If a ship with no tokens is hit by his pilot ability can they choose to discard all the tokens (that they don't have). Or, do they have to take a damage as they have no tokens to discard?

I would think you could discard your non-existent tokens.

0 is a valid number in this game unless specified it isnt.

I choose to discard my tokens.
Nevermind i dont have any, the effect just says take a damage or discard tokens, not "if i have tokens i may discard all of them instead of taking damage"

I'd be very, very surprised if they faq it to not allow that. Otherwise bumpcity with that pilot would be really irritating.

I think the ability is meant to be a difficult choice for fighters with the ability to stack 2-3+ tokens. Kulda is PS 8, which means that it is likely that there will be a number of attacks coming from the Scum team before the turn is over. Do you take the autodamage to potentially avoid taking more damage or do you roll the dice?

One thing is for certain, somebody just dug up Kyle Katarn and the Moldy Crow and spat on their corpses.

Like other said, I don't think the ability is meant to punish ship that are base on having no token, but on punishing ship that stack them for defense... (Soontir Fel looking at you) as always FFG is beating a dead horse... Ace where dead with Palp nerf and they are now just even more rotting with a Nym meta...

between this and jamming the wave isn't really about meta strike, it's about taking a dump on big action economy.

bullseye that blocks green mods and token strips and jam tokens that make you discard your next non reposition. Ofc this means we just turn to cards and abilities that don't care, but that then means decisions over ps becomes a real thing again, because unless you're scum most of those cards fit in the ept....