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As with many RPGs out there, Star Sonata has an experience point system that gives a set number of skill points per level. Each 1000xp a character gains nets them another level which in turn gives them 5 skill points to play with. Every 20 levels means 100 more skill points. With that large amount, it's a bit overwhelming of where to put these points to good use, not to mention trying to figure out where each skill can be found. This guide hopefully will help in this regard.

Contents 1 Primary Skills 1.1 Skills with slots 2 Secondary Skills 2.1 1st Tier 2.2 2nd Tier 2.3 3rd Tier 3 Tertiary Skills 4 Warp 3 Galaxies 5 Warp 2 Galaxies 6 Warp 1 Galaxies 7 Warp 0 Galaxies 8 Special Galaxies 9 Warp ?? Galaxies 10 Level Titles

[edit] Primary Skills

These skills make up the foundation of any Star Sonata Character, for without them they could not equip any items (excepting Tech 0 ones, of course, in many cases). For this is what the definition of a primary skill is; it allows the character to equip or use higher tech items.

Skill	Benefit
Piloting	Ability to pilot a ship of a given level.
Weaponry	Use weapons of a given level.
Shielding	Use shields of a given level.
Engine	Use engines of a given level.
Radar	Use radar of a given level.
Cloaking	Use cloaking devices of a given level.
Electrical Engineering (Energy)	Use energy generators of a given level.
Equipment (Items)	Use general equipment of a given level.
Tractoring	Use tractor beams of a given level.

These skills above all require the same number of skill points as the skill level you are putting them towards. That means to get say Piloting 1, you would need only 1 skill point, but for Piloting 9, you would need 9 skill points.

[edit] Skills with slots

Skill	Benefit
Drone Deployment	Use drones of a given level
Station Management	Use base kits and base items of a given level

These two skills also work on the same skill point principle as the ones above, but these have 'slots' that using drones and base kits use up, respectively. You can use drones/kits of any tech level up to and including your skill level in DD/SM. For how many slots that each use, only things known so far is that you can use double your skill level in Tech 0 drones/kits and only 6 of the tech level equal to yours (Such as using only 6 Tech 9 bases at SM 9). Remote Control works on nearly the same principles.

[edit] Secondary Skills

These skills represent a choice in the style of play. Some like to major in building bases, others want to PvP and still others want to just kill AI ships. This set allows characters to be different than the others, for taking a skill here limits the choices in the other secondary skills available. At the start, there are five choices. For the most part, each modifies (a) statistic(s) of the character, much like augmenters do.

[edit] 1st Tier

Skill	Bonus	Requirements
Fighter Ace	+4% Agility, +3% Thrust +1% Firing Rate per level for light fighters, +2% Agility, +2% Thrust per level for other ships	N/A
Berserker	+5% Shield Max, +3% Shield Recharge, -1.5% Speed per level for heavy fighters, +4% Shield Max, +2% Shield Recharge, -1% Speed per level for other ships	N/A
Slave Mastery	+2% to all slave statistics per level	N/A
Station Mastery	+2% to all base and drone statistics per level	N/A
Merchant	+9% Capacity, +1% Thrust, +1% Turning per level to frieghters, +6% Capacity, +1% Thrust, +1% Turning per level to capital ships, +4% Capacity per level to heavy fighters, +2% capacity per level to light fighters	N/A

You can take up to two 1st Tier secondary skills. However, once you choose one you can leave it at that and have access to the 2nd Tier secondary skill linked to it or you can choose another 1st Tier that is either above or below your first choice (Merchant having Fighter Ace as the below) have access to a specific 3rd Tier secondary skill.

[edit] 2nd Tier

Skill	Bonus	Requirements
Speed Demon	+3% speed, +4% firing, +10% docking speed per level	N/A
Multifiring	Allows user to fire one more same weapon at same time per skill level	N/A
Radiation Expert	+15% to Radiation Weapons per level	N/A
Colonial Admin.	+4% Suitability for colonies per level	N/A
Fleet Master	+15% capacity on slaves per level	N/A

The skills listed here are in order of what 1st Tier has access to. So for example Multifiring requires a player to have ONLY Berserker as a secondary skill.

