Scout and Station Assault

[lttatter]

Do the unarmed stations in Station Assault count as ships when the opponent resolves scout on their squadrons? Squadrons deployed with scout must be beyond distance 5 of enemy ships and squadrons. 

The unarmed station are considered ships when being attacked directly and can be affected by splash damage effects such as Wide Area Barrage/ Orbital Bombarment Particle Cannons. So would the unharmed stations also be ships when scout is resolves to deploy squadrons?

 

 

 

Edited May 21 by lttatter

[DSchadt]

Yes,

Unarmed stations "are treated as ships when resolving effects." and are treated as friendly to the player who controls their station card.

Scout is an effect.

Therefore squadrons with scout, that are not friendly to an unarmed station, must be deployed beyond distance 5 of that station.