface objects.
- RANK 4 - Occasionally harvest additional rare resources from surface objects.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Harvest inorganic resources from 20 sources.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Harvest inorganic resources from 50 sources.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Harvest inorganic resources from 100 sources.
- RANK 4 Challenge Progress -
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Novice
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Medicine
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Only through advancements in medical training and technology has humanity been able to withstand the galaxy's many dangers.
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- RANK 1 - Med Packs, Trauma Packs, and Emergency Kits restore 10% additional Health 10% faster.
- RANK 2 - Med Packs, Trauma Packs, and Emergency Kits restore 20% additional Health 20% faster.
- RANK 3 - Med Packs, Trauma Packs, and Emergency Kits restore 30% additional Health 30% faster.
- RANK 4 - Med Packs, Trauma Packs, and Emergency Kits restore 50% additional Health 50% faster, and have a chance to cure an affliction.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Use healing items 20 times while wounded.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Use healing items 50 times while wounded.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Use healing items 100 times while wounded.
- RANK 4 Challenge Progress -
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Novice
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Research Methods
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By skillfully employing both new and time tested methods, a researcher may complete projects faster, and even gain unexpected insights.
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- RANK 1 - Resources require to craft items and complete research projects is reduced by 10%.
- RANK 2 - Resources require to craft items and complete research projects is reduced by 20%
- RANK 3 - Resources require to craft items and complete research projects is reduced by 40%.
- RANK 4 - Sudden developments during research are twice as common. Resources required to craft items and complete research projects is reduced by 60%.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Craft 5 unique food, drinks, drugs, weapon mods, or equipment mods.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Craft 10 unique food, drinks, drugs, weapon mods, or equipment mods.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Craft 15 unique food, drinks, drugs, weapon mods, or equipment mods.
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Novice
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Surveying
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Humanity now has access to untold alien worlds, and the ability to decipher all that data while on the ground has become an essential skillset.
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- RANK 1 - Adds an optional zoom to the hand scanner, and scan distance is increased to 20 meters.
- RANK 2 - Adds another level of zoom to the hand scanner, and scan distance is increased to 30 meters,
- RANK 3 - Adds another level of zoom to the hand scanner, and scan distance is increased to 40 meters.
- RANK 4 - Adds another level of zoom to the hand scanner, and scan distance is increased to 50 meters.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Use the hand scanner to scan 10 unique resources, flora, or fauna.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Use the hand scanner to scan 25 unique resources, flora, or fauna.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Use the hand scanner to scan 50 unique resources, flora, or fauna.
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Novice
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Botany
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The scientific study of flora, while important on Earth, become even more essential as humanity began exploring alien worlds.
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- RANK 1 - Get more common and uncommon organic resource from plants, learn additional info about them from the scanner, and allows some plants to be cultivated at your outposts.
- RANK 2 - Get more rare organic resources from plants, and learn information about them more quickly using the scanner.
- RANK 3 - Get more exotic organic resources from plants, and learn information about them more quickly using the scanner.
- RANK 4 - Occasionally harvest additional rare resources from plants, and learn information about them more quickly using the scanner.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Harvest 20 organic resources from plants.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Harvest 50 organic resources from plants.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Harvest 100 organic resources from plants.
- RANK 4 Challenge Progress -
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Advanced
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Scanning
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While anyone can use a ship's scanner, it takes a specially trained operator to detect hard-to-find planetary resources, or uncover the details of nearby ships.
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- RANK 1 - You can detect uncommon inorganic resources on planet and moon surfaces, and more information about ships in space.
- RANK 2 - You can detect rare inorganic resources on planet and moon surfaces, and more specific information about ships in space.
- RANK 3 - You can detect exotic inorganic resources on planet and moon surfaces, and gain better combat information on ships in space.
- RANK 4 - You can detect unique inorganic resources on planet and moon surfaces, and gain a complete list of cargo on ships in space.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Scan 5 planets or moons.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Scan 15 planets or moons.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Scan 30 planets or moons.
- RANK 4 Challenge Progress -
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Advanced
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Spacesuit Design
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While a basic spacesuit can protect one from the vacuum of space, it takes a specialized design to withstand the rigors of many alien worlds.
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- RANK 1 - You can craft improved spacesuits, helmets, and pack mods, and research additional mods at a Research Lab.
- RANK 2 - You can research and craft superior spacesuits, helmet, and pack mods.
- RANK 3 - You can research and craft cutting-edge spacesuits, helmet, and pack mods.
- RANK 4 - Construction of spacesuit, helmet, and pack mods occasionally doesn't cost resources.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Craft 5 spacesuit, helmet, and pack mods.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Craft 15 spacesuit, helmet, and pack mods.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Craft 30 spacesuit, helmet, and pack mods.
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Advanced
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Weapon Engineering
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Life in the 24th century can be exceedingly dangerous, and the ability to maintain and modify personal weapons can be essential to one's survival.
