Table 10. Optional Skills in SF2000
| Skill Name | Attribute | Source |
| Academics | ½ Log + 10% per level | New |
| Acrobatics | ½ Dex/RS + 10% per level | New |
| Adroitness | professional (Log and Dex) | New |
| Alertness | automatic (Int) | New |
| Analyze Business Setting | ½ Log + 10% per level | New |
| Analyze Social System | ½ Log + 10% per level | New |
| Astronomy | ½ Log + 10% per level | New |
| Astrophysics | ½ Log + 10% per level | New |
| Ballistics | ½ Log +10% per level | New |
| Blind-Fighting | automatic (Int or RS) | New |
| Cartography | ½ Log +10% per level | New |
| Computers: Software Engineering | special (Log) | New |
| Crossfire | ½ RS + 10% per level | New |
| Defenses: Repair | ½ Dex +10% per level | New |
| Diplomacy | ½ Per/Ldr +10% per level | New |
| Dirty Fighting | ½ Dex or Str +10% per level | New |
| Economics | ½ Log +10% per level | New |
| Engineer: Electrical | ½ Log +10% per level | New |
| Escape Artistry | ½ Dex +10% per level | New |
| Etiquette | automatic (Log or Per) | New |
| Fine Arts | special (Int) | New |
| Gambling | ½ Int + 10% per level | New |
| General Lore | ½ Log +10% per level | New |
| Interrogation | ½ Per/Ldr +10% per level | New |
| Investigation | ½ Log or Int +10% per level | New |
| Iron Will | automatic (Sta) | New |
| Languages I | ½ Log + 10% per level | New |
| Languages II | see skills section | New |
| Lip Reading | ½ Log + 10% per level | New |
| Locale Familiarity | special (Log) | New |
| Management | ½ Per/Ldr +10% per level | New |
| Mathematics | ½ Log + 10% per level | New |
| Occult Knowledge | ½ Log/Int + 10% per level | New |
| Off-hand firing | automatic (Dex) | New |
| Personality Restructuring | ½ Log/Int + 10% per level | New |
| Pick Pockets | ½ Dex +10% per level | New |
| Psychotherapy | ½ Log/Int +10% per level | New |
| Recreation | automatic (Dex) | New |
| Sensor Ops | automatic (Log) | New |
| Ship Onboard Systems Operation (SOSO) | 10% x SL for ship/ station orientation (1/2 Log + 10% x SL for repair) | New |
| Silent Kill | special (Str or Dex) | New |
| Stage Magic | ½ Dex/RS +10% per level | New |
| Style Analysis | ½ Log/Int +10% per level | New |
| Swimming | ½ Dex +10% per level | New |
| Surveillance | ½ Log + 10% per level | New |
| Survival: Zero G | ½ Int or Sta +10% per level | New |
| Trade | Varies | New |
| Toxicology | ½ Log + 10% per level | New |
| Underclass | ½ Per/Ldr +10% per level | New |
| Underwater Operations | ½ Dex +10% per level | New |
| Vehicles: Space | 100% (Dex) | New |
| Vehicles: Stunt Driving | ½ Dex + 10% per level | New |
| Ventriloquism | ½ Dex + 10% per level | New |
| Weapons: Mass Destruction | ½ Dex (or Log)+ 10% per level (-10% per SECL for disarming) | New |
| Weightless Combat | special (Dex) | New |
