So even though this thread seems about dead I came to a completely different conclusion than anyone else here. I read the card as a sort of compulsory if unstressed and optional if not.

If you do not have a stress and you miss you MUST take a stress and then you receive a TL and focus. If you are stressed you may choose whether to take a stress, focus and TL. The "MUST" is included in the language to indicate that if you have no stress the series of actions is cumpulsory if you have a stress you may choose if you want to take all three together. For me this also seems to conform better to his card cost. Thoughts?

FFG does such a bad job on the wording sometimes. R7-T1 is a great example. Let me break it down into sentences so it makes more sense.(shortened for clarity)

1. Chose a target at range 1-2

2. If you are inside that ships firing arc you may acquire a lock

3. Then you may perform a free boost.

So what does step 3 refer to as the trigger to get the boost? Sentence 1? Sentence 2? Or as the FAQ calls it, all of sentence 1 and half of sentence 2(you need to be in arc, but don't need the lock). The way it is worded there is no way that it should work the way it does. It should trigger off of 1,or 1 and 2. Meaning you need the lock to boost, or you don't need to be in arc to boost. The card also implies that there would be a reason to choose a ship that does not have you in arc. But that is not the case with the FAQ ruling.

Break down Bossk the same way

1. After you do not hit, if you are not stressed, you must receive a stress.(all one sentence)

2. Then assign a focus and target lock.

So we are kind of in the same boat as R7-T1. Does the focus/lock trigger off of the first part of the sentence, or the whole sentence?

My guess is that it needs the whole first sentence to happen to trigger the focus/lock. I can't believe that they screwed another card up by making an effect trigger off of half a sentence.

Don't use R7-T1 as a precedent for anything. It was a mistake.

Sorry for bringing up this but I need some clarification of this card. So is it possible to get the TL and focus while stressed? Is there any official statement about this or will it be on the next faq?

Thanks!

EDIT: Ive had an official answer from FFG and they said it works when you are stressed. So its solved