How do you know each other?

That rings a bell. Table amended to include that.
Package Skills are not connected to other characters, they are just freebies to fill out the roster.

You get two Skills from Connections (so far you appear to have taken Astrogation from your Connection to Raf), and you get two free level 1 Skills from the Skills Package.

@vagueGM
You changed the wrong skill :P

Oh, I misread the last bit of your post there, I think. If Cat already has Astrogation, maybe it's not needed. We do already have 3 people with broker 0. Not sure what's more valuable in that case.

I assumed that since Astrogation was Cat's Connection Skill, it was no longer the Package Skill. It is getting confusing, which is why I asked people to restate their current Package suggestions.

We can change both the suggestion for the Package and what we picked right up until we start playing (or even after if we need).
Agreed, that is a fair bit of Broker, and we can always increase it to level 1 with one Study Period if we find we need more or are doing a lot of Trade. That is not to say it is a bad idea to take Broker 1 from the start, it is up to the players.

I was looking into this after WhtKnt suggestion that he have Recon for Cat by the skill package? And it looks that we DO got the skills from connections, but haven't distributed the skills from the package? I'm I right?

Yeah, I think you're right. I kinda forgot about this too.
@vagueGM We have some doubles in that list. Is that allowed?
If not, I'm thinking that Melee might be something for Ronny as well.

Doubles are fine, but we can still change one of them to Melee if you want.

Also - I think it's worth to mention - I hope that someone will take my proposition of Gunnery - as if Raf is "the pilot" of the ship, it would be hard for him to be also the gunner in the same time:) But maybe we can figure it out somehow differently?

But can you remind me how does they work? Could I bring my Vacc Suit skill from 0 to 1 by them? Or only getting 0 with the package skills?

Package Skills bring you straight to 1.

They are sorta meant to fill in blanks in the party, not to bolster things that we already have a lot of, but I won't enforce that.

Ok, as I'm thinking about changing my proposition of Tactics as Lio took already this. But will propose something else later.

And did WhtKnt took Reason and Broker already?

OK. Having more Tacics is not a bad thing, but feel free to change it.

We don't need to take our own proposals, but it seems that is the pattern, so also feel free to change both and just take them. I think the Ship's Computer can handle Gunnery if no one wants it?
I don't see them on the sheet, but I believe there was talk about something like that.

Everyone let us know here what you have taken, and don't forget to update your sheets.

I don't think Ronny would be interested in being a gunner. If nobody wants it, I'm ok with taking it, though.
Since there was some discussion about medic not really being needed, I'll drop that for Melee and take the survival too then. Unless nobody else wants to be the gunner ;)

We can install (or find installed) Software on the Ship's Computer to do that sort of task if no one wants to take it. If someone gets the Skill later the Software will add to their rolls.

Take a look on page 161 for a list of software, we add its cost to the cost of the Ship and adjust the payment schedule accordingly.

Yes, I took Recon, but not Broker, I don't think. Let me check.

EDIT: I took Astrogation. Character sheet updated.

Didn't you get Astrogation from the Connection with Raf? I thought you learned it as prep for this mission?

Did I? You may be right, so then I don't believe that I chose another skill because I already have Broker at 0.

It was spoken about, but you never gave us a definite answer. That makes the most sense, though.
Most people have Broker 0. Do you want to replace that suggestion with another Skill for the Package list? Maybe something you want for your character.

@WhtKnt: Did you ever work out your second Connection and Skill?

It does not seem like you really know Ronny or Lio from before? Maybe you have a revelation later and realise that one of them is 'that someone' you ran into in 'that place' and had 'that experience with'. Maybe you were both disguised?

You can, at that time, pick a Skill you had 'forgotten you had', or you can pick a Skill now and realise later that "that is where I know you from".

I think I already added 4 slillLooks like I already took 4 skills.