Close Air Support

Structures are destroyable and on being destroyed kill everyone inside unless they’re in a safe room and have 5000 credits, then they get hospitalized. If the structure contains a bacta tank, however, they get hospitalized in that room, which is a little silly.

Some moron engineers blew up the NR base during Era 3 or 4.

I think, like somebody else has said, people are thinking a bit too hard on this. I will also agree that the beacon idea is pretty good, and obviously this is going to be used more for warfare and assaulting a planet, or attempting to defend one from an assault.

I have thought about the same thing with ships coming in for support, and somebody mentioned that people are assuming that ships are auto hitting. You must remember that most ship weapons are designed for LONG range (in space) and larger objects. So a ship floating/hovering and attempting to target a human sized object, moving (mostly running for their life), is going to miss most of the time. Go look at Helicopters and footage of them trying to fire on people. They shoot volley of bullets in attempts to hit, but still have a good chance of missing (most of the time, a few bullets will hit something/somebody). Most star craft doesn’t have targeting capable of such small targets, and the ones that do, are usually gunned by people and are more like repeaters off the side of the ship, not turbolasers or Rape Cannons.

Also, ships in hover or fly could provide support for ground troops by giving them bonuses on attack/damage, or giving the opponents negatives on AC/hr.

Structures could have turrets that could be manned incase people were to assault a planet. Give most attack vessels something to worry about. Also allow the main structure for most large groups to act as a fortress, and a place for most people to hide, instead of running around worried about soldiers to shoot first and ask later.