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Why not give the ships a sensor array slot set. I think the best way would be to give each ship, a sensor array bay that has a max power and max mass allowance per ship.
Each sensor array components could be low power and mass (and still add to total drain and mass of ship) but be rather nominal compared to other components. The ones you pick and choose would be based on whether they overload the sensor array's power conduit or bay mass for that ship size.

It would give shipwrights more they could make, and could be tied into useful things, like:

1) expanded radar ranges
2) front and back radars (outer ring resolution is poor for knowing where a ship is exactly on the current radar, duel radars that are exactly like the current one, but one fore and one aft, would be really nice)
3) better inspection range devices
4) better enemy ship scans (detect damage range of weapons on an enemy ship, or armor thickness/shield power total for instance. Ship speed and heading would help too)

It would allow for more sensors in the future that may apply to special space based bounty hunting, mining, and that sort of thing.

Another thing that could be cool is to install a scan inhibitor, that causes you to not show up on enemy radars at long range, and only appear when in 60% or 80% of their normal targetting range.

Space Droid TreeShip Customization TreeSpace Bounty Hunting Tree Space Command Tree

And then you'd have novice of course

it's really just a rough draft I just thought of in like 5 minutes, but basically Space Droid Tree would cover droid tracking, and speed, and possibly radar stuff like that, maybe an increase in ship droid speed too

ship customization would reduct a small amount of mass, reactor energy, and increase some aspects of your parts, not by a lot but enough to make us stand out just a tad bit, we should be good in space yes but we also should be balanced

space bounty hunting tree would give you better commands on capturing your target and better chances at things like that, and difficulty would increase in each box

and space command tree- i dont really know what else to put this- i think this falls under droid tree, ill change it later unless someone has a better idea for this, OR perhaps make this as special ships for us, again nothing to give us the over advantage, just something cool to make us stand out, though of course I know that it's not the ship that makes you the bounty hunter it's you, but just saying you know, why not? nothing else makes sense in this game

what ya think?

i dont like proffession specific advancements in jtl.. it opens the way for FOTM

i like the fact that in space a Bio engineer such as myself has as much chance as a TKM or a jedi

start adding prof enhancements and u'll get power templates and, like with the ground game, all of us that dont wanna change our profs to be like everyone else will just b floating corpses