The latter is exactly what our engineering captain decided to do, and we were pleasantly surprised at the results. The twist is that you can only get promoted when you’ve spent sufficient skill points specialising your abilities – reducing the cooldowns of key abilities by investing in that tech tree, for example, or pouring points into core Captaining abilities that improve the turn speed and shields of any ship under your command. That’s three additional powers for use in any space battle.Įvery ten levels you’re promoted, whereupon you can choose from the next highest tier of ships and do your own promoting of bridge officers. Powers can’t be used if the rank is too high for your ship, and your first ship can staff one of each at the lowest rank (Ensign). Each bridge officer knows a host of abilities for use on the ground and in space, and those are divided into ranks.
You can customise their appearance, rename them and equip them as you see fit. Much of this versatility comes from your selection of bridge officers, who join your crew as quest rewards, via speculative subspace communications, or are purchased at starbases.
