Kyrsta Agate (Commander)

When an Evade defense token is discarded using this Upgrade Card’s second effect, the defender cannot affect an additional die since the Evade defense token must have been “spent” and then discarded to be able to affect an additional die.

When a ship equipped with this Upgrade Card deploys from being set aside by Hyperspace Assault, it may resolve this Upgrade Card’s first effect, since it is “after you deploy”.

A ship equipped with both this Upgrade Card and Expert Shield Tech may spend a Redirect defense token and resolve the Expert Shield Tech card effect, and then discard that token to resolve this Upgrade Card’s second effect to resolve the standard Redirect defense token effect. This is because these are two different defense token effects. However, a ship cannot discard a Redirect defense token using this Upgrade Card’s second effect and choose to resolve the Expert Shield Tech card effect as that effect requires a defense token to be “spent” and not “discarded”.

A ship equipped with this Upgrade Card defending against an attack using the Heavy Turbolaser Turrets upgrade effect may resolve the Brace defense token effect by spending a Brace defense token and also discard another type of defense token to resolve a different defense token effect without suffering the effect of Heavy Turbolaser Turrets. This is because this Upgrade Card’s second effect “discards” a defense token to resolve a defense token effect. However, if the defender uses this Upgrade Card’s second effect to discard a Brace defense token to resolve its defense token effect, then the Heavy Turbolaser Turrets upgrade effect would trigger and the defender would not be able to reduce the damage total by more than 1. This is because Heavy Turbolaser Turrets requires the defender to “spend” a single Brace defense token, not “discard”.

A ship equipped with this Upgrade Card defending against an attack using XI7 Turbolasers may use this Upgrade Card’s second effect to discard a Redirect defense token and effectively ignore the effect of XI7 Turbolasers. This is because XI7 Turbolasers requires the defender to “spend” a Redirect defense token, whereas this Upgrade Card has the defender “discard” a Redirect defense token to resolve that defense token effect.

Titles such as Avenger and Mon Karen do not prevent a defender equipped with this Upgrade Card from discarding a defense token to resolve its effect.

Walex Blissex can choose to recover a defense token granted by this Upgrade Card’s first effect.

A ship at speed 0 and equipped with the title Concord may spend 1 defense token while defending. If this ship is also equipped with this Upgrade Card it would not be able to resolve this Upgrade Card’s second effect and discard a defense token at speed 0.

When a ship is equipped with both Admonition and this Upgrade Card, it may not resolve both effects when using Admonition to discard a single defense token while defending. Each card requires its own separate discard.

If this Upgrade Card is equipped to a ship deployed by Profundity, the deployed ship would not be granted a defense token by this Upgrade Card’s second effect. This is because the ship is deployed and then equipped with this Upgrade Card, thus missing the timing window.