I'm reading the rules on ship combat, and I can't tell how transponders are meant to affect the Target Lock action. The Detection box on page 190 could be read to mean that if a ship's transponder is on, the opponent can establish a target lock without having to make a COMTECH roll. If that's the case, the example combat on page 202 has it backwards in the 4th paragraph--the players' ship in the example would have to make a COMTECH roll, but the smugglers wouldn't.
Is there another interpretation I'm not seeing?omegle xender