Terra Prime Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Goal
• Components
• Setup
  • 2-Player Setup
• Player Turns
  • Step 1: Produce Resources
  • Step 2: Perform Actions
    • Actions and Hostile Aliens
  • General Actions
    • 1. Short Range Scan
    • 2. Move
    • 3. Explore
    • 4. Colonize
    • 5. Use a Colony
    • 6. Attack
    • 7. Pacify
  • Outpost Actions
    • 8. Deliver Resources
    • 9. Load a Colony Marker
    • 10. Use Satellite Scanner
    • 11. Buy Tech Upgrade
• Taking Damage
• Hostile Aliens
  • Alien Attack!
• Stray Asteroids
• Asteroid Fields
• Collecting Rewards
• Game End
• Final Scoring

Goal

The goal of Terra Prime is to explore the space surrounding the Terra Prime outpost, colonize and harvest the resources produced on the nearby planets, and protect the colonies from hostile aliens. Players gain Leadership points by founding colonies, delivering resources to Terra Prime, and driving off or befriending hostile aliens. The value of colonies and the resources they produce increase the farther away from Terra Prime you get, but so do the dangers of exploration.

Components

• 27 Space Hexes (7 green, 9 yellow, 11 red). Each hex front shows a mix of stray asteroids, blue/green/red/yellow planets, and hostile alien scout ships or warships. Hex backs are blank space.
• 5 Command Ship Boards, each showing the turn order and actions list, slots for Modules, 3 thrusters, 1 built-in cargo hold (holds 1 Bluium and 1 Greenium, or a Colony Marker), 2 Brownium holds (each holds 1 Brownium), 1 shield (holds 1 Energy), and 1 weapon. The Command Ship Board's printed assets are considered built-in and permanent; they are not Modules, so they cannot be lost to damage from alien attacks or asteroids, or removed for any reason.
• 1 Terra Prime Outpost Tile, with alarm wells and game info boxes. A sector is the circular region where three tiles meet; some sectors along the edge of the board will not be full circles. Sectors connected by a path are considered adjacent. The Terra Prime Outpost itself is considered to be one large sector.
• 14 Tech Upgrades (2 of each type).
• 40 Modules (10 of each type): thruster, shield, cargo, and weapon, each with a front side and back side.
• 3 Special (color-specific) Cargo Modules.
• 18 Demand Tiles (8 yellow and 10 green).
• Leadership Point (LP) Chits (1, 5, and 25 denominations). As the game progresses you may make change as needed.
• Credit Chips (10 and 50 Credit denominations). As with LP Chits, you may make change as needed.
• 20 Reward Tiles (5 each of 4 phases), each showing a phase number on the front and a reward on the space side.
• 5 Command Ship Pawns (1 in each player color).
• 40 Colony Markers (8 in each player color).
• 3 Alarm Discs.
• Supports: these aren't normal game pieces; they are included to help the game board lie flat and look nice as you play. During the game, you might have to place Reward tiles along the perimeter of the board where they can tilt slightly over the edge. If you want, just slide a support into place before you place the reward tile, and it will lay perfectly flat.
• 4 six-sided dice.
• 38 Resource Cubes: 10 Brownium, 10 Greenium, 10 Bluium, 8 Yellium.
• 25 Energy Cubes.

Setup

(These setup instructions are for 3-5 players. For a 2-player game the Setup rules are slightly different. See 2-Player Setup for the differences, below.)

