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Base Frames

Source Starfinder Core Rulebook pg. 294
Each starship has a base frame that determines its size, maneuverability, starting weapon mounts, hull strength, room for expansion, and other capacities. Although two ships that use the same frame might look radically different, they both have some of these base statistics in common. The frame of a starship includes all life support and artificial gravity systems necessary to keep the crew (and any passengers) alive and comfortable. The starship’s frame is also built with a transponder that is essentially the ship’s “address” for standard system-wide and unlimited-range communications (see page 430); this transponder can be turned off, during which time the starship can’t send or receive messages, but neither can it be tracked down by conventional means.

The base frames below are organized by size (from smallest to largest) and cost in Build Points (with less expensive frames coming first within a size). In general, the size and expansion bay capacities of a base frame can’t be changed without a great deal of time and money (and the GM’s permission), so it can be more effective to just start over with a different base frame when upgrading those aspects of a starship.

Starship Drone

Source Drift Crisis pg. 147
Size Tiny
Maneuverability perfect (+2 Piloting, turn 0)
HP 15 (increment 5); DT —; CT 3
Mounts none
Expansion Bays —
Minimum Crew 0; Maximum Crew 0
Cost 3

Special Abilities

A starship made with the starship drone base frame has no life support, artificial gravity, or crew quarters. All its components are accessible from outside the ship, usually through maintenance hatches and other access ports. A starship drone is usually equipped with a VI, or virtual intelligence system. The ship’s VI obeys instructions according to its programming, but it can navigate and use onboard systems when supervision isn’t available.