So I have a newbie question, and sorry if this has been previously addressed.

Deadeye says "You may treat the Attack (target lock): header as Attack (focus):. When an attack instructs you to spend a target lock, you may spend a focus token instead." Fairly straightforward.

Now, enter into the equation Ion Pulse Missile, which states: "Attack (target lock): Discard this card to perform this attack. If this attack hits, the defender suffers 1 damage and receives 2 ion tokens. Then cancel all dice results."

From my understanding, Lt Blount would not need to even spend the focus token to launch the Ion Pulse Missile, because it does not require the spending of a target lock (now a focus token via Deadeye).

His ability states that "When attacking, the defender is hit by your attack, even if he does not suffer any damage."

So I just wanted to confirm that Lt. Blount can simply discard the Ion Pulse Missile card to deal 1 damage and 2 ion tokens to the attacker and keep his focus token.

If this is at all possible... Yippee ki-yay, mother Sither!

Correct. Is decent combo.

_{Thanks! I generally stay away from missiles/rockets/torpedoes, but this combo is too fancy to pass up.}

You are right that Lt. Blount with Deadeye may fire an IPM as long as he has a focus token.

You are correct that IPM only spends the card and not the token to make the attack.

You are also correct that an IPM fired by Blount will always be a hit.

Blount must still go through the entire attack process. He's going to roll reds, his opponent is going to roll greens, everyone gets the normal windows to modify or cancel results.

And as great as that combo may seem for Lt. Blount remember that with only one missile Deadeye quickly becomes useless and that after he's fired the missile Blount's value drops tremendously unless you still happen to have Stealth Devices on enemy ships.

Yeah, with Blount you're much more likely to get mileage out of sticking VI on him so he moves after most people and can just shoot with regular TLs, than spending your EPT on a single shot.