Hello,

I'm having issue understanding with this specific pilot. The ruling on this card:

Rigged Energy Cells: During the System Phase, if you are not docked, lose 1 [charge]. At the end of the Activation Phase, if you have 0[charge], you are destroyed. Before you are removed, each ship at range 0-1 suffers 1[hit] damage.

With this, I have no issue on this but when deployed:

A docked ship is able to deploy from its carrier ship during
the System Phase by performing the following steps:

1. Choose a non-stationary, non-reverse maneuver on the docked ship’s dial.
2. Using the corresponding template, the docked ship executes the maneuver using the front guides or the rear guides of the carrier ship as if those guides were the docked ship’s starting position.
3. The ship may perform one action.

So my question to this.

Can Autopilot Drone lose charge after it's being deployed in the mat? If so, how it is possible?

Is it during the System phase? Are you deployed? Remove a charge

35 minutes ago, Innese said:

Is it during the System phase? Are you deployed? Remove a charge

You are not answering my question still.

The broader context for this is that system phase abilities are resolved in order of increasing initiative. Docking, Undocking, and Autopilot Drone's text are all examples of a System Phase abilities. A player has some choice about how these resolve, but not full choice. Because docked ships are in reserve and their abilities are not used unless otherwise specified, there are some sequences which won't work.

If the Autopilot Drone begins undocked, it can either choose to dock or choose to resolve it's pilot ability in either order. As such, it could either lose a charge or dock in either order. If it chooses to Dock before it has lost a charge, it can no longer lose a charge once docked.

However, if the Autopilot Drone begins docked and then undocks, it'll still be the Autopilot Drone's initiative that round, and it would have to lose a charge. There's no choice in the matter--the charge is removed. Since it begins in reserve, you wouldn't be able to resolve the Autopilot Drone text before undocking.