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In the world of Cybersphere, skills represent your character's acquired knowledge about everything from combat to stealth to electronics. Your character might learn these skills through life on the streets, pick them up from a patient teacher, or be blessed with an innate talent (a "natural"). Skills define your character's ability to interact with the world and make things happen.

Each skill requires certain stats, or governing stats, that control your character's proficiency. The actual skill level, plus the levels of your character's governing stats determines your overall level of talent. For instance, a tough solo brawler with melee skill would need high strength and agility to realize her full potential. In the following list of skills, this information is shown in the "governing stats" table for each skill entry.

m e n u

	Street Smarts		Defensive skills
	Medical skills		Fighting Styles
	Hacking skills		Firearms
	Tech skills		Vehicle skills

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s t r e e t - s m a r t s

Appraisal

Checking an item's value, comparing one piece of gear to another, spotting a fake, calling the price on a hustler.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
				2x			1x

Thievery

Picking a corpie's pocket, lifting a deck from a store window display, sneaking a knife off someone's belt.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		2x		1x			1x

Lockpick

Jimmying a vehicle lock, rewiring a door lockpad, hacking a palmlock.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		1x		3x			2x

Scavenge

Finding a RAMcard in a pile of junk, spotting a box of discarded ammo in broken terrain, fishing armor plating out of tank wreckage, breaking a piece of hardware down into its basic parts.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
				1x			1x

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d e f e n s e

Shock

Taking a blow without passing out, staying on your feet despite blood loss, resisting massive injuries without dying.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
	3x				1x

Dodge

Ducking a punch, bending away from a knife thrust, swerving behind cover in a firefight, jumping clear of an ambush.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
			4x		1x		1x

Stealth

Blending into a crowd, hiding in a shadow, sneaking through a door before it closes, slipping past a patrolling squadcar.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
			1x	1x	1x		1x

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f i g h t i n g - s t y l e s

Brawling

Fighting with your bare hands: general fistfighting and dirty infighting styles.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
1x			1x

Knife

Fighting and parrying with combat knives, utility knives, and small blades.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		1x	1x

Swords

Fencing, parrying, slashing, and stabbing with swords.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		1x	1x

Martial Arts

General martial-arts prowess with oriental weapons, disarming and kicking away an opponent's weapon.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
1x		1x	1x		2x		1x

Offensive Martial Arts

Martial arts prowess with offensive styles: Kung Fu and Tae Kwon Do.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
1x	1x	1x	1x		3x		1x

Defensive Martial Arts

Martial arts prowess with defensive styles: Aikijujitsu and Taijitsu.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
1x	1x		1x		3x		1x

Melee

Close-quarters combat: fighting with axes, pole-arms, spears, bashing weapons: anything that's not a sword, knife, your bare hands, or a martial art fighting style.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
1x			2x

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f i r e a r m s

Pistol

Combat ability with pistols and pistol-gripped firearms.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		1x					1x

Rifle

Combat ability with rifles and automatic weapons in single-shot mode.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		2x	2x		1x		1x

SMG (Sub-Machine Gun)

Combat ability with assault rifles and machineguns in full-auto mode.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		2x	2x				1x

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m e d i c a l

First-Aid

Applying direct pressure to a gunshot wound, using a medkit to stitch up a sword slash, treating napalm burns.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
				1x		2x

Cyberdoc

Ripping a cybermed implant out of a boosterganger's body, installing it back into your friend without causing permanent tissue damage.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
				1x		1x	1x

Surgery

Ripping organs from a corpse, repairing limbs on a patient, sewing up critical wounds, grafting cloned tissue onto a patient.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		1x		2x		1x	1x

Diagnosis

Finding the source of your pointman's bleeding, figuring out why he can't feel his legs, evaluating the condition of his collapsed lung, diagnosing a chronic illness.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
				1x		1x	2x

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h a c k i n g

Decking

Dodging hostile program traces, de-rezzing an enemy decker, surfing a stream of data, sniffing a password file out of incoming packets, nuking a system CPU.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
				1x			1x

Programming

Coding up a custom soft, decompiling a copy-protected program, breaking encryption codes, resetting the identity profile on a passcard.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
				2x

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t e c h

Mechanics

Repairing a dented fender, installing armor plating, hooking up a vehicle weapon, inspecting an explosive warhead.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		1x		1x			1x

Electronics

Hotwiring a vehicle, replacing a fried weapon panel, installing a new car alarm, rewiring a fried cyberdeck.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		1x		2x			1x

Gun Tech

Retooling a gun barrel, freeing up a jammed pistol, hooking up a rifle smartlink, assembling a sniper scope from spare parts, inspecting an unknown firearm.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		1x		1x			1x

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v e h i c l e

Biker

Driving a motorcycle in a firefight, dodging around a crowd of rioters, jousting another bike-ganger, swerving behind a dumpster to avoid a rocket-propelled grenade.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
			1x				1x

Driver

Swerving a car through gunfire, evading missiles, running a roadblock, avoiding a boulder while offroading.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		1x					1x

Pilot

Landing an AV, strafing a tank, dodging SAMs.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
		1x	1x	1x			1x

Gunnery

Guiding a turret cannon, pointing a machinegun while the driver guides the armored car.

STR	END	DEX	AGL	INT	WIL	EMP	PCN
1x			1x	1x			1x