Weapon skills come with the territory. Starwind and Hawking is a business that handles a lot of things. Transport, courier services, bodyguarding, salvage, bounty-hunting. Not exactly safe jobs, when the Hei Phong sector is full of pirate guilds. That's not even counting the run-of-the-mill scumbags you encounter all over the more lawless regions.

Every now and then you have to blast a guy. Of course, sometimes it turns out to be a cyborg, which is a hell of a lot harder.