This sounds like unsubstantiated rumour mongering...

It does, but with Imperial Veterans it seems pretty obvious there'd also be a Rebel Veterans expansion.

Second hand shield generator (illicit, 2 points)

Action: roll a green die. On an evade result gain one shield token up to your shield value. On a blank result discard this card.

Priced right I'd risk that.

R5-D8 discards damage cards better (evade and eye results) and more reliably (no chance of discard as part of the roll) for 3pts. It sucks.

Gonk has better action economy (1/2 shield per action vs 3/8 of a shield per action) and isn't discarded for 2pts. He might not suck, but he sure isn't setting the world on fire either.

This would be 1pt at best, and a pretty lousy 1pt at that. If you really want Scum Regen to be a thing, though (and I'm not sure you do!), perhaps:

Tiabanna Canisters (Illicit, 1pt)

Action: If you have no shields, gain a shield; then roll a green die.

On an [evade] or [eye], discard this card.

It's a one-shot that might work twice, see? Notably, it helps starvipers, hwks, and kithraxz fighters the most, because they only ever have one shield to start with.

Scyks, StarVipers, EWings need the most love I think

Khiraxz a honorable mention too... Maybe a Scum and Villainy 2 to have all 3 Zaan Consortium style

So it sucks to be the scyk then.

sucks to scyk indeed

scyks to be scyk.

Riever said - "Tiabanna Canisters (Illicit, 1pt) Action: If you have no shields, gain a shield; then roll a green die. On an [evade] or [eye], discard this card."

The only problems with this is that, A) its too cheap, probably 2 points to regen a shield, even if it only does it once. And B) Tibanna Gas is for blasters...so maybe some other typeof name. The idea is pretty sund though.

Now some sort of Tibanna Gas Cannister card could be really cool, say something along these lines: 2points, may increase Attack dice by 1, after making this attack, discard this card.

I want to see a Starviper fix. That ship looks cool and played a part in one of my favorite EU stories. I just cannot fit it into any serious list, between the high cost and low PS of the pilots. As of now, the only reason to pick up a Starviper is for the Autothruster cards.

Well we sort of got our "Nitro Charges idea" but it is in the style of a 1-use SLAM, not Boost.