1. Sort the Space hexes into face-down stacks by color, shuffle each stack, and arrange hexes face-down in the play area next to the Terra Prime Outpost Tile as shown. (Two hexes of each color will not be used. Place these extra hexes back in the box unseen.)
2. Sort the supply of resource and energy cubes by type and create stockpiles within reach of all players.
3. Prepare stockpiles for the LP chits, the Credit chips, and the Supports near the play area.
4. Sort the Modules (including the Special Modules) by type and stack them near the play area.
5. Sort the Tech Upgrades by type and place them near the Terra Prime Outpost tile.
6. Place the three Alarm discs on the alarm wells on the Terra Prime Outpost tile.
7. Each player chooses a color and takes the Colony markers of that color and a Command Ship Board. Return unused colors to the box.
8. Place each player's Command Ship pawn on the Terra Prime Outpost.
9. Shuffle the green Demand tiles and turn 2 of them face up, leaving the rest nearby in a face-down stack.
10. Find the yellow Demand tile indicating 2 Yellium and turn it face up; shuffle the rest and leave them nearby in a face-down stack.
11. Separate the Reward tiles by phase and shuffle them into separate face-down stacks. Depending on the number of players, remove the following number of tiles from the Phase 1 stack and return them to the box unseen: For a 3p game, remove 2 tiles. For a 4p game, remove 1 tile. For a full 5p game, do not remove any tiles. Stack the remaining Reward tile stacks face-down by phase, 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 from the bottom up. (For example, in a 3-player game the final stack of Reward tiles, seen here from the side, would be: 3 Phase 1s, 5 Phase 2s, 5 Phase 3s, 5 Phase 4s.)

Randomly determine a start player. Turns will begin with the start player and proceed clockwise.

Each player starts with 3 LP chits.

The first, second, and third players begin the game with 20 credits. The fourth and fifth players begin the game with 30 credits.

2-Player Setup

• In Step 1, arrange the shuffled space hexes into the special reduced 2-player arrangement as shown here. (Four hexes of each color will not be used. Place these extra hexes back in the box unseen.)
• In Step 5, remove one of each type of Tech Upgrade and put them back in the box.
• In Step 11, separate the Reward tiles by phase and shuffle them into separate face-down stacks. Remove 3 tiles from the Phase 1 stack, 1 tile from the Phase 2 stack, and 1 tile from the Phase 3 stack; return all removed tiles to the box unseen. Stack the remaining Reward tile stacks face-down by phase, 4 – 3 – 2 – 1 from the bottom up.

Player Turns

Your turn consists of two steps:

• Step 1: Produce Resources
• Step 2: Perform Actions

After both steps are complete, play passes clockwise to the next player. This continues until the game ends and a winner is determined.

Step 1: Produce Resources

Note: The first time you read these rules, this step might not make sense; this is because you can't Produce Resources until you have colonized at least one sector. Colonization is described in Step 2.

Each of your own Colonies produces a resource cube of the appropriate type; take 1 cube from the supply and place it at the Colony. Each Colony can only hold 1 cube; if there is already a cube at a Colony, it does not produce another.

• Mining colony (Asteroid Field): Produces Brownium
• Green colony: Produces Greenium
• Blue colony: Produces Bluium
• Yellow colony: Produces Yellium
• Red colony: Does not produce resources

Example: You are Purple. Your Green colony already has a resource, so it does not produce another. Your Blue and Mining colonies do not have resources, so they produce cubes of Bluium and Brownium respectively. You have a Red colony as well, but Red colonies do not produce cubes. The Yellow colony is owned by Orange, so it does not produce a resource at this time.

Step 2: Perform Actions

Perform a number of actions from the following list equal to the number of thruster symbols on your Command Ship at the start of your turn. (The Command Ship Boards have 3 thrusters, each with a thruster symbol printed on them, so at the beginning of the game you will take 3 actions per turn.) You must take all of your allotted actions. You can perform any action any number of times and in any order, unless otherwise specified below.

Actions and Hostile Aliens

Some hexes have one or more Hostile Alien symbols printed in their centers. Whenever you complete an action—any action—in a sector adjacent to Hostile Aliens, the aliens will attack you at the end of the action. (See Hostile Aliens, below.)

General Actions

1. Short Range Scan — Peek at a nearby Space Hex.
2. Move — Move your ship to an already-explored sector.
3. Explore — Move your ship to an unexplored sector.
4. Colonize — Establish a colony in a sector.
5. Use a Colony
   1. Collect Resources — Pick up valuable cargo from productive colonies.
   2. Teleport Home — Return quickly to Terra Prime from a Red colony.
   3. Install a Module/Charge Shields — Improve your ship's performance.
   4. Offload a Colony Marker — Clear space in your cargo holds.
6. Attack — Attempt to destroy hostile aliens.
7. Pacify — Pacify hostile aliens with resources.

