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Tables and one-line rules for play. Each section names the chapter that holds the full rule. Where this chapter and the named chapter differ, the named chapter governs.

1. Scale

• Scale in Combat: attacking a target 2 or more Scale smaller adds Bane Dice equal to the difference (half, rounded down, for Point Defense and Anti-Fighter weapons); attacking one 2 or more Scale larger removes up to that many (Chapter Three).
• One-Scale rule: a model sits at most one Scale from its class. The only named exceptions are the VN-53C1 (Scale 5 liner) and the Model 80 (Scale 7 heavy freighter) (Chapter Four).
• Ground and hover vehicles run from Scale 1 to 4 and read their mounts as one Scale larger (Chapter Nine).
• Vehicle and character scale: 1 point at vehicle scale is 10 at personal scale, for damage and for Armor (Chapter Three).

2. Damage and Ship States

Chapter Three, Damage and Ship States. Damage counts up on two tracks.

Engines, Slipstream drives, AI Cores, screens, and Defensive Control have their own damage effects (Chapters Six, Seven, and Eight).

• Critical Hits: inflicted by Boons equal to the weapon's Crit or a Breakthrough, on a hit that dealt damage, and by any hit on a ship that is out of control. Roll on the Critical Hit table in Chapter Fifteen, adding 10 for each unrepaired Critical Hit; 111 or more destroys the ship.
• Automatic repair cap: all automatic sources together remove at most 1 System Damage a round (Chapter Eleven).

3. The Combat Round

Chapter Fifteen. Each crew member at a station takes one Action and one Maneuver on the ship's turn.

1. Situation: the GM states range bands, facings, and ongoing effects.
2. Turns in Initiative order: the Helm rolls Savvy + Perception (Willpower + Readiness when surprised). Movement first, then attacks, then other Actions.
3. Damage applies as each attack resolves.
4. Heat Dissipation at the end of the round.
5. Ongoing effects: tracking ordnance, cascades, drift, Slow-Firing countdowns.

Range and Movement

The Attack

Aimed Fire: Agility + Gunnery against the range difficulty. One weapon, or one battery of identical weapons in one arc, per gunner's Action.

Bane Dice : the target's Deflection on the facing attacked; its screens against the weapon's type; its ECM against guided weapons; the target's and the attacker's Evasive Maneuver; negative Handling on a Fixed weapon; Heat Threshold effects; Scale.

Boon Limit: an attack gains at most 2 Boon Dice from Handling on a Fixed weapon, tags (Accurate), components and builder benefits, station actions and orders (Target Lock, Coordinate Fire, Direct Focus, Coordinate, assisting, Relay Contact), Massed Fire, a directive AI's die in an opposed check, and Boon Dice bought with an earlier attack's Boon. Talents and rolled results are not limited.

AI: a directive AI with Fire Control and a free Active Channel removes 1 Trial Die.

Spending results on an attack:

• The next attack on the same target this round by this ship adds 1 Boon Die (inside the Boon Limit).
• Ignore 1 more point of Armor; or trigger Linked, Auto-Fire, Blast, Scorch, or Scatter; or remove one round of Slow-Firing.
• Boons equal to the weapon's Crit, or : a Critical Hit.
• The weapon makes 1 extra Heat, or the firing ship's next attack adds 1 Bane Die.
• The weapon jams until a crew member clears it with an Action.
• The weapon jams and suffers 1 System Damage; Volatile weapons check; Limited Ammo weapons may run dry.

Damage Resolution

1. Total: listed damage + 1 per Success beyond the first, + fixed bonuses (Boost Weapons, Close Range, Capital Killer).
2. Screens: subtract Damage Reduction if the screen names the weapon's type.
3. Armor: subtract Armor less Pierce. Armor Bypass ignores screens and Armor.
4. System Damage: Ion System Damage is reduced by half the Armor (rounded down); no other System Damage is reduced.
5. Apply to the two tracks; named-system damage also marks that system.

Other Combat Procedures

4. Stations and Actions

Chapter Fourteen lists the stations; Chapter Fifteen gives each action in full. A crew member may cover a second empty station at 1 Bane Die on the second station's Actions; never more than two.

5. Power and Heat

Chapter Six. Power Load above Power Capacity forces an overload response at once.

An overload of 1 may run a round if a response is declared; 2 or more, or one left unresolved, takes 1 System Damage to Power Distribution each round.

Heat comes from weapons fired, screens absorbing hits, Overburn, converted overloads, Reactor Overload, Scorch, and builder drawbacks. Heat Dissipation removes Heat at the end of each round. Ground and hover vehicles have no Power or Heat track (Chapter Nine).

6. Sensors and Detection

Chapter Seven. Intellect + Electronics at the Sensors and Comms station.

A ship that is not hiding is detected without a check inside the watcher's band. A ship on Hard Burn, or running an antimatter engine at Cruise 4 or more, is detectable at Extreme by any grade. A hiding ship is found by an opposed check: the watcher's detection check against the hiding ship's Signature Management check; a tie goes to the hiding ship.

• Electronic Silence: all emitters off; 1 Heat a round; no scans, locks, guided weapons, or relay.
• Cold Running Mode: takes effect at the end of the second round (third for Crown Meridian, fourth for Kharos); Power Load 1, Speed 1, no weapons, ECM, or screens; breaking it is visible within Medium.
• Jamming needs an ECM system and the target within Medium (Long with a Military Electronic Warfare Suite): Chapter Fifteen, Jam.

7. In-System Travel

Chapter Six. Travel Bands are counted from the destination.

• Hard Burn: Cruise 1 higher for one leg; half a Nearby jump charge of fuel; Average Craft check at the end of the leg or the engine takes 1 System Damage; detectable at Extreme.
• Engine damage: 1 System Damage costs 1 Speed and 1 Cruise; 2 sets Cruise to 1; 3 takes the engine offline.

