Talk:Jake Farrell/@comment-73.68.118.239-20170207081909/@comment-454133-20170207191527

The wording makes it depend on how Jake gets his focus token. If he performs a focus action, then both Jan and Jake get to resolve their abilities, and in any order, because they both trigger when the ship "performs a focus action".

If Jake is assigned a focus token by other means, it's more complicated. Jan says "...performs a focus action or would be assigned a focus token, you may assign that ship an evade token instead". (emphasis added)  Jan is resolving before the token is actually assigned, so she replaces the token before Jake's ability is even triggered by the physical assignment of the token.

So as long as it's just a focus action, you can have your cake and eat it too. But effects like Operations Specialist could only trigger one or the other.