Operative Exploit

Extraordinary

Level2

Your vast experience makes identifying new creatures easier for you. Double your operative’s edge bonus to your skill checks when identifying a creature and its abilities. If you successfully identify a creature, you gain a +2 enhancement bonus to your skill check when you make a trick attack against that creature.

For your debilitating trick, you can make your target more vulnerable to magic. The target takes a –1 penalty to saving throws against the next spell they are affected by before the end of your next turn.

You’ve learned to customize your armor. You can adjust armor to fit you without needing to attempt an Engineering check. This also allows you to add one upgrade slot to the armor, though any upgrade that uses that slot functions only when you wear the armor. Such upgrades are useless to anyone else.

You rely on aspects of your culture or society that others might find unfamiliar to pique their interest and make a good impression. Double your operative’s edge bonus to Bluff and Diplomacy checks when interacting with a creature or creatures who are unfamiliar with your species or home world (at the GM’s discretion). When you encounter such creatures, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to attempt a special Bluff or Diplomacy check whose DC equals 10 + 1-1/2 × the highest CR of these creatures, plus 1 for each additional creature in the group (maximum +10 for a group of 11 or more creatures). If you succeed, the creatures’ starting attitude improves by one step for 1 hour. This improvement doesn’t stack with any caused by other effects; however, this exploit’s short duration might allow you to attempt longer-lasting adjustments, such as with Diplomacy checks to change attitude.

Whenever you successfully aid an ally’s skill check using one of your specialization’s associated skills, you can give that ally a bonus to their skill check equal to your operative’s edge bonus rather than +2.

You gain a bonus combat feat. You must meet all of that feat’s prerequisites.

You can attempt an Athletics check in place of Acrobatics check when attempting to tumble through an opponent’s space. You can choose to attempt to tumble through an opponent’s space as a full action instead of as a move action, in which case you can move up to half your speed and reduce the check DC by 5.

You are adept at concealing your weapons and other items. Double your operative’s edge bonus to Sleight of Hand checks when attempting to hide a small object on your body. Additionally, you can draw a hidden weapon as quickly as a non-hidden weapon.

As part of any attack you make, you can add the operative weapon special feature to your unarmed attacks. When you do this, it loses the archaic weapon special feature. When you do this, if you would normally add 1-1/2 times your character level to damage as a special form of specialization (such as from a racial trait such as a vesk’s natural weapons), you instead add only your character level to damage. This is true regardless of how many abilities or effects you have modifying your specialization that apply to your unarmed attacks.

When a vehicle you’re in becomes broken, becomes wrecked, crashes, or takes collision damage, you can use a reaction to jump from the vehicle as though you had a running start. You halve any falling damage you might take from this jump. You can’t use this exploit if you’re currently benefiting from total cover inside a vehicle, and the GM might prohibit its use in other situations where you couldn’t feasibly reach and break free from a vehicle’s interior.

You can attempt Survival checks in place of Life Science checks to identify animal, plant, and vermin creatures. You can move at your full overland speed when using Survival to live off the land, and your successful check provides food and water for an additional number of creatures equal to your operative’s edge bonus.

You can attempt an Engineering check to disable a device on a lock or trap in half the normal time. If this would reduce the duration to less than 1 round, you can disable the device as a standard action.

You are practiced at quickly utilizing spell ampoules in emergency situations. You can inject yourself or a willing creature with a spell ampoule as a move action and can inject an unconscious creature as a standard action.

Whenever you take damage, you can attempt to feign death as a reaction. You immediately fall prone and attempt a Bluff check against each opponent that is aware of you. The DC for this check is equal to 10 + your opponent’s total Sense Motive skill bonus, or 15 + 1-1/2 × the opponent’s CR, whichever is greater. Any opponent that you succeed against believes that you are dead and acts accordingly unless it inspects your body as a standard action and succeeds at a Medicine, Perception, or Sense Motive check at the same DC to uncover your deception. Maintaining this ruse is a full action each turn.

You gain the Kip Up feat as a bonus feat. As a reaction when you become prone, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to stand up. This does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

You can take 1 minute to tend your wounds and spend 1 Resolve Point to recover a number of Hit Points equal to three times your operative level.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to silence your target. The target must succeed at a Fortitude save or become unable to speak; they are unable to use any language-dependent abilities until the end of your next turn. If the target fails this save while silenced by this trick, or if you spend 1 Resolve Point when you use this trick, the target instead becomes unable to speak or use any language-dependent abilities for 1 minute.

As a reaction when you jump or fall more than 10 feet, you can treat gravity as if it were 1 step lower until the end of your next round. You ignore penalties from the off-kilter condition for the duration. If you spend a Resolve Point, you can treat gravity as if it were 2 steps lower, and this effect lasts for 1 minute. Once you’ve used this ability, you can’t use it again until you spend 1 RP to regain Stamina Points after a 10-minute rest.

You gain proficiency with heavy armor.

You can create holographic duplicates or psychic projections of yourself that conceal your true location. Once per day as a standard action, you can create 1d4 images of yourself that last for 1 minute per operative level. This ability otherwise functions as mirror image. You can use this exploit an additional time per day at 6th level, and again at 10th level.

You’ve trained to resist various chemical and biological weapons, toxins, and pathogens you come across in the course of your missions. You add your operative’s edge bonus to Fortitude saves against poison and disease.

Victory reinvigorates you. Once per round when one of your attacks defeats a significant enemy, you regain Stamina Points equal to 1d4 + your key ability score modifier. The number of Stamina Points you regain increases by 1d4 at 5th level and every 3 levels thereafter.

