[Do Pattern Analyzer and Rotating a Ship Allow a Ship's Base to be temporarily outside of the play area?]

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Flee

A ship flees if any part of its base is outside the play area at any time. A ship that flees is removed from the game.
• While a ship moves, the ship does not flee if only the template is outside the play area.
• Before a fleeing ship is removed from the game, the only effects it resolves before being removed from the game are effects that trigger when it flees.
• A ship cannot flee while resolving a boost, barrel roll, decloak, or SLAM.
• Partially executing a maneuver can cause a ship to flee if this results in any part of its base being outside the play area.

[Rules Reference Corrections]

Rules Reference Update: The following changes will be included in an upcoming update.

Flee

A ship flees if any part of its base is outside the play area at any time. A ship that flees is removed from the game.
• While a ship moves, the ship does not flee if only the template is outside the play area.
• Before a fleeing ship is removed from the game, the only effects it resolves before being removed from the game are effects that trigger when it flees.
• A ship cannot flee while resolving a boost, barrel roll, decloak, or SLAM.
• Partially executing a maneuver can cause a ship to flee if this results in any part of its base being outside the play area.

[Experimental Scanners and R3 Astromech]

Yes, Experimental Scanners may be used to acquire a lock on any object not at range 1.

Yes, R3 Astromech in conjunction with Experimental Scanners allows you to lock then acquire a lock on 2 different objects not at range 1.

[Wounded Pilot and Linked Actions]

Yes, employ the ability queue to determine the outcome of interactions between Wounded Pilot and linked actions:

-Wounded Pilot: "After you perform an action, roll 1 attack die.  On a hit or critical result, gain 1 stress token."

-Linked actions: "After a ship performs an action with an attached linked action, if the player wants to resolve the linked action, it is added to the ability queue."

They share the same timing and both enter the queue.  If you want to guarantee successful resolution of the linked action, resolve it first, prior to resolving the potential stress of Wounded Pilot.  Note that not all linked actions are red, but if it is, there exists the potential to complete this interaction triple stressed.

[ensnare and bombs]

Yes, you may employ Ensnare to tractor a ship into range of a bomb before it detonates, assuming either that you control both effects, or you are first player and thus able to resolve your tractor effect prior to your opponent's bomb detonation.

Yes, bomb detonations are abilities, and subject to the rules governing the ability queue.

Yes, Sabine (crew) can tractor a ship suffering the effects of a friendly bomb into range of subsequent bomb detonation.

[Outmaneuver clarification]

No, Outmaneuver never has an opportunity to resolve on an RZ-2 A-Wing's turret attack.  Turret arcs are distinct from all standard arcs, despite the fact that "the turret arc indicator points toward one of the ship’s four standard arcs."

[Vader Crew and Nash Windrider]

Yes, Darth Vader (crew) permits you to damage a friendly ship.  If this destroys the ship, and Nash Windrider (TIE Interceptor) uses his pilot ability, the destroyed ship may engage immediately ahead of any other initiative.  Simultaneous Fire would only apply to other ships destroyed "at the start of the Engagement Phase".

[Ved Foslo and Precision Ion Engines]

Atomic Mass Games is adhering to the text as it is written.  My original response is the official ruling, and also applies to the Countess Ryad (TIE Defender) with Interloper Turn interaction.

Thank you for your thorough question, and "showing your work".

["genius" astromech w/o bomb slot?]

Any ship with Genius (Astromech) must also have bomb(s) equipped in order to drop or launch them.  Please note that Genius specifically refers to bombs, so mines or other devices would not function in this context either.

[Ved Foslo and Precision Ion Engines]

No.  Unfortunately, the timing for Precision Ion Engines is "before you execute..." while Ved Foslo (TIE Advanced x1) is "while you execute...".  Precision Ion Engines does not have an opportunity to trigger before Ved Foslo can alter the maneuver.

[Ionized activation, bump]

Yes.  The ionized ship partially completes the forward 1 maneuver, skips its Perform Action step, finishes its activation and removes all of its ion tokens.  Having done so, it is no longer ionized.

[Jake Farrell's Vectored Thrusters still works if he fails the boost?]

No, Jake Farrell (RZ-1 A-Wing) must successfully perform a barrel roll or boost action in order to trigger his pilot ability.