Outpost Actions (Available only while at the Terra Prime Outpost)

8. Deliver Resources — Unload collected resources onto the Demand tiles.
9. Load Colony Marker — Load a colony onto your ship.
10. Use Satellite Scanner — Peek at any hex.
11. Buy Tech Upgrade — Buy useful gadgets.

General Actions

1. Short Range Scan

Peek at a face-down hex that is in a sector adjacent to your Command Ship pawn. Return it face-down (orientation does not matter) without revealing it to other players.

Example: You are Turquoise. The two circled sectors are adjacent to your position, so you could peek at either of the two face-down hexes that are in those sectors. The hexes marked with an X are not in sectors that are adjacent to your position, so you could not peek at any of them.

2. Move

Move your pawn from its current position, along a path to a fully-revealed adjacent sector. A sector is the circular region found at the vertex of three adjacent hexes. (Treat the edges of the board as if they were revealed featureless hexes.) Moving into a sector that contains a face-down hex is called Exploring, and it is a different action than Moving.

If the sector you Moved into contains any asteroid fields, you will have to navigate them (see Asteroid Fields, below).

Example: You are Purple, and your Command Ship pawn is at the Terra Prime Outpost. The hex off to the right was revealed earlier in the game, so you can now Move to the indicated sector. You cannot Move to the sector marked with the X, as it still contains an unrevealed hex; that would be an Explore action.

3. Explore

Exploring is similar to Moving, except that your pawn is moving into a sector that is not yet fully-revealed; it contains a portion of a face-down hex. You can only Explore once per turn. When Exploring, reveal the face-down hex and choose its orientation to complete the sector. When choosing orientation of a newly-explored hex, the following rule applies: No two adjacent sectors may contain planets. Asteroid Fields may be placed in sectors adjacent to planets, and there can be multiple planets or asteroid fields in the same sector, but planets may not be placed in adjacent sectors. The Terra Prime Outpost is considered a planet for purposes of placing hexes, so there cannot be a planet adjacent to Terra Prime. In the rare case that a hex cannot be placed legally, discard it and treat the space as if it were a featureless revealed hex.

Example: You are Purple, and your Command Ship pawn is in the sector you recently Moved to. You have not yet Explored on this turn, so you still have the option of doing so. You choose to Explore the indicated hex, moving your pawn there as part of the process. You pick up the hex and reveal it. Luckily there are no Stray Asteroids in the hex center. Wary of taking damage, you orient the hex so that the hex's asteroid fields are not in the sector you're entering.

When you Explore a Red hex, immediately take 2 LP chits as indicated on the unexplored side of the Red hexes. The center of the newly-explored hex may contain Stray Asteroids. Stray Asteroids must be dodged immediately (see Stray Asteroids, below). After dealing with any Stray Asteroids on the hex, if the sector you moved into when Exploring contains any asteroid fields, you will have to navigate them (see Asteroid Fields, below). Remember that (as with any other action) any adjacent Hostile Aliens will attack you after you have completed your Explore action. (See Hostile Aliens, below)

4. Colonize

During the game you will want to set up colonies on various planets and asteroids in order to score points, harvest resources, and gain access to different ship improvements. Perform the Colonize action when your pawn is in an uncolonized sector that contains at least one planet or asteroid field. You must have a Colony marker in your Command Ship at this time. Colonizing is not allowed when Hostile Aliens are adjacent to the sector, not even if you have a Cloaking Device (see Hostile Aliens, below).

To Colonize:

1. Indicate which planet or asteroid field in the sector you wish to colonize.
2. Collect LP chits for the colonization (see Colony Scoring, below).
3. Draw the top Reward tile from the stack. Immediately collect the indicated reward. (See Collecting Rewards, below)
4. Place the Reward tile space-side up in the sector so that only your newly-colonized planet or asteroid field is visible.
5. Take a Colony marker from your Command Ship and place it on the Reward tile to indicate ownership.

