Just had a quick question:

I know that if you've already purchased a talent in one spec that you can consider it filled if it shows up in the talent tree of a second spec and pass over it. My question is do you HAVE to pass over it? For example if you're a gadgeteer and already have toughened, then go into outlaw tech, could you buy that second row toughened too?

It depends on if the talent can be bought multiple times (as listed on the talent itself in the talent section). Pretty sure Toughened can be bought multiple times, so you would need to buy it in each spot you find it. You can't just buy it in one tree and ignore it in other trees.

If the talent can't be bought multiple times, then yes, you do treat it as if you bought it already and can keep moving through the tree.

It depends on if the talent can be bought multiple times (as listed on the talent itself in the talent section). Pretty sure Toughened can be bought multiple times, so you would need to buy it in each spot you find it. You can't just buy it in one tree and ignore it in other trees.

If the talent can't be bought multiple times, then yes, you do treat it as if you bought it already and can keep moving through the tree.

Awesome, thanks.

Right. Toughened and others like it can be purchased multiple times, so you wouldn't pass over them. In fact, you couldn't - you would have to buy them in order to purchase other talents connected further down on the tree. Talents like Quick Draw or Quick Strike cannot be purchased more than once, however, so you just pass over them.

Unrelated question: are attachments permanent, or can you replace them, or remove one from one piece of equipment and put it on another?

As a note, read that section very carefully, as Attachments and Modifications are two very different things, and do need to be tracked when being used. The system used here is remarkably different from modification systems seen in other RPGs and other traditional games.

Don't have my book with me, but I'm pretty certain that Attachments indeed can be removed and even refitted to other equipment, but Modifications are fixed to the Attachment they are added to (although I'm uncertain what happens to Modifications on Attachments that are removed from whatever equipment they were on - I would assume they just stay with the Attachment).

I would assume that too, as you are modifying the attachment, not the item it is connected to.

Right. Toughened and others like it can be purchased multiple times, so you wouldn't pass over them. In fact, you couldn't - you would have to buy them in order to purchase other talents connected further down on the tree. Talents like Quick Draw or Quick Strike cannot be purchased more than once, however, so you just pass over them.

Quick Strike is a ranked talent.

Unrelated question: are attachments permanent, or can you replace them, or remove one from one piece of equipment and put it on another?

Attachments can be removed easily, even the spaceships ones can removed or reattached easily, which allows for a lot of mission specific adjustments.