Just to clarify the way this works, do i spend the charge before i even grab the damage card that will be flipped face up or grab the card and flip it face up to see if it’s a pilot or ship damage and then spend the charge to discard only if it’s a ship damage card?

Any help is appreciated 👍🏼

The rules say that critical hits are dealt face up, not dealt face down and then flipped. So, “flip first”.

Also, IP says you spend the charge before being dealt the card, not after suffering a crit. So you get to know that you are spending it on a Ship Crit.

Well, the basic idea here is.... You need to know the crit is actually a Ship type crit, so you *have* to be able to see it in order to use the ability.