Note that there can be only one Colony per sector, but there may be up to three planets/asteroid fields per sector. When colonizing, choose your planet (or asteroid field) carefully. Colonies on different types of planets/asteroid fields have differing abilities, summarized here:

• Mining Colony (Colonized Asteroid Field): Produces Brownium.
• Green colony: Produces Greenium, installs Weapon Modules.
• Blue colony: Produces Bluium, installs Cargo Modules.
• Yellow colony: Produces Yellium, installs Thruster Modules.
• Red colony: Can teleport your Command Ship to Terra Prime (see below), installs Shield Modules and charges Shields with Energy.

Colony Scoring (Summarized for reference on the Terra Prime Outpost Tile.)

The farther away from Terra Prime your colony is, the more points it is worth to you. Determine the shortest path from your new Colony to Terra Prime. Collect 1 LP chit for each sector along that path - not including the sector the colony is in, but including the Terra Prime outpost.

Collect bonus LP chits depending on the type of colony:

• 2 LP chits for a Green or Blue colony
• 3 LP chits for a Yellow colony
• 5 LP chits for a Red colony
• 1 LP chit per asteroid symbol in the entire sector. Note that you get these points for the sector's asteroids whether your Colony is on a planet or on an asteroid field.

Example: You are Purple. You indicate that you want to colonize the Green planet in your sector. You collect 4 LP chits for this colony (2 for distance to the Outpost, plus 2 bonus for the Green planet). You draw the top Reward tile... your reward is 10 Credits (which you add to your supply) and a Brownium cube (which you put in an available hold on your Command Ship board). You put the Reward tile space-side up in your colonized sector so that the Green planet is visible. You take a Colony Marker from a hold on your Command Ship Board and place it on the Reward tile.

5. Use a Colony

There are four ways that you can use colonies. In all cases your Command Ship pawn must be in the same sector as the colony you wish to use. If you use an opponent's colony, that opponent immediately receives 1 LP chit.

i. Collect Resources

There must be a resource cube present at the colony. Take the resource and place it on an appropriate Cargo space on your Command Ship board. The door colors of your Cargo Holds indicate which resources they can hold: your built-in Cargo Hold can hold 1 Bluium and 1 Greenium; your Brownium Holds can each hold 1 Brownium; Cargo Modules have grey doors, which indicate that they can hold any color resource cube; some Reward tiles provide color-specific Cargo Modules that indicate what color resource cubes they can hold. You may rearrange or discard resource cubes at any time. If you do not have room in your Cargo Holds for a specific color of resource, you cannot Collect it.

ii. Teleport Home

Red planets are occupied by civilized alien life; your colonies there do not produce resources. These advanced civilizations have the technology to teleport your Command Ship to Terra Prime. When at a Red colony, you can move your Command Ship pawn to the Terra Prime Outpost tile.

Example: You are Purple, and you're way out in the depths of space at a Red colony. You use an action to Teleport Home from the Red colony, moving your Command Ship pawn to the Terra Prime Outpost. Since the Colony belonged to Turquoise, Turquoise earns 1 LP Chit immediately.

iii. Install a Module/Charge Shields

Your Command Ship Board has a number of slots for Modules. Each slot indicates using symbols which types of Modules it can hold — for example, a slot may indicate that it can hold Thruster or Cargo Modules, or that it can hold Shield or Weapon Modules.

To install a Module, discard the required Credits according to the list below, and place the Module tile in one of the permitted slots on your Command Ship Board. When buying Modules, Brownium cubes may be spent in lieu of 10 credits each. Any Module (except for a Cargo Module holding a Colony Marker, see Offload a Colony Marker, below) can be discarded at any time to make room for a new Module in its place.

