So I'm building a Sentinel (shadow) and I'm looking at the skills list available.

Computers, Deception, Know (core worlds), Perception, Skullduggery, and Stealth.

Now, I know you get 3 at rank 1 for free. My question comes when I look at the specializaiton skills available.

Know (underworld), Skullduggery, Stealth, and Streetwise.

Since both Skullduggery and Stealth appear again, can you gain a second rank free as the 2 chosen for taking that specialization?

Yes. The only restriction is that you cannot start with more than 2 Ranks for any given skill at character creation.

So you can have your character start with two free ranks in both Stealth and Skulduggery, but you can no longer spend any starting XP to either of these skills in order to buy Rank 3.

Cool, thanks.

Another question if you please. When purchasing new specializations, let's say I start as a shadow then take up hunter from the Seeker career. That would cost 30xp since it is a non-career, got that part. The question then is, let's say I then take up Shien Expert. Would that cost 20xp or 30xp?

The cost is [the total number of specialisations you'd have WITH the new addition x 10]. You add 10 to this number if the specialisation is non-career.

So if your third specialisation is career, it'd cost 30 XP; if it's non-career, it'd cost 40 XP.

Ok, that's what I thought, just wanted to make sure.