If they had useful abilities, he made them part of his crew.
Clearly, this is an important and useful ability.
This was a useful ability to enable the taking of planets from another player of the same faction.
It was a useful ability for a politician.
This was a more useful ability than a spell of illusion, which could be detected or broken.
Very useful abilities, but only if used in the right ways at the right times.
His most useful ability is being able to transfer one of his nine lives to someone who has died, resurrecting them in perfect health.
Which was a useful ability, given that so much of what the young natives said these days baffled her.
But flight, I thought, idly would be a useful ability any time.
Suddenly Colene appreciated how useful an ability that could be.