You've been around space academies or military training environments enough to have picked up some basic knowledge about space travel and basic military procedures. Maybe you grew up on a military base, or you spent time around training facilities where you absorbed some knowledge.
You're not some trained pilot ready to command a starship, but you know enough about space travel and basic military protocols to not embarrass yourself completely. Whether through family connections or just being around the right places, you've picked up some understanding of how spaceships work and basic space travel concepts.
Choose one of the following skill boons.
A regulation flight suit from your academy days, featuring basic life support and communication systems. Still fits, mostly.
A comprehensive collection of star charts and navigation data from your training, updated regularly with your travels.
Your graduation credentials and academy connections, which can open doors and provide access to military facilities and resources.
Academy flight training: six months of simulator, three months of supervised flight, and a final exam that involved landing a shuttle with one engine, no autopilot, and a crosswind the examiner insisted was "within parameters." The examiner's notes said "technically competent, should stop narrating manoeuvres aloud."
Star charts were your homework. You can plot a three-jump route in your head and estimate transit time to within fifteen minutes. The nav-computer confirms what you already know.
The academy taught procedures for everything. You memorised them all; not because you're a rule-follower by nature, but because the procedures exist because someone died when they didn't. Your brain reaches for the manual before it reaches for panic.
The academy rotated you through nine different ship systems in three months. You developed a method; find the power switch, find the main display, find the emergency shutoff, then read the labels. It works on academy systems. It works on alien systems. It works on systems that don't have labels.