• Weapon Modules — Weapons help you destroy hostile aliens. Each Weapon on your Command Ship gives you an extra attack, and also improves your chances of scoring hits. (See Attack, below) Available at: Green Colonies. Cost: 10/30/50 Credits for the 1st/2nd/3rd Weapon Module on your Command Ship. Note that the permanent Weapon on your Command Ship is not a Module and so does not count in this calculation.
• Cargo Modules — Cargo Modules hold 1 of any resource. They can be improved (by purchasing the Cargo Capacity Tech Upgrade) to carry any 2 resources or 1 Colony marker. Available at: Blue Colonies. Cost: 20 Credits.
• Thruster Modules — Each Thruster Module adds one action to your turns. Note that Thruster Modules will not grant an additional action the turn they are installed, since number of actions is determined at the beginning of the turn. Available at: Yellow Colonies. Cost: 40 Credits.
• Shield Modules — Shields can be charged with Energy to absorb damage. Each Shield Module can be charged with 2 Energy, while the permanent Shield on your Command Ship can be charged with only 1 Energy. You can buy a Shield Module and charge your Shields in the space of one action. Available at: Red Colonies and at the Terra Prime Outpost. Cost: 10 Credits for a Shield Module, which comes with no energy. 10 Credits to charge all Shields (permanent and Modules) on your Command Ship at once; take as many Energy cubes as you need from the supply and place them into any empty spots on your Shields.

iv. Offload a Colony Marker*

Sometimes you might want to offload a Colony marker from your Command Ship to make room for resources in your Cargo Holds. Colony markers may not be offloaded unless you are at the Terra Prime Outpost or at a Colony… it would be inhumane to jettison colonists into the cold depths of space! Remove the Colony marker from your Command Ship Board and return it to your supply.

*Offloading does not use one of your actions for the turn, but it does count as using the Colony; if you Offload at an opponent's Colony, that opponent receives 1 LP chit.

6. Attack

Attack a group of Hostile Aliens adjacent to your current sector (see Hostile Aliens, below).

Roll 1 attack die for each weapon symbol on your Command Ship (including the built-in Weapon, any Weapon Modules, and the Battlestation upgrade if you have it). For each result that is equal to or less than the number of dice you rolled, you have scored a hit. (For example, if you roll 3 attack dice, every result of 3 or lower counts as a hit.)

For each hit, an alien ship of your choice is destroyed; its symbol does not count for the rest of your turn. (You can use cubes from the supply to temporarily mark destroyed aliens if you want.) For each alien ship that you destroy, immediately take 2 LP chits.

If over the course of your turn all alien ships on the tile are destroyed, you have defeated this particular group of aliens. Draw the top Reward tile from the stack and collect the indicated reward. (See Collecting Rewards, below.) Place the Reward tile space-side up so that it covers the alien ships; they no longer have any effect on the game. (Remove any temporary markers you may have been using to mark destroyed alien ships.)

Any partially-destroyed group of alien ships in a hex immediately returns to full strength at the end of your turn. (Remove any temporary markers you may have been using to mark destroyed alien ships.)

Example: You are in a sector adjacent to Hostile Aliens. You have 2 Weapons on your ship, and decide to attack. You roll 2 dice, hoping to score 2 or less... Ok, that's one hit and one miss. You pick the more-dangerous warship to destroy, collect 2 LP Chits, and mark it with a cube. Now, since you completed an action (Attacking) adjacent to Hostile Aliens, the remaining Scout shoots back. He rolls a miss. Feeling lucky, you decide to spend another action to Attack again. This time you roll a hit! You collect another 2 LP, and since all aliens in the group are destroyed, you've earned a Reward tile! After collecting the displayed reward, you flip the tile over and use it to cover the alien symbols in the hex, returning your temporary marker to the supply.

7. Pacify

Offer gifts to pacify a group of Hostile Aliens adjacent to your current sector. Discard a number of resources from your Command Ship equal to the number of alien ships in the group, plus one. (For example, for a group of 2 alien ships, you must discard 3 resources from your ship.) No LP are scored.

Once you have discarded the required number of resources, this particular group of aliens is pacified. Draw the top Reward tile from the stack and collect the indicated reward. (See Collecting Rewards, below.) Place the Reward tile space-side up so that it covers the alien ships; they no longer have any effect on the game.

