Fuel Cells & Engines

You design and repair engines to all sorts of vehicles. The skill is concerned with machines that run on steam, coal, oil, and other combustible sources. This requires Machinery if you want to design and build new systems using such principles. Otherwise, you're just a handy greasemonkey.

In ancient settings, fuel doesn't really exist (although steam or coal may be available.) Still, you can design aquaducts, and other large engineering marvels of the times. At the highest levels, you can design the framework for siege weapons and large moving vehicles (such as a heliopolis). Consider this skill as an advanced form of Machinery in the distant past.

Talents
• A particular type of machine (like an automobile.)
Perks
• Vehicles maintained regularly have +1 to all driving checks and +1 to combat rolls.
• Take the one above a second time.
• Vehicles maintained regularly have +20% to safe driving speed and maximum driving speed.
Expert Performance
• Modified engines are (X*5)% more efficient (mileage) and run (X*10) days longer without a tune-up.
• Pilots get +X/2 to driving checks and +X to combat bonuses.