Talk:Imperial Assault Carrier Expansion Pack/@comment-212.93.55.34-20151123124102/@comment-26501522-20151124164831

I don't think its possible to assign energy to any upgrade card that doesn't have an energy limit (i.e. a purple energy number), so no I don't think "using" energy is the same as "assigning" energy to an upgrade card.

The FFG article isn't worded the best way, but I think what it's saying that if you're running Ionization Reactor along with Shield Projector or Slicer Tools, you will be able to use all the cards more often   on the same turn. Ionization Reactor requires 5 energy, which is a lot (Imperial Raider holds 6 energy max, a CR-90 holds 5 energy, and the Transport and Carrier only hold 4). So normally, if you were to allocate 5 energy to the Ionization Reactor, you can't do much else that round which requires spending energy, such as use Shield Projector (which requires spending 3 energy), or Slicer Tools (which requires spending 1 energy). But with Optimized Generators, even if you allocate all 5 of say, a CR-90's energy to Ionization Reactor, you'll still get 2 more energy to spend for other purposes.

I agree that the "assign" language on the card is vague, since the huge ship rules only refer to "allocating" energy to upgrade cards.