Faulty Countermeasures

A ship with this damage card would prevent using Darth Vader’s (commander) effect to spend a defense token and would prevent Emperor Palpatine (officer) from forcing an attacking ship to spend a defense token if the attacker only had exhausted defense tokens.

Electronic Countermeasures does not ignore this faceup damage card.

If a ship equipped with Boarding Troopers has this damage card, it cannot spend and discard an enemy ship’s exhausted defense tokens; it may only spend an enemy ship’s readied defense tokens.

If a ship equipped with Turbolaser Reroute Circuits has this faceup damage card, it cannot spend exhausted Evade defense tokens.

This faceup damage card does not prevent a defending ship from discarding an exhausted defense token due to effects such as NK-7 Ion Cannons or critical effects such as Injured Crew.

When a defending ship has this damage card, an attacking ship or squadron with the capability to spend the defender’s defense tokens can still do so since it is the attacker spending the exhausted defense token and not the defending ship.