Category:Naval Ancillary Skills

The Naval Ancillary Skills program was put in place in order to prevent god-moding, by providing some structure for the role-playing game elements of writing in the VEN. You "level up" your player-character's skills by completing short missions, proving you're responsible enough to write believably about the various skills, thereby "unlocking" the ability to use those skills in official Navy stories. We all share the same literary universe when we're writing in an official VEN story, so we have to make sure we're all working with similar standards, balancing exciting writing with verisimilitude.

Ancillary Skills[edit]

Basic Ancillary skills maybe be trained at any time (any number of them). Intermediate-, Advanced-, Command-, and Admiralty-level skills require completion of lower-level skills missions (or, in some cases, certain tiers of certain Certifications) first.

Basic Level[edit]

• Advanced Flight Maneuvers
• Astrogation
• Diplomacy
• Environmental Survival
• Ground Attack
• Gunnery
• Infiltration
• Interrogation
• Logistics & Supply
• Piloting Shuttles
• Scouting
• Slicing
• Vehicle Mechanic
• Xeno-Biology
• Zero-G Combat

Intermediate Level[edit]

• Capital Ship Tactics
• Hyperdrive Mechanic
• Marine Squad Tactics
• Political Subterfuge
• Starfighter Mechanic
• Starfighter Tactics
• Xeno-Martial Arts

Advanced Level[edit]

• Ship Command
• Wing Command

Command Level[edit]

• Interdictor Command
• Task Force Command

Admiralty Level[edit]

• Capital Ship Command
• Fleet Command

As Pre-requisites for Naval Certifications:[edit]

• Top Gun Tier 1 requires Ground Attack (basic skill)
• Top Gun Tier 2 requires Advanced Flight Maneuvers (basic skill)
• Top Gun Tier 3 requires Starfighter Tactics (intermediate skill)

• Bridge Officer Tier 2 requires Astrogation (basic skill)
• Bridge Officer Tier 3 requires Gunnery (basic skill)

• Naval Engineer Tier 1 requires Vehicle Mechanic (basic skill)
• Naval Engineer Tier 2 requires Starfighter Mechanic (intermediate skill)
• Naval Engineer Tier 3 requires Hyperdrive Mechanic (intermediate skill)

• Naval Surgeon Tier 3 requires Xeno-Biology (basic skill)

• Imperial Marine Tier 1 requires Piloting Shuttles (basic skill)
• Imperial Marine Tier 2 requires Marine Squad Tactics (intermediate skill)
• Imperial Marine Tier 3 requires Environmental Survival (basic skill)

• Special Warfare Combatant Tier 1 requires either Infiltration (basic skill) or Xeno-Martial Arts (intermediate skill)
• Special Warfare Combatant Tier 2 requires Zero-G Combat (basic skill)
• Special Warfare Combatant Tier 3 requires either Interrogation (basic skill) or Political Subterfuge (intermediate skill)