So I played in a Store Championship yesterday and my opponent was using Garvin. He rolled a few blanks, and said he was 'spending his focus token' and handed it off. I said I didn't think it worked that way, because he didn't actually have anything to spend it on, but I didn't make a fuss about it.

Can you 'spend' a Focus token even if you don't roll eyeballs?

Yes. It is in the official FAQ.

Q: Can Garven Dreis spend a focus token to modify dice even if he didn’t roll any Focus

symbols?

A: Yes.

Beyond the FAQ answer, the reasoning is as follows:

Per the rulebook, you can spend a focus token when attacking or when defending to change all of your [focus] results to [hit/evade] results. In this case, Garven was indeed changing all of his [focus] results, it just so happened that "all" in that situation is equal to zero. He must still be in a situation where spending the token is legal though (attacking or defending) in order to spend it.

In similar manner, one could spend their target lock to re-roll none of their dice if they so choose.

Yeah, that was the first thing I looked up when I decided to run the garven/Dutch combo. It makes a huge difference, especially since I was also running r5k6 on Dutch.

I guess it will work the same way with the new B-Wing ace (and namesake) Farlander: He will be able to spend his stress token to change even zero "eyes" into hits.

I guess it will work the same way with the new B-Wing ace (and namesake) Farlander: He will be able to spend his stress token to change even zero "eyes" into hits.

Yep, that should work.