Victory Conditions
Source GM Core pg. 228
Along with the details on the PCs' starship and the threats relevant to the encounter, there are two notable elements of a cinematic starship scene: the victory conditions and ending the encounter.
Victory conditions represent the ways in which the PCs overcome the encounter and measure their success. This might include something as simple as “destroy the Corpse Fleet starship” with that starship being one of the threats in the encounter. There might also be an objective of “escape the asteroid field by gaining 5 or more Escape Points,” which can be earned by actions the PCs take during the encounter. Some scenes might even provide the PCs with multiple means of achieving victory, such as combining the idea of a Corpse Fleet vessel attacking the PCs inside an asteroid field—the PCs might win the encounter by either of the two options listed above!
Ending a starship scene can be determined by a variety of factors. It might be timed based on a number of rounds that pass, until the PCs or one or more threats are disabled, or when the PCs (or a threat) achieve a certain threshold of successes on relevant checks.
Victory conditions represent the ways in which the PCs overcome the encounter and measure their success. This might include something as simple as “destroy the Corpse Fleet starship” with that starship being one of the threats in the encounter. There might also be an objective of “escape the asteroid field by gaining 5 or more Escape Points,” which can be earned by actions the PCs take during the encounter. Some scenes might even provide the PCs with multiple means of achieving victory, such as combining the idea of a Corpse Fleet vessel attacking the PCs inside an asteroid field—the PCs might win the encounter by either of the two options listed above!
Ending a starship scene can be determined by a variety of factors. It might be timed based on a number of rounds that pass, until the PCs or one or more threats are disabled, or when the PCs (or a threat) achieve a certain threshold of successes on relevant checks.