So this came up last night (and will possibly tonight too):

Battle meditation can be used in conjunction with Leadership check, that is you can add your force dice to an Easy Leadership check to ... stuff. Which is pretty cool. So one of my players asked the following: would you allow it to be combined with the Fire Discipline action when on aboard a starship? Of course with some modification.

I'm sorry to say the answer is no, because the whole Battle Meditation power is based on using your action to do the Battle Meditation. The Easy Leadership check is to send simple orders, It doesn't say "as part of a Leadership check you may use Battle Meditation". Fire Discipline is an Action on its own. And you can't do 2 actions at once.

Sure, I get the raw limitations - they are two different actions and checks, but at the same time I think it's a pretty cool idea. Anyway, thanks

To be honest the Battle Meditation Force Power is so much more powerful than the Fire Discipline action that I have no idea why you would want to even if the idea sounds cool. Granting a Boost to a couple of people plus a little bit of system strain to the enemy (for a large amount of advantage on the allies own check) is actually fairly weak even vs the Leadership talents in some Specs. But adding multiple automatic success to multiple friendly targets is powerful, then being able to commit 3 Force Dice to keep that going is insane! Fire discipline seems like the kind of thing the character would do before they get Field Commander or Battle Meditation.

Why? Because fun, flavour, cinematics, style, flair, flash, panache, awesomeness. Why else?

And while auto-successes are awesomely awesome, an extra boost die and some auto-strain on attacks isn't bad either.

I get your point though, it is that "too good to be true"-thing... I'll talk it over with the player tonight to see how we want to continue.

On that note, some insight into using the BM upgrade that allows an Easy Leadership check would be awesome, if you have some cool examples - particularly for starship combat, but any would do

Narratively, Battle Meditation is essentially Fire Discipline, but with a helping dash of spooky force flavor.