Ship Sensor Shopping List.

[Raven Redstar]

Reposting this from the Google Plus Community:


I was just browsing through all of my ship supplements, and I noticed something. We have a plethora of replacement weapons, shields, hyperdrives, ion drives, and all kinds of nifty extras we can install in our ships, but what about sensor suites?

I feel like an important part of the ship systems has been kind of glossed over, the only way to get better sensors is to either improve them like weapons (assuming you house rule the range and damage mods to sensors, like I do.), or to buy a new ship.

I was thinking about going through the various ships and pulling their sensor suites to make a shopping list for prospective ship captains that want to give their ships an edge over others. It's easy for a ship's captain to avoid being picked up by a patrol, if his sensors can pick them up well before they're in range of the enemy ship's sensors.

Any thoughts? Has anyone already done this? 
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[Mojomoe]

I've been poking down a similar road lately, and compiling various starship systems.

I don't know if there are any specific *upgrades* to the sensor stats, but the 1E version of GG6 and the 2nd edition (not 2ERE) rule book has info on 3-5 different *types* of sensors, with their prices (crystal gravtraps, and so forth.)

BTW, when you say house ruling damage and range mods, to what are you referring?

[garhkal]

IIRC tramp freighters and pirates and privateers had some stuff, but not much..
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[Raven Redstar]

Thanks for the replies. I seem to recall seeing the things you guys have mentioned, like the gravtrap and all of that. I was looking for basic sensor packages with ranges and power, so if someone wanted to install a whole new set of sensors to upgrade their ship, I'd have some available.