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Checking to see if I missed anything on this:

Ultranaught starts with DT 20. Hypothetical 15 ranks of Adamantine armor adds +15 to that (for a "mere" 405 BP, which is why this just theorycrafting). Vanguard with 28 Con as Captain with the Mitigate TIM adds another +9.

Totals up to DT 44. Quite immune to hull damage from light weapons, and fairly resistant to heavies. Even capital guns bounce on a 4 or less, which is pretty unlikely but hilarious when it happens.

Is that everything you can stack up on this, or is there some other DT adder I missed in an AP or something?

And before anyone says it, this is just a thought exercise. Although I might look at what you could do with a 2-level Vanguard multiclass with some class that's natively good at being a captain to see what an actual PC ship could look like mid-to-late game with that combo. It's a fascinating TIM, trying to stick Vanguards in a role they aren't super-good at.

Okay, I don't see any other threads about this, so:

SOM, pg. 40 lists the "Boarding Resistannce" value of a starship when using the abstract rules as:

BR = defending starship tier + security modifier + training modifier.

Simple enough, charts on pg. 41 are perfectly clear. But the attacking boarding party uses this formula to determine results:

d20 + boarders' tier + complement modifier + training modifier

Why is there a d20 in there on the attack but no basic 10 on the defending side? You get 10 for AC, TL, KAC, EAC - really any defensive stat in the game where a d20 attack roll is involved. This whole subsystem's a little wonky, but that's the biggest break with the general mechanics.

Without that 10, even a fairly tame boarding effort (eg a single breaching pod of specialized robots - 11 BP and an expansion bay for that) can be starting with adds that are higher than the base BR, and it only gets worse if there's a major NPC officer leading it or the party can't spare people to actively defend the ship - say, because they're in a starship combat at the time, which is the norm for these rules.

So - typo? Part of the problem is the crazy generous complement modifier chart (defenders have to outnumber attackers by more than 5:1 to apply an actual penalty to boarders) but I'm convinced the lack of a base 10 in BR is the real problem, and wholly unintended.