Talk:Lieutenant Karsabi/@comment-190.140.80.92-20180306194412/@comment-32370080-20180307043301

From my understanding (and the group of people I regularly paly with) it boils down to a timing issue of triggers and effects (causation).

SLAM is an action that is considered a maneuver – (see reference card). This is the Trigger 

1) The effect of performing a SLAM action is receiving a Weapons Disabled token, which is a part of, but assigned after the action.

2) Advanced SLAM - "After performing a SLAM action, if you did not overlap an obstacle or another ship, you may perform a free action on your action bar."

An effect that also occurs after the SLAM action.

3) Lieutenant Karsabi’s ability: “When you receive a weapons disabled token, if you are not stressed, you may receive 1 stress token to remove it.”

Occurs after the Weapons Disabled token is assigned, which is another (separate) trigger/effect relationship.

On page 7 of the FAQ: SLAM Timing - If an effect triggers "after performing an action" or "after executing a maneuver" these effects occur at the same time after a ship performs a SLAM action.

And, according to the Resolving Simultaneous Effect (Also page 7 of the FAQ): “If a player has simultaneous effects that result from the same trigger, that player resolves the entirety of one effect (and any subsequent effects from the trigger) before resolving the others.”

So, the first Trigger in this case is the SLAM action.

Effect 1:  Assign the weapons disabled token

Effect 2: Perform the free action from your action bar for the Advanced SLAM upgrade.

Then, the second Trigger – receiving the Weapons Disabled token - activates Lt. Karsabi’s ability (effect), receive a stress to remove it (if you are currently stress free).

Whew! I hope this helps.

I also give him Wired. Its a lot of fun =.