Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannons

An Unarmed Station would suffer 2 damage if it is at distance 1 of the defender when resolving the critical effect from Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannons.

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When resolving Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannon’s ability, the first player chooses the order in which the damage is applied to their own ships and squadrons first, followed by the second player choosing the order in which the damage is applied to their own ships and squadrons.

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Abilities from cards such as Biggs Darklighter and Task Force Antilles may be resolved for each damage that would be applied by Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannon’s ability, as long as all of the conditions of those cards are met, as the defending ship or squadron is suffering damage from an attack.

Abilities from cards such as Seventh Fleet Star Destroyer and Bright Hope may not be resolved for damage from Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannon’s ability, as the ship is not defending when suffering damage.

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During the “Resolve Damage” step, if a red critical icon is showing in the attack pool, and before damage is suffered, Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannons may be resolved for its effect. This effect causes each ship at distance 1 of the defending ship to suffer 2 damage, and each squadron to suffer 1 damage.
This damage inflicted by this card is NOT an attack, it is a card effect. This damage CANNOT be reduced or canceled by defense tokens, nor any card effects that involve moving or reducing damage can be utilized (unless they are effects not used in the term “attack” or otherwise stated).
If this damage is directed on a ship, this damage is suffered on one chosen hull zone chosen by the defender similar to the Debris Obstacle.

Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannons cannot be resolved if the ship it is equipped too has the faceup damage card Targeter Disruption.

Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannons cannot choose a Proximity Mine Token to suffer damage, as it is a “Token”. Not a ship or squadron.

Orbital Bombardment Particle Cannons can choose an unarmed/armed station to suffer damage, as “stations are treated as a ship when resolving effects”.

A defending ship that spends a contain defense token and also has Damage Control Officer equipped (and not discarded) will prevent any critical effects from resolving.

A defending ship that has Commander Gherant equipped (and not discarded), the attacker cannot resolve any critical effects.