1 minute ago, Frimmel said:

I guess I posted before I thought the thing through. Is there anything suggesting new Astromechs that might grant them?

Nope!

Just that we already have heaps of droid crew and the ARC has crew, gunner, and astro slots and Astros ARE droids so...

It's possible

There are astromech upgrades in both the Guardians of the Republic and the Delta-7 Aethersprite spread that are new, one in each to be exact.

19 hours ago, Forgottenlore said:

Might be interesting if the palpatine side can flip to Sidious, but the Sidious side has a separatist limitation. So you could equip palpatine to a republic ship and reveal him later, or equip the Sidious side face up to a separatist ship at start. Not sure how that would be worded.

The thing is, I’m not sure anyone who even knew “Darth Sidious” existed survived (other than Anakin, yoda, and obi-wan, of course). After the separatist leaders were all killed I figure “Darth Sidious” became unknown. It certainly seems that no one in the Empire knew that the Emperor could use the force.

That would indeed be interesting. They said I was mad when I said any ship can take Grappling Struts (Open), they said you must consider requirements on both sides when equipping a card, and you've just given a great example of why that shouldn't be the case

Come to think of it, since Grappling Struts (Open) isn't limited to any particular faction or ship, and Darth Sidious is the flip side of Grappling Struts (Open), that means you can have Darth Sidious on any faction or ship - doesn't even need a crew slot!