A malfunctioning battle station has been sabotaged or heavily damaged, or it shut down when its starship became inoperable. When a battle station in the players' starship is malfunctioning, characters helming it can't use its station actions, though they still gain any passive benefits of helming that battle station. You can remove the malfunctioning condition using the
Repair Station and
Jump Start actions or with the use of certain station actions. This condition can also be inflicted on NPC starships' battle stations, using actions such as
Hack Battle Station.