My friends and I have a debate about action tokens. Say a ship as a stress token on it, the rules state that a ship can not perform an action while stressed.My freinds are saying that that ship receive a token such as a focus token and still spend that token because spending a token is not an action. I found on the inside the front page that is says "tokens mark ships that are performing actions." If i am ccorrect, then the token is the action an ship can't receive the token and spend it because the token represents the action be taken. And also the token is not just a genertion product of the action to be spent. Please help.

Wrong forum, but if the ship has the token before acquiring Stress, then the token may be spent normally.

Acquiring the token is (or rather, can be, there are non-Action ways of acquiring tokens) the Action. Spending the token is not an Action.