You’ve learned how to handle any situation. You can use all skills untrained, and you double your operative’s edge bonus when using a skill in which you have no ranks.

As a move action, or at the beginning of any action you take that allows you to move (even if you do not choose to use that action to move), you may attempt to kick an unattended, unsecured object of no more than 2 bulk that is on the ground in your square or an adjacent square up into your hands. You must attempt a DC 15 Acrobatics check, and on a success you are holding the object in one or more of your free hands. If you hold it with enough hands to allow you to wield it, you can choose to be wielding it.

You treat all small arms that do not have the automatic weapon special property as having the quick reload weapon special property.

You gain the backing of a mysterious benefactor who has yet to reveal themself to you. Whether they use telepathy, conveniently placed graffiti, or coded messages sent straight to your comm unit, they always seem to know how to find you, but you’ve yet to figure out who they are. When you fail a Recall Knowledge check, your benefactor will send you a clue; you can either reroll the check or add 5 to your result and use the new value to determine whether you succeed at the check. Once you’ve used this ability, you can’t use it again until you spend 1 Resolve Point to regain Stamina Points after a 10-minute rest.

You can see in the dark as if you had low-light vision and darkvision with a range of 60 feet.

You can use a small arm to make a melee attack. Treat this as an attack using Improved Unarmed Strike (whether or not you have that feat), but the attack is not archaic, deals lethal damage, and has the operative weapon special property. If you have an ability that gives you a special version of Weapon Specialization that allows you to add 1-1/2 × your level to natural or unarmed attacks as damage (such as vesk natural weapons), you add your level to pistol whip unarmed strikes; otherwise you add half your level as normal for an operative weapon. When you make an unarmed attack, you must decide before making the attack roll whether you are making a normal unarmed attack or using pistol whip to attack with a small arm.

You can perform an Athletics check in place of any Acrobatics check to fly. When ascending, the second square that you move upward doesn’t cost you an additional 5 feet of movement. You must have a fly speed to learn this exploit.

Once per day as a standard action, you can quickly change your appearance. This functions as disguise self and lasts for 1 minute per operative level. You can use this exploit an additional time per day at 6th level, and again at 10th level.

You have trained in methods to resist telepathic intrusion. Once per day, you can cast mental silence as a spell-like ability, using your character level as your caster level. You gain an additional use of this exploit at 6th level, and again at 10th level.

You can use detect magic as a spell-like ability at will, treating your operative level as your caster level. This allows you to attempt Mysticism checks to identify magic items.

You’ve learned how to turn anything into a weapon. When using a one-handed non-weapon object as an improvised weapon, you don’t treat it as archaic, and if you would take a –4 penalty to attacks with that weapon because it is improvised, that penalty is reduced by 2.

You gain the Special Weapon Proficiency feat with carbonedge shuriken (and no other model of shuriken) as a bonus feat. Additionally, you can add your Dexterity modifier rather than your Strength modifier to ranged attack rolls with carbonedge shuriken, and you make melee attack rolls with carbonedge shuriken as if they were basic melee operative weapons. You can use the trick attack class feature with a carbonedge shuriken. At 3rd level, you gain the Weapon Specialization feat with carbonedge shuriken (and no other model of shuriken) as a bonus feat. At 12th level, you deal an additional 1d4 damage with carbonedge shuriken and treat them as having the injection weapon special property. At 17th level, the additional damage dealt with carbonedge shuriken increases from 1d4 to 2d4.

You double your operative’s edge bonus to Perception checks to notice traps. Additionally, you automatically receive a Perception check to notice a trap when you pass within 10 feet of it.

When you make a trick attack, if you choose the target of your attack before you move, your movement doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity from that target. When you use your standard action to move, you can choose one creature; you don’t provoke attacks of opportunity from that creature for this movement.

When you attack while you’re driving a vehicle, you halve the vehicle’s penalty to your attack roll (to a minimum of no penalty if the vehicle normally imposes a –1 penalty). When you’re in a chase, you gain a +2 bonus to skill checks you attempt when taking the evade or trick pilot actions.

When you attempt a skill check opposed by a foe’s Perception check, you gain a +2 enhancement bonus to your skill check’s result. In addition, the DC to follow your tracks with the Survival skill increases by 4.

Double your operative’s edge bonus to Culture checks made to decipher writing. You don’t risk entirely misconstruing the meaning of the text unless you fail the check by 15 or more. If your result exceeds the DC by 5 or more, you decipher the writing in half the usual time.

You’re adept at piloting terrestrial vehicles. You gain a +2 circumstance bonus to skill checks to use tricks during a vehicle chase. Once per vehicle chase while you’re piloting a vehicle, you can perform the double maneuver action, taking a –2 penalty to each skill check rather than a –4 penalty (or no penalty if your vehicle’s full speed is at least 50 feet faster than the fastest enemy vehicle’s full speed). You must have the uncanny pilot exploit to learn this exploit.

You’ve learned how to work with the chemical composition of different poisons. You can take 1 minute and spend 1 Resolve Point to alter the type (between injury, ingested, or inhaled) of up to one dose of poison per your operative’s edge bonus. At 12th level, you gain the ability to alter the effects of your poison in addition to its delivery method. When you spend 1 minute altering your poison, you can spend 1 RP to change the poison’s track from one ability score to another. Any alterations are unstable and last only 24 hours. You can spend one minute to revert any number of doses of altered poisons from one type to another, returning them to their original containers even if they were consumable (ingested) or already applied to a weapon (injury).

