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Select Strategy card
In turn order starting with Speaker, each player selects one available Strategy card
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Place Bonus counters
After all selections, Speaker places a Bonus counter on all unused Strategy cards except one
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Collect Bonus counter rewards
When selecting a Strategy card with Bonus counters, immediately exchange each for either 2 Trade Goods or 1 Command counter
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Perform one action
On your turn, execute one of the following action types:
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Activate system
Spend a Command counter from Command Pool to activate a system
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Move ships
Move eligible ships into the activated system
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Resolve PDS fire
After movement, PDS units in range may fire at enemy units
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Initiate Space Battle
If enemy ships present, conduct combat
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Land Ground Forces
Transport troops to planets
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Resolve Domain counters
When landing on neutral planets with Distant Suns, reveal and resolve counters
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Conduct Invasion Combat
Battle enemy ground forces on planets
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Produce units
Build new units at Space Docks in the system
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Resolve combat rounds
Fight two rounds of Space Battle (three rounds if Admiral present)
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Calculate strength
After all rounds, tally surviving spaceship Strength values
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Determine winner
Player with highest total strength wins; defender wins ties
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Retreat losing fleet
Losing player must retreat to previously activated system with no enemy ships, or activate adjacent unactivated system with no enemy units
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Destroy trapped fleet
If no retreat options available or chosen, fleet is immediately destroyed
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Build without exhausting
When producing on a planet, players need not exhaust it first
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Produce Ground Forces/Fighters efficiently
At cost of 1 resource, produce up to 2 Ground Forces and/or Fighters (requires 2 Production points)
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Respect Space Dock timing
Cannot produce a Space Dock on a planet the same activation it was captured; new Space Docks cannot produce during their construction activation
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Carry any transportable unit
Capacity allows carrying Ground Forces, Shock Troopers, Fighters, PDS, and Mechanized Units
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Maintain capacity limits
Outside Space Battle, transportable units in a system's space area cannot exceed combined Capacity of your spaceships there
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Account for heavy units
Mechanized Units require 2 Capacity when carried
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Cancel agreements on conflict
Trade agreements are canceled when Ground Invasion, Space Battle, or PDS attack is initiated
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Choose PDS fire
Player may decide whether to perform PDS attack (which cancels trade agreements)
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Show Political cards
When Assembly Primary Ability is executed, each player shows the active player one Political card for selection
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Replenish chosen card
Player whose card was selected draws a new Political card
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Discard instead of Trade Goods
May discard Political cards instead of Trade Goods when needed, maintaining minimum 2 cards in hand
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Deploy Leaders as action
Discard a Command counter from Strategy Allocation to place a Leader on any friendly planet or spaceship
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Admiral abilities
On spaceships, can deploy Space Mines at end of production step for 1 Resource; discard to re-roll any 3 dice during Space Battle
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Agent abilities
Nullifies enemy Leader abilities in same System; discard instead of playing Sabotage Action card
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Diplomat abilities
On planets, prevents all Planetary Bombardments in System; on spaceships, discard to pass through or allow enemy fleet to pass
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General abilities
On planets, Ground Forces become Shock Troopers on 9+ (instead of 10); discard after successful combat to place 4 Ground Forces
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Scientist abilities
On spaceships, fleet moves at fastest ship's speed; discard when acquiring technology to ignore 1 prerequisite
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Recover lost Leaders
When a Leader is lost, return during Status Phase
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Gain rewards for killing Leaders
After winning combat where enemy Leader was lost, gain 2 Political cards (or 2 Trade Goods with Political Strategy cards)
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Dreadnought combat
Rolls 2 dice in Space Battle; each hit reduces dice rolled by 1
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WarSun requirements
Requires 2 Command counters in Fleet Supply; may absorb 3 hits with each reducing combat dice by 1
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Shock Troop conversion
Ground Forces become Shock Troopers on natural roll of 10 during Invasion Combat
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Sabotage cancellation
Sabotage Action cards may cancel other Sabotage Action cards
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Lazax Planet rewards
Capturing Mecatol Rex or real Artifact planets from another player via invasion rewards 1 Command counter to place anywhere on Race sheet
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Trade Stations
During Status Phase, exhaust Trade Station plus 3 other unexhausted planets to receive Trade Goods equal to their Resources value
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Race-Specific Technologies
(Except Nekro Virus) Automatically receive race technologies for free when any player's Victory Points equal the printed cost
