Science Officer Actions

With a few tweaks to various systems, you enhance your ship’s ability to deflect attacks.

Preferred Skills: Computers, Engineering, Physical Science.

Effect: Attempt a skill check against your ship’s DC. If you succeed, your ship’s DC increases to the Hard DC against enemy tactics the next round.

Resolve: By spending 1 Resolve Point, an allied crew member in the engineer role can attempt a Patch Hull action immediately for free at a –2 penalty; this doesn’t count as that engineer’s action for this round, and they can attempt it even if they have taken their action this round, but they can’t spend a Resolve Point on the action if they are successful.

You scan an enemy vessel with your ship’s sensors to learn more about it.

Preferred Skills: Computers, Perception.

Effect: Choose an enemy starship and attempt a skill check against that ship’s DC. If you succeed, you gain 1 skill check success toward that ship’s threshold. If the result of the check exceeds the DC by 5 or more, this action counts as 2 successes.

You quickly scour a downloaded dataset for pertinent information about the enemy.

Preferred Skills: Computers, Culture, Piloting.

Effect: Choose an enemy starship and attempt a skill check against that ship’s DC. If you succeed, all skill checks attempted against that ship’s DC gain a +1 bonus this round.

Resolve: By spending 1 Resolve Point, this action also counts as a skill check success.

Using the ship’s weapons, you target a specific system of an enemy ship.

Preferred Skills: Any.

Effect: Choose an enemy starship and attempt a skill check against that ship’s Hard DC (regardless of the skill used). If you succeed, and if that ship takes at least 1 hit this round, it takes an additional hit.

Resolve: By spending 1 Resolve Point, this action also counts as a skill check success.