Yes. Unless its something in the crisis-resolution stage of the Crisis Card (be it a Cylon Attack, or a skill check that allows a FTL step), then the bottom two parts of the crisis card are ignored.

The former (Jump first, then Crisis).

Yes. Scientific Research is not an action (and neither are Strategic Planning, Investigative Committee, Evasive Maneuvers, and Declare Emergency) can be played on any player's turn, so long as it's at the appropriate time.

The only way a Cylon player can choose a crisis card to play is by activating the Caprica location on the board. The Caprica location specifically says "*No Cylon ship activations, No Jump preparation steps."


If you activate the FTL control, the fleet jumps as part of your action. Clear the board, roll to see if population is lost, draw and resolve destination cards, and THEN play a crisis card. This can (and occasionally does) result in leaping from the closing jaws of one Cylon Fleet straight into a fight with another...just like in the show!


If a card does not say "Action:" you can play it whenever it is situationally appropriate, even another player's turn. For example, Evasive Maneuvers can be played whenever a Viper is shot at, even if another player is piloting the viper...OR EVEN IF THE INITIAL SHOT MISSES (Cylons take note). Strategic Planning can be played before ANY die roll (yes, even a Basestar's attack roll against Galactica, or that Raider's re-roll against that viper that Evasive Maneuvered). Investigative Committee, Scientific Research, or Declare Emergency can be played as appropriate on ANY skill check.

Also, some characters have special abilities that apply only on their own turn, and some have abilities that can be used any time. The ones that require an Action can obviously only be played on your turn. Adama's Inspirational Leader only applies when HE draws a Crisis Card (and likewise with Roslin's Religious Visions, or Boomer's Recon), but Apollo can choose to get in a viper and take a free Action whenever one is played out of the reserves, no matter who's turn it is, and Boomer's Mysterious Intuition, Helo's Moral Compass, and Starbuck's Secret Destiny can be played on ANY crisis.


You're welcome.

Didn't want to start another thread so I'll ask here:

I was playing and I got the "Network Computers" crisis, which we resolved. Before we drew it, we were almost at Auto-Jump (-1 pop).

We resolved the crisis. Under the "Pass" section, it says:

"Increase the Jump Preparation track by 1."

That moved us to Auto-jump.

Then, we have a Raiders activate Icon and then another Preparation for Jump Icon.

My question is:

1) do we jump, then there is an empty board so the raiders don't activate, then we move another space toward auto-jump?

or 2) do we move it to auto-jump, then the raiders activate/attack, resolve that, then leave the auto-jump there (wasting the bottom -right icon, in a sense) thereby activate the jumping?

We played it like #1 because it felt silly that we'd go to auto-jump but still have raiders attack us. Or is the rule that we can only jump during the Jump Preparation Phase (the last part of a human turn)? So that would imply that we would move to auto-jump, then get attacked, then jump and "waste" the bottom right icon.

what do you guys think?

The correct answer would be one, so there would be no raiders to activate, unless the destination card drawn caused there to be more placed. You would at the end advance the jump prep again.