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Adjusting For Smaller Crews

Source Tech Core pg. 209
A crew of three or fewer PCs might struggle with efficiency and firepower when helming a player starship. When preparing and running games for a small crew, treat your experience budget for tactical starship encounters as being 20 lower for moderate or harder encounters and 10 lower for low-or trivial-threat encounters to account for the crew's limited ability to helm battle stations. Alternatively, you can use the concierge upgrade variant rule found on the sidebar.
Variant Rule: Concierge Upgrade
The player starship is equipped with a helpful virtual intelligence (VI) concierge that helps operate the starship. The concierge is typically installed in the starship computer and can communicate remotely with all creatures on board the starship through use of an intercom or send private video or text messages directly to a crew member. The concierge is programmed to be helpful to all registered crew members and hostile to creatures designated by a crew member as an intruder. When performing battle station actions, or attempting any other checks at a crew member's request, the concierge has a skill modifier equal to the highest crew member's. The concierge's saves, and other statistics are the same as the starship. The concierge can't leave its starship but can send messages to crew members using a data center. If the starship is wrecked, the concierge can't take any actions or communicate. Installing and repairing a concierge upgrade works like any other starship upgrade.

Command Concierge [free-action] Frequency Once per round; Effect A crew member helming a battle station commands the concierge to use a station action granted by a battle station that isn't helmed.
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