Academics

Academics represents your character's education and training in academic subjects such as Art and Science. Points placed into this skill indicate that your character has received a measure of formal education, and while this skill represents a general base of knowledge in a variety of subjects, it is assumed that your character will have studied a specific subject.

Specializations

Astronomy

Astronomy is a branch of science that uses physics, chemistry and mathematics to study and describe celestial objects and their origins. One of its major branches, relativistic astrophysics, studies the effects of special and general relativity.

Biology

Biology is the study of life and living organisms throughout the universe. It has numerous subdisciplines among them anatomy, botany cryobiology, microbiology, nanobiology and paleobiology to name a few.

Economics

The study of people's relationship to value and scarcity and how they impact the production and use of goods and services.

Fine Art

These studies cover a broad range of arts from the visual arts, holofilm and photography, music, theatre and dance as well as creative writing.

Geology

Galactic geology is the study of planetary structure and materials and how they have changed over time. An important subset of the science is the exploration for metals, minerals and gas resources used for fuel or industry.

History

A subject as large as the Galaxy, spanning more than 30000 years, it studies the political, social, economic, scientific, technological, medical, cultural, intellectual, religious and military developments of all the galactic races.

Law

The study of planetary and galactic law impacts nearly every aspect of sapient life from trade, business, civil rights, the environment and interplanetary relations.

Literature

A study of the works of arts made up of words, mostly written but including oral traditions. It includes both fictional and non-fictional work from across the galaxy.

Mathematics

The study of quantity, numbers, magnitudes and other aspects of abstract reality.

Music

Music study encompasses perfecting performance on instruments to the history of music throughout the galaxy and its diverse cultures.

Physics

The study of the mathematical beauty of the universe from subatomic to cosmological scale.

Politics

Your ability in the art or science of government or manipulating situations and people.

Benchmarks

• 1 - 10: Basic academia learned through most elementary schooling
• 11 - 20: Moderately advanced academia taught at most secondary schools
• 21 - 30: Highly advanced knowledge of the subject gained from years of study