For your debilitating trick, you can afflict your target with an amount of bleed damage equal to your operative level.

You’ve learned how to wield any object as though it were an effective weapon. When using a one-handed non-weapon object as an improvised weapon, you can treat it as though it has the operative special weapon trait, and you can ignore all penalties to attacks with a weapon because it is improvised. You must have the shank exploit to learn this exploit.

You’ve learned to recognize the signs of a dangerous hazard. You double your operative’s edge bonus to Perception checks to notice hazards. Additionally, you can add your operative’s edge bonus to saves against hazards.

You can spend 1 Resolve Point as a reaction to reroll one of your specialization’s associated skill checks (see page 243).

Once per day, you can use your mysterious benefactor exploit to reroll a failed Earn a Living check, or you can add 5 to your result and use the new value as the result of the check. At the GM’s discretion, this ability can also be used to reroll a Charisma-based skill check when you need a professional to help you, such as when you are disguised as a clerk and need another employee to vouch for your disguise, or when you knock out a bouncer at a club and need a replacement to cover their shift. You must have the mysterious benefactor exploit to learn this exploit.

You can make deafening attacks with sonic weapons. For your debilitating trick, if you are using a weapon that deals sonic damage, your target must succeed at a Fortitude save. If they are successful, they are deafened for 1 round. If they fail, they are deafened for 1 minute and dazed until the end of their next turn.

You can use trick attack with sniper weapons; this counts as aiming the weapon for the purposes of the sniper weapon special property. You do not add trick attack damage to your attack, but the target can still be made flat-footed, and you can use debilitating tricks.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to disarm the target. Choose an item the target is holding that would be subject to a standard disarm combat maneuver. The target must succeed at a Reflex save or drop that item. If the target gains a bonus to its KAC against disarm combat maneuvers it adds this bonus to its saving throw, and if it is immune to the disarm combat maneuver it is immune to this operative exploit. Once you have used this ability to attempt to disarm a creature, that creature is immune to your disarming attack for 24 hours.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to hinder your opponent’s ability to cast spells and spell-like abilities. The target must succeed at a Will save or be unable to cast spells or spell-like abilities for 1 round. Once you’ve used this ability to attempt to hinder an opponent’s spellcasting, that creature is immune to your disrupting shot for 24 hours. You must have the deactivating shot and staggering shot exploits to choose this exploit.

You can sense your surroundings without needing to see them. You gain blindsense with a range of 60 feet. You must have darkvision and low-light vision, or the nightvision exploit, to learn this exploit.

You’re proficient with disintegration lashes (Armory 10), monowhips, plasma lashes (Armory 10), taclashes, and similar one-handed, whip-like advanced melee weapons (at the GM’s discretion). You gain weapon specialization in these weapons as if your class granted proficiency, and you can use trick attack with these weapons. You don’t add trick attack damage to your attack, but the target is still flatfooted, and you can use debilitating tricks. You can choose to deal lethal damage with such weapons if they normally deal nonlethal damage.

As long as you are not flat-footed, off-kilter, or off-target, when attacking with a sniper rifle you use the range increment value listed with the sniper special property.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to expose your enemies and make them easier to hit. Choose a target benefiting from cover. Reduce the AC bonus that the target gains from cover by 2 against all other attacks until the beginning of your next turn. This ability stacks with itself. When you score a critical hit using this exploit, you also apply the push (5 ft.) critical hit effect (Starfinder Armory 31). If the attack would already apply a push critical hit effect, you can increase the distance the target is pushed by 5 feet.

For your debilitating trick, you can reduce your target’s speeds by half and prevent it from using the guarded step action until the beginning of your next turn.

You exploit elevation to deliver especially deadly attacks from afar. When performing a trick attack with a sniper weapon, and so long as you’re at least 20 feet above your target for every 100 feet between you and the target (minimum 20 feet), you gain a bonus to the attack’s damage equal to half your operative level. You must have the debilitating sniper exploit to learn this exploit.

You can move even faster than other operatives. You gain double the benefits of your quick movement ability, up to a maximum additional increase of +20 feet. You must have quick movement to learn this exploit.

For your debilitating trick, you can prevent your target from using reactions (see page 244) until the end of your next turn.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to knock the target prone. The target must succeed at a Reflex save or fall prone. If the target gains a bonus to its KAC against trip combat maneuvers, it adds this bonus to its saving throw, and if it is immune to the trip combat maneuver it is immune to this operative exploit. Once you’ve used this ability to attempt to knock a target prone, that creature is immune to your knee shot for 24 hours. This exploit counts as staggering shot for the purpose of meeting the prerequisites of other operative exploits.

Whether you use smoke, holograms, or just a convincing lie, you can convince your enemy that they are surrounded, backing into a trap, or otherwise at risk from some unseen danger. As a move action, you can select a target within melee range. The target must succeed at a Will save or become flat- footed until the end of their turn. If they fail the save, you can spend a Resolve Point to make them flat-footed until the end of your next turn instead.

If you fail your Will saving throw against a mind-affecting effect with a duration of 1 round or more, you can attempt another saving throw against the effect 1 round later at the same DC. You get only one extra chance to save per effect.

If you succeed at a saving throw against a charm or compulsion effect, you can prevent the effect’s originator from knowing you succeeded. You gain basic knowledge of what the mental effect would have made you do or feel, and you can attempt a Bluff check to pretend you are under that effect. If the mental effect would provide a link between you and the originator (like the dominate person spell), you can choose to allow the link without the control.

