A few friends and I just picked up this game and have played a couple sessions together. We recently bought all the specialization books that have come out and are going to have a lot of fun with them in our next campaign, but part of the Technician Modder just seems weird to me. When choosing the signature vehicle, why would you want it to be up to 2 silhouette sizes larger? From the little my friends and I have done with starship combat, we've come to realize that smaller silhouettes give combat bonuses and larger ones give penalties. When you increase the silhouette of a ship, do you gain hard points, armor, something else? I'm looking through the core book as well as Special Modifications and I found some sections on silhouette, but none of them answer my question.

It doesn't increase the silhouette of the ship you've already chosen as you signature vehicle. It increases the maximum silhouette of vehicle you can choose. So by taking the talent, you can choose something like a freighter to be your signature vehicle, instead of being limited to fighters and shuttles