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Apprentice
Description:	By attentively watching what their mentor does, the apprentice can quicky pick up the same knowledge and actions. Enables the action Apprenticeship which allows them to copy a skill possessed by a player present in the room, once per game.
Learned by:	Stephen 5	If Mush:	Kept

Stephen'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 and active to teach it, makes it less suited for filling in holes, but it does serve well as a back-up if you need more people with crucial everyday skills like Pilot or Technician.

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

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

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

If the effect stacks, Stephen could even become a second Mankind's only hope (not so "only" after all) and thus cancel all daily morale loss.

Using your apprenticeship skill costs 1 , and it gives you a list of the skills available in the room for you to pick, similar to the normal skill selection.