Equipment

The starship marketplace on the planet of Kuat teems with a myriad of manufacturers trying to peddle their parts. Santhe engineers preach the benefits of their lightweight ship armors, while Czerka employees counter that reinforcement trumps speed. SoroSuub representatives propagate the destructive power of their heavy laser cannon across from BlasTech vendors demonstrating their rapid-fire laser cannon, which they tout as more consistent. Across this planet, and many others, ships and parts for myriad vessels are available for purchase.

This chapter offers choices of certain equipment types, to be used in conjunction with the starship upgrades featured in Chapter 4. The listed prices are those appropriate to ships of a Small size; when outfitting a ship of any other size, you'll want to apply the Starship Size Equipment Cost, as shown in the Starship Size Equipment Cost table below, which differs slightly from a similar table found in Chapter 4.

Like modifications, if PCs provide the workforce to install the equipment and invest their time, the final costs incurred to add equipment is only half that shown (just the material cost of an assembled piece of equipment). Moreover, one or more PCs can assemble a piece of equipment without the ship's presence being required by spending an amount of time assembling based on the material cost of the assembled piece of equipment (half the total installed cost) and by using raw materials equal to half the material cost of the installed equipment (one-quarter the total installed cost).

COST MODIFIERS

Equipment for bigger starships is costlier to acquire and install than that for smaller ships. Consequently, each starship has a cost modifier, derived from its size as shown in the Starship Size Equipment Cost table below, which is multiplied by the base cost of the item. Because Ship weapons and ammunition only come in two size categories, their costs do not change based on the ship's size cost modifier.

Starship Size Equipment Cost

For instance, to purchase and install Deflection Armor on a Small size ship, it costs 3,100 credits. To purchase and install it on a Huge ship, however, it costs 155,000 (3,100 x 50).

Equipment Workforce

Additionally, bigger ships require more people to install new equipment, as shown below in the Starship Size Equipment Workforce table below.

Starship Size Equipment Workforce

Installation Time

With sufficient workforce, a snubfighter's equipment can be installed in no more than a week. However, installing a new equipment layout in a freighter can take up to a month, and an overhaul of a large ship such as a cruiser might take a year. It isn't practical for a smaller workforce to make changes to such big ships, regardless of how much time the workers have.

The base time needed to upgrade a starship is calculated as follows:

time (in days) = ("base cost of new equipment" x "Starship Size Equipment Cost") / (500 x "size of workforce")

For instance, to install Deflection Armor in a Small ship, with a workforce of 1, would take 6.2 days. To install it on a Huge ship, with a workforce of 100, however, would take 3.1 days [(3,100 x 50) / (500 x 100)].

It is assumed that each member of the workforce works 8 hours per day.