Just curious. I know shields would cancel the damage from an Ion Cannon attack, but does that prevent it from receiving the Ion Token? Or does it take get an Ion Token regardless of whether a shield stops the damage?

The damage is inflicted on the shields then the hull value like normal, but you receive an ion token regardless.

Just curious. I know shields would cancel the damage from an Ion Cannon attack, but does that prevent it from receiving the Ion Token? Or does it take get an Ion Token regardless of whether a shield stops the damage?

Change how you view damage and shields and it will be clearer to you. Especially because cancel is a keyword with a very specific meaning in the game.

If you have shields, instead of assigning damage cards to your ship when hit, you remove shield tokens.

In both cases, removing shield tokens or assigning damage cards, you would get an ion token.

If you have at least one uncancelled hit result after dice modification, you get an ion token.

Okay, that's what I thought, I just wanted to make sure. Thanks!

I read the topic heading and became confused.

Often we will see people come in and ask if getting hit by an ion cannon will get to ignore shields as in "the damage caused always deals a card to the ship instead of removing a shield token if possible." Ion weapons do NOT do that.

This question is really "does a ship that is hit always gain an Ion token?" It confuses the difference between uncancelled result which are basically the same in that removing a shield token or dealing a card are effectively the same thing in most cases.