Author Note: Skill Explanations (Patreon)

Following up on some popular requests, I'm going to be posting some explanations of the skill system Belessar is governed by. This is all explained in-story, but as some pointed out, it's useful to have a reference for some of the more obscure skills. This content is Patreon-exclusive at the moment, and you don't really need it to follow the story.

Skills are broken up into the following Skill Trees:

1. Alien Research

2. Insight

3. Healing

4. Engineering

5. Survival

6. Melee Combat

7. Ranged Combat

8. Psionics

9. Mind Control

10. Social Dominance

11. Gravity Control

These are the trees that have been seen so far, though others may show up over time.

Skill trees are broad groups of related skills, centred around a theme. A skill can belong to one and only one tree; typically, to gain higher level skills in a tree you have to gain the lower level skills first.