Editing Leaders (section)

==Abilities and Traits==
Leaders can have one or more Abilities and Traits. Abilities as well as being useful in a number of fields, increase the chance that a commander will be promoted in Ranks and Seniority, when using [[#Automatic Assignments|Automatic Assignments]]. Traits have no mechanical effect, they're for role-playing flavour only.

All the non-[[team]] abilities have a chance to increase with experience and the ability bonus that increase will be related to officer's current assignment. For example, an officer commanding a survey ship can advance in Crew Training, Fleet Initiative or Survey Bonus whereas a carrier commander could advance in Crew Training, Fleet Initiative or Fighter Operations. A planetary governor may advance in any of the skills that influence a population.