Official rule text
FIRST-GAME SETUP When playing for the first time, players perform the following steps to set up the game. Some components are not used during the first game and are explained in detail at the end of this booklet. SPEAKER 1. DETERMINE SPEAKER: Randomly determine one player to take the speaker token. This player is the speaker and will go first when the game begins. 2. ASSIGN FACTIONS: Each player controls a faction with LONCARA SSODU XXCHA FLAGSHIP THE XXCHA KINGDOM unique strengths and weaknesses. Each faction has a sheet You may use this unit’s SPACE CANNON against ships that are in adjacent systems. ✦ SUSTAIN DAMAGE ✦ SPACE CANNON 5 (X3) “To fight without cause is not the way, human. which shows the attributes and abilities of that faction’s units Curb your anger. Let us walk through the 8 7 1 3 gardens and consider how to proceed.” —Elder Qanoj COST COMBAT MOVE CAPACITY as well as abilities unique to the faction itself. Gather the WAR SUN CRUISER I PEACE ACCORDS After you resolve the primary or secondary ability of the “Diplomacy” strategy card, you UPGRADE may gain control of 1 planet other than Mecatol following faction sheets: Rex that does not contain any units and is in a UPGRADE system that is adjacent to a planet you control.