[Stacking Protection]

If I was to use wrecker and omega would their 'muscle of the batch' to give protection to the republic clone commandos does this then stack with their protection from the innate ability to cancel two damage?

The rule book says a value stacks but there is no value next to the word protection.

Do we assume it cannot stack as there is no number?

Or

Do we assume that the absence of a number means it is value [1]?

[Drop Seat Bay + Skilled Bombardier]

In the rules reference the text explicitly refers to the Commando Teams as "device". While using drop seat bay it says also you may use the side hash marks.

Now seeing as it does not say launch but instead says align could skilled bombardier be used to increase the template aligned to the side hash marks from a 1bank to a 2bank speed?