My players want to be able to eventually upgrade their ship (a YKL-37R Nova Courier) to rival the Falcon, but I can't find any official attachments to increase a vehicle's Handling. I don't have the entire line of books, but I also didn't see one in OggDude's character generator.

And if there's not an official one, what would folks suggest for upgrade mods beyond the initial +1 to Handling? Additional +1s to Handling? Anything else?

Thanks!

I'm not aware off-hand of a regular supplement that contains an improved handling ship upgrade; but there is such an option in the adventure module The Jewel of Yavin (albeit one that, officially, is only applicable to small craft of Silhouette 2 or lower).

Maneuvering Thrusters

Base Modifiers: +1 Handling

Modification Options: None

Hard Points Required: 1

Price: 500 times Silhouette

Special: May only be attached to vehicles of Silhouette 2 or lower. (At least according to the official rules; although I can't think of any reason to disallow such an upgrade on larger ships.)

Excellent! Thank you! I don't have Jewel of Yavin and I guess that the attachment's restrictions prevented it from showing up in the generator's list for the Nova Courier.

Now my next step is to adjust that attachment in the character generator.

To try and keep this in balance with some of the other mods for larger vessels, I would probably use a sliding scale for the cost multiplier. Something like 500 times Silhouette if Silhouette <=2, 1000 times Silhouette if Silhouette > 2 && Silhouette <=4, and maybe 10,000 times Silhouette if Silhouette > 4 && Silhouette <= 6

I base this as an extension of the Square-cube law, specific examples of this relate to sail surface area to weight ratios of sailing vessels. In short, as the weight of a sailing vessel increases linearly, you need geometrically bigger sails to achieve the same speed and acceleration characteristics given the same wind.

If one of your players is a Rigger (Stay on Target: Pg 31), they can picked up a couple of ranks in "Tuned Maneuver Thrusters" that increase handling of their signature vehicle by 1 per rank.