Character Creation and Discussion

[Nova]

Re: skills, personally, I would go with bargain or bureaucracy, since I recall your posting that he used the Force
unknowingly to win debates -- might as well give him an extra boost in persuasion,
or a boost in bureaucracy to have made him more of a threat to the older senator?

Bargain could help us by potentially lowering the cost of stuff.  But Bureaucracy would help the group get permits and procedures.  But I feel like my Bureaucracy is low at only 3D+1.  Right now Garlon and Tictuk both have Knowledge 3D which is almost as good as I am at Bureaucracy.  So I might as well put +1D into Bureaucracy so I'm at least a little better at that stuff than they are.  Does that make sense or am I misinterpreting the rules?

That does makes sense – and your reading of the rules there is spot on!
4D+1 bureaucracy puts you at a professional+ level.