A topic from AEG's L5R CCG Rules forum, copied for Oracle of the Void from a copy of the forum saved in October 2015, so pages it didn't save are missing. Players' names are left out; the rules officials are named. Rulings are as they stood on these dates; later rulings, the rulebooks and the Rules Archive may differ.
A player, 10 August 2010
My opponent has a unique personality with no followers and a non-unique personality with a follower. I attempt to shoot the unique personality with a range attack my opponent wants to redirect the action to his non-unique personality with a follower. I said the personality was not a legal target because he had a follower since the required targeting for a range attack is a follower or a personality without followers.
Second question slightly different Second senario unique personality with no followers and a non-unique personality with a follower. Both personality have more force then my personality the follower does not(not sure it would make a difference if it did). I attempt to kill his unique personality with my oni-daikyu since he has more force then me. He tries to redirect it to his non-unique with a follower. I don't think he is a legal targert since he has a follower. I don't think the force of the follower matters since imperial command just changes the target from one personality to another legal personality.
Alex Jones (rules official), 11 August 2010
My opponent has a unique personality with no followers and a non-unique personality with a follower. I attempt to shoot the unique personality with a range attack my opponent wants to redirect the action to his non-unique personality with a follower. I said the personality was not a legal target because he had a follower since the required targeting for a range attack is a follower or a personality without followers.
Second question slightly different Second senario unique personality with no followers and a non-unique personality with a follower. Both personality have more force then my personality the follower does not(not sure it would make a difference if it did). I attempt to kill his unique personality with my oni-daikyu since he has more force then me. He tries to redirect it to his non-unique with a follower. I don't think he is a legal targert since he has a follower. I don't think the force of the follower matters since imperial command just changes the target from one personality to another legal personality.
Imperial Command: Reaction: When an action would target your Unique Personality, pay 2 Gold: The action targets another of your Personalities instead, if legal.
In both cases, you may play Imperial Command after it targets your Unique Personality. However, because your other Personality isn't a legal target - he has a follower - Imperial Command will fail.