Talk:Upsilon-class Shuttle Expansion Pack/@comment-99.114.245.89-20160918202429/@comment-454133-20160919050344

IMO, it's probably so he can plow through asteroids and debris, or ram ships, and still have his pile of focus tokens. Or avoid other threats to his focus action, including making mistakes. Focuses are so central in this build, it's actually a serious threat to miss getting them.

Going that early in turn order, he'll usually know what's going to be in front of him when planning, but things can still go very wrong (misjudged distance, or someone moved, or they plopped a mine in his path, etc). Whatever the case, unless he starts the turn stressed, AS allows him to guarantee a focus action by doing it in advance.

I think that makes AS much more effective than FCS (which only helps on the 2nd shot against the same target anyway, though in other builds FCS is fantastic).