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Thanks, Expert it is by the looks of it

Confused about this Feat because the Table at the front of the Feats Chapter lists the prerequisite as Trained, while the Feat description has it as Expert.
It seems like Expert is the Likely answer, as almost all other Level 2 Skill feats require Expert as their prerequisite.
Any help would be appreciated, as Pathbuilder is defaulting to Trained.

On another Note. Are you able to build Settlement Projects eg Library etc, a second time in a different settlement, or is it assumed that once it is built in 1 settlement it automatically gets built in any other settlements . My assumption is they are only built once, due to the stat bonuses, as it would be too simple to add cheap projects to each new settlement to bump up the Charter stats relatively quickly. How is everyone else handling this?

I found the max item level a bit odd also.

Ok, during downtime a character can work to gain credits/UPBs, and later using those UPBs to get better stuff. Since they have to explore and administrate the charter, they don't have that much time on their hands as a limiting factor.

Still, imagine you are an adventurer in the charter rather than the administrator. You have factories, armories, multiple settlements, a space elevator, but still you are limited to level 4 equipment?

My interpretation would be that you can buy level 4 items in your charter when you begin it, because it is fairly tradable items, brought with the new colonists and other traders.

Economy allows measures the ability to create, buy and sell for the charter, and Technology and Magic covers about everything you can buy... I would guess that when you have an higher ECO, MAG and TEC, you can buy higher items in your charter. Perhaps you would need ACC and CUL too, so your max item would be the lower of your charter trait scores? You could mitigate a lower score with an appropriate trade deal with another charter...

It is not written anywhere, but it would be my best house rule after reading the two books.

To me it Looks like it is the combination of the 5 Charter Stats, as these should alway add to 4 in the beginning of the charter, no matter what your initial choices are.