Xia: Legends of a Drift System

The original base game is competitive for 3–5 players. Agree on a fame target and begin with one spawn-point sector per player. Each player starts with a Tier 1 ship,3,000 credits, full energy and four armed markers, and may buy outfits that fit.

A turn proceeds through Action, Business and Status, then passes clockwise. You cannot return to an earlier phase. Take legal actions until finished; Business is available only if you end the Action phase inside a planet.

Use an outfit by placing an armed marker on a free use space, rolling its die and resolving it. Engines move, blasters attack adjacent targets, and missiles attack at range 2–6. Attacks require line of sight; shields can reduce incoming damage.

Impulse works once per turn without energy or an armed marker. Unused movement is normally lost when another ordinary action interrupts it; minor actions may occur during movement. Ships may pass through occupied spaces but cannot finish there.

Scan from an unexplored edge for one energy and attach the drawn sector using the origin edge symbol. Blind jumping instead spends one movement and commits you to the previously declared new space. Exploration tokens are collected once and may award credits, fame or nothing.

Keep at most one active mission. At a mission point, draw three and accept one or none, once per point per turn. After fulfilling its objectives, deliver at its specified destination for payment and one fame. Mission goods normally do not occupy physical hold spaces.

Cargo occupies the hold. Buy two cubes for 1,000 credits and sell matching cubes at 1,000 each. Selling the entire cargo in one sale awards one fame only with at least two cubes. Mining, salvaging and harvesting may be repeated, risking damage, destruction or energy loss.

Business allows free energy recharge, paid repairs, outfit purchases/sales and rearrangement, a ship upgrade of exactly one tier, or one fame for 5,000 credits. You cannot buy the final winning fame. A new ship retains previous abilities and belongings but clears damage and bounty.

In Status, claim pending fame and titles and check victory, draw public titles at newly crossed purple thresholds, refresh abilities and Impulse, then rearm markers. Rearming normally costs one energy each and is free on planets. NPCs follow spawn/respawn rules and act after their responsible player, reading their cards top to bottom.

Damage filling the hold destroys the ship: drop cargo, discard the active mission and clear bounty, but keep the ship, outfits, credits and fame. Tier 2–3 ships skip their next turn; Tier 1 does not. At the next playable turn, roll for an unoccupied spawn point and then act normally.