Paradigms

At the start of a round of space combat in a system that contains a planet you control: Place your flagship and any combination of up to 2 cruisers or destroyers from your reinforcements into the active system. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Ready a planet you control and attach this card to it. Its resource and influence values are each increased by 3, and it gains the SPACE CANNON 5 (x3) ability as if it were a unit.

ACTION: Commit up to 3 infantry from your reinforcements to any non-home planets and resolve ground combats on those planets; players cannot use SPACE CANNON against these units. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Draw 1 genome, 1 unit upgrade, and 1 ability. Then, purge this card.

After you move ships into the active system: You may skip directly to the "Commit Ground Forces" step. If you do, after you commit ground forces to land on planets, purge this card and return each of your ships in the active system to your reinforcements.

ACTION: Swap the positions of any 2 non-Fracture systems that contain wormholes or your units, other than the Creuss systems, Ahk Creuxx system, or the wormhole nexus. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Choose a planet that has a technology specialty in a system that contains your units. Destroy any other players' units on that planet. Gain trade goods equal to that planet's combined resource and influence values and draw 1 ability. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Choose 1 system that does not contain other players' ships; you may move your flagship and any number of your dreadnoughts from other systems into the chosen system. Then, purge this card.

When you produce ships: You may place any of those ships onto this card. At the start of a combat, you may purge this card to place all ships from this card into the active system.

ACTION: Search the ability, unit upgrade, or genome deck for any card and gain it. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Each other player rolls a die for each of their non-fighter ships that are in or adjacent to a system that contains a gravity rift; on a 1-5, return that unit to their reinforcements.

ACTION: Each other player shows you 1 action card from their hand. For each player, you may either take that card or force that player to discard 3 random action cards from their hand. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Move any number of your ships from any systems to any number of other systems that contain 1 of your command tokens and no other players' ships. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Gain 1 relic and 2 command tokens. Then, purge this card.

After you move a war sun into a non-home system other than Mecatol Rex: You may destroy all other players' units in that system and replace that system tile with the Muaat supernova tile. If you do, purge this card and each planet card that corresponds to the replaced system tile.

At the start of a space combat that you are participating in: You may purge this card; if you do, for each other player's ship that is destroyed during this combat, place 1 ship of that type from your reinforcements in the active system.

When one of your units is destroyed: You may purge this card to designate that unit as the catalyst; roll 1 die for each other player's unit in the system. For each result equal to or greater than the catalyst's combat value, destroy that unit.

When the last player passes: You may choose to no longer be passed; if you do, gain 2 command tokens, draw 1 action card, and purge this card.

ACTION: Place 1 frontier token in each system that does not contain any planets and does not already have a frontier token. Then, explore each frontier token that is in a system that contains 1 or more of your ships. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Produce any number of units in any number of systems that contain 1 or more of your ground forces. Then, purge this card.

At the end of the status phase: You may choose an ability owned by another player; they must either give you that ability or give you 2 other abilities. If you do, purge this card.

ACTION: Resolve the PRODUCTION abilities of your units in your home system. You may reduce the cost of each of your units to 0 during this use of PRODUCTION. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Perform the primary ability of any strategy card. Then, choose any number of other players. Those players may perform the secondary ability of that strategy card. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Purge an ability owned by any player. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Choose 1 system that is adjacent to 1 of your space docks. Destroy all other players' infantry and fighters in that system. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Reveal cards from the action card deck until you reveal 3 action cards that have component actions. Draw those cards and shuffle the rest back into the action card deck. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Place this card near the game board; your flagship and units it transports can move out of systems that contain your command tokens during this game round. At the end of that game round, purge this card.

ACTION: Remove each of your command tokens from the game board and return them to your reinforcements. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Reveal 3 edicts; choose 1 to resolve and shuffle the rest back into the edict deck. Then, purge this card.

ACTION: Place this card near the game board; the number of non-fighter ships you can have in systems is not limited by the number of command tokens in your fleet pool during this game round. At the end of that game round, purge this card.

ACTION: Choose a player other than the current speaker to gain the speaker token. Choose a player other than the tyrant to gain the benediction token. Then, purge this card.