Official rule text
12 HYPERLANES When playing with five players, or when playing with four players and the Prophecy of Kings expansion, the galaxy is set up with hyperlane tiles (see “Game Board Setup” on page 7). Each contiguous line created by one or more hyperlane tiles is a hyperlane. System tiles connected by a hyperlane are considered adjacent for all purposes. Hyperlane tiles improve balance in the starting positions for each player, so players in five-player games do not receive extra trade goods for having a particular starting position. Hyperlane tiles are not systems. They cannot have units on them and they cannot be targets for effects or abilities. GALACTIC EVENTS Galactic events are optionally selected during game setup and can change the parameters of play. Each event is different and contains the rules needed to play. 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 3 2 3 2 1 2 1 2 0 3 1 0 0 3 1 0 Hyperlanes make the red-highlighted system adjacent to the two yellow-highlighted systems. COMPLEXITY Advent of the War Sun The looming monstrosity looked more like an island than it did a weapon. Still, if the reports were to believed, this...thing...was capable of incredible destruction on a scale possibly surpassing that of the Gashlai’s own weapon. Magmus flared in frustration. How had the