This is governed by the rule you quoted, and is also related to: "If an action fails, since the action was not completed, that ship cannot perform a linked action."

[Emergency Deployment and Hopeful timing]

No, the opportunity to add Hopeful to the ability queue has passed by the time it becomes active.  The following two rules govern this interaction:

"The abilities of a ship in reserve are inactive unless the ability explicitly allows it to be used while it is in reserve."

"If a carrier ship is destroyed, before the carrier is removed from the play area, any docked ships can emergency deploy from their carrier."

The trigger is the carrier ship being destroyed.  When it is, the docked ship is still in reserve, and Hopeful is inactive.

[Treacherous timing]

Treacherous resolves during the Neutralize Results step.

"• While: This term is often used in combination with multi-stepped game effects such as an attack, an action, or a maneuver. Although less specific than the other timings, this term is used to narrow down when the ability is resolved during the round. Additional verbiage is required to identify when exactly the effect is applied.
◊ For example, in the context of an attack, if the ability rolls additional attack dice, the ability triggers during the Roll Attack Dice step. If the ability modifies defense dice, the ability triggers during the Modify Defense Dice step."

Cancelling Hit or Critical results typically occurs during the Neutralize Results step, so this is also the proper timing for Treacherous.

[Can someone PLEASE give me an official ruling on what it means to "transfer a lock" in Hera Syndulla's ability]

Please note that locks and lock tokens are two completely distinct things.

[False transponder codes and obstacles]

No, when you lock an object with an active False Transponder Codes equipped, you are instructed to lose its charge and jam the object.  You must do both of these things to resolve the effect.  Obstacles cannot be assigned non-lock tokens; you cannot jam the obstacle, thus neither do you lose the False Transponder Codes charge.

[If a ship has concussion bomb (1 charge inactive) and another bomb, can it drop the other bomb to bypass concussion's "must" clause ?]

Yes, each ship can place a device only once per System Phase, so if you drop or launch a different device, you are no longer able to drop or launch a Concussion Bomb.

[ETA 2 firing arc and range question]

Your perspective is correct.

The Eta-2 Actis has two completely separate primary weapons employing discretely distinct firing arcs.  If you use the 3 dice bullseye attack, only the closest points within that specific bullseye firing arc are valid for the purposes of determining whether or not to apply the range bonus.

[Dalan Oberos Starviper Clarification]

Yes, Dalan Oberos (StarViper) may use his pilot ability while stressed.  Note that this will result in multiple stress tokens on Dalan.

[Is pattern analyzer versus going off a rock or through a rock]

Yes, Pattern Analyzer grants an action in this scenario.

Pattern Analyzer grants an action after fully executing a red maneuver, before the ship gets stressed.  This is distinct from the Perform Action Step action, which is the action denied by moving through or overlapping an asteroid.

[Old question about Sunny Bounder's ability that never got addressed]

No, "While you defend or perform an attack" is a single opportunity, and Sunny Bounder (M3-A Interceptor) may only use her ability once during a single attack or defense.

[Player order vs initiative order]

All "At the start of the Engagement Phase" abilities are resolved in player order.  Initiative is irrelevant.

"The ability queue is used to resolve the timing of multiple abilities that trigger during the same timing window. Abilities are resolved from the front of the queue to the back of the queue. These abilities are added to the back of the ability queue using the following rules:
1. If both players have abilities that triggered from the same event, the abilities are added to the ability queue in player order.

Note that the exception are abilities that resolve in the System Phase:

"The System Phase is the second phase of a round. During this phase, the sequence of play starts with the ship with the lowest initiative and continues in ascending order."

[Does XX-23 S-Thread Tracers (Focus/Calculate) trigger Weapons Systems Officer?]

Yes, the Attack: header of XX-23 S-Thread Tracers satisfies the requirement of Weapons Systems Officer.

[Regarding Overdrive Thruster]

"If able" simply refers to the availability of higher speed templates.  You are not able to use a 4 Bank template, for example, because it does not exist.

In your barrel roll example, you are able to use a template of 1 speed higher: the 2 straight template.  Whether or not that action fails is irrelevant; you used that template.

[Treating an action as another colour.]

No, Poe Dameron (T-70 X-Wing, Trigger-Happy Flyboy) may not use his ability to Daredevil, as that boost is treated as red, and as such, is no longer a white action for the purposes of qualifying for Poe's ability.