There has been some speculation on whether the purple Evade on the Aethersprite means it can take the Evade action for free at the cost of spending a Force token (or just spend an action normally to do a white Evade), or that it requires spending a Force token to take the Evade action.

I believe the answer is the former (and it will work for all Force actions) and here is the thinking behind it.

First let's assume the latter situation is true, and that the Aethersprite's ship ability is you can preform a free Boost or Barrel Roll action after fully executing a maneuver by spending a Force token (which is what it looks like so far). This means that an Aethersprite trying to be evasive and not be hit could either:

• Spend a Force token and its action to take the Evade action. (Which is worse than a white Evade on one of the most agile ships in Star Wars)
• Or, it could spend a Force token to Boost/Barrel Roll to try and get out of arc, and take a Focus action which will give it a Focus token that on a 3 agility will provide a larger number of final evade results on average than an Evade token.
• Or, it could spend a Force token to Boost/Barrel Roll to try and get out of arc, and the other Boost\Barrel Roll action to get it further out of arc.

Now let's assume the former situation is true. The same evasive Aethersprite could do the following:

• Spend a Force token to take a free evade action and take a Focus action. (In effect using a ship specially built for Force users to trade the flexibility of a Force token for the defensive ability of an Evade token)
• Or, it could spend a Force token to Boost/Barrel Roll to try and get out of arc, and take a Focus action.
• Or, it could spend a Force token to Boost/Barrel Roll to try and get out of arc, and the other Boost\Barrel Roll action.

Of course there are other options in both scenarios as well, but look how much more balanced the second set of options are in comparison to the first. Also, how much more they fit the feeling of hyper agile ship specifically built for a Force user to take full advantage of their abilities.

Given all of that I think it's very likely a purple action is an action you can take normally, or can take for free at the cost of a Force token. The force user's equivalent of a linked action. This has other implications as well since we can upgrade cards with a purple coordinate action, which will make Jedi pilots good at efficiently giving orders to their co-pilots.

Thoughts?

The Arc I believe was said in the spread to not come with an evade token. My guess is that it is a passed force action but requires the passer to have the action passed, ie if a jedi wanted to give another pilot an evade they could do so by sacrificing their evade.