Example: You are in a sector adjacent to Hostile Aliens. You have a lot of resources on board so decide that it will be easier to Pacify these aliens than to fight them. Since there are 2 alien symbols, you must discard 3 resources to the supply, which you do. The aliens are pacified, and you've earned a Reward tile! After collecting the displayed reward, you flip the tile over and use it to cover the alien symbols in the hex. This patch of space is now safe!

Outpost Actions

Your Command Ship pawn must be at the Terra Prime Outpost to perform these actions.

8. Deliver Resources

Move any number of resource cubes from your Cargo Holds onto the face up Demand tiles. Delivering cubes to the Demand tiles earns you Credits, and claiming Demand tiles by filling them completely will grant you bonus LP at the end of the game.

You may deliver to several different Demand tiles within a single action. Each Demand tile can hold only the specific combination of resources that it displays. Your delivery can be any number and any combination of cubes, as long as no Demand tile's printed limit is exceeded.

You might have more resources in your Cargo Holds than there are available slots on the Demand tiles. Only those resources that fit on the Demand tiles may be delivered in a single action, any excess cubes should remain in your Cargo Holds for later use.

• Collect 20 credits for each Greenium or Bluium cube delivered.
• Collect 30 credits for each Yellium cube delivered.
• Brownium is not required for any Demand tiles, and is therefore never delivered. Brownium is used only to pay for Tech Upgrades and Modules, or to pacify aliens (see Pacify, above).

After delivering resource cubes, claim any Demand tiles that are completely filled with resources and discard those resource cubes to the supply. Keep claimed Demand tiles face-down near your player board; claimed Demand tiles will be worth their displayed LP at the end of the game.

Replace any claimed Demand tiles by turning a tile of the same type (Green or Yellow) face-up from the appropriate stack. If you cannot replace a tile because the appropriate stack is depleted, then the game will end when you complete your turn. (See Game End, below.)

Example: You've arrived at the Outpost with full cargo holds. Spending an action, you Deliver resources, collecting the credits displayed. When you are done, the 2-Bluium tile and the 2-Yellium tile (which had a cube on it already from an earlier delivery) are filled, so you claim them both and will score their displayed LP at the end of the game. You then flip a new green and a new yellow Demand tile up to replace the claimed ones.

9. Load a Colony Marker

Place a Colony marker from your supply onto a valid Cargo Hold on your Command Ship Board.

Only empty 2-door Cargo Holds can carry a Colony Marker. (The built-in Cargo Hold on your Command ship is a 2-door Cargo Hold, while the built-in Brownium Holds are 1-door. The Cargo Capacity Tech Upgrade [see Buy Tech Upgrade, below] allows you to improve your Cargo Modules from 1-door to 2-door versions, which could then each hold a Colony Marker.)

A Cargo Hold can carry either cubes or a Colony marker at once; not both.

10. Use Satellite Scanner

Peek at any two face-down space hexes and replace them face-down (each in its original place, orientation does not matter) without revealing them to other players.

Example: With the Satellite Scanner at the Terra Prime Outpost, you can peek at any 2 hexes in the entire array... a great advantage if you're looking for certain planets or want to avoid Stray Asteroids and Hostile Alien attacks!

11. Buy Tech Upgrade

Tech Upgrades are useful items that you can purchase at Terra Prime. Each Tech Upgrade displays a cost in resource cubes, an ability summary, and any end-game bonus LP, along with the upgrade name. To purchase a Tech Upgrade, pay its cost by discarding the correct combination of cubes from your Cargo Holds, and then take the Tech Upgrade and keep it near your Command Ship Board. There are only two of each Tech Upgrade (only one of each in a 2-player game); you can only buy a particular Tech Upgrade if it remains available in the supply. You can not own two identical Tech Upgrades.

Some Tech Upgrades have LP printed on them. You will count these LP at the end of the game. Once you have bought a Tech Upgrade, you can immediately take advantage of whatever ability it offers. These abilities are described below and summarized on the Upgrades themselves.