You’ve proven yourself to your benefactor and they trust you enough to provide additional information. You can use the mysterious benefactor to reroll a failed Gather Information or Search check, or add 5 to your result and use the new value to determine whether you succeed at the check. You can spend 1 Resolve Point to contact your benefactor and demand help, allowing you to use mysterious benefactor again even if you haven’t taken a 10-minute rest to recover Stamina Points. You must have the mysterious benefactor exploit to learn this exploit.

As a standard action, you can make a charge without the normal penalty to attack rolls when attacking on a charge, provided that you use an operative melee weapon to make the attack at the end of the charge. If the attack hits, you can substitute a debilitating trick effect for the damage the attack would deal.

Choose one Profession skill. Add that skill to the list of skills you can use to perform trick attacks. If your chosen Profession skill used for a trick attack matches the Profession skill listed for a weapon you wield that has the professional weapon special property (Armory 30), you can use that weapon to perform the trick attack. Unless the weapon either has the operative special weapon property or is also a small arm, you don’t add trick attack damage to your attack, but the target is still flat-footed, and you can use debilitating tricks.

You’ve trained in ancient gladiatorial arts that make use of nets. You gain the Special Weapon Proficiency feat with nyfiber net as a bonus feat. You can trick attack with this weapon. You don’t add trick damage to your attack, but the target is still flat-footed, and you can use debilitating tricks. At level 6, the DC for a creature to escape your nyfiber net using Acrobatics or Strength becomes 10 + your operative level + your Dexterity modifier.

When you hit an enemy with a trick attack using a ranged weapon that targets KAC, you can forgo the effects of your debilitating trick to instead ricochet the projectile to a second target. Make a ranged attack at –6 against the second target and deal normal damage (without trick attack benefits) if the attack hits. You must have line of effect and line of sight both from you to the second target, and from the first target to the second target. When determining your attack penalties from range against the second target, count the full distance from you to the first target, and then the second target.

Instead of making an attack as part of a trick attack, you can perform either covering fire or harrying fire. After resolving your covering fire or harrying fire, attempt the trick attack’s skill check as normal. If you succeed at the check, you provide an additional benefit. For covering fire, if the selected ally is hit by the target’s next attack before the end of your next turn, roll your trick attack damage and reduce the enemy’s damage dealt to your ally by that amount (minimum 0 damage). For harrying fire, if the next ally to attack the target hits, roll your trick attack damage and add it to the attack’s damage. Once an ally takes less damage from your covering fire benefit or a creature takes additional damage from your harrying fire benefit, they are immune to your setup strike’s additional benefit for 24 hours.

As a full action, you can move up to twice your speed, ignoring difficult terrain. When moving in this way, any liquid or solid surface will support you, regardless of your weight. You can move across water, lava, or even the thinnest tree branches, and environmental circumstances such as the slipperiness of the area you’re moving through or the current wind speed do not adjust the DCs of any Acrobatics or Athletics checks you attempt during this movement. While moving this way, you do not take damage from surfaces or hazards that react to being touched while moving in this way, such as from lava, and you don’t trigger any traps that use a location-based trigger. This ability doesn’t allow you to move across gases or vacuums, nor does it allow you to move across walls or vertical surfaces (though you can do so if you have an ability that allows you to, such as spider climb). At the end of your turn, this ability ends, and you are subject to any consequence of your location.

You can disable mechanical devices with Engineering and computer systems with Computers in half the usual time. In the rare cases when disabling a system or device would normally be a full action, you can do it as a standard action, and if it would normally be a standard action, you can do it as a move action.

Once per turn when you succeed at a skill check to tumble through an opponent’s space, you can push off of that creature to gain additional momentum at the cost of their balance. Until the beginning of your next turn, the creature takes a –2 penalty to attack rolls when making attacks of opportunity, and the skill check DC for other creatures to tumble around or through the creature’s space is reduced by 5 (Reflex negates). In addition, you gain a +10-foot circumstance bonus to all of your movement speeds until the end of your turn.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to stagger your target. The target must succeed at a Fortitude save or be staggered until the beginning of your next turn. Once you’ve used this ability to attempt to stagger a creature, that creature is immune to your staggering shot for 24 hours.

If you succeed at a Fortitude save against an effect that normally requires multiples successful saves to cure (such as a disease or poison), that effect immediately ends and is cured with a single successful save.

You move at your full speed when moving over difficult terrain, and without penalty when using Acrobatics or Stealth at your full speed.

Your ranged attacks with small arms do not provoke attacks of opportunity.

For your debilitating trick, you can delay when the target of your trick attack takes damage and any other effects of your attack for up to 1 round per level (chosen when your attack hits). The target remains unaware that they were damaged by the attack, shrugging it off as a grazing blow unless they have seen you use this ability before. You can immediately cause the target to take all damage and other effects delayed by this exploit as a swift action. If you defeat a significant enemy with damage that was delayed by this exploit for at least 1 round, you can take a reaction and spend 1 Resolve Point to attempt to demoralize a creature within 30 feet of the defeated enemy.

When calculating the Athletics check DC to jump, treat the total distance you’re trying to jump as though it were reduced by an amount equal to half your land speed bonus granted by the quick movement operative ability. As long as your jump brings you in contact with a solid surface like a wall or large piece of debris, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to immediately jump again from that surface as part of the same move action as though you had a running start; only after resolving this second jump do you fall if not on a surface that can support you.

