if you have a high repair skill for ships in your skills list will you repair a ships hull and increase ship shield regeneration quicker than if you had NPCs or whatever?
There is, because ships and vehicles will need to be repaired and those will be the relevant skills to do so. However, exactly how that will work has not been decided yet.
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"May the Grace of Ara go with you, and His Vengeance be wrought upon your enemies."
The same goes for pretty much everything you don't see the rules for in the Technical Section. And, potentially, some of the stuff that is there because they're always looking for improvements that can be made.
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"May the Grace of Ara go with you, and His Vengeance be wrought upon your enemies."