The rules say players always have access to innate abilities and actions. Does this mean innate abilities and actions are always "active" attacks and actions? Ie. Tachyon's "Accelerated Assualt" applies to "Active" attacks. Does that include her innate "Nimble Strike" or just active cards? In the same vein, are attacks simply anything which use dice to attack? Ie. Bunkers expert Tactician is not an attack but his Flak Cannon is?
Re-read and see attacks are the things that have a die code.
Innate abilities can be pretty much anything. They include Ongoing abilities (indicated with the Kirby Dot icon) like Legacy's "Flying", or Action abilities (indicated with the pucnhy fist icon) like his "THOKK!". The key with innate abilities is that they don't go away when you are incapacitated. For heroes they consist entirely of the abilities printed on the character card. Villains can have scenario specific innate abilities, but these have red card backs in contrast to the blue backed standard abilities.
But are "innate" things synonymous with "active" things?
Innate attacks and abilities are always active, yes.
Cool beans. Cool, cool beans!
"Active" is anything on your sheet, and anything on equipped power cards.
Anything with an automiss chart is an attack.
Okay, so Hypothetical question:
If Tachyon had a Power Card with a hazard attack, and had it in play and did Hypersonic, she could use that Hazard attack against enemies, since it would be an active attack?
There was just a question like this in another thread. Basically you have to come to the hazard to trigger it. If the hazard comes to you it doesn't trigger.
http://greaterthangames.com/forum/topic/hazard-spaces-5810
She couldn't because the card specifies that you activate it without paying its costs. Players cannot activate hazard attacks. Hazard attacks trigger under specified situations. They also don't have costs. If Tachyon got an attack that cost health, she could activate that one hypothetically though.