I don't recall seeing any discussion about this, but anybody noticed that even if the card show 4 shield, the image has 7 of them on display? Why?

There is a crew upgrade "Gunk"(?), that gives a ship three shields to a ship.

There is a crew upgrade "Gunk"(?), that gives a ship three shields to a ship.

It's *speculated* that the GONK droid upgrade (which could be crew or salvaged astromech) will interact with shields somehow, but as of right now we don't know.

There is a crew upgrade "Gunk"(?), that gives a ship three shields to a ship.

That hasn't been confirmed has it? Something that just straight up added 3 shields would have to be pretty expensive. That's more or less what Chewbacca does +1 shield.

Adding 3 shields but reducing Agility by 1 and cannot be equiped by 0 Agility ships for a point or so might be about right.

Maybe "At the start of the combat phase you may discard this card to add 3 shields tokens. This may take you above your shield value. At the end of the end phase, remove all shield tokens".

<remembers Evade token in Defender package>

What I'd love to see: "Gonk" droid has a shield regen ability that limits you to recovering 3 shields max over the course of the game. Something like,

"At the start of the game, place three shield tokens on this card. During the combat phase, if you are not at full shields, you may skip your attack to move one shield token from this card to your ship card."

(Obviously this is not intended to be balanced, just an example I'm giving of what it could be.)

<remembers Evade token in Defender package>

Let's also not forget the 7 or so ion tokens in the starviper.

It'll either be GONK or Overc... astr... which is probably Overclocked(or clocking) or Overcharged Astromech - my current assumption is that one of the two will allow some form of mediated increase of shields over the printed shield value - maybe even as simple as 'increase your shield value by 3' for some HUGE price - and the other will cost you defence or shields in order to increase attacks.

I have no evidence for this beyond the names and tokens though.

<remembers Evade token in Defender package>

Maybe they were forward planning for the TIE/x1 title... The conspiracy theories start here!

It probably has nothing to do with overcharged astromech, as you get 2 overcharged astromechs and 3 extra shields. Those numbers do not match. So it indeed probably has something to do with "Gonk" or another crewmember/that other R- droid.

...What if it can transfer shields to other ships..?

Maybe the shields go on the Gonk card, like energy, and get transferred to the ship card as it looses shields?