Star Hero Forcewalls

[Gary]

Hi Steve,

I noticed that many of the ships in Star Hero have force walls as their primary defense. However, they don't have Indirect on their attack powers. Is this intentional, so that ships can only fire while the force wall is down, or is this an oversight?

[Steve Long]

Those ships aren't tied to any give setting, so GMs can do with them as they want. If a GM wants to be "realistic," he can rule that the ships can't fire through their own Force Walls. In others, including the Terran Empire setting, it's simpler to rule that all starships can fire "through" their own Force Walls as a default and not bother cluttering the ship's character sheet with separate "Indirect" Multipower slots.