[Caretaker's Guest]

When you have no facility and hit Rhetorical Question is it discarded or the mission blocked forever?

[Ensign Q]

and what happens to the ship?

[sexecutioner]

Question should be discarded as there's no target to place it on

[Ensign Q]

it has a target. its placed on a ship Rhetorical Question

[commdecker]

You can't attempt the mission until you get the dilemma off the ship. One strategy for that is to return it to hand, with Space-Time Portal or Spacedoor.

[Ensign Q]

but it does not discard if there is no facility? because cards that specify outposts, do so.
how does spacedoor return ships?

[Johannes Mette]

but it does not discard if there is no facility? because cards that specify outposts, do so.
how does spacedoor return ships?

In place of your normal card play, you may either "overhaul" one of your empty ships here (return ship to hand; ..

[Ensign Q]

one of your empty ships here which means u are already at an outpost though

[patrick]

Glossary: outpost says:

If you have no outpost in play, no player may play a card requiring you to return a personnel or ship to your outpost, nor may you choose an effect on a card that would require an outpost.

Rhetorical Question doesn't say "outpost", though...

[Ensign Q]

Glossary: outpost says:

If you have no outpost in play, no player may play a card requiring you to return a personnel or ship to your outpost, nor may you choose an effect on a card that would require an outpost.

Rhetorical Question doesn't say "outpost", though...

thats what spawned the initial question