Apprentice

 is 's signature skill which, at last, turns the badass cook into an interesting and useful character.

The fact that another crewmember has to have the skill you want to learn, and be alive, will not let you fill in for completely missing roles, but it does serve well as a backup for crewmates - or  you are about to kill. Also useful if you just need more people with crucial everyday skills like and.

For personal from fighting aliens, Stephen has an incentive to learn  to increase the number of expeditions, and, ,  or  to secure a place on the expedition team.

To just help the ship in a general way, the best support skill would be.

Most of all, though, this skill can be used in very interesting ways when copying rare signature skills, as in having two crewmembers, two s boosting morale, seven cameras from, or up to twelve hydropots from two people with s.

The effects of and  do not stack, but if Chun or Jin Su are about to die, you can replace them in these roles. Also the 's list can only be printed once... but if Eleesha is inactive or Mush, you can preserve the crew's ability to know when they are Mush-free.

New action

 * Cost: 1
 * Target: None
 * Privacy:
 * Effect: Allows you to select a skill out of the skills of all characters present in the room. Apprentice will be replaced with the selected skill.
 * Private Log: (No log, just the "you have learned a new skill" message)