Diplomacy

Diplomacy is a starting Captain skill that can be ranked up 5 times. Each rank in Diplomacy increases the chance of diplomatic actions succeeding by 5%.

Other than the Diplomacy talent, the only way to increase the chance of succeeding diplomatic actions is to choose either the Outrider or Intrepid as your starting ship. Starting your game in either of these ships will permanently increase your chance of succeeding a diplomacy check by 30% and 15% respectively.

The Diplomacy talent does not take into account the increased diplomacy chance given by the Intrepid and Outrider when starting with one of those ships.