It doesn't really matter which one you resolve first. It doesn't change anything. Because it all happens at the same time, none of the characters are removed until later. For instance if you SD and it would kill the guy adjacent, you still have to shoot that guy with the death shot.

That doesn't seem correct. The dying character (e.g. the Klatooinian Assassin) isn't removed until step 14, but in step 13, a whole new round of an attack is begun for the Death Shot or for Self-Destruct.

Call the original attack's steps O1, O2, O3, etc. So the Klat is removed during step O14.

During step O13, a new series of steps is triggered based on Self Destruct. Call the steps for that attack SD1, SD2, SD3, etc. When SD14 is reached, the target killed by the Klat on self-destruct is removed. Then the death shot could proceed with steps DS1, DS2, ... Finally, it returns to step O14 where the Klatooinian Assassin is removed.

Note that this is different from trading Djem-So's because in that case, NONE of the attacks reach step 14 until the Djem So chain ends. With trading Djem So's, nobody is removed until the Djem So chain ends.

Also note that I've been wrong before, so wait for a more official answer.

As far as the original question... who is the acting player in that situation? I'm not sure, but I think it would be the one who did the killing.

begin new attack sequences that interrupt this sequence; resolve the new attack completely, then continue where you left off with the original attack.

Did you leave out the word 'not'? Your first sentence doesn't seem to agree with your second sentence. As I read it, the first sequence would be interrupted by a sequence for Self-Destruct followed by a sequence for Death Shots (or vice versa). After both are resolved, the original sequence would proceed to step 14.

I don't see that interpretation just from looking at the steps in resolving an attack, but that does sound familiar.

GF,

That makes more sense. I just thought there would be a separate Step 14 for the new attack sequence. Maybe the new attack sequence's step 14 gets postponed and is resolved with the original attack sequence's step 14. Or maybe you can't remove a character while the character still has a pending attack sequence to resolve - in the case of Anakin, he still has to apply the damage to all the other affected characters even after taking enough damage to kill him. Or maybe something else. At this point I'm just speculating.

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Edit: Apparently, the above is incorrect. If a death shot kills anakin, his force power is canceled and he doesn't get to apply the rest of the damage.

OK so in the example above where an adjacent attacker defeats an enemy that has both self-destruct and is benefiting from Mon Mothma's CE, that enemy becomes the acting player and then could choose to use Self-Destruct first and if that kills the attacker he could then use his deathshot against another legal target?

So.....Self-Destruct first, remove adjacent attacker, then Deathshot on a different target farther away?

That goes completely reverse of the rulings from last year where as if you have a poggle bomb based to a naboo then bomb kills the naboo and the naboo has to shoot the poggle bomb.

Correct. Those are two different situations.

When a Poggle bomb kills a Naboo, the Naboo's death shot happens before the Poggle bomb is removed from the board, so the Poggle bomb is the target. In this case, the death shot is nested within the sequence of the Self-Destruct.

The situation in this thread is a Klat that has both Self-Destruct and a death shot and they were killed in some other means (call it the 'original attack'). So here both effects are on the same character, and they happen in sequence. Both are nested within the original attack, but they happen one after the other. They can happen in either order, but the first is completely resolved before the second starts. After both finish, then the original attack is finished up by removing the Klat from the board.

That's funny Troy. I posted the thread originally to figure out how my squad from this weekend would handle Klat Deathshots and you wanted to know for your squad. I'mglad I spent enough time thinking about them beforehand or you may have beaten me.