Official rule text
If a player’s space docks are in the same system as another KEY CONCEPT: SPENDING player’s ships, those space docks are blockaded. Blockaded RESOURCES AND INFLUENCE space docks cannot produce ships. They may, however, still Many effects in Twilight Imperium require a player to produce ground forces. spend resources or influence. Resources 2 PRODUCTION 3 ARCHON REN 2 3 EXAMPLE Influence The Xxcha player activates their home system [1]. Populated by small arboreal villages, ARCHON REN this planet’s only true urban center is the royal city of Kklaj. The Xxcha home world and home to the renowned library of Xuun. They will be producing units from the space dock To spend a planet’s resources or influence, a player located on Archon Tau [2]. exhausts that planet’s planet card. For example, if a player needs to spend two resources to produce units, that player 2 3 ARCHON REN can exhaust a planet that has a resource value of “2” or instead exhaust two planets that each have resource values 1 of “1.” The player could exhaust a planet that has more ARCHON TAU 14 1 1 resources, but the excess resources are lost. 2 LONCARA SSODU THE XXCH 5. PRODUCTION XXCHA FLAGSHIP You may use this unit’s SPACE CANNON against ships that are in adjacent systems.