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Play an Action card
Play one card from your hand and resolve its Action effect, then place the card in your discard pile
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Skip if desired
You may choose to play no Action and skip this phase entirely
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No boosting or following
Actions cannot be Boosted or Followed by other players
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Choose a Role
Select one of the 6 roles from the Central Display: Colonize, Research, Produce, Trade, Survey, or Warfare
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Take the Role card
Take a card from that stack (if available) and place it in your play area
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Boost the role
Play any number of cards from your hand with matching symbols, plus use symbols on face up planets in your Empire
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Resolve with Leader bonus
Execute the Role effect including the Leader bonus, counting all symbols used to Boost
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Opponents respond
In clockwise order, each opponent either Dissents (draws 1 card) or Follows (plays matching symbols to execute the role without Leader bonus)
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Action effect
Draw 2 cards from your deck to your hand
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Role effect
Look at one fewer Planet card than the number of Survey symbols played, examine front and back, choose 1 to add face down to your Empire
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Leader bonus
Look at 1 additional Planet card
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Action: Collect fighters
Collect 1 Fighter token and place it in your Empire
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Action: Attack
Return X Fighter tokens to the supply and flip over 1 planet in your Empire (X = Warfare cost on Planet card)
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Role effect
Collect 1 Fighter token for each Warfare symbol played
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Leader bonus
Attack 1 Planet instead of collecting fighters
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Attack restrictions
Players may only Attack face down planets in their own Empire and may not Attack when Following
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Action: Add colony
Tuck the Colonize card underneath a planet with Colonize symbols showing
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Action: Settle
If a planet has sufficient Colonies (as indicated on card), flip it over and place all Colonies into your discard pile
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Role effect
Tuck all cards played under any number of face down planets; each Colonize symbol counts as a Colony
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Leader bonus
Settle 1 planet instead of adding Colonies
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Empire symbol bonus
Each Colonize symbol in your Empire reduces the number of Colonies needed to Settle by 1
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Action effect
Add 1 Resource token to an empty resource slot in your Empire
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Role effect
Add 1 Resource token per Production symbol played to empty resource slots
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Leader bonus
No bonus until stack is depleted; then add additional production as shown on display
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Action effect
Return 1 Resource token from your Empire to the supply and take 1 Influence token
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Role effect
Return 1 Resource token for each Trade symbol played and take 1 Influence token per Resource returned
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Leader bonus
No bonus until stack is depleted; then add additional trade as shown on display
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Action effect
Remove up to 2 cards in your hand from the game permanently
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Role effect
Take any one Technology card meeting prerequisites (Level 1: 1 planet, 3 symbols; Level 2: 2 planets, 5 symbols; Level 3: 3 planets, 7 symbols)
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Leader bonus
No bonus until stack is depleted; then add additional research symbol as shown on display
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Action only
Remove the Politics card from the game and choose 1 Role card from the stacks to add to your hand
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No role function
Politics cards are never used to Boost or Follow any Roles
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Discard played cards
Place cards played during the Role Phase into your discard pile (except Colonies tucked under planets)
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Optional hand discard
You may discard any number of cards from your hand
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Reconcile hand
Draw or discard cards until you reach your Hand Limit (base of 5, modified by planets)
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Reshuffle when empty
Whenever you must draw and your deck is empty, shuffle your discard pile to create a new deck
