Ion Cannons and Droid Ships

[atgxtg]

I just thought about this. With droid starfighters like the Vulutre and Scarab ships of the CIS, would ionozation results affect the droid's skills as well as the "ship"s die codes? It seems like a double penalty but...

A orgianic pilot suffers the penalty to his ship. It akes sense that a droid brain that is part of the ship would be affected by the ionization. So it could be penalies both for the affect on the craft, and the inability for it to "think straight" while ionized.

[Praxian]

i would say that the droid brain if in the part of the ship that's ionized isn't penalized - it's ionized. So instead of dice-pool penalties, the droid brain would just be straight up shut down.

[garhkal]

Since both the ship and the droid brai are effected by ion damage, then it makes sense to me both would suffer.
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[cheshire]

There has got to be a downside to having droid ships, or everyone would still be using them. I'd say that if a droid ship gets ionized, then the droid brain gets ionized as well.
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[Ankhanu]

I'd treat ion damage as stun damage for droid ships. Whether it's a ship or some other design, it's still a droid. Ion weapons stun droids.
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[ZzaphodD]

While were on the subject of droid ships. Are there any still around? I have a Wookie wanna-be Droidmaster in my group.. getting his hand on some of those pesky battle droids and a droid fighter would really make his day..

[atgxtg]

[garhkal]

There might also be reports of droidekas and other tech federation battle droids lingering in private collections that said wookie could hear about and decide to try and liberate.
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[hisham]

There's a snippet in the Enteague pdf in my sig which tells of a fleet of Trade Federation ships that fled a losing battle, entered the clouds of a gas giant planet and was never seen again. Idea is that there might be a lost fleet of battledroids somewhere in there.

Perhaps a single Neimoidian captain is STILL biding his time all these years with those droids. Perhaps an Imperial governor has discovered the dormant droids and are programming them to be subservient to him. Lots of ideas you can develop from it.
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[Kira Firestorm]

Now if your player can ever afford it or borrow it get himself/herself a construction droid, then all you need is the plans to any droid you wanted, say a droidika, the feed raw metals to it and make your own.

Its what one of my old group did. Stole a construction droid and in a few weeks had a replacement crew that didnt require pay, food or life support for his capital ship. Ingenious really.
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[garhkal]

Droids do still require maintenance which is costly with that many. And unless he has bookoo bucks (credits) he won't be able to upgrade their software to be combat effective.
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[cheshire]

[atgxtg]

[Ankhanu]

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