How should this card be interpreted?
IN THE SILENCE OF SPACE
After you activate a system:
Choose 1 system. During this tactical action, your ships in the chosen system can move through systems that contain other players’ ships.
The way I’m reading it, this card lets you pick a system with your ships in it. Those ships get to move through other systems that contain enemy ships during this action.
However, the other day a player used the card to select an ENEMY system, and proceeded to move his own ships from multiple other systems through that enemy’s system. The enemy’s system was a carefully guarded wormhole and he wanted to get lots of ships from all over through the wormhole for a powerful surprise attack. Is this interpretation legitimate? Can the card be used either way?
Admittedly, I think he got this idea because he was confusing the action card with the “Light/Wave Deflector” technology, which would have allowed him to move ships from multiple systems through the same enemy-controlled system like he wanted; he saw someone do that in a prior game and assumed “In the silence of space” was how it was done. Nevertheless, although I don’t think it’s the most natural reading, I could see how the card leaves just enough room for both uses to be allowed and wanted to double check with you guys.
Thanks!