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- RANK 1 - You can craft improved weapon mods at a Weapon Workbench, and research additional weapon mods at a Research Lab.
- RANK 2 - You can research and craft superior weapon mods.
- RANK 3 - You can research and craft cutting-edge weapon mods.
- RANK 4 - You can research and craft master-level weapon mods.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Craft 5 weapon mods.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Craft 15 weapon mods.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Craft 30 weapon mods.
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Advanced
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Zoology
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No one could have expected the number of new species encountered on alien worlds, or the importance of those skilled in their behavior and domestication.
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- RANK 1 - Get more common organic resources from creatures and harvest from them without harming them, learn additional info about them from the scanner, and allows you to produce animal resources at your outposts.
- RANK 2 - Get more uncommon organic resources from creatures and learn information about them more quickly using the scanner.
- RANK 3 - Get more rare organic resources from creatures, and learn information about them more quickly using the scanner.
- RANK 4 - Occasionally harvest additional rare resources from creatures, and learn information about them more quickly using the scanner.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Harvest organic resources from 20 creatures.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Harvest organic resources from 50 creatures.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Harvest organic resources from 100 creatures.
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Advanced
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Astrophysics
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A ship's scanner receives vast amounts of data, but it takes a trained mind to efficiently analyze it all.
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- RANK 1 - You can scan the moons on your current planet. You have a 10% chance to discover a trait when scanning.
- RANK 2 - You can scan any planet or moon in this system. You have a 20% chance to discover a trait when scanning.
- RANK 3 - You can scan any planet or moon within 16 Light Years. You have a 30% chance to discover a trait when scanning.
- RANK 4 - You can scan any planet or moon within 30 Light Years. You have a 50% chance to discover a trait when scanning.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Scan 10 unique planets or moons.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Scan 25 unique planets or moons.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Scan 50 unique planets or moons.
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Expert
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Chemistry
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When crafted by the skilled and safety conscious, chems can be used to enhance health and performance across the Settled Systems.
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- RANK 1 - You can create improved chems, and research additional chems at a Research Lab.
- RANK 2 - You can research and create superior chems.
- RANK 3 - You can search and create cutting-edge chems.
- RANK 4 - Crafting chems occasionally triples the amount crafted.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Create 10 chems.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Create 25 chems.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Create 50 chems.
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Expert
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Outpost Engineering
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Proper construction of habitation modules is essential to one's survival on any alien world!
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- RANK 1 - You can construct improved outpost modules, and research additional modules at a Research Lab.
- RANK 2 - You can research and construct superior outpost modules.
- RANK 3 - You can research and construct cutting-edge outpost modules.
- RANK 4 - Outpost modules now cost 50% fewer resources to build.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Build 5 different outpost modules.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Build 25 different outpost modules.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Build 50 different outpost modules.
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Expert
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Aneutronic Fusion
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It is possible to maximize a ship's energy output by specifically directing the unique nuclear processes that occur within its reactor.
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- RANK 1 - Ship reactors produce 1 extra unit of power.
- RANK 2 - Ship reactors produce 2 extra units of power.
- RANK 3 - Ship reactors produce 3 extra units of power.
- RANK 4 - Ship reactors produce 5 extra units of power.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Destroy 5 ships.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Destroy 25 ships.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Destroy 50 ships.
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Master
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Planetary Habitation
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While outpost building is always challenging, doing so on a world with a dangerous environment requires specialized training.
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- RANK 1 - You can build outposts on planets with extreme temperatures (Deep Freeze and Inferno). Increase the maximum number of Outposts you can build by 4.
- RANK 2 - You can build outposts on planets with extreme pressure. Increase the maximum number of Outposts you can build by 8.
- RANK 3 - You can build outposts on planets with toxic or corrosive atmospheres. Increase the maximum number of Outposts you can build by 12.
- RANK 4 - You can build outposts on planets with extreme gravity. Increase the maximum number of Outposts you can build by 16.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress -
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Build habitable outposts on 5 different planets.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Build habitable outposts on 10 different planets.
- RANK 4 Challenge Progress -
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Master
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Special Projects
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Big guns are great, but in the Settled Systems, sometimes the best weapon is simply an old adage: "Knowledge is Power."
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- RANK 1 - You can research experimental projects at a Research Lab.
- RANK 2 - You can craft rare manufactured components at an Industrial Workbench.
- RANK 3 - You can craft exotic manufactured components at an Industrial Workbench.
- RANK 4 - You can craft unique manufactured components at an Industrial Workbench. Outpost extractors have a chance to produce additional resources.
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- RANK 1 Challenge Progress - Craft 10 common or uncommon manufactured components.
- RANK 2 Challenge Progress - Craft 10 rare manufactured components.
- RANK 3 Challenge Progress - Craft 10 exotic manufactured components.
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Master
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