Editing Occurrence Border Random Encounters (section)

===Minor, Major, and Critical Equipment Faults===
Things go wrong on a warpship, this is a given fact of life, any ship, any crew. This, however, is the Occurrence freaking Border. Roll some dice, generate some faults, figure out how to deal with it. Warning: Supply your own technobabble!

Unlike the other tables, on this table, rolls modified out-of-bounds are re-rolled. Minor equipment faults reroll any result of 70+, and apply a -1 modifier to the Problem table. Major Equipment Failures do not apply any modifiers. Critical equipment failures reroll any Equipment roll of 70 or lower.

In all cases, any result that would result in utter annihilation to the ship, such as the Gellar Field becoming or even likely becoming completely inoperable during warp transit, should be rerolled.


{| class="wikitable"
! Equipment (1d100)
! 
! Problem (1d10)
! 
|-
| 01-10:
| Illumination
| 1:
| Working Strangely or intermittently. (Lights on weird cycle, comm cycles randomly, etc.)
|-
| 11-20:
| Temperature
| 2:
| Not working hard enough.
|-
| 21-30:
| Lockers
| 3:
| Working too hard.
|-
| 31-40:
| Comms
| 4:
| Damaging itself.
|-
| 41-50:
| Cogitators
| 5:
| Damaging other equipment.
|-
| 51-60:
| Lifts
| 6:
| Creating a hazard.
|-
| 61-65:
| Moving Walkway
| 7:
| Stopped working.
|-
| 65-70:
| Bulkhead Hatches
| 8:
| Booby-Trapped.
|-
| 71-75:
| Atmosphere Generation
| 9:
| Broke.
|-
| 76-80:
| Atmosphere Circulation
| 10:
| Broke and needs new parts.
|-
| 81-85:
| Weapons
| 
| 
|-
| 86-90:
| Sublight Drives
| 
| 
|-
| 91-95:
| Warp Drives
| 
| 
|-
| 96-100:
| Gellar Field Generator
| 
| 
|}

Once you've determined your problem, you need to figure out what, why, and how to fix it. So, for example, you might roll for a random major equipment fault and get rolls of 74 and 4, indicating that the atmosphere generation somewhere on the ship (presumably, either a location which your PCs are heading to, or passing by,) is damaging itself. So you tell the players that there's reports of inexplicable damage in the life support systems in the area, buying yourself time to cook up some technobabble and a cause. In this case, you might say that the cause is that some rating saw a cable hanging from the ceiling fly loose from a socket in the wall and plugged it back in, not realizing that the cable, being non-keyed, could be inserted incorrectly into the socket. As a result, charge is running through the life support systems with the electrical flow reversed. Thanks to the necessarily hardy nature of Imperial engineering, the equipment is still functional, but it won't be if this state of affairs goes on for much longer, because the reversed electron flow is causing shorts in the equipment, arcing bolts of electricity between metal parts deep inside the guts, burning out motors, and threatening to start a lovely electrical fire.