Abbai Matriarchy Duties

Jetbaker

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The number 6 crew duty for Abbai is Veteran Defense Technicians. It states that the ship rolling the duty receives a +2/+1 to shields. It never states that a ship cannot have this duty more than once. If that is the case a ship can continue to receive this trait more than once. What is the intent on this crew duty? Thoughts??
 
I can't see an Abbai ship returning from campaign with potentially 100 shields.
There should be an upper limit. First roll +2/+1, second roll +1/+1, third roll +1/+0, fourth roll no benefit.
 
Each time you pick up a new Veteran his/her experiences and way of thinking meshes with the current crew and allows the Shields to be tweaked up a little.

In reality, I would think that the Other Duties: Veteran Defence Technicians and the Refit: Enhanced Shields should have their texts flipped so the OD:VDT will provide the one time 5/1 boost and the R:ES will allow for the 2/1 boost. Pretty much just change the numbers and move the "This may only be applied once." to OD:VDT.
 
The benefit is small enough that I don't see stacking as a big issue. The comment about a 100 shield value is a bit off seeing as you would be hitting this on benefit something in the neighborhood of 40 times.

I could see something along the lines of cannot more than double the original value. This would also limit the interaction with the other shield bonus and largely limit the potential real benefit with is not a huge shield, but a huge recharge.

Of course I see the Abbai right now as a literal fish out of water gasping for breath, but that's just me. The changes to the Bimith (Lumbering) basically removed if as a combat ship. The Milani essentially traded its interceptors for crit immunity on 40% of its damage/crew...and one less die to throw on its main weapon. (This is a bad trade btw...) Tiraca got the same deal on interceptors for limited crit immunity. Lakara did okay, and Juyaca just needs a smidge more speed to be good. Course we could never make the Lakara pay for itself already...too short a of range combined with too slow a speed ment it rarely got a shot and just became the last damage sponge on the table, so the Juyaca probably stole it's thunder there.

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