I've made a custom ship, the Baudo-class Star Yacht, better known as the Pulsar Skate, and pilots for it. It's a large base ship. One of the pilots, Mirax Terrick, is a PS 7, has an EPT slot, and the following ability:

"When you receive a stress token, you may receive an ion token instead."

The Baudo has Focus, TL, Boost natively. It has the title, Pulsar Skate, which adds SLAM to its action bar and an Illicit to its upgrade bar for 3 points.

My rules question is this: If Mirax was to accrue at least two ion tokens before she SLAMs (which is highly possible), does she SLAM normally do a 1 white forward the next turn or does she SLAM into a 1 white forward?

Currently I think that she'd SLAM normally, then do her Ioned movement in the following activation phase, but I just wanted to see how people rule this one.

An ionized ship can still perform a SLAM action after executing the white 1 forward assigned by the state of being ionized.

Mirax would execute a white 1 forward, clear all ion tokens, and then enter the perform action step. She may then choose the SLAM action and execute any 1 speed maneuver on her dial.

Edit: The only way she can become ionized after completing her revealed maneuver and before performing a SLAM action is if she runs over a debris field during the revealed maneuver. Due to action nesting and timing windows for stress tokens from PTL and EI she'll always complete the SALM action first and then be assigned the stress/ion. However, if she does run over a debris field and takes on a second ion (assuming she already had one token) she would SLAM normally as the rules for ionization specifically state that, during the planning phase, you do not assign a maneuver dial to your ship and you are to execute a 1 forward white maneuver during the following activation phase. Meaning reaching the state of being ionized does not affect additional maneuvers performed/assigned/executed between getting ionized and the start of the next planning phase.

That was an excellent breakdown and a good reinforcement of what I had already thought. I guess I'm going to have to get some more Ion Tokens!

If you have the relevant number of ion tokens when you SLAM you SLAM as normal. The tokens are not cleared.

They're only cleared after the white 1 forward next time you would set a dial.