You can magically imbue sniper weapons using your magical assassin feature (page 28). When you succeed at the associated Mysticism check to deal additional damage with an imbued sniper weapon, instead of rolling your additional damage dice, you deal 3 additional damage of the chosen type, plus 1 at 7th level and every 2 levels thereafter (maximum 10 additional damage at 19th level).

Whether your shot ricochets, hits a grenade, or otherwise causes a dangerous chain reaction, you can set your trick shot up to cause significant damage even if you miss. If you succeed by 10 or more at the skill check to deal additional damage on a trick attack but miss your subsequent attack roll, you can choose to sabotage your target’s move action or standard action. If the target then performs the chosen action, they take damage equal to the additional damage you would have dealt with your trick attack. Normally, all damage taken is the same as your attack; however, a GM might change the damage based on their description of the action. If you spend 2 Resolve Points when you use this exploit, you can trigger your own plan as a reaction and add the effects of a debilitating trick. Once you’ve used this ability, you can’t use it again until you spend 1 Resolve Point to regain Stamina Points after a 10-minute rest.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to temporarily blind a target. The target must succeed at a Fortitude save or gain the blinded condition for 1 round. Once you’ve used this ability to attempt to temporarily blind a creature, that creature is immune to your blinding shot for 24 hours. You must have the bleeding shot exploit to learn this exploit.

You have many talents and know how to apply them to different skills with a little research and preparation. You gain Skill Focus in a Profession skill as a bonus feat. You can take 10-minutes and spend 1 Resolve point to select a different Profession for the Skill Focus bonus feat you gained from this exploit.

You can bend light around yourself and muffle any minor sounds you make, allowing you to nearly vanish when not moving. Even when you move, you appear only as an outline with blurry features. This cloaking field doesn’t make you invisible, but it does make it easier to sneak around. Activating the cloaking field is a move action. While the cloaking field is active, you can use Stealth to hide, even while being directly observed and with no place to hide. Attacking doesn’t end the cloaking field, but it does end that particular attempt to hide. If you remain perfectly still for at least 1 round, you gain a +10 bonus to Stealth checks (which doesn’t stack with invisibility) until you move.

Your cloaking field lasts for up to 10 rounds before it becomes inactive. While inactive, the cloaking field recharges automatically at the rate of 1 round of cloaking per minute.

When you fail an Acrobatics or Athletics check, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to either reroll the check and use the new result or add 5 to your result and use the new value to determine whether you succeed at the check. You can’t use this ability on trick attack attempts. Once you’ve used this ability, you can’t use it again until you’ve taken a 10-minute rest to recover Stamina Points.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to temporarily suppress one magic item or deactivate one weapon, piece of equipment, or armor upgrade worn or carried by the target. Roll 1d20 + your operative level; the DC is equal to 10 + the item level. If you succeed, you deactivate the device (or suppress the item’s magical properties) until the beginning of your next turn. The device’s owner can spend a move action and attempt an Engineering check (for technological devices) or a Mysticism check (for magic items) against your operative exploit DC to try to reactivate the device.

You can instead use this debilitating trick to temporarily deactivate a construct that has either the magical subtype (such as a golem) or the technological subtype (such as a robot). You don’t need to attempt a check, but the creature can attempt a Fortitude save to negate the debilitating effect. If it fails, it’s stunned until the beginning of your next turn. Once you’ve used this ability to attempt to deactivate a construct, that creature is immune to your deactivating shot for 24 hours.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to scare your opponent into dropping whatever they’re holding. Attempt an Intimidate check to demoralize a target within 30 feet of you. If you succeed, choose an item the target is holding that would be subject to a standard disarm combat maneuver. The target must succeed at a Will save or fumble that item. A fumbled item isn’t dropped, but the target can’t operate the item without spending a move action to restore its grip on the item, and until the target restores its grip, combat maneuvers made to disarm the fumbled item gain a +5 bonus. If the target fails its Will save by 5 or more, it instead drops the item as if you had disarmed it.

This ability can instead impede a target using a weapon with the integrated weapon special property. Failing the Will save by any amount causes the target to believe your attack damaged the integrated weapon in some way, preventing them from using that weapon for 1d6 rounds. As a move action, the target can check the affected weapon to end this effect.

Once you’ve used this ability against a creature, it becomes immune to your disarming command for 1 hour.

Your hacking skills make your code incredibly difficult for countermeasures to pin down. Whenever you would trigger a system’s countermeasure while hacking the system, there is a 50% chance that you manage to elude the countermeasure and it doesn’t trigger. You still haven’t disarmed the countermeasure, and it might trigger in the future.

You’ve been on enough solo missions to know that you can’t let your guard down, even while sleeping. You take no penalties to Perception checks for being asleep, though you still can’t succeed at purely visual Perception checks while asleep. You can always act on the surprise round, though if you choose to do so when you would otherwise be surprised, you use your initiative result or the initiative result of the first creature that would have surprised you – 1, whichever is lower.

After failing a saving throw against a magical effect with a duration longer than 1 round, you can attempt a second saving throw the following round to shake off the effect. If you succeed on this second saving throw, you gain a +2 insight bonus to saves against magical effects produced by the creature whose effect you just saved against; this bonus lasts for 24 hours.

When you hit an enemy with a trick attack, you can forgo your trick attack damage to increase the duration of the debilitating trick effect by 1 round. If you have the double debilitation ability, the duration of both debilitating tricks increases. Debilitating tricks with no duration (such as bleeding shot or knee shot) are unaffected.

