Voidfall

Play three Cycles, each with Preparation, Focus, and Evaluation phases. Reveal the Cycle's Galactic Event during Preparation and resolve its instructions in order. Its upper-right number sets the Focus phase's rounds; each round gives every player one complete turn in order. Cycle 1 retains the setup order. In later Cycles, players choose new positions from lowest to highest Influence; tied players who were later in the previous order choose first.

Begin a turn by playing one Focus from your hand. Normally, resolve up to two of its three actions in any order, each at most once. Flipping a Trade token during Selection allows all three. You may also play an Agenda from hand with a matching Focus icon at this point. Additional actions from Technologies or other explicit effects are separate: the two-Focus-action allowance is not a cap on every action in the turn.

Pay an action's resource cost in full before resolving or forfeiting its effects individually. Deduct payment from the right-hand Stockpile dial, not Production Level. When production is triggered, add the matching Production Yield to the Stockpile; production is not automatic every turn. Each resource Stockpile is capped at 15, and excess cannot be kept.

Basic Technologies take effect immediately. An Improved Technology requires its matching Basic version and sufficient improvement capacity. Newly gained Agendas enter your hand and can be played only during Selection on a later turn. An Agenda played this turn may enter a non-starting slot only during Clean-up. You cannot keep two Agendas of the same type in your slots or replace the starting Agenda.

Player Fleet Power normally establishes control of non-Home sectors. Your Home sector remains yours without a fleet and cannot be invaded. Corrupted sectors still produce and may receive Guilds and Installations, but their Population cannot change, and they do not satisfy scoring or reward conditions requiring Pure sectors or components.

Regroup moves Fleet Power between adjacent sectors you control and cannot empty a non-Home sector. To invade, choose any number of your Fleet Power from sectors adjacent to the target and move them in. Resolve Approach and Salvo steps, with results determined by Fleet types, Power, Installations, and Technologies rather than combat dice. Normally, each Damage recalls one Fleet Power. Losing the last Power in a non-Home sector triggers abandonment and Voidborn takeover rather than leaving an empty sector under your control.

During Evaluation, resolve the Voidborn's response, pay Upkeep, then evaluate Galactic Event objectives and your Pure Agenda objectives. Each Upkeep requires 1 Food or a total of 2 Materials and/or Energy. Credits and Science cannot normally pay Upkeep. Pay as much as possible, losing 3 Influence per unmet Upkeep. Corrupted Agendas do not score; Trade tokens placed on Agendas can cover their Upkeep icons.

After Evaluation in Cycles 1 and 2, recover discarded Focuses and begin the next Cycle. The game ends after Cycle 3 Evaluation. In competitive play, the most Influence wins; remaining resources do not have a general conversion into victory points. Ties go to the player with fewer Corruption markers in total on their House mat and controlled sectors. If still tied, share the victory.