Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-38197834-20190213063122/@comment-454133-20190313181154

The reason Swarm Tactics doesn't transfer a 7 with Han Gunner is because Han's ability has nothing to do with the ship's initative. Han is not changing your ship's initiative to 7.  Han is simply giving you an effect (a bonus attack) that triggers with the timing of initiative 7. That's an important difference. Something triggering at an initiative does not suddenly change your ship's initiative value.

All swarm tactics does is say "what's your initiative?  great, copy that to another ship this round". When swarm tactics checks the ship's initiative, it's still 4 or 2 or whatever -- you haven't changed your initiative just by having some ability that triggers at init 7. The ship's initiative value is different from the Han Gunner abiilty's initiative-based timing, and neither affects the other.