Inspired by SableGryphon's "Drag Race", and was struck by two questions.

Firstly : Which ship would be able to go the fastest repeatedly? (as measured by being able to traverse a 2-meter board from one edge, overlapping the far edge, and back in the fewest number of turns).

Secondly : If we created rules for "People that are blown up come back somehow", would this be a fun format to play, or would everyone simply go with the ship from the former?

For fairness' sake of the latter, each player of my theory-game would get a 50-60 point fleet, and must cross the finish line with all ships (as ships don't actually die-die), and there ought to be several asteroids as well.

What/Who would you fly for this?

Dude. That title.

+1.

Dash with ptl, engine upgrade, nien nunb is what my money is on. 4 straight, barrel roll up, boost. You ignore terrain so repeat ad infinitum

If terrain echo, if no terrain whisper. With engine upgrade and ptl

Move, boost, cloak, (stress), Decloak, green 3 forward repeat.

One could argue that 4 forward with no boost/stress would be fast but that one bank would a bit farther. And the attack for getting behind ships would be effective.

But it could be very Mario cart like

Put those "prototype" tokens from Imperial Aces scenario around the map so people can get powerups!

Put those "prototype" tokens from Imperial Aces scenario around the map so people can get powerups!

That's a brilliant idea!

Vader with Engine Upgrade would be a strong competitor. He could charge ahead straight 5, boost, barrel roll without stress.

Put those "prototype" tokens from Imperial Aces scenario around the map so people can get powerups!

That's a brilliant idea!

When you hit a power up, roll an attack and evade die to randomize what it is. Anything from shield tokens and one-use-only-engine upgrades; to missiles and bombs, and one use-only-cannons (assume any ship can equip any weapon).

When you die, respawn behind last place ship, and try to blast your way back up.

If terrain echo, if no terrain whisper. With engine upgrade and ptl

Move, boost, cloak, (stress), Decloak, green 3 forward repeat.

Whisper moves 7 forward on the first turn, and 9 afterwards. Which means it takes 3 turns to catch up with Tycho's first turn. Before she could catch him, she'd have to turn, which Tycho can do much tighter thanks to Daredevil.

Echo, I don't know. She'd just be Tokyo-drifting all around the board. I think her eratic movement would take a lot to master whereas Tycho has a much more linear, efficient flight path.

It would be fun to try out for sure!

Or you male it that all shops are flying with ion cannons only. So you would still use your same attack dice, but it would always be ion damage only, but the number of hits would equal that many tokens that way large base ships don't get an ion advantage over small. In this way each ship stays in the race longer because they can't be one shot, but the will suffer a one round speed penalty if the aren't able to evade. And it also eliminates the need for respawns since ships will last longer . the biggest drawback would be games could take forever if everyone is only moving one forward every turn because the are all ioned.

Or you male it that all shops are flying with ion cannons only. So you would still use your same attack dice, but it would always be ion damage only, but the number of hits would equal that many tokens that way large base ships don't get an ion advantage over small. In this way each ship stays in the race longer because they can't be one shot, but the will suffer a one round speed penalty if the aren't able to evade. And it also eliminates the need for respawns since ships will last longer . the biggest drawback would be games could take forever if everyone is only moving one forward every turn because the are all ioned.

Combine that with the "power up" idea above - you can only shoot if you collect one of the prototype tokens. Hell, make some of the prototype tokens allow you to shoot, some allow you a free action, so forth, so on...

Oh my god. OHMYGOD.