Talk:Damage/@comment-46.223.1.8-20150213124317/@comment-25787218-20150213230258

Direct hits do not flip over. In the instance of a ship having an R5 Astromech and a direct hit, that is kept face up. That card is treated as two damage cards. As long as the ship is not destroyed during the preceding phases, that ship may flip the card over during the End phase. Instead of being treated as two damage, the card just represents one (being flipped over to the non-critical side of the damage card).

tl;dr You "recover" one hull point.