Heavy Ion Emplacements
Rulesets
Expansions
Galactic Republic Fleet Starter (SWM34)
Separatist Alliance Fleet Starter (SWM35)
Upgrade Card Collection (SWM38)
Super Star Destroyer (SWM20)
Profundity (SWM30)
Card text
Blue : Exhaust this card. The defending hull zone and each adjacent hull zone loses 1 shield.
Properties
| Type | Ion Cannons |
|---|---|
| Faction | Neutral |
| Unique | No |
| Recur Type | |
| Points | 9 |
Timing
This Upgrade Card may be exhausted and resolved during the “Resolve Damage” step.
Clarifications
The damage suffered by this card ability only affects the shield values of a ship; it does not cause any damage to a ship’s hull. That shield damage is suffered before the damage total is calculated, so it cannot be blocked by card effects such as Major Derlin or Seventh Fleet Star Destroyer.
This upgrade resolves during the “Resolve Damage” step, meaning that the defender must decide whether or not
to spend their defense tokens before this card may be triggered.
Upgrade Card Interactions
A defending ship that has Tranquility equipped may choose to reallocate shields before the attacker can trigger this card. Tranquility triggers after the “Spend Defense Tokens” step but before the “Resolve Damage” step.
Implacable cannot reduce the loss of shields from this card as Implacable only applies to the total damage dealt at the end of the “Resolve Damage” step.