I am a fan of of the MG-100 Starfortress. I am considering a Hyperspace build needed to clarify some of the finer points...

#1 Paige Tico: After you perform a primary attack, you may drop a bomb or rotate your turret. Can you drop any device or only a bomb (seismic/proton)?

#2 When dropping a bomb during the engagement phase (Paige Tico), when does it explode?

#2a If the bomb is dropped during the engagement phase and it lands on an enemy ship, does that change anything?

#3 On the Rattled condition card, the card is assigned during the engagement phase, is the person the condition is assigned to required to use an ACTION to remove the condition or is it an automatic action if the condition is met? (the rules reference is not clear to me on this).

Thank you taking the time to answer these questions.

1. Bombs only. No mines.

2. The only trigger for bombs exploding is at the end of the Activation Phase, so they explode the next time that happens (i.e. the next round).

2a. No. Bombs don't do anything special for landing directly on an enemy ship. Mines do, but as already established Paige can't be used to drop mines.

3. Rattled is removed in one of two ways:

1) After you trigger the condition on the card and suffer one critical damage as a consequence, the condition removes itself.

2) You may use an action to remove the condition if there are no bombs/mines nearby.

1: only bombs. Bomb and Mine are keywords, and are specific to the upgrades which use them.

2: at the start of the next engagement phase.

2a: no.

3: Anything that says Action: requires an action to be used to activate whatever follows.

thank you both for your responses and the explanations.