Overload Pulse

During the “Resolve Damage” step, if a Blue critical icon is showing in the attack pool, and before damage is suffered, Overload Pulse may be resolved for its effect. This effect causes the defending ship to exhaust any defense tokens in the readied state to the exhausted state.

This card ability does NOT trigger before defense tokens are spent.

Defense tokens are still spent in the “Spend Defense Tokens” step, which is before the “Resolve Damage” step. Since this card ability takes place in the “Resolve Damage” step, any remaining readied defense tokens are flipped to the exhausted state, and any defense tokens that are already exhausted are not affected.

Overload Pulse cannot be resolved if the ship it is equipped too has the faceup damage card Targeter Disruption.

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.