technomancer spells effecting the ship they are on?

[ghostunderasheet]

I went to supercharge one of our weapon systems because we where way over matched. I was think hey technomancers effect tech with their magic and well ships are tech soooo i can supercharge one of our weapon system. Maybe save our bacon. Anyways long story short it got shot down. I wanted to touch the weapon controls to charge the weapon since you have to touch the weapon but was told i would have to space walk out to the actual "pew pew" part and touch that while the ship was being bombarded with nukes. I was like "touching the controls inside the ship would be like touching the trigger of a weapon. And there for would still be touching that weapon. Fulfilling that part of the requirement of the spell." So technomancers spell can't effect all tech? Did i miss that rule somewhere in the book? It's not like i can constantly do stuff like that. I only have a limited amount of spells. Two at lvl one.

[McAllister]

Spells are so resoundingly useless in starship combat, I can only conclude it was intentional.

[ghostunderasheet]

Trying to build my technomancer into an enhancermancer and ohh I meant Supercharge Weapon anyways it does not say it can not be used on ship weapons.

[Kagerage]

it does state you have to touch the weapon though so unless you wish to crawl outside in the void of space.....

[Warmaster06]

I would personally agree with OP since they have gunners listed as a Separate position. It would make sense that handling the controls for gun would count as essentially holding the trigger. Which in my mind Qualifies as touching the weapon.

[Kagerage]

that is a lot of circuits you gotta go through to reach that gun..

[Roo Stercogburn]

If you had to EVA you'd be wearing a spacesuit and would still not be technically touching the weapon.

[Kagerage]

TBH if you are wearing armor while in normal combat you wouldn't be touching the gun

[Roo Stercogburn]

If the armour includes gloves, yes, otherwise no.

So basically it comes down to how much material is allowed between the weapon and the person inappropriately touching it. A few millitmetres of cloth? An inch of armour? 50cm of electronics between the technodancer and the trigger?

[Varun Creed]

Player abilities only affect Startship Combat if they specifically mention that.

[Roo Stercogburn]

Have the Technodancer spend a skill point on attuning?

[Xenocrat]

Don't forget to divide the spell damage by 10 and round down if you house rule this to work at all.