Starship and Vehicle Modifications

Attachments and mods for starships and vehicles, paraphrased from the core rulebook and verified directly against the scanned pages in the Core Rulebook (pp. 269-271). This is explicitly a representative sample, not an exhaustive list — GMs are encouraged to design their own attachments. Pairs with Customization and Modifications, which covers the same attachment/mod framework for weapons and armor.

#Starships, Vehicles, and Mods

Starships and vehicles are modded using the exact same attachment/mod rules as personal gear (see Customization and Modifications for how attachments, mods, and the install check work). The only difference: installing a mod on a starship or vehicle costs ten times as much in credits as the personal-gear cost. The check itself (Hard Mechanics) is unchanged.

#Quick Reference: Table 7-16 — Attachments

(R) = restricted, black-market item — see Black Market.

#Attachments

#Advanced Targeting Array

Any starship or vehicle. Base: upgrades the ability die of Gunnery checks made when firing the ship's weapons by one. Mods: 1× additional upgrade Mod, 1× Innate Talent (Sniper Shot) Mod, 1× Innate Talent (True Aim) Mod.

#Enhanced Carbon-Durasteel Armor

(Listed as "Enhanced Armor" in Table 7-16.) Any starship or vehicle. Carbon-nanotube/durasteel plate bonded to the hull. Base: adds one point to starship armor; reduces starship handling by one. Mods: none.

#Electronic Countermeasures Suite

Any starship or vehicle. Floods nearby sensors and comms with noise/junk data. Base: blocks sensors within range, treating the ship or vehicle's silhouette as one step smaller for the purpose of being fired at; immediately alerts all ships in the system (or within 100 km if planetside) to the ship's existence. Mods: 1× increases the difficulty of subsequent attacks by one, due to the Guided quality Mod. (The rulebook's wording here is terse — read as: this mod option adds a difficulty upgrade against later attacks made using the Guided weapon quality against the protected ship.)

#Hydraulic Control Circuits

Non-fighter starships only. Liquid-metal conductive tubing in place of standard wafer boards; naturally resistant to ion effects. Base: the ship suffers half damage (after soak) from weapons with the Ion quality; decreases handling by one and system strain threshold by one. Mods: 1× lets the defender (instead of the attacker) choose which ship component is affected by the Ion quality Mod, 1× increases system strain threshold by one Mod.

#Reinforced Shield Generator

Any ship or vehicle. Upgrades stock particle/ray shielding, also making it easier to manage. Base: one additional point of defense to one defense zone of the owner's choice. Mods: 2× one additional point of defense to one defense zone of choice Mods.

#Smuggling Compartments

Any ship or vehicle with encumbrance capacity 25 or more. Concealed compartments for hiding contraband (or people). Base: stores up to 25 encumbrance per compartment, which still counts against the ship's total encumbrance threshold; increases the difficulty of checks made to find the compartment by two. Mods: 2× additional storage (25 encumbrance) Mods.

#Retrofitted Hanger Bay

Silhouette 5+ ships/vehicles only. Converts part of the hold to carry smaller auxiliary vehicles. Base: the carrier can hold vehicles up to 2 silhouette steps smaller than itself, up to a total combined silhouette based on the carrier's own silhouette — silhouette 5 carriers: total 5; silhouette 6: total 20; silhouette 7+: total 60. (Note the printed jump from 20 to 60 between silhouette 6 and 7+ — that's the book's own math, not a transcription error.) Common sense and GM judgment apply to what actually fits. Mods: 5× additional maximum silhouette capacity Mods.

#Hyperdrive Generator

Any ship with a hyperdrive. Base: reduces Hyperdrive class by one, to a minimum of class 1. Mods: 2× reduce hyperspace class by 0.5 Mods, to a minimum of class 0.5.

#High-Output Ion Turbine

Any airspeeder or starship. Faster sublight engines, less reliable. Base: adds one point to the ship's speed; reduces system strain threshold by one. Mods: none.

#Upgraded Weapons

Any ship or vehicle. Mounting new or heavier weapons — see Table 7-17: Upgrading Weapons below for guidelines on what can mount what; the table is explicitly not exclusive, and can be used as a template for non-standard weapons too. Base: as the weapon installed. Mods: none. Hard Points Required: 0 if replacing an existing weapon system of the same type/slot; 1 if adding an entirely new weapon system. A weapon system that combines two or more weapons always costs 1 hard point, even when it's replacing an existing system. Price: varies by weapon, see table.

#Table 7-17: Upgrading Weapons

(R) = restricted, black-market item — see Black Market.

Source Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook, Chapter VII - Starships and Vehicles (p. 269-271)