I tweak, there for I am. Okay could not leave this alone either. First I will talk about why I made some of these changes, then below will be the changed skills, and below that the new skills.

All skills will be refered to as there Attribute dot Skill ie blaster is "DEX.Blaster" the first 3 capital letters before the skill name, refer to the controlling attribute.

Grouping of Skills

The attributes in Star Wars can be broadly grouped into Physical (Dexterity and Strength), Mental (Knowledge and Perception), and Practical (Mechanical and Technical).

Physical Skill Changes

To me I never liked that everything was lumped into Dexterity and Strength was down played. By defining them as physical skills we see that the dexterity group contains hand eye, coordination and more fenese like skills. Strength then can contain brute force, endurance, and fitness based skills. With that in mind I have moved the following skills to Strength:

• STR.Beast Riding: A physical task that had very little to do with Mechanical contraptions of any kind. I have moved this over here, as it also helps with "native" or "back-world" characters as they can have this and still be restricted from Mechanical / Technical skills.
• STR.Climbing: This is a split from the origional rules that had this lumped in with Jumping.
• STR.Jumping: This is a split from the origional rules that had this lumped in with Climbing.
• STR.Running: Good for a lond distance run or a short sprint, this indicates how fast and far you can go before becoming tired. If you need to see if they can stay up while running look at DEX.Balance.
• STR.Melee Parry: This skill allows you to parry a blow with a weapon. While Dexterity plays in, there is a need for Strength to turn the blow aside. This was also done to give a fighter better need to keep both physical skills up.

Mental Skill Changes

The second grouping is the mental group. Knowledge is defined as book smarts, factual knowledge and trivia. While Perception is based in charisma and wisdom. While not as bad as Strength, Perceptions skills were also lacking. I added a number of New Skills to Perception below.

Practical Skill Changes

The last group is the Practical group. In a space aged world, there is a need for the ability to interact with ships, computers, and other high tech toys. This is the practical application of the "phyisical" and "mental" aspects of a PC to the "technology" of the Star Wars Galaxy. Mechanical to me is the skills that require physical ability to accomplish, ie piloting a ship or using an enviromental suit. Technical is then the mental union, with more mind based technologies like computers and repair skills falling into this group.

• TEC.Astrogation: Since very few aliens can do the math required for an Astrogation Jump without the aid of a computer, plus if you do not have a computer you best have a high KNO-Scholar and KNO-Panetary Systems to even try, I moved it to Technical. It seems like the only reason it was stored in Mechanical in the first place was to let pilots have an easier time makeing lightspeed jumps. I say let them get Astromech Droids and we will place this into Technical.

New Skills

DEX.Balance

PCs ability to not fall down. If you were to walk across a small beam, or need to stay in your chair after being hit by an astroid this is your skill. Removes the need to make as many generic balance checks. Instead you can make a blance check, which also can be improved faster and easier by a character.

DEX.Zero-G

This is the ability to work in a free fall, or wieghtless enviroment.

MEC.Environment Suit

Working in and operation of Enviromental Suits, including space suits, chemical suits and EVA suits. Powered suits that are driven, or contain mechanical enhancments are covered under MEC.Powersuit Operations.

PER.Artist

Artistic and even some crafting fall under this skill. Anything that is created for pleasure or relaxsation fall into this skill group. Things made using this skill can still be sold and turned into a buisness. Painting, Sculpting, Pottery, Glass Blowing, Weaving are all good examples of Artist Skills.

PER.Animal Handling

While riding an animal falls under STR.Beast Riding, this skill is the ability to teach an animal to sit and roll over. It is used to calm an animal or make one attack.

PER.Entertain

General performace skill; dancing, singing, reading bad poems all fall under this skill. This is also able to be used for general public speaking.

PER.Know-How

Some people who never trained can pick up on things faster than other. This skill allows a PC to avoid some off the penalties of not having any training in a skill. If the PC has a minute to look over the task at hand they can roll PER.Know-How, with a +1 at 10, 15, 20, 25 & 30, to the -5 penalty for not having any training in a skill.

PER.Observation

Reading people, seeing small details, catching something from the corner of your eye. This also is what inititive is based on in combat situations.

STR.Acrobatics

This is the ability to tumble, fall and take less damage, leap over small (very small) buildings, etc.

STR.Contortion

Fitting into small places, crawling through air shafts, reaching a small bobble under the sofa.

STR.Hiking

While runnig will get you there quickly, it will also exhaust you. Hiking is the ability to walk long distances and do so efficently. Hiking allows you to pack a backpack, and carry it in the best way. To load pack animals and get you to someplace else.

STR.Combat Dropping

Parachuting, Fast Rope entrys, close orbit combat jumps all fall under this skill. If you need to drop from some where high and get down again saftly invest in this skill.

STR.Sports

Knowledge of the rules of sporting games and how to play them. This is the physical version of Gambling, for games you need to get into and play with yourself as the playing piece. While this will allow you knowledge of "fighting sports", this is limited to the rules of the sparring match. Actual ability to fight is still ruled by STR.Brawling. On that same note players may also need to work on otehr physical skills to aid a sport. A good Grav Ball player should know a bit about DEX.Zero-G and STR.Acrobatics!

TEC.Computer Operation

This replaces the base computer programing skill which is now an advanced skill. Computer Operations is your ability to turn on the Holo Net and surf past all the ads and get the data you need. The ability to copy a data stick, and other computer tasks that do not include changing and creating the computers software.

TEC.Electronical Operation

A general catch all skill for electronic devices that do not have there own skill. From VCR Programing, to using personal force shields, this is the skill.

New Advanced Skills

KNO.Economics [A]

Advanced form of Business

Allows you to understand the economic impacts of events on a local marketplace. Killing of politician, or an earthquake can both shake up a local market, this skill will allow you to see these changes and act to protect your investments and strike on an emerging new market when the fire is hot.

PER.Seduction [A]

Advanced form of Persuasion

Sexual Appeal is powerful, this skill makes use of this to get a person to do what you want. Works well with PER.Entertain as PER.Con as well. Works better against the opposit sex, but you would be surprised how well it will work on the same sex if given a go.

• -5: Same Gender. (Unless there into that)
• -5: Different Species. (Unless there into that)
• +5: If target has the Disadvantage:Xenophilia
• +5: If target is intoxicated of otherwise impared

PER.Sense Motive [A]

Advanced form of Observation

Allows you bonuses to read people, thus making it harder to be Conned or Persuaded.

STR.Escape Artist [A]

Advanced form of Contortion

Takes Contortion to a whole new level, allows you to break free of manicals, and escape from boxes, cells and other confind areas.

TEC.Computer Programming [A]

Advanced form of Computer Operation

Ability to create new computer programs and software. Also allows you to slice and hack into existing computer systesm to get secure or hiden data.

TEC.Droid Programming [A]

Advanced form of Droid Repair

Driod brains are a highly advanced thing. Programing them takes a special skill. Anyone can give an order to a droid and the droid will follow it, but if you want to change the behavior of a droid, or memory whipe it you will need this skill.