As a reaction, when a creature targets you with a hostile action, you can implant a brief psychic suggestion that you are a loved one, ally, or other creature they’d be unwilling to attack. The creature attempts a Will save against this mind‑affecting compulsion effect. If they succeed, they are shaken for 1 round by the unsettling experience. If they fail, the creature flinches and misses with the triggering attack, and additional attacks they make against you until the beginning of their next turn take a –2 penalty. Once you’ve used this ability, you cannot do so again until you rest for 10 minutes to recover Stamina Points.

After you finish moving as part of a trick attack (and before attempting your attack, if you haven’t done so already), you can perform a quick, intimidating display that makes any foe adjacent to you shaken until the beginning of your next turn (Will negates). This shaken condition is suppressed for a creature whenever it is no longer adjacent to you. Once you use this exploit, you can’t do so again until you rest for 10 minutes to regain Stamina Points. This is a fear effect.

You can’t be tracked using the Survival skill, though magical methods of following your tracks or finding your location function normally. When you would activate a trap with a proximity trigger, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to attempt a Stealth check whose DC equals the Perception DC to find the trap. If you succeed, you don’t trigger the trap for 1 round. The trap becomes immune to this ability for 24 hours afterward. This ability doesn’t prevent you from triggering the trap if you remain in the area, nor does it prevent other creatures from triggering the trap. You must have the without a trace (Character Operations Manual 82) exploit to learn this exploit.

By picking up on subtle clues and hidden traces in your immediate surroundings, you can see things as they really are. As a full action, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to gain the effects of true seeing for 1 round with a range of 60 feet.

As a standard action, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to create a single holographic duplicate or psychic projection of yourself that moves away from you for 1 round per operative level. The double climbs walls, jumps across pits, or simply passes through obstacles, moving at twice your speed in one direction indicated by you when the ability is activated. Its course cannot be changed. Those who interact with the double can attempt a Will save to recognize that it is not real. You must have the holographic clone exploit to learn this exploit.

When you fail a Reflex save against an effect that has a partial effect on a successful save, you take the partial effect instead of the full effect. You must have evasion to learn this exploit.

When you use the trick attack action or take a standard action to move up to your speed, your movement doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity. You still provoke attacks of opportunity normally when making ranged attacks or casting spells. You must have the uncanny mobility exploit to learn this exploit.

When you succeed at a Bluff check to lie, a Diplomacy check to change a creature’s attitude, or an Intimidate check to bully a creature, you can so deeply impact one of the affected creatures that it repeats your action against one of its allies as soon as it reasonably can, using your skill check modifier. If you lied, the creature conveys the lie sincerely. If you changed the creature’s attitude, that creature tries to change its ally’s attitude toward you. If you bullied the creature, it bullies its ally into helping perform the same task. If you spend 1 Resolve Point when using this exploit, the creature instead repeats the action against a number of allies that doesn’t exceed your key ability score modifier. Affected creatures want to repeat your action, but aren’t compelled to do so; if they encounter significant obstacles while seeking out allies, it might detour or even abandon the task.

You have access to a secret intelligence network that gets you snippets of information and rumors you can sometimes use to reveal secrets or weaknesses of your rivals. This may be a collection of operatives and spies you have infiltrated, a connection to a formal information broker you trade tidbits of knowledge with, or an assemblage of allies and informants you’ve carefully curated over your travels.

You can make an inquiry to your intelligence network as long as you have access to an infosphere or communication device with at least system-wide range. This gives you the same information you would gain from casting the vision spell, except you make a special class level check (1d20 + your operative level) in place of a caster level check, it does not require a Resolve Point, and it takes 1d4 weeks for your network to get an answer to you. Your network can work on only one question at a time, and if you make a new request before a previous one is fulfilled, all time spend on the original question is lost, and you take a –1 penalty to your new class level check due to confusion and lack of focus among your network.

Your confidence surges whenever you defeat a difficult foe, compelling you to face your next challenger. When one of your attacks defeats a significant enemy, you can move up to half your speed.

When you perform a trick attack with a one-handed, whip-like melee weapon for your debilitating attack, you can attempt to reposition the target. The target must succeed at a Reflex save or be moved 5 feet to a different location within your weapon’s reach and within 5 feet of its original placement. You can’t move the target past an obstacle. You must have the explorer’s lash exploit to learn this exploit.

You catch your opponent off-guard by arming yourself and attacking before they have an opportunity to defend themselves. You can stand up instead of moving, or draw a weapon when you move, during a trick attack. You can use the kick it up exploit at any point during a move action or trick attack in which you move up to your speed. When you hit an enemy with a trick attack using a melee weapon you were not wielding before you started the trick attack, and when the result of your trick attack exceeds the DC, you can spend 1 Resolve Point to add the difference between the result and the DC as additional damage to the attack.

You can take on the appearances of other creatures and even specific individuals. This functions as the quick disguise exploit, but the duration increases to 10 minutes per operative level. Alternatively, for 1 minute per operative level, you can take on the appearance of a specific individual that you have seen before. If you have heard the individual talk and can speak her language, you can also modulate your speech to match hers. This disguise is so convincing that creatures familiar with the individual must succeed at a Will saving throw before they can attempt a Perception check to pierce the disguise. You must have the quick disguise exploit to learn this exploit.

You can produce a pyrotechnic display with your weapon that elicits a primal fear of fire. For your debilitating trick, whenever you are using a weapon that deals fire damage or has the burn critical hit effect, your target must succeed at a Will save. If they fail, they become frightened and run away for 1 round. Creatures that are resistant or immune to fire damage gain a +2 circumstance bonus to their Will saves against this exploit, but those with vulnerability to fire instead take a –2 penalty to saves against this exploit.

