When determining if a ship has fled the battlefield, is it dictated by the movement template of the bad as it moves on the template?

It's dictated by the final position of the ship. If the template goes off the board and back on and the final position of the ship is entirely on the board, then it's fine. The smallest part of the ships base off the board, and it's destroyed.

is it dictated by the movement template of the bad as it moves on the template?

Was "bad" supposed to be "ship" or "base" or something like that? Am going to assume it was.

Ships do not "move along the template". When they move. If you check the rules, when you move a ship, you place the template, then pick up the ship and place it at the other end. The only time a ship comes close to moving along the template is if you overlap and you have to back it up along the template, and even that is just to determine the ships final position, it doesn't qualify as movement along the template. If you place a template down and it misses an asteroid by a half a millimeter but the ship isn't touching it at the end of the template then no overlap has occurred because neither "the movement template nor the ship in its final position" overlapped the asteroid.

Cool, got it, thanks all

G'day all

If your ship does end up with say half it's base out of the play area, could you boost or barrel roll back into the playing area?

Still dead. Your maneuver has been completed and you would be dead before getting to execute a action.

It's dictated by the final position of the ship. If the template goes off the board and back on and the final position of the ship is entirely on the board, then it's fine. The smallest part of the ships base off the board, and it's destroyed.

So you can face the edge of the board, fly into "nothing space" then finally land on the board and all is good?

It's dictated by the final position of the ship. If the template goes off the board and back on and the final position of the ship is entirely on the board, then it's fine. The smallest part of the ships base off the board, and it's destroyed.

So you can face the edge of the board, fly into "nothing space" then finally land on the board and all is good?

Yes, except you never actualy "fly into nothing space". You pick up the ship and place it at the end of the template. The ship never exists (in game terms) any where between the start and ending points of the maneuver.

And just to make something else clear.

The penalties for 'flying over' obstacles is because the template overlapped the obstacle, it has nothing to do with the ship base, unless the final location of the base also overlaps the obstacle.

Nice clarifications. Thanks