[What does Rebel Chopper crew do?]

Rebel Chopper (Crew) reads:

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During the Perform Action step, you may perform 1 action, even while stressed. After you perform an action while stressed, suffer 1 <hit> damage unless you expose 1 of your damage cards.

Given that the card costs 1 point, we've been inferring that it does not simply grant the ship an additional action every perform action step, but instead allows a ship to perform it's regular perform action step action. Is this correct? Is the action Rebel Chopper crew allows for the "standard" perform action step action, that would be able to be used for scenario actions?

[Ion Weapons and Midnight]

Midnight's ability reads 

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While you defend or perform an attack, if you have a lock on the enemy ship, that ship's dice cannot be modified.

and Ion Cannon reads

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Attack: If this attack hits, spend 1 <hit> or <crit> result to cause the defender to suffer 1 <hit> damage. All remaining <hit> / <crit> results inflict ion tokens instead of damage.

 

If there is one uncancelled hit coming in from an Ion Cannon on an attacker that Midnight has locked, what happens? As spending results is a dice modification, is that step skipped and ion tokens dealt instead?

[Ships repositioning during the Attack steps]

Hello,

What happens when ships reposition during the Attack steps?  For example, Scorch (TIE/fo pilot)

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While you perform a primary attack, if you are not stressed, you may gain 1 stress token to roll 1 additional attack die.

is performing an attack while in Petty Officer Thanisson's (Upsilon Pilot)
 

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During the Activation or Engagement Phase, after a ship in your Front Arc at range 0-2 gains 1 stress token, you may spend 1 Charge. If you do, that ship gains 1 tractor token.

front arc.

Additionally, Scorch is equipped with Trick Shot:

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While you perform an attack that is obstructed by an obstacle, roll 1 additional attack die.

 

The ranges and target are all chosen during Step 1 (Declare Target).  During Step 2a, Scorch gains a stress token, and Thanisson chooses to spend a charge to assign Scorch a tractor tractor token.  Scorch is then barrel rolled/boosted, and any of these can happen:

1. Scorch no longer has the defender in his firing arc.
2. The attack range has changed, from 1 to 2 or 3, or from 2 or 3 to 1.
3. The attack is now obstructed when it was not previously, or unobstructed when it was previously obstructed.

What happens in each case? 

1. Can Scorch continue through the attack steps against a defender not in the attack arc? 
2. If Scorch's attack is moved from range 2-3 to 1, does he roll an additional attack die?
3. If the attack becomes obstructed, can Scorch roll an additional attack die with Trick Shot?  If the attack was obstructed and is no longer obstructed, can Scorch choose to use Trick Shot to add a die before using their own ability to keep the extra die despite the attack no longer being obstructed?

 

Thanks!

Chris Allen