If you succeed by 10 or more at the skill check to deal additional damage on a trick attack, you ignore cover or concealment (but not total cover or total concealment) for that attack.

You become exceptionally good at playing dead. Maintaining feign death is a move action each turn. Each time you use any other action, opponents who are aware of you can try to uncover your deception with a Perception check against your exploit operative DC as a reaction. Opponents become aware that you are not dead if you move, attack another creature, or perform another obvious action that draws attention to you (at the GM’s discretion). You must have the feign death exploit to learn this exploit.

You have a tiny pocket dimension that functions as a null-space chamber that can store one item of up to 2 bulk. As a standard action, you can spend 1 Resolve Point and touch a piece of equipment that you own to transport it into the pocket dimension. As a move action, you can withdraw the stored object from the pocket dimension. Any object stored in the pocket dimension doesn’t experience the flow of time: matter doesn’t decay, temperatures remain stable, and ongoing spells’ durations and effects are paused. Any object currently occupying your pocket dimension when you fall unconscious reappears in your space.

You can use psychokinetic hand as a spell-like ability at will. You can affect objects weighing up to 10 pounds per operative level you have, or 1 bulk per operative level you have. Additionally, you can use this spell-like ability with the Sleight of Hand skill and to perform the disable device task of the Engineering and Mysticism skills.

When you use the aid another action to help a creature succeed at a skill check in a skill in which you have the Skill Focus feat, add your operative’s edge to the assisted creature’s check in addition to the +2 bonus granted by a successful aid another attempt. Creatures observing both you and the creature you assist can attempt a Perception check against a DC equal to 5 + the result of your aid another check to notice if you used the aid another action.

You’ve learned to strike back instantly when an opponent shows an opening. As a reaction, you can attack an opponent in a space you threaten who rolls a natural 1 on an attack roll against you. You can also spend 2 Resolve Points to trigger riposte from any missed attack roll.

Choose a starship stunt (once made, this choice can’t be changed). When you make a Piloting check to perform that stunt in starship combat, roll twice and take the better result. You can choose and apply this exploit’s benefits to an additional stunt at 14th level and again at 18th level.

You can unravel the subtle strings of magic as they close in around you. Once per day, when you are affected by a hostile spell, you can attempt a dispel check using your operative level as your caster level. The DC is equal to 11 + the other spellcaster’s caster level. If you succeed, the spell has no effect on you, but may still affect other targets. When you succeed at a dispel check, you can also spend 1 Resolve Point to render any number of allies within 30 feet of you unaffected by the spell. The spell is countered if no targets are affected. At 14th level, you can use this an additional time per day.

You can traverse surfaces—even perfectly smooth or vertical ones—with as little effort as a spider. You gain spider climb as a constant spell-like ability. If your spider climb spell is dispelled or dismissed, you can spend 5 minutes of uninterrupted concentration to reestablish it. You must have a climb speed to choose this exploit.

For your debilitating trick, you can try to stun your target. The target must succeed at a Fortitude save or be stunned until the start of your next turn. Once you’ve used this ability to try to stun a creature, it’s immune to your stunning shot for 24 hours. You must have the staggering shot exploit to learn this exploit.

You’re able to use the momentum of your attacks to swap places with your targets. When you hit an enemy with a melee trick attack that targets their KAC, you can forgo the effects of your debilitating trick or the damage of your trick attack (your choice) to instead switch places with your target. This movement doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity and can’t be used to move a creature into a hazardous space. You must have the uncanny mobility exploit to learn this exploit.

When you perform a trick attack, you make exceptional use of nearby cover and concealment until the beginning of your next turn. If you have partial cover or cover and would be hit by an attack or fail a Reflex save, you can spend 1 Resolve Point as a reaction to increase the cover’s bonus to your AC and Reflex saves by 2 against that effect; this ability can cause the attack to miss or cause your saving throw to succeed. If an attack would hit you while you have concealment, but the miss chance for concealment hasn’t yet been rolled, you can spend 1 Resolve Point as a reaction to increase the miss chance for concealment by 10% (maximum 35% miss chance). If the triggering attack misses, you can immediately take a guarded step.

When you use a full action to perform the ram or run over vehicle actions, you can perform a Piloting check with a DC of 20 + your target’s CR (or the first target’s CR for the run over action). If you succeed, roll your trick attack damage and divide the result by 2. You add this amount to the collision damage your vehicle deals to the first target, and you subtract this amount from the damage dealt to your vehicle when colliding with the first target. If you succeed at the Piloting check by 5 or more, you can also apply your debilitating trick to the first target you damage with the action.

You can spend credits to store supplies in your utility belt, effectively depositing credits for later use. The maximum amount is equal to 1,000 credits per operative level you have (2,000 credits per level at 13th level, and 5,000 credits per level at 17th level). As a move action, you can produce any item with light or negligible bulk from your utility belt that does not have a price that exceeds the amount of credits currently deposited in the belt and that has an item level no greater than your operative level –2. This reduces the number of credits stored in the belt by a value equal to the item’s price. Once you have spent the credits deposited in the belt, you must spend 1d4 hours buying supplies in a typical settlement before you can use the utility belt again.

You gain a climb speed and a swim speed equal to your land speed. This speed is not increased by the quick movement class feature or improved quick movement exploit.

You can take an unexpected or socially unacceptable action with such total confidence and lack of doubt that the target can’t immediately react to it. You can make an Intimidate check to demoralize a foe, but rather than cause them to be shaken on a successful check, you cause them to be staggered for 1 round plus 1 additional round for every 5 by which your result exceeds the DC. Once you have used this ability against a specific target, you cannot target them with it again for 24 hours.