8. Slipstream Travel

Chapters Six and Seven. Astrogation checks use Intellect + Astrogation.

• Drive charge: 10 minutes (5 for a Restricted or Military drive).
• Saturation: Crowded adds 1 to seam, transit, and offset-exit checks; Saturated makes them one step harder as well (Chapter Seven).
• Offset exits and the offset-exit failure table: Chapter Six, Offset Exits (the only copy).

9. Weapons

Chapter Eight, Weapon Statistics. Prices, Availability, and minimum Scale are there; ammunition and payload prices are under Ammunition, Ordnance, and Payloads. Damage is the Hull Damage of a one-Success hit; "Sys" is System Damage.

One oversized mount, one size above the hull's largest, costs 1 extra point, fires Fixed Forward, and gains Recoil (Chapter Thirteen).

Weapon Tags

Every tag's full rule is in Chapter Eight, Weapon Tags.

10. Defenses

Chapter Eight. Deflection adds its fore or aft value in Bane Dice to every attack from that facing (the lower value from Port or Starboard); it does not reduce damage and drops 1 per System Damage on Defensive Control. Only screens reduce damage before Armor.

Two ECM systems do not add their Bane Dice; take the better for each check (the Ghost Transmitter Array's dice on Target Lock excepted).

The rare defenses (Gravitic Deflection Field, Phase Veil Generator, Interdiction Countermeasures) and the defense-by-weapon-family table are in Chapter Eight.

11. Modules, Slots, and Hardpoints

Chapters Ten and Twelve. Every module's slots, minimum Scale, effect, Power, Heat, price multiplier, and Availability are in the Module Catalog appendix to Chapter Ten.

Module price = base cost per slot × the module's multiplier × the Availability multiplier (Open ×1.0, Licensed ×1.6, Restricted ×2.5, Military ×3.0).

Apply the builder integration modifier from Chapter Five, Integration Modifiers, to every installation and repair check.

Upgrading a mount costs the difference × 1.5; downgrading refunds 40% (Chapter Twelve, Hardpoints).

12. Builders

Chapter Five. Integration status, the integration modifiers, and the compatibility map are in Chapter Five, Builder Integration (the only copy).

13. Hull Design

Chapter Thirteen.

Catalog price = build points spent × the rate × 1.85, plus fittings, then × market modifier × condition.

Caps are Civilian / Professional / Military. A builder's Cheaper stat (Hull Points, System Points, Speed, or Handling) may exceed its cap by one block or step.

A retrofit costs double the points and 2.5 times the credits (hardpoints at the Chapter Twelve price).

14. Running Costs

Chapter Twelve.

• Mortgage: 10% down; 2.5% of the financed amount a month for 120 months (lender table in Chapter Twelve).
• Lease: 3% of the hull's price in its current condition, a month, plus one month as deposit.
• Missed payments: 1 late fee; 2 flagged and the rate steps up; 3 repo agent and a bounty of 10% of the balance; 4 active pursuit.
• Insurance: 0.5% of condition value a month, 2% deductible.

• Extra fuel: half a Nearby charge for a forced entry, an Extreme offset or punch-out, or each Hard Burn leg; a quarter charge per day of sublight travel without a jump. Antimatter engines pay 2.5 times.
• Docking: core worlds double the major-station rate; minor stations about 60%, fringe colonies about 40%; freeports twice their tier (Chapter Twelve table).
• Supply Unit: one person-month of consumables, 75cr. Capacity is Consumables in months × standard crew; 20 extra take 1 Cargo Unit.

A year holds eight routine services, three quarterly servicings, and one annual overhaul. Multiply by tier: Professional ×1.25, Military ×1.5.

15. Repair and Salvage

Chapter Eleven.

• Field repair: Craft check, Easy while damage on that track is a quarter of its points or less, Average above; each net Success removes 1 damage; parts at half the yard rate per point; 4 hours a check at Scale 2–4, 8 at Scale 5, 16 at Scale 6–7. Hull Damage needs a Workshop and only while Hull Damage is half the Hull Points or less.
• Yard repair: any damage, no check, at the yard rate below plus docking.

Salvage value: a Working component sells for 45% of its new price × the source ship's condition multiplier (High hours when unknown); Damaged half that; Destroyed 2% as scrap; a fringe yard pays three quarters. Military components have no legal market.

16. Starship Summary

Chapter Sixteen. Hardpoints are points, with mounts in brackets. Prices of Military hulls are Prize Values. Every cell of the full stat block is keyed in Chapter Sixteen, Reading an Entry.

Commercial hulls

Military hulls

17. Small Craft Summary

Chapter Seventeen. PV marks a Prize Value. The Atmospheric Lander, Survey Skiff, and Rapid Descent Vehicle print their atmospheric or descent Speed; their space or cruise values are in their Traits.

18. Ground and Hover Vehicle Summary

Chapter Eighteen; limits and price method in Chapter Nine. (PV) marks a Prize Value.

19. Availability and Acquisition

Chapter Twelve, Component Availability and Pricing. Availability applies to components and modules; a hull's Acquisition uses the same four words for the paperwork to own it (Chapter Thirteen, Operator Tier Is Not Acquisition).

• Military hulls and vehicles are not sold; their catalog figure is a Prize Value. Military-tier designs with Restricted Acquisition are sold to buyers with contractor clearance (Chapter Thirteen).
• Authority Heat items draw a Border Warrant when used and are seized on inspection (Chapter Eight, Weapon Tags).
• Funtari hover technology leaving Confederacy space needs a Confederacy export license (Equipment Guide, Chapter Three).
• Fines and seizure: Chapter Twelve, Fines, Impound, and Seizure.