How do you know each other?

It makes sense to say that she learned Astrogation by necessity. As far as being pushed into it, I claimed it because no one else seemed to want it. Recon I could see her having picked up gradually over time, however. I'll go ahead and cement it in, too. I'll look at the other backstories to see how I can connect it.

I'm fine with taking what's left from the package after others pick :)
So feel free to take what you fancy.

I do like that, "someone has to learn to do it, better be me", (maybe the others have tasks they have to do while setting up the heist, so it is left to you?). That does add an interesting wrinkle to things, with your being new to the technicalities of the process. If the others know that you are 'winging it' we can accept some unexpected results that put us in interesting situations at first. Eventually it will just become a normal level 1 Skill, but we can veer the outcomes to the extreme at the start to play with the new-necessary ability. Presumably you could not find anyone (NPC) you could trust with this as it involves intimate knowledge of where you are going.
A lot has been said. Let us know if you need any help with those backstories.

Since we are putting together our own Package, you can wait till the others have piked theirs and then suggest and take any two Skills that you think would be useful.

What do we have in the Package so far?

I suggested survival and medic, for the package.

Cool, added to the table.

Are you still suggesting Medic after our discussion and the existence of a Medic 4 and Medic 0 in the party?

I think having more medics is a good thing.

Cool.

A possibly useful video on the topic of staying together.

Youtube - Cinema Therapy - FIREFLY: Teamwork and Found Family

So my proposition is: Gunner and Tactics - for the package.Didn't Cat take the Astrogation for her connection skill in the end? I'm lost:)

@WhtKnt: If Cat picked up Astrogation through the Connection/current events, then maybe you want to suggest another Skill for the Package?

I'll take survival and tactics. Don't have any suggestions.

I'll come up with the connection skills in the next hour

Looks like I did suggest tactics :-)

Cool. It does not look like we are going to have fights about who gets what, so picking two now is fine. A round-robin takes too long in PbP anyway.
So you did, plus Survival.

Some of the Packages in the book have multiples of a Skill, so it is OK if we have Survival and Tactics in there twice (by three players), but feel free to change out those suggestions if you guys want.
And feel free to change your Package suggestions and picks after you have done that if you have overlap.

connection skills.

Lio does check-ups on Ronny's implants, so science-cybernetics would be a logical skill to have. Since Raf was experimenting with cybernetics, Lio got involved in those experiments too. Learning from Raf and self education.

For the connection with Ronny, I'm not so sure. I could take something 'normal' like a drive skill. Is it necessary for Ronny to have such skill to learn from him. Or can we say that Lio had to do 'house visits' for the check-ups and it was just easier to learn how to drive than to rely on other types of transportation?

Reminder of how Lio and Ronny know each other
Lio and Raf know each other from medic school.

just putting it here again because you asked, for me it was obvious but it was a few pages back so I understand how it got lost :)

Makes sense.
By all means. Take whatever you want for your character, we can then work out how you got it. If it 'does not make sense', that is maybe all the better. :)
No.

You are not learning the Skill from the other character, you just were in a situation where you picked it up.
Yes. And not only for Ronny, 'doing hose-visits' for patients in general can be how you got a Skill, we just hear about that side of your life because of PC who was involved, there are things you do that we have not seen on-screen.

But only take Drive if that something you want. If you do, it is at Level 1, so you pick a Speciality and get the rest at 0.

I took cybernetics lvl 1 and drive-wheeled lvl 1

I took cybernetics lvl 1 and drive-wheeled lvl 1
survival and tactics also lvl 1

Thought I suggested Recon as a skill, and I was willing to take it if no one else does. I'll have to figure out how to connect it to someone else.