[edit] 3rd Tier

Skill	Bonus	Requirements
Sniper	+7% Damage, +5% Recoil, +2% Range, +3% Tracking per level	Fighter Ace and Berserker required
Seer	+50% radar for ship and base per level	Berserker and Slave Mastery required
Drone Mastery	+2% to all drone and station statistics per level	Slave Mastery and Station Mastery required
Extract. Expert	+7.3% rate of extraction of resources per level	Station Mastery and Merchant required
Shield Monkey	+6% Shield Max, +6% Shield Recharge, +1.5% to transference weapons	Merchant and Fighter Ace required

[edit] Tertiary Skills

These are the skills that modify a certain item or another skill's stats. They aren't required for any item or skill, but are helpful when invested in.

Skill	Benefit
Leadership	Allows character to create a team.
War Mongering	Allows director of team to declare war on another team.
Crazy Glue	2% per level chance of not consuming your GG when you die.
Astral Injection	Ability to add augs to drones.
Historical Records	Increases life of blackboxes.
Astral Travel	Allows autopilot through skill level number of galaxies.
Mining Efficiency	Increases the amount of materials dropped when an asteroid is destroyed.
Mining Power	Increases the mining damage to asteroids.
Glory	Increases team score for Glory category.
Piracy	Increases chance of items dropping from killed ships.
Tractor Power	Increases strength of tractor beams by 5%.
Tractor Range	Increases reach of tractor beams by 5%.
Tractor Efficiency	Decreases electrical usage of tractor beams by 5%.
Programming	Increases number of commands for slaves by 2 per level.
Warp Navigation	Allows warp through Warp 1 - 4, depending on level.
Remote Control	Allows use of controlbot to create slave ships.
Titanium Foot	Increases thrust by 3%.
Space Time Corner Warping	Increases Agility by 3%.

[edit] Warp 3 Galaxies

		Requires
The End of the Universe	20 Electrical Engineering	3 Conclusion Icicles
Rumble Mumble	20 Piloting	25 Green Knobs
	4 War Mongering	10 Green Knobs/ lvl 3 Leadership
Rumble 3	19 Piloting	20 Chrome Knobs
	3 War Mongering	10 Chrome Knobs/ lvl 2 Leadership
Biologique	20 Station Management	1 Microbes Amoureuse

Note: random AI stations have primary skill level max of 14 Note 2: Conclusion Icicles are dropped by Forgones

[edit] Warp 2 Galaxies

Note: random AI stations have primary skill level max of 12

• Rumble 2

16 Piloting (requires 25 Grammies)

2 War Mongering (requires 10 Grammies & lvl 2 Leadership)

• Prism

15 Remote Control (requires 1 Blue Vapor)

12 Drone Deployment (requires 1 Solar Cleansings

9 Station Management (requires 5 Promethium)

• Bipolar

8 Tractoring

14 Piracy (requires 1 Rosemary Sprig)

14 Tractoring (requires 1 Blue Dust)

17 Equipment (requires 5 Ablution Crystals)

[edit] Warp 1 Galaxies

- random AI stations have primary skill level max of 10

[edit] Warp 0 Galaxies

- random AI stations have primary skill level max of 8

Glass Matrix            - 1 Leadership                  |

Sol                     - 3 Drone Deployment            |
                        - 1 Warp Navigation             | requires 1 Blue Aether
                        - 3 Station Management          |
                        - 1 Leadership                  |
                        - 100 Astral Travel             |
                        - 1 Quilting                    | requires 1 Aqua Nuzzle
                                                        | requires lvl1 in Leadership
                        - 50 Glory                      |

Free Market             - 3 Drone Deployment            |
                        - 1 Warp Navigation             | requires 1 Blue Aether
                        - 3 Station Management          |
                        - 1 Leadership                  |
                        - 100 Astral Travel             |
                        - 50 Glory                      |
                        - 20 Slave Mastery              | Special requirements*
                        - 20 Drone Mastery              | Special requirements*
                        - 20 Station Mastery            | Special requirements*
                        - 20 Radiation Expert           | Special requirements*
                        - 20 Extraction Expert          | Special requirements*
                        - 20 Colonial Administrator     | Special requirements*
                        - 20 Seer                       | Special requirements*

