Contortionist

 is passive skill focused on improving your repair prowess and your survival. You get better at repairs, whether repairing items, equipment or the hull, while getting reduces changes to get hurt, acting as an more specialized. It also makes you better at dismantling stuff, but it does not grant dismantle; you will need or.

This skill is also similar to : it has a lesser chance of negating accidents, but has a chance to negate injuries, making you more tenacious (remain careful of raw damage, this is not or ).

Finally,  negates events targeting you, akin to  protecting the holder from. It will be useful if you desperately need and the only oxygen planet has  and  zones.

Custom synergy
 is useful for two profiles: the mechanist and the explo-goer.

The mechanist benefits from skills giving, further improving repair/dismantle chances, or increase the gain from repairs:
 * and (and, sometimes) give.
 * Technician will grant you access to dismantle and improve repair chances.
 * will grant you access to dismantle and improve dismantle chances when holding the.
 * increases your repair, dismantle and accident and dirtiness chances.
 * Jack of All Trades increases your repair and dismantle chances less importantly, but without Expert’s drawbacks.
 * will increase chances faster on failure, while will sometimes refund 1.

The explorer benefits from other exploration skills instead:
 * , /,, and  all improve the likelihood of explorations going well.
 * /Polymath, and  all increase the resources you find
 * bars you from getting, while helps you find  explorers alive.
 * and making you more resilient.
 * Dragonscale, in particular, also negate a fatal event for themselves, in case your team is desperate for, and requires exploring -inducing zones.
 * is an anti-synergy, as it removes you from 's target pool, thus disabling your ability to "tank" this kind of event.

Affected actions
(items, equipment, hull) (items, equipment)
 * +50% base success chance

General effects

 * Negates events targeting you
 * 33% chance to negate accidents and injuries.
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