Armored Visionary

Spellcasters Only

You’ve obtained or crafted a special visor that helps hone your magical sight. This lens can be worn directly over your eyes or incorporated into any suit of armor. The visor appears devoid of eyeholes but doesn't obscure your vision. When worn, this visor grants you a +2 insight bonus to saving throws against visual effects.

As a result of your training to improve your defenses, you also gain proficiency with heavy armor. If you’re already proficient with heavy armor, you instead gain proficiency with shields. If you’re already proficient with shields, you instead gain the Shield Block (Starfinder Character Operations Manual 118) feat.

Constant proximity to the mystic runes on the inside of your visor gives your eyes a permanent supernatural glow in a color of your choice that, once selected, can’t be changed. You gain low-light vision and darkvision to a range of 60 feet. If you already have darkvision, the range of your darkvision increases to 120 feet.

You view time milliseconds ahead of reality, allowing you to avoid having your spells disrupted. When you’re casting a spell and you take damage or are subjected to an effect that could break your concentration and cause the spell to fail, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to move your body a fraction of an inch away from the part of the blow that would’ve disrupted you. Your spell doesn’t fail unless the damage or effect knocks you unconscious.

In addition, you gain a +1 insight bonus to initiative that increases by 1 at level 12 and again at level 18.

At 9th level, you can select from among the following class features, depending on which organizational philosophy you choose to follow.

Once you decide which 9th-level alternate class feature to take, you can’t change this decision.

Your gaze has become so discerning that you can now take advantage of some aspects of your abilities even when you’re simply peering through viewscreens and cockpits. When piloting a vehicle, operating a mech, or serving as a magical officer or pilot onboard a starship, your craft gains a +1 insight bonus to its Armor Class. Aboard a starship, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to guide the vessel inches away from possible disaster when taking critical damage. In this case, the critical damage effect is rolled twice and you get to decide which of the two rolled systems is affected. When in a mech or vehicle, you can spend 1 Resolve Point as a reaction to ignore a critical hit effect scored against your craft.

With your armored visor, you hunt down everything that seeks to hide from you; nothing escapes your burning gaze. You gain the see in darkness universal creature rule and can cast true seeing twice per day as a spell-like ability. In place of a use of true seeing, you can instead cast clairaudience/clairvoyance (sight only) with a range limited only by what you can view. This includes being able to view a specific point on the surface of a planetary body while you’re orbiting it from a starship, and vice versa.