Your personnel cannot gain skills while facing this dilemma. Unless you have 2 Leadership and 2 Officer, or Engineer, Programming, and Cunning>33, or this ship's corresponding Commander your opponent may take a ship at a mission and place it at a different mission. That ship's Range for this turn is used.
"Wormhole! Get us back on impulse power! Full reverse!"
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