Official rule text
83.1 During the strategy phase, each player a Players should remember to check the number of their ships chooses a strategy card from the in each system after reducing the size of their fleet pools. common play area and places it in SECONDARY ABILITY: ✦ Spend 1 token from their play area faceup. your strategy pool and b This step can usually be resolved simultaneously, but if 4 resources to research 1 technology . there is a timing conflict, it is resolved in initiative order. 83.2 Each strategy card has a readied and an exhausted side. a The readied side contains the strategy card’s name, initiative a During a four- or eight-player game, all strategy cards number, and abilities. will be chosen, and therefore no trade good tokens will be placed on strategy cards. b The exhausted side contains the strategy card’s initiative number. Then, players proceed to the action phase.