A sticky thread for editing and proofreading comments on Chapter VII - Starships and Vehicles.

On page 169 the TIE fighter should be a TIE In, not a TIE Ln ("I" as in Indigo, not "L" as in Lambda). There's no such thing as a TIE Ln.

 The Y-Wing either should have its ion cannon locked to Forward arc or have its model changed and room for a gunner added.

GoblynByte said:

Its TIE/LN, not TIE/IN. LN stands for "line."

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/TIE/ln_starfighter

-EF

There is and editing consistency error on Page 172, column 2, 18 lines down from the top, Under the ‘Electronic Countermeasures Suite’ Entry, in the section that says how many ‘Hard Points Required’ rather than saying "one" as in every other attachment entry, it reads “1”.

EldritchFire said:

Huh… go figure… then is should be lowercase!

GoblynByte said:

Yep, definitely supposed to be lowercase. I thought it was 'in' for years, too. :)

 On page 148 near the end of the text on Silhouette and Defense Zones, the book talks about how a Y-Wing that put both of its defense points aft would be vulnerable to an attack from the front. But on page 156 under assembling the dice pool, the rules state that for a ship of silhouette 4 or smaller (a Y-Wing is a 3) the defender gets to pick which defense zone an attack hits. It seems like a snubfighter can always just put all defense on one zone and then make all attacks hit that zone, which makes the example on page 148 seem misleading.

The price in credits for the Firespray seems too low at 40 000.

E.

Ferretz said:

I'd have gone with 80,000 - 90,000 personally, around the same as the Light Freighter, but slightly less than the YT-1300.

Particularly as it's a KDY design, which are traditionaly more expensive (but better constructed) then their Corrilian counterparts.

::Edited out my mistake::

I'm not sure if on page 157, Table 7-7, Row 3, first bullet point is correct. Is it supposed to say "The active player loses Initiative?" Something about the active player losing Initiative doesn't quite make sense.

 Page 148, Silhouette and Defense Zones states that ships with a silhouette of 5 or higher has 4 defense zones. However, all silhouette 5+ ships on pages 170-171 have only 3 numbers for their defense.

-EF

 Pg153, past sentence of the left-hand column, it says that "each player may never take more than one maneuver during his turn." However, the very next column, Maneuvers, talks about how a starship with a silhouette of 1-4 can take a second maneuver. 

Also, the last two paragraphs of Maneuvers is a bit confusing. Am I right that if a starship of silhouette 1-4 wants to take two maneuvers, and has one pilot (a Z-95, for example) the ship and the pilot must both suffer 2 strain? Or if the starship has a pilot and co-pilot, they both can do one maneuver, and only the ship suffers the two strain.

-EF

Some timeline corrections…

The Firespray System Patrol Craft was designed prior to the Clone Wars, not at the end. Jango Fett flies one (the only one in existence at the time) in the movie Attack of the Clones. Originally, they were indeed designed for the Republic Correctional Authority; however, it would seem that Kuat Systems Engineering reintroduced them sometime after the Empire came into being (and therefore after Republic Correctional Authority ceased to be).

The Z-95 Headhunter predates the Clone Wars by at least a decade or two.

Also, the Skipray Blastboats were apparently designed by Republic Sienar Systems just prior to the Clone Wars, though this is slightly misleading since the design was scrapped and rebuilt to be introduced by Sienar Fleet Systems at the beginning of the Galactic Civil War.

Terminology Corrections…

I have never seen anything to indicate that CR90 is a "class" of corvette. It's just "CR90 Corvette." It's a model in CEC's corvette line. 

In the Nebulon-B escort frigate entry, it is an effective replacement of the Class-C (proper) frigate. 

YT-1300 and YT-2400 are not class designations. Their class is "light freighter." So it's "Corellian Engineering Corporation's YT-2400 light freighter."

As an aside, apparently the Ghtroc 720 is also referred to as the "Class 720."

Spelling/Grammar/Verbiage…

First sentence of page 170: "life's blood" should be changed to "lifeblood." Also, intergalactic means "between galaxies." You'll want "intragalactic" or "interplanetary" to talk about this type commerce. 

End of the second paragraph page 170, I'd change "in use in the galaxy" to "in use across the galaxy."

Action VI entry page 170: "…powered by once of CEC's…" should be, "powered by one of CEC's…"

Under CAPITAL SHIPS (page 171), the first sentence is confusing. "This broad category…bear enormous martial might." 

Under the EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate, the last word of the first paragraph ("ships") should be changed to "Star Destroyers." Also, to make that last sentence cleaner you could write "…Victory- and Imperial-class…"

Minor Quibbly Bits:

I always thought that Ghtroc Industries (mentioned in the Ghtroc 720 writeup) was more of a failure and actually went out of business, though their light freighters remained in popular usage in the Outer Rim.

GoblynByte said:

The TIE/In designates the TIE Interceptor and has for years. So those of you that thought you were going crazy, fear not :) 

The TIE/Ln is, apparently, the official designation of the TIE fighter we all know and love to blow up with quad lasers (at least as of The Essential Guide to Warfare which was published last year). I'll admit I had never seen that designation either until reading the Beta Book.