Select an operative specialization other than your own. Once this choice has been made, it cannot be changed. You gain the 11th level ability granted by the specialization. You are not considered to have the second specialization you selected for purpose of any prerequisite.

You must have Skill Focus in the associated skills of the selected specialization, and must have taken its specialization exploit as one of your normal operative exploits.

Your cloaking field lasts for up to 100 rounds (10 minutes), and it recharges at the rate of 2 rounds of cloaking per minute while inactive. You can spend 1 Resolve Point as a move action to recharge 20 rounds immediately, and you can do this even while the cloaking field is active. You must have the cloaking field exploit to learn this exploit.

If you roll a natural 20 on your skill check to deal additional damage on a trick attack, you gain a +4 insight bonus to your next attack roll and can apply the critical effect from your weapon to that attack if it hits. Once you’ve used this ability, you can’t do so again until you spend 1 Resolve Point to regain Stamina Points after a 10-minute rest.

Your climb speed and swim speed are increased by your quick movement class feature and the improved quick movement exploit. You must have the versatile movement exploit to learn this exploit.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to knock the target out in one blow. The target must succeed at a Fortitude save or fall unconscious for 1 minute. Once you’ve used this ability to attempt to knock a creature out, that creature is immune to your knockout shot for 24 hours. You must have the staggering shot and stunning shot exploits to learn this exploit.

When you use triple attack or quad attack to attack the same target with all of your attacks, after your full attack is complete, if at least two of your attacks hit, you can apply a debilitating trick to the target.

For your debilitating trick, you can attempt to fold your pocket dimension around your target and seemingly wink them out of existence. The target must succeed at a Will save or cease to exist for 1d4 rounds. During the duration, all ongoing conditions, spells’ durations, and other effects are paused. Afterward, the target returns to the same square as if no time had passed. You cannot deposit or withdraw items from your pocket dimension if it is occupied by a creature. Once you’ve used this ability to attempt to phase a creature, that creature is immune to your obliviate for 24 hours. You must have the pocket dimension exploit to learn this exploit.

You can read other people’s minds by taking a standard action to observe them carefully and attempt a Sense Motive check against a DC of 15 + your target’s CR. If you succeed, you can read the creature’s surface thoughts as long as you continue to observe them and spend a standard action each round to analyze them. This lasts up to 10 minutes. Once you’ve used this ability, you can’t use it again until you spend 1 Resolve Point to regain Stamina Points after a 10-minute rest.

You have mastered your psychokinesis. You can use psychokinetic hand to wield a single weapon. You can attack with the weapon each time you concentrate to maintain psychokinetic hand. You can use the location of the weapon to determine whether your target has cover, but you must be aware of the creature’s location to take advantage of this. You can also spend 1 Resolve Point when you cast psychokinetic hand to attack with the weapon on the same round that you cast the spell. You must have the psychokinetic skills (Character Operations Manual 83) exploit to learn this exploit.

You have become a trusted operative of whatever organization once assisted you. You can use mysterious benefactor when an ally fails a check to allow them to reroll the failed check, or you can add 5 to their result and use the new value to determine whether they succeeded. You must be aware that your ally failed the check and be reasonably able to communicate with them at the time of failure. If you have the pulling the strings exploit, you can use mysterious benefactor to reroll any skill check in a skill in which you have the Skill Focus feat. You must have the mysterious benefactor exploit to learn this exploit.

Your mastery of stealth and understanding of the shadows of the Material Plane is so great, you can actually physically walk into the edges of the Plane of Shadow. You must expend 1 Resolve Point to use this ability. It functions as shadow walk, except you can only use it on yourself and items or creatures you can carry, the duration is no more than 1 hour, and you must emerge from the Plane of Shadow back into the plane from which you departed.

By keeping an eye on the flow of magic, you can dodge harmful effects before they reach you. You can maintain concentration on detect magic as a swift action. As long as you are detecting magic, when you become the target of a spell that allows a Fortitude or Will saving throw, you can roll a Reflex save instead. You can use this ability even if you are not detecting magic by spending 1 Resolve Point. You must have the sense magic (Starfinder Galactic Magic 29) exploit to learn this exploit.

You are invisible to technological surveillance systems and most forms of divination magic, per nondetection.

As a reaction when you observe a creature casting a spell or using a supernatural ability with the teleportation descriptor (such as dimension door), you attempt a Survival check whose DC equals 10 + 1-1/2 the creature’s CR. If you succeed, you learn the creature’s destination. This knowledge is precise if the creature traveled to a location within 2,000 feet of you or traveled to a location that’s familiar to you. For a distant location you’ve never visited or studied, you sense the creature’s general coordinates, narrowing down its destination to a town or 5-mile-radius region, but not its exact location.

When you hit an enemy with a trick attack, you can forgo your trick attack damage to apply three debilitating trick effects instead of two. If you spend a Resolve Point and have the extended debilitation exploit, you can use that exploit to increase the duration of all three debilitating tricks. You must have the double debilitation class feature to learn this exploit.

Your enhanced senses grow even more discerning. Your blindsense becomes blindsight with a range of 60 feet. If you have darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet. You must have the enhanced senses exploit to learn this exploit.

you’re wielding a weapon that targets KAC, for your debilitating trick, you can apply a dose of injury poison to the ammunition or weapon used as part of making the trick attack. If you exceed the target’s KAC by 8 or more, the poison’s initial save DC increases by 2.