On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:02:07 -0400, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:

>I had my first player character choose the 'Hunter' career from COTI. I'm curious about
>benefits. I don't see anything in the rules for dealing with the situation where the
>character gets the 'safari ship' benefit more than once. There's no mention of a mortgage on
>these ships. **How do you handle this, a PC getting the ship benefit twice or more, as GM?**

I don't recall when the rule about ten-years-off-a-40-year mortgage was
first written into the rules, but once that rule was there, I always held
that it applied to any kind of starship reward _except_ the Scout, which
was always 'free and clear' except that if you came into a starport for
fuel or service, it was out of your pocket EXCEPT when the world had an
Imperial scout base or way station. At one point, I accepted the argument
from a player that if the world didn't have either, but _was_ on the
Imperial X-boat network, fuel was free, but all other services were
out-of-pocket.

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