33 minutes ago, Sekac said:

If I understand you correctly, these people are playing it wrong. A stressed jump master is not able to use an Attani acquired focus to declare an attack, "spend" it (while still keeping it) to acquire TL, use that to fire the torpedo, then use the focus to modify it.

A stressed jump master can spend a focus on its attack to get a TL and either spend it now (without focus), or save it to fire a torpedo next turn.

If they save it to fire next turn, then the it is up to you to get out of it's torpedo range and arc, or kill it before it shoots. If you can do neither of those things, you've probably engaged poorly.

I really hope that's the case, but I feel like this should be officially clarified.

I play at several southern California gamestores, and this is how everyone's been using them

They are playing it way wrong then. Spending focus tokens didn't happen any time you want to, it happens during the "modify attack dice" step, after they've already chosen their weapon, and rolled their attack dice.