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Each Large and smaller ship has room for only a single power core by default, but Medium and Large starships can be fitted with an extra power core housing. Huge starships can have up to two power cores, Gargantuan starships can have up to three, and Colossal starships can have up to four.
An expansion bay can be set aside for an additional power core must be purchased separately) and the associated wiring and safety apparatuses. A power core housing can be installed on only a Medium or larger ship.
I'd like an interpretation check on this. Some things are clear from these passages: Large and smaller ships can be fitted with only one power core by default, and Medium and Large ships can be fitted with an additional power core housing at the cost of an expansion bay for a second core. And contextually, it's clear to me that Huge and larger ships can hold multiple power cores with no need for power core housing, up to the limits given.
But I do think a couple things here are ambiguous. The power core section specifically calls out Medium and Large ships as being compatible with power core housing, as opposed to Medium and larger ships like power core housing itself. Should this be read as exclusive? Is power core housing only for Medium and Large ships, as the Power Core text indicates, or Medium and larger ships, as the expansion bay text indicates?
Further, should it be read as restrictive? The exact language of the power core section is "fitted with an extra power core housing." Should this be read as a limit, restricting Medium and Large starships to a single extra power core independent of the answer above? And if it is taken as a restriction, do the limits given for Huge and larger starships then refer to their default capacity, or to their augmented capacity when expansion bays are dedicated to it?
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The language is inclusive, but the important bit on the expansion bay is Medium and larger, not Medium and Large.
The other bit that could cause confusion is that "Huge starships can have up to two power cores, Gargantuan starships can have up to three, and Colossal starships can have up to four."
The way this is written is that Huge starships can ALSO only have 1 additional power core from default because they omitted the word "additional" from that 2nd sentence. This is what it probably should have been and would need an errata: "Huge starships can have up to two additional power cores, Gargantuan starships can have up to three additional, and Colossal starships can have up to four additional."
This would then equate to:
Medium and Large = 2 potential power cores
Huge = 3 potential power cores
Gargantuan = 4 potential power cores
Colossal = 5 potential power cores