• Macron can hibernate during Launch or Alliance to get four ships into the gate, and then count them at 4x4=16.



• If Fungus is encountered by Anti-Matter or an upset Loser, he can hibernate during Reveal to avoid having to count everything in his stack against his total. If he wins the encounter, he still gets to capture new ships; if he loses, he still gets to play his Super flare to keep his stacks together in the warp.



• Same trick for Warrior: avoid increasing your total against the "low guys" but still get your token(s) at the end of the encounter.



• If offensive Deuce is down to only one encounter card and it's a good one, he can hibernate during Start Turn to avoid having to draw a new hand. If he uses another effect to acquire more encounter cards, then he still gets to use his power that encounter.



• If somebody is landing on a booby-trapped planet and Saboteur expects that even more ships are going to land there later in the encounter, he can hibernate now to delay the detonation — or even to just imply that he's delaying a detonation, as a bluff.



• Schizoid can dodge being questioned/having a card peeked at this encounter, but still win later in the encounter if he meets his own conditions.



• Vulch can avoid picking up an artifact that he wants out of circulation (say, an Ionic Gas or Quash that would make it hard to get defensive allies or enter into negotiations, a Plague that he desperately does not want Hacker to steal from him, etc.) while still salvaging other cards later in the encounter and/or keeping his artifacts when he collects a new hand.