Example: The Targeting Computer allows you to re-roll dice once after an Attack. It costs 1 Greenium and 1 Brownium to buy, and if you have it at the end of the game it earns you 2 bonus LP.

The Tech Upgrades

• Cargo Capacity — Flip all of your Cargo Modules to their improved (2-door) side. They can now hold any 2 resource cubes or 1 Colony marker. Cargo Modules you obtain later in the game come into play already improved. (Flip them right away.)
• Cloaking Device — Hostile Aliens will not attack you after a Move or Explore action. (They will still attack as normal if you complete any other action adjacent to them.)
• Battlestation — Owning a Battlestation gives you an additional weapon symbol on your Command Ship, so you can roll one additional die when attacking aliens. Note that the Battlestation does not count as a Weapon Module when calculating the cost of a new Weapon Module.
• Navigational Computer — Successfully navigate Asteroid Fields and dodge Stray Asteroids on a roll of 1-5, instead of 1-2 as normal. (See Asteroid Fields and Stray Asteroids, below)
• Delivery Optimizer — Collect 2 bonus LP chits each time you claim a Demand tile with a Deliver Resources action.
• Targeting Computer — Once per Attack action, after you've rolled the dice, pick up any dice that failed to hit, re-roll them, and score any hits achieved with the new results. Note that your target number remains the same as it was for the initial roll.
• Hyperdrive — The hyperdrive gives you an additional thruster symbol on your Command Ship, so you can take 1 additional action each turn. Also, you may Explore up to twice per turn instead of being limited to just once as normal. Note that you do not get an additional action on the same turn you buy the Hyperdrive, since the number of your actions are calculated at the start of your turn.

Taking Damage

During the game your ship may be damaged by asteroids or by alien attacks. For each damage:

• Discard 1 Energy cube from your Shields.
• ...if there are no Energy cubes on your Command Ship's Shields to discard, instead discard 1 Module of your choice. If a Cargo Module is discarded, return its contents to the appropriate supply. Remember, you can rearrange your cargo at any time.
• ...if you have no Modules on your Command Ship to discard, instead discard 3 LP chits. You cannot go below 0 LP; if you need to lose 3 LP when you have 2 or fewer LP chits, lose as many as you can. LP displayed on your Tech Upgrades or claimed Demand tiles cannot be lost to damage.

Hostile Aliens

Hostile Aliens lurk in the deep reaches of space, but they steer clear of Federation outposts such as Terra Prime. The green space hexes (nearest to Terra Prime) are safe from alien presence. In yellow space hexes it is possible that aliens will be present. In the red space hexes the aliens are more likely to appear and they are more dangerous.

Each hex may have a group of alien ships in the center of it. (A group can be made up of 1-3 alien ships.) At the end of each of your actions, if your Command Ship is in a sector adjacent to Hostile Aliens, the aliens attack you as described below. Aliens only attack once per action, but will attack every time you complete an action—any action—in a sector adjacent to them.

Note: It is possible that your ship is adjacent to two or even three groups of alien ships after you perform an action. In that case, each group will attack you separately. You choose the order in which the groups attack. Resolve each group's attack before moving on to the next.

Alien Attack!

There are 2 types of alien ships: Scouts and Warships.

• First, Warships fire their homing torpedoes… they never miss. Immediately take 1 damage for each Warship in the group.
• Next, all alien ships in the group (including Warships) fire their lasers. Roll 1 attack die for each alien ship on the tile. For each 4, 5 or 6 rolled, the aliens inflict 1 damage.

Example: You have moved into a sector that is adjacent to Hostile Aliens... they attack! First you take 1 damage for the Warship; you discard your last Energy from your built-in Shield. Next, you roll 2 dice (one for each alien ship). You score a hit and a miss. Since you have no Energy left, you are forced to choose and discard a Module; you select an empty Cargo Module.

