I was working out my campaign, and I realized my current crew is pretty well set for shipjacking. The next adventure may either end with them wanting to shipjack for the following adventure, or if not, I'd like to have it be the McGuffin/plot focus of another adventure down the road.

I'm having trouble coming up with good ways/checks to locate and select a target and was hoping for some group brainstorming assistance.

Off the top I'm going with:

Streetwise: "Hey who's in town and what is their ship like?"

Computers: "Space traffic control has the following ships on file, and their BoSS info says..."

Charm?: "Hey there sexy bureaucrat... any chance you can slip me info on any neato ships in town?"

Deception: "Oh yeah, I'm totally an undercover sector ranger looking for a dangerous pirate...I'll just.. umm... mail you that warrant later, but I really need the info now"

Any other ideas/suggestions?

I just want to have plenty of options on hand for thinking advantage/threat resolution, and if needed, prodding the players if they can't think of anything other then just breaking into the nearest bay and hoping it's not a worthless durasteel turkey inside.

Depending on where the ship usually operates, Knowledge (Core Worlds) or Knowledge (Outer Rim) might get you some info on it. If it's a smuggler's ship, you might know something about it with Knowledge (Underworld).

You could have someone use a Pilot (Space) roll to maybe have noticed something fancy flying in. I forget my source on this but "identifying starships" seemed to have fallen into piloting, probably O66.

You could have someone use a Pilot (Space) roll to maybe have noticed something fancy flying in. I forget my source on this but "identifying starships" seemed to have fallen into piloting, probably O66.

Seems reasonable--knowledge of blaster pistols can be rolled with a Ranged (Light) check, and so on.

Go to the most high end docking bays with the most amenities. Burglars tend to like rich neighborhoods.

Surveil the area and see what is coming and going. Of course it all depends on what sort of ship they wish to steal. Rich folk will be parking luxury yachts in different areas than someone transporting livestock, and someone else running expensive cargo will be probably have some kind of guarded pick ups like armored cars.

Counterpoint to the above is that high-end areas tend to have better security. Your surveillance run might be enough to tip them off and have the authorities coming for you.