My New Year's resolution was to start playing the Scum faction instead of being exclusively an Imperial player, and I've already fallen in love with the variety and flavor that the Scum faction brings to the table.

That said, I feel like we need another Scum ship that can utilize salvaged Astromech cards (more on that in a minute) and tank like crazy while supporting other ships even at the expense of limited attack dice and limited evade.

In the new Star Wars: Vader comic books, Vader teams up with a scummy droid expert named Dr. Aphra (who also works closely with bounty hunters) and she pilots a ship called the Ark Angel.

Ark Angel is described as a "heavy duty lifter" which makes me think it has crazy high hull points (10+) but isn't designed to do much damage (only 1 attack dice ... or 2 at range 1 for the standard primary attack). There is room inside for multiple crew and droids. Dr. Aphra is a thief, so I can imagine her title card gives her Ark Angel the ability to steal something from an enemy ship at range 1 and use it for herself (maybe steal one enemy ship's ability to perform or receive actions that turn and allow Aphra to perform one additional action).

The two main droids that Aphra works with are 0-0-0 (Triple Zero), a protocol droid designed for torture, and BT-1, a "Blastomech" astromech that Dr. Aphra salvaged which is capable of firing extremely powerful weapons. I can imagine that Triple Zero would be a crew member upgrade card that "tortures" enemies at range 1 by taking away their ability to re-roll both attack and defense dice. BT-1 would be a salvaged astromech card that gives you an option to use his special attack on any ship at range 1 even outside your primary firing arc (4 attack dice) instead of using any other attack.

The "Ark Angel" title card (usable only on this heavy lifter class of ships) should add a second salvaged astromech upgrade slot to your ship so you can use two salvaged astromechs (since Dr. Aphra specializes in stealing and salvaging droids).

I would also imagine that the Heavy Lifter ship type could take an illicit card and a systems upgrade card since Dr. Aphra is a tech genius who I'm sure has upgraded the Ark Angel with extra bells and whistles ... but that might be OP.

This is the kind of crazy scum tank I've been dreaming of playing (10+ hull points, room for 2 crew upgrades and 2 salvaged astromechs if you use the ship's unique title card) and abilities to mess with other players actions and re-rolls if you get close ... and it fits perfectly with the new characters in the Star Wars universe coming from the Vader comic book series.