Gateship-X Shaltari Motherships must launch their Dropships via a Ship/Dropsite with this rule (sometimes referred to as Gateships). Each Gateship can have up to X Dropships deployed from it each round. Note: though the launch is measured from the Gateship, it is the Mothership that is launching.
When this Ship goes on the Weapons Free, Max Thrust, or Damage Control orders, it reduces its Gateship-X value to 0 until the start of its next activation.
Shield-X This Group has a Shield Save of X+. After Weapons have been assigned to this Group or Assets attack this Group, you may declare the use of Shield Saves for this Group. If you do, this Group replaces its Energy and Kinetic Saves with their Shield Saves for that attack sequence. Shield Saves can be used against Energy, Kinetic, and Core damage and ignore any modifiers to Energy and Kinetic Saves. Backup Saves may then be used after Shield Saves as normal.
A Group gains a single Spike each time it uses its Shield saves (regardless of the number of saves made per use).
Hits caused by Boarding Actions cannot be saved by Shield Saves.
Open Network In a round this Group is deployed, it activates following the normal activation, group, and deployment rules. In subsequent rounds all of your Open Network Ships count as being part of a single Group. Ships in this single Group choose their orders individually when it activates. From the second round onwards, all friendly Open Network Groups count as a single Group when generating Pass Tokens.
Open Network Ships ignore Coherency rules (and do not gain Formation Benefits), have no Lead Ship, are targeted by attacks individually, and these attacks can only damage and affect the targeted Open Network Ship.
Crippling Effects, Spikes, and other rules that affect an entire Group only affect the targeted Open Network Ship.
