LoboStele wrote:
In the theoretical sense, if there were a living piece with Relay Orders, I don't think it could swap itself, and I don't think it would be affected by the CE (for instance, something like 'allies within 6 gain +3 defense'), since the wording of Relay Orders says that the commander effects are counted from the Mouse Droid, just like you would count distance from the Commander. It is an interesting possibility though. At the moment, I don't think we have any CEs that affect Droids which would make this a possibility under the currently released pieces though.
Relay Orders reminds me a lot of Ysalamiri. I think it was Errata'd so that Thrawn himself was affected by Ysalamiri because I believe there was some confusion there as well.