Freighter in Your Campaign

[Raven Redstar]

[vanir]

We paid a fortune for hyperdrive mods so everyone has a x1 except the new corvette. We did spend another fortune on engineering a recessed docking bay with limited refuelling/crew transfer services so we can use the corvette as a tanker.

we go as a convoy. about to make the triellus run to the old corellian run, stopover at ryloth then off through brak sector and the five veils route to sargesso shadow port, then off to the enarc run around naboo and into harrin sector for a big campaign. we're coming ex nar shadaa, had some trouble with a hutt so now we're going to go pick a fight with imperials for fun. Jedi rumours in harrin sector, we have to check it out.

players don't know I have a full sector fleet between here and there however, who don't like little armed convoys acting like they own the place...

[Fallon Kell]

[garhkal]

Well, unless they all make the same number on the Astrogation rolls, they will still arrive at different times....
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[vanir]

[garhkal]

I can see that.. but i always thought that your roll even if you were Given the jump coordinates, was to also see if you inputted them right.
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[Bren]

[atgxtg]

I think that what happens is that one ship plots all the coruses for the group and then the data is transmitted to the other ships. That way they all arrive at the same destination at the same time.

[garhkal]

[Bren]

[CRMcNeill]

[Bren]

Given the way the astrogation skill and hyperdrive travel works in Star Wars the RPG, fleets must be using coordinated jumps to do what we see them do in the movies and the TV show - which is have multiple ships with different hyperspace speeds arrive in the same place and time in formation. Otherwise the fleet couldn't arrive in the same place, at the same time without losing formation to the point that it (a) impairs battle readiness and function, (b) has a significantly > 0 probability of ships crashing into each other, and (c) loses ships from the formation along the way due to misjumps that change to timing or location of emergence from hyperspace. We assume that ships can jump at a lower speed than their rated hyperspace speed, so all ships in the fleet typically jump at the speed of the slowest ship in the formation.

[Downstrike]

Might make for a fun game, Late for the Battle of Yavin or something similar. Though some were on board with the Death Star's ability, some in the command thought a reserve force would be the safe bet. The players come out of hyper just a few seconds before the reserves appear which just happens to be about the time Chewy, Han and Luke are getting awards. The radiation and junk from the deathstar is messing with the player's ship so commo is out. Sensors are also messed up which should be the hint that the rebels don't know whats going on. maybe a few x wings are still on patrol, can talk to the players but not the base. They have to hold off the empire till someone can warn everyone else.

[CRMcNeill]

In the ImpSB, one of the support units of an Imperial Navy Sector Group is a Navigation section, with the responsibility of coordinating synchronized hyperspace jumps, sometimes even for ships with different starting points arriving at the same end point simultaneously.
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[Bren]

I like the idea of "Late for the Battle of ..." where the GM could fill in the blank with some film or novel event. That could be a fun way for a group to start out with the Rebel Alliance (or the main film characters) before one of the big fleet actions - like say Endor. The players would then be in the group or crowd scene for the briefing - pick an actor that looks like your character or just assume the PCs are in the room, but just out of the shot. But if the group is concerned about canon or PCs being upstaged by Luke et al, then the GM could have the group miss the main fleet action. They end up misjumping or encountering some gravity anomaly or something. Of course this would need to paired up with something significant for the PCs to do so that they are just relegated to bench warmers. In tone I am envisioning something like the Deep Space Nine episode of Star Trek that had the crew of DS9 going back in time to the Trouble with Tribbles episode of the old show. The PCs are out to upstage the movie (or vice versa) just that behind the scenes the PCs are responsible for the enabling the movie characters' successes. This wouldn't work for all groups, but it might be fun for the right group.

For example (Endor): there is an additional Imperial Force of reinforcements headed to the Death Star construction site. The PCs run into the reinforcements - that could even be what causes the misjump - both forces pull each other out of hyperspace due to their respective mass shadows. The PC force has to delay, drive off, or destroy the Imperials to prevent the Imps from surprising the Rebel Fleet at Endor ruining the Rebel ambush and destroying the Alliance High Command.

For example (Yavin): Grand Moff Tarkin was in a hurry to display the prowess of his new battle station and he left before the station's complement of fighters could be loaded. Thus the only fighters on the station are those accompanying Lord Vader (or that escorted Tarkin's shuttle when he boarded). The PCs run into the convoy of Escort Carriers that are carrying the Death Star's actual fighter complement. The PC force has to delay, drive off, or destroy the Imperial convoy and prevent the fighters from reaching the Death Star before the Battle of Yavin.