Stray Asteroids

Some hexes have one or more asteroids in their center; these are called Stray Asteroids. When you Explore a hex that contains Stray Asteroids, you must attempt to dodge them. Roll 1 die for each asteroid symbol in the tile's center. For every result of 1-2 you have dodged that asteroid. Any asteroid you fail to dodge inflicts 1 damage to your ship.

Stray Asteroids (asteroids in the center of a hex) on a given hex only come into play once per game; at the moment that hex is Explored. After that, they may be ignored for the rest of the game.

Example: You have just Explored a hex with 2 Stray Asteroids. You immediately roll 2 dice (1 for each asteroid) and score... you dodge one but take 1 damage from the other.

Asteroid Fields

Some sectors contain asteroids. These asteroids in sectors (as opposed to ones in the center of a hex) are called Asteroid Fields. Asteroid Fields are dangerous until their sector is colonized. Once a sector has been colonized, all players can ignore any asteroids that happen to be there. Asteroid Fields in an uncolonized sector must be navigated.

Whenever your Command Ship enters an uncolonized sector with an Asteroid Field in it (via a Move or Explore action), roll 1 die for each asteroid symbol in the sector. For every result of 1-2 you have successfully dodged that asteroid. Any asteroid you fail to dodge inflicts 1 damage to your ship.

Unlike Stray Asteroids (which are dangerous only once per game), Asteroid Fields remain dangerous until the sector is colonized, and must be navigated as described above by any Command Ship that enters the sector.

Example: You have just Moved into an uncolonized sector that contains 4 Asteroids... an Asteroid Field! You must attempt to navigate it by rolling 4 dice (1 for each asteroid)... Oh no! You have only dodged 1 asteroid, and the other 3 cause 1 damage each to your Command Ship!

Collecting Rewards

During the game you can earn Reward tiles in two ways: a) Colonizing, and b) Defeating (by either Attacking or Pacifying) Hostile Aliens. When you earn a Reward tile, you draw the top tile from the stack, and instantly collect the indicated reward. Reward tiles can bestow several different types of bonuses:

• Free Module — Take the indicated Module and add it to your Command Ship Board in an appropriate slot. If you don't have (or can't create) an appropriate slot, the reward Module is lost. Remember that you can discard a Module in order to place a different Module in its place.
• Resource cubes — Take the indicated cube(s) from the stockpile and place it/them in a permitted vacant Cargo Hold. If you don't have space in a Cargo Hold, the reward cube is lost.
• Energy cube — Take energy cubes as indicated from the stockpile and place it/them on a vacant Shield. If all of your Shields are fully charged, the reward cube is lost.
• Credit chips — Take the indicated amount from the supply.
• LP chits — Take the indicated amount from the supply.

Three of the Phase 4 Reward tiles are marked with a red circle around the phase number. Whenever one of these marked tiles is revealed, collect the reward as normal then remove an alarm disc from one of the alarm wells on the Terra Prime Outpost tile.

Game End

The game end is triggered in one of two ways:

• When all three of the alarm discs have been removed from the Terra Prime Outpost, revealing the word END.
• When no Demand tile is available to replace one that is completed during a Delivery action.

In either case, the current player finishes their turn, the game ends, and all players tally up their scores to determine the winner!

Final Scoring

Total up your Leadership Points to discover who has won the game. During the game, you may have collected LP chits in the following ways:

• Colonizing (variable LP depending on distance from Terra Prime, type of colony, and asteroid fields)
• Destroying alien ships (2 LP per ship destroyed)
• Having your colonies used by another player (1 LP per occasion)
• Exploring red hexes (2 LP per hex)
• Earned via a Reward tile (2 LP)
• Earned as a claiming bonus via the Delivery Optimizer Tech Upgrade (2 LP per Demand tile claimed)

At the game end, you now score additional LP as follows:

• 1 LP for every 10 Credits in your supply
• 1 LP for each resource cube currently on your Command Ship
• 3 LP for each Colony marker currently on your Command Ship
• Additional LP as displayed on your claimed Demand tiles
• Additional LP as displayed on your Tech Upgrade tiles

The player with the most Leadership is the winner, and gets promoted to Admiral! In the case of a tie, all tied players win!