Ok so the rules state if your movement template or ship overlaps and asteroid prox. mine that you must activate and resolve the effect.

Does this mean while following the guides on my template with my ship and if (as I go form one end of the template to the other) my base overlaps the object at any time during movement do I resolve the effect? I ask because using a skinny template to maneuver through asteroids as a Firespray is pretty powerful.

OR

Place the template down if it overlaps resolve the effect. If you ship's base over laps the token at end of movement resolve the effect.?

The second.

Although the flavor of the movement system is obviously that the ship is traveling along the template, the rules actually say that you place the template, pick up the ship off the board, and place it down again at the end of the template. In other words, mechanically speaking, the ship does not travel along the template to the end, so only the template, and the final position of the ships base matter.

The second.

Although the flavor of the movement system is obviously that the ship is traveling along the template, the rules actually say that you place the template, pick up the ship off the board, and place it down again at the end of the template. In other words, mechanically speaking, the ship does not travel along the template to the end, so only the template, and the final position of the ships base matter.

Ok well then. Just something curious that I was thinking about because when you see that you're going to collide with someone you follow the movement guides backwards until you are not overlapping the ship.

The second.

Although the flavor of the movement system is obviously that the ship is traveling along the template, the rules actually say that you place the template, pick up the ship off the board, and place it down again at the end of the template. In other words, mechanically speaking, the ship does not travel along the template to the end, so only the template, and the final position of the ships base matter.

Ok well then. Just something curious that I was thinking about because when you see that you're going to collide with someone you follow the movement guides backwards until you are not overlapping the ship.

That is correct, but overlapping another ship is the only time that "moving along the template" is used in the game. For obstacles/asteroids and proximity mines, the only things that count are 1) the movement template, and 2) the ship base in its FINAL position.