[Thane vs Impervium Plating]

Thane:  While you perform an attack, you may spend 1 Focus, Hit, or Crit result to look at the defender’s facedown damage cards, choose 1, and expose it.

Impervium Plating: Before you would be dealt a faceup Ship damage card, you may spend 1 Charge to discard it instead.

 

If Thane goes to expose damage cards, and there are only Ship cards available, what happens?

1. The flipped up damage card is... discarded, repairing the ship?
2. The card is "exposed", not "dealt", so Impervium Plating has no effect anymore

I'm suspect 2.

[Genius and Thermal Detonators -- which template?]

It has been established that Genius allows you to drop ONE Thermal Detonator after a move.

As per the Thermal Detonator card, can I use either the 1 or 2 straight templates to drop this single detonator?

And with Skilled Bombardier, can I then extend this to a 3 straight template?