Question and Answers from The General Vol. 20, No. 4 11.2 When a search is conducted, is it necessary to search for characters with (and therefore reveal) all the military units in the environ, or can the Imperial player search with only a few and keep the identity of the remaining units (particularly any suicide squads) secret? A. All must be used if a military search is conducted at all. 13.4 Can an aborted Diplomacy or Coup mission put a planet into rebellion? A. No. 14.12 Can possessions be rearranged ONLY at the beginning of the Rebel Mission Phase? A. Yes 14.3 Do companions count as characters when determining hiding value? A. No, only on spaceships. 14.51 Can anyone other than the owner pilot a spaceship? A. No, the owner insists on flying it (insurance requirements you know), but ownership may be transferred as for other possessions. 15.6 Can a PDB's level be voluntarily reduced by the owning player? A. Yes 18.0 Can characters be transferred from one military unit to another while in space? A. Yes, characters may move with any military unit with whom they start the turn stacked. 19.6 Must a suicide squad participate in the search for characters to be effective, or does it have only to be present in the same environ? A. No, the SS can work if a character search has succeeded, but see 11.2 above for military searches. 20.4 Can the non-phasing player intercept military units which begin in the orbit box and do not move? A. Yes indeed, staying put and pleading innocence is a non-viable defense in this game. 22.0 Can additional forces in the orbit box voluntarily move into the interception stack to improve the odds in that combat? If so, who decides how many forces to commit first? A. No. This is the problem with interception of the first of several units; if one commits too many interceptors, the rest get away; if one holds some back, they may end up idle. 25.15 Can the summoning of a sovereign (or its failure) put a planet into rebellion? A. No 31.21 Can Professor Mareg or the Advisor Android move into an orbit box, detect the planetary secret, and the decide whether or not to land on the planet or send down other ships in the same turn; or, is the planetary secret revealed only after all movement is finished? A. Only after movement is complete. 33.34 Can the Imperial player put "up" or "down" PDB on a planet in a province where the capital planet is lost? A. No. 33.41 If the Imperial player cannot pay maintenance for some of his Elite units, but already has all of his Veteran units in play; are the Elite units replaced with lower value units or are they simply removed? A. Removed! Ex-elite units are much too proud to be anything but veterans. 37.1 Can prisoners heal (allowing them to be tortured repeatedly)? If so, can they be questioned normally while healing or must the be left alone? A. Prisoners can heal, but it requires peace from questioning (they cannot be on missions ... even the opponent's missions). IV. Can an encounter with the creature "Vrialta" occur even after he has been killed in combat? A. No. VI. Does the "Scrambler" add four to the owner's hiding value when hiding from several characters? A. Yes. VI. What does the "Scanner" do against a level 0 PDB? Does a one level reduction make the PDB effectively "down" for that evasion attempt? A. Yes, if the PDB is level 0 _Down_, then the "Scanner" makes it "doubly down" (i.e., ten enemy space strength points are needed to simulate a level 0 Up PBD). If it is level 0 _Up_, the "Scanner" makes it effectively down. VI. If the only character on one side of combat is disabled by the "Cervac MK V"; how are the battle odds determined and the combat resolved? A. Automatic capture or death (victor's choice). VII. Must the "Trap" secret be completely removed if it is discovered through the Imperial Archives, or can it still be used as a prison a to hold prisoners without requiring a guard? A. Completely removed, no further effect. Q. Must units which have just been bought be deployed in an environ or may they start in orbit? A. The start in an environ? Q. Is Mareg really able to detect secrets from the invulnerability of orbit? A. Yes, but tying up a spaceship and important characters in this manner may not be the wisest move however. Q. Is the Android an Object or a Companion? A. An Object.