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Player > Starships > Other > Expansion Bays > Drone tube
Starfinder Adventure Path #07: The Reach of Empire (Against the Aeon Throne 1 of 3) p.48
PCU: 15
COST (In BP): 5
A drone tube is a hangar modification designed to facilitate
the use of automated drones, such as the Klokworx drone
(see Imperial Ships on page 50). A drone tube can be installed
only in an existing hangar bay and doesn’t take up additional
expansion bays. If a hangar bay has a drone tube, the bay can
hold one additional Tiny starship, but five of those ships must
be drones. One hangar bay can hold up to two drone tubes
and thereby hold up to ten drones.
Each drone tube can launch up to two drones per round
of starship combat. To launch a drone, a science officer can
take an action during the helm phase to attempt a Computers
check (DC = 10 + the tier of the launching ship). If the science
officer succeeds, up to two drones emerge in different hexes
adjacent to the launching ship, and the drones can act last in
the helm and gunnery phases of that same round. On a failure,
the drones still emerge but don’t act until the next round. In
either case, each round after a drone is launched, the drone
attempts its own Piloting check to determine when it acts.
The drone tube also facilitates the launching ship’s
communications with its drones in combination with the
vessel’s sensors. A science officer on a ship that has active
drones can take an action during the helm phase to aid drone
attacks. If the science officer succeeds at a Computers check
(DC = 10 + 1-1/2 × the launching ship’s tier), up to five of
the ship’s drones can use that science officer’s ranks in the
Computers skill plus the officer’s Intelligence modifier for
gunnery checks during the next gunnery phase.
A science officer can take an action during the helm phase
to jam drone communications. Doing so takes an improve
countermeasures action (Core Rulebook 325), targeting the
drone-launching ship. Succeeding at this check means the
target’s drones can’t benefit from an action to aid drone
attacks until the next round.
Name | PCU | Cost (In BP) | Source |
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Drone tube | 15 | 5 | AT01 p.48 |
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