Gearing up for the glory that will surely be the Imperial Raider, I decided to splurge and finally get a Tantive so I could experience huge ship fighting ahead of time.

Needless to say, I have myriad rules questions... But let's start with one.

The situation is this: Fore section has the WED Repair Droid from the Rebel Transport set in the crew slot. The droid requires an action to proc.

Once the Fore is crippled, I can keep just the one crew card face up. But the Fore can no longer do its native actions. Can the "Action" header surviving crew card still function even though the section's other actions cannot?

Okay, while I'm at it, here's another:

When the crippled Fore section stomps on a ship or obstacle, does the damage effect no longer apply?

Although effects from upgrades can apply globally on the ship, I'm pretty sure they have to be activated by the section they are on.

Also worth mentioning that once a section becomes crippled, it cannot be repaired. Using an effect that removes damage cards from a crippled section does not cause it to become uncrippled.

And yes, ramming with a crippled fore is free damage.

I used it to keep repairing the Aft section.

I just checked huge ship rules. It doesn't say you lose the action from the crippled section. But I guess there are no action icons on the crippled side (don't have the cards here)

So I guess if you have an upgrade card that required an action you can still do that action for that section.

I treated it like Damaged Sensor Array on a ship with, for example, Squad Leader. Can't do the actions printed on the pilot card, but those on upgrade cards you can still do.

I haven't read the huge ship rules in a while. If they don't say that a crippled ship looses its action then there would be nothing preventing using the droid to keep repairing the aft section.

I just checked huge ship rules. It doesn't say you lose the action from the crippled section. But I guess there are no action icons on the crippled side (don't have the cards here)

So I guess if you have an upgrade card that required an action you can still do that action for that section.

Correct on all counts.

Although effects from upgrades can apply globally on the ship, I'm pretty sure they have to be activated by the section they are on.

That is true for actions but not for all effects.

If the fore section performs a TL action the Weapons Engineer in the aft section works.