Talk:Pattern Analyzer/@comment-142.217.213.172-20161027194639/@comment-454133-20161027200232

You can pile tons of stress on a ship using various effects, but this card doesn't let you take actions while stressed. It just lets you take actions before taking a stress from a red maneuver, if you weren't already stressed. It's similar to Advanced Sensors but with different timing.

In regards to stress piles: Technically any ship can have as much stress as it wants by repeatedly plowing through debris, or being targeted by various abilities. There's no hard limit on how much stress you can carry, but it does inhibit the ship's ability to perform actions, perform red maneuvers, etc without some other effect getting around those limits.

If you're looking for stress pile examples that are pretty effective, see Tycho Celchu with PTL + Daredevil, and Keyan Farlander with Hera and FCS. Those ships can handle being absurdly stressed, but still with limits they have to work around: Tycho still can't perform red maneuvers while stressed (Keyan can; hence Daredevil helping Tycho turn), while Keyan can't take actions while stressed (Tycho can... Keyan has other ways of focusing and locking however). Stress pile ships can be hilarious, IMO, so it's worth playing with them at least once or twice.