Challenge Levels for Starships
A rough math.
By RavenFury

Ok tried some math. Tried to keep it simple. I'm hampered by the fact that my buddy has my copy of SWSE, but a few of you helped out and either PMed or Posted the CLs from the book....

CL Example Ships
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
16
20
YT-1300 Transport 
TIE Fighter, Vulture Droid
TIE Interceptor
Droid Tri-Fighter
X-Wing, Y-Wing
Eta-2 Actis
ARC-170
Corellian Corvette 
Imperial Star Destroyer

And CL is obviously a measure of how much pain is due / what level you should be before taking one on, in a round about sort of way. So I'm going with these factors, most are simple measurements....Just add what you're told as you go through each section.

Crew Quality 
An Ace in a z-95 is going to give you more trouble than an idiot in a TIE Defender.

Skill Level
Untrained
Normal
Skilled
Expert 
Ace
Add
-1
+0
+1
+3
+5

HP 
The longer it can last, the more trouble it can cause

Hit Points
0-40
41-59
60-100
101-200
201-400
401-700
701-1000
1001-1500
1501-2200
2201-4000
4001-7000  
7001- up
Add
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
+8
+9
+10
+11

DR 
The more damage it can soak up....see HP

Dmg Red
0-9
10-14
15-20
21-40
40-80
Add
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4

SR 
Just another factor of survivability

Shield
0-14
15-25
26-50
51-100
101-150
151-300
Add
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5

DEX 
If you can't hit it, the fight will last a lot longer

DEX
10-14
15-18
19-22
23-26
27-32
32 – up
Add
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5

Weapons
de hurtin continue... this is a rough and hard to judge category...

Weapons Lvl
None
Lightly Armed Transport
Med (Heavy Fighter)
Med (Cruiser) 
Heavy (Dreadnaught)
Beefy (Destroyer)
Crazy (Eclipse)
Super Nuts (Death Star)
Add
+0
+1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7

Ok and thats it. Just add the number to the right down the board and you should have a *rough* CL

I know it works for the X-Wing and the ISD-I
X-Wing
Crew (skilled)1
HP (120)3
SR (15)1
wep 2
DR (10)1
Dex (22) 2
CL 10


ISD-i
Crew (skilled) 1
HP (2100) 8
SR (150) 4
Wep (Beefy) 5
DR (20) 2
DEX (14) 0
CL 20 

other than that I don't have any of the book sources to go off. SUGESTIONS ARE WELCOME. Like I said it's just rough math. It'll get you in the ballpark of your pain meter.