My eve char is an Amarr Soldier named Eiwen Dehn, and I'm not sure entirely what skills I will focus on, as I am training broadly, but mostly flying my little amarr frigate and earnign ISK.
I have a hard time imaginig you as a miner. Or explorer. Or a sniper from 200km range.
It is much easier for me to imagine you'd be flying some combat ship that gets up close and personal, tanking what ever damage is throwing at you or making yourself a nuisance that can not be ignored by the enemy.
Perhaps you should look at skills like tackling, webbing, etc? Notice, I have zero knowledge in those, but at first glance they appear as things where you have to get very close and personal. And if I have understood right, being a webber doesn't necessarily require heavy skill-investment (based on how I intepret
http://www.eve-academy.eu/kainscionofbalance/FightingGuide.html ). Perhaps others with more experience can chime in
Also, I believe tackling will be quite important in W-space. Then again, I suppose we shall soon have more first-hand info on that