=Blades= 
**Type:** Active, Combat
**Linked Aptitude:** SOM
**What it is:** The Blades skill covers the usage and maintenance of standard bladed weapons.
**When you use it:** A player uses their Blades skill whenever attacking with a blade weapon in melee combat. Blades may also be used for tests involving maintenance of the weapon, but not for repairing or modifying the weapon (that would be [[Hardware|Hardware: Armorer]] skill). This skill is used for blade weapons implanted in the body at the end of an appendage (hands, forearms, feet, octomorph arms, etc.), but the [[Exotic Melee Weapon]] skill is used for blades implanted in other parts of the body.
**Specializations:** Axes, Implant Blades, Knives, Swords

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