Ring                    - 3 Cloaking                    |
                        - 1 Piracy                      |
                        - 1 Historical Records          |
                        - 100 Astral Travel             |
                        - 2 Mining Efficiency           |
                        - 2 Mining Power                |

[edit] Special Galaxies

(ones that are in the pinkish-purple wormholes)

Hyper
                        - 18 Weaponry                   | requires 1 Blue Dust
                        - 19 Shielding                  | requires 1 Pearly Gate
                        - 12 Equipment                  |
                        - 2 Leadership                  | requires 1 Enchromas
                        - 5 Astral Injection            | requires 1 Basil Bouqet
                        - 1 Station Research            | requires 1 Adonis Crest
                        - 9 Station Tweaking            | requires 1 Adonis Crest

Nihilite
                        - 19 Weaponry                   | requires 3000 Promethium
                        - 15 Shielding                  |
                        - 18 Engine                     | requires 1 Space Boomerang
                        - 18 Electrical Engineering     | requires 1 Sputter Nutter
                        - 3 Astral Injection            | requires 1 Enchromas
                        - 3 Titanium Foot               | requires 3 Gold Bars

Underworld
                        - 18 Shielding                  | requires 1 Space Boomerangs
                        - 15 Cloaking                   | requires 1 Gabriel's Neurolich
                        - 5  Space Time Corner Warping  | requires 5 Gold Bars
                        - 25 Crazy Glue                 | requires 1 Gold Bar

[edit] Warp ?? Galaxies

(I do not know yet where to put them since they tend to switch warp numbers each uni)

Rumble                  - 12 Piloting                   | requires 25 Fly Wings
                        - 1 War Mongering               | requires lvl2 Leadership

Steppes                 - 16 Drone Deployment           | requires 1 Quu Drone
                        - 8 Drone Mastery               | requires lvl1 in Slave Mastery

Ruby Steppes            - 17 Engine                     |
                        - 20 Drone Deployment           | requires 1 Qafir Drone
                        - 3 Warp Navigation             | requires 1 Light Nuzzle
                        - 16 Station Management         | requires 1 Aqua Nuzzle
                        - 2 Astral Injection            |

Absolution              - 16 Weaponry                   | requires 1 Blue Vapor
                        - 12 Station Management         | requires 8 Promethium
                        - 7 Piracy                      | requires 1 Basil Bouquet

Labyrinth               - 8 Piloting                    | requires 1 Goblet
                        - 1 Astral Injection            | requires 1 Goblet
                        - 10 Historical Records	        |

Shadow                  - 11 Radar                      | requires 1 Kromatico

Lavanite                - 8 Equipment                   |
                        - 8 Remote Control              |
                        - 2 Warp Navigation             | requires 1 Goblet

Handel's Cove           - 16 Radar                      | requires 1 Kromatico
                        - 16 Electrical Engineering     | requires 1 Kromelite
                        - 2 warp Navigation             | requires 1 Vortex Pellet
                        - 16 Station Management         | requires 2 Ariadnites
                        - 2 Piracy                      |

Empathy Field           - 10 Tractoring                 |
                        - 14 Tractor Power              | requires 1 Carbon Heart
                                                        | requires lvl5 in Tractoring
                        - 14 Tractor Range              | requires 1 Carbon Heart
                                                        | requires lvl5 in Tractoring
                        - 14 Tractor Efficiency         | requires 1 Carbon Heart
                                                        | requires lvl5 in Tractoring

XYZ                     - 10 Equipment                  |

Lunacy                  - 1 Leadership                  |

• Look in the section for Secondary Skills

[edit] Level Titles

Level	Title
0	Pathetic
1 - 4	Harmless
5 - 9	Mostly Harmless
10 - 14	Poor
15 - 19	Mediocre
20 - ??	Middiling
400 - ??	Maestro