Ablative Plating and flying through a rock

[Mace Windu]

Just wanting clarification that if a ship has Ablative Plating and the ship flies through or lands on an asteroid if you roll a hit from the effect of the asteroid you can use both charges from the plating to avoid both points of damage or would it be considered a single source of damage and you could only use the plating to stop 1 of the 2 damage the ship would suffer.

[Tim H]

Damaged is suffered one at a time and the trigger for Ablative is before you would suffer one damage with an additional check to verify the source of the damage. As a result if you have rolled a hit or crit causing your ship to take 2 damage total then Ablative would trigger before each damage is suffered allowing you to spend the charge to prevent a damage.