Andromeda's Edge

Setup: base play is for two to four. Arrange Alliance Bases, random planets/moons and starting raiders by player count, select an event deck, and choose a 50/60/70 VP terminus. Set leaders, resources and tracks by faction; each starts with three transports in the Launch Bay. Seat order determines starting VP.

Choose a Launch or Return to Station turn. An empty Launch Bay forces a return. Use legal free actions during your turn; only slotting moons and playing tactics at their stated times are normally available on other turns. Check resource and hand limits at turn end.

Launch: with none of your ships on the board, first Launch may choose any unoccupied region, subject to abilities such as Attack. Subsequent Launch must be within the launching ship’s range of one of your ships and cannot enter a region already containing your ship, but may enter an opponent’s. Nebulae require Voyage; Alliance Bases require resolving their action.

Activate the destination first: a planet gives its top moon, or its printed resource if empty; a nebula claims its moon and inspects event cards; an Alliance Base performs its action. Then resolve Raider Strike and any battle in the active region. A moon may be abandoned for its benefit or slotted into your station, rather than receiving both uses.

Modules and return: gain a module into its matching row, advance its track and mark printed damage. Returning ships from the board/Repair Barge activate undamaged modules one at a time, at most once each. Energy can activate a row only after a ship has activated that row. A ship activates the Primary Reactor and its other science modules together; energy cannot individually start science modules. Finish by returning every ship and discarding activation energy.

Develop a planet through an appropriate action, paying resources and recruited leaders where your transport occupies an undeveloped planet of the matching type. The transport and leaders become permanent; never consume your last remaining ship. Gain track advancement, a one-use ability and immediate VP for all players’ leaders on/adjacent to that planet, including printed development leaders, capped at ten.

Fleet and combat: an upgrade affects all ships of that type and immediately builds one free if available. Battle resolves escalation, diplomacy, preparation, dice, outcome and damage. Each side rolls at most six dice; energy adds dice and targeting sets mandatory low-result rerolls, capped at five. Compare highest individual dice, then the next on ties, never sums; a complete tie defeats everyone. A winning player advances supremacy and gains applicable raider rewards.

Damage and repair: defeated player ships take damage, absorbed by shields if possible or sent to the Scrapyard; a defeated player may first take Tactical Operations once. Return retrieves Scrapyard ships, but only those on its Repair Barge can activate modules. Repair moves a ship to that barge, repairs a shield or a module; gain one VP instead only when nothing can be repaired.

Events: reaching the event-track end immediately adds a planet and places the marker on the active station. At turn end score the indicated track minus one per damaged module, minimum zero; introduce raiders, resolve the event and reset. Further event advances that turn are ignored while the marker is on the station.

End: reaching the chosen terminus removes the event marker immediately. Finish the current turn, then everyone including its player gets one final turn without triggering events. Add five-track VP, development levels worth five/seven/ten, minus two per damaged module, vault resource points, undamaged end-scoring civilization modules, one per remaining leader and faction effects. Highest VP wins, with module count then resources breaking ties before shared victory.