Starfinder and Leadership; thoughts, hopes, and worries.

[Steven "Troll" O'Neal]

It's certainly tempting. Imagine, the party is surface side and get into a sticky situation. Wouldn't it be great if you had your ship ready to back you up with a bit of cover fire?

[Jamie Charlan]

That's got nothing to do with leadership and everything to do with decent targeting.

What, did you think you'd *pray* for a "flamestrike" in Starfinder?

As a fun example we have the engineer (and also as a special on one of the gear-set compression phasers) in STO: They have two versions of Orbital Strike as a high level ability. The first is an instantaneous blast that'll cover a wide radius - usually enough damage to wipe out anything short of a boss right then and there which means you eliminate one group of enemies every two minutes... And there's a trait that offers a 'chaser beam' mode that's lower powered but will keep melting down everything (if things under it die it'll move at decent pace towards the next nearest enemies it can fry up) for a good 8-10 seconds; far more total damage though. The damage type depends on your faction!

Either is perfectly usable even deep underground or against enemy aircraft, which is perfectly sensible when you consider these things were already slagging asteroids at range almost 300 years earlier.

[Steven "Troll" O'Neal]

Flamestrike won't evacuate you out of there, nor will it help repair your ship, or mass produce cure potions.

[Tacticslion]

All I know is that someone has to wear the red shirts, and those delicious first level followers seem likely candidates...

[Steven "Troll" O'Neal]

Precisely!