Boarding Actions against Starbases

[Methos5000]

I was reading up on the rules for boarding starbases and it says that when you roll a 6 you have a chance of destroying a special trait of the Station. You can choose anything except Space Station and Immobile and if you choose Interceptors, Defense Network or Carrier it gets dropped by 1, otherwise it is destroyed.
Now how does that affect the Targets Special Trait?
Can you destroy the Targets Trait and then the Space Station cant shoot at anything or is it limited to one target?
Also the wording is a little vague, but it seems to read that the attacker gets to choose what trait is hit. Is that true or am I interpreting it wrong?

 

[katadder]

?? didnt think you could board space stations cos they just too big and got too many people on board.

 

[Methos5000]

Well there is a small paragraph about it near the end of the Boarding Actions section of SFoS. Its just pretty vague on who gets to choose which system is hit, or how loss of the Targeting Trait would effect the stations shoot capability.

 

[Target]

?? didnt think you could board space stations cos they just too big and got too many people on board.

they have a troops score so can be boarded.

 

[LordClinto]

I think when you "destroy" a trait with troops it only reduces the value by one until they are at zero.

 

[Methos5000]

Well thats what I thought, but it does only list Carrier, Defense Network and Interceptors.

But regardless, does anyone know what happens when Targets hits 0?

 

[Target]

I would imagine you could only go to 1, maybe you should go to the rulemaster forum and ask for a proper answer.