Emperor Palpatine (Officer)
Rulesets
Expansions
Upgrade Card Collection (SWM38)
Super Star Destroyer (SWM20)
Card text
When an enemy ship or unique squadron declares you as the target of an attack, it must spend 1 of its defense tokens (if able).
Properties
| Type | Officer |
|---|---|
| Faction | Imperial |
| Unique | Yes |
| Points | 3 |
Timing
This Upgrade Card must resolve when the ship is declared a target of an attack, in the “Declare Target” step.
Clarifications
This Upgrade Card’s effect resolves for each attack made and is a “must” effect.
Card abilities that deal “damage”, but are not “attacks”, do not resolve this Upgrade Card ability.
Damage Card Interactions
If a ship is attacking a ship equipped with this Upgrade Card, and if the attacking ship also has the faceup damage card Faulty Countermeasures, it cannot spend any defense tokens that are exhausted. It must choose a defense token that is readied. If all of the defense tokens are exhausted, then no defense tokens are spent, because the ship is “not able” to spend them.
Defense Token Interactions
This Upgrade Card would resolve with a Salvo attack. The spending of the defense token happens when you reach step 1 of the Salvo attack, which takes place after the current attack is concluded (not when the Salvo defense token is spent in the spend defense token step).