PC without Bind skill can start with Bound spirits, How did they get them? Options

[blakkie]

I was putting some final touches on the much improved Magic sheet of the SR4Chargen.XLS and i noticed something very odd. The character generation rules do not list the Binding skill as a requirement for buying a spirit with BP. The PC is limited to Charisma # of Bound spirits bought, and the maximum services you can buy them at is the ranks of Summoning skill, or Conjuring skill if the PC bought that instead. But nothing about a Binding skill requirement, at least not directly and only indirectly as one possibility if they had bought Conjuring.

Can anyone see a means by which a metahuman could Bind a spirit without having at least 1 rank in Binding? I can't find any in the BBB. Maybe there will be some contrived way in Street Magic for transfering ownership of a Bound spirit, or for a free spirit to help someone without a single rank in the skill to bind a spirit.

But in the meantime at least it seems an oversight? Not a huge one because eventually you'll burn up the services owed, and if you still haven't learned Binding there is no way to rebind that spirit or to bind a new spirit. But still somewhat an issue.