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Originally Posted by RogerBW
I quibble a bit about Spaceship vs Starship. In some settings this is a distinction of size, but I can't believe that two spacecraft of the same mass, one of which happens to have a hyperdrive that's not in use full time, are so utterly different in the matter of command procedures - especially since they don't have separate Piloting skills!
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I can see why the option is in the rules, but by and large I tend to agree with you unless starships operate in a radically different fashion to in system craft starship specialisation is redundant.
Off hand I can't actually think of a setting or situation where there is a meaningful enough distinction where PC's are likely to be opperating a starship. I suspect that in order to be meaningful you are looking at Dune highliners as your model I.e starships that are effectively orbital platforms with an FTL drive.