Abilities

When 1 or more of your units use PRODUCTION, you may gain 1 trade good.

Other players cannot move ships through systems that contain your structures. Each planet that contains 1 or more of your structures gains the PRODUCTION 1 ability as if it were a unit.

After you or one of your neighbors activates a system that is adjacent to an anomaly: You may apply +1 to the move value of all of that player's ships during this tactical action.

Once per action, when you resolve a unit's PRODUCTION ability: You may resolve another of your unit's PRODUCTION abilities in any system.

Capture your opponent's non-structure units that are destroyed during combat. When you produce a unit, you may return 1 captured unit of that type to produce that unit without spending resources.

At the start of a space combat: You may roll 1 die for each of up to 2 of your cruisers or destroyers in the system. For each result equal to or greater than that ship's combat value, produce 1 hit; your opponent must assign it to 1 of their ships.

The maximum number of non-fighter ships you can have in each system is equal to 2 more than the number of tokens in your fleet pool.

When you gain control of a planet: Replace each structure on that planet with a matching unit from your reinforcements.

After you activate a system that contains 1 or more of your infantry, you may replace 1 of those infantry with a PDS from your reinforcements.

Your action cards cannot be canceled by "Shatter" action cards. Your other abilities cannot be taken, purged, or discarded by other players and cannot have singularity tokens placed on them.

At the end of the status phase: You may remove any number of ground forces from planets you control and place them on 1 or more planets you control in the same or adjacent systems.

At the start of your turn during the action phase: You may produce 1 unit in a system that contains at least 1 of your units that has PRODUCTION.

After you activate a system: You may move your structures from adjacent systems that do not contain your command tokens onto planets you control in the active system.

You can have any number of action cards in your hand. Game effects cannot prevent you from using this ability. During your turn of the action phase, players that have passed cannot play action cards.

Your ships do not roll for gravity rifts; apply an additional +1 to the move values of your ships that would move out of or through a gravity rift instead.

After each space combat round: You may destroy 1 of your cruisers or destroyers in the active system to produce 1 hit and assign it to 1 of your opponent's ships in that system.

At the start of space combat in a system that contains a wormhole and 1 or more of your ships: You may produce 1 hit and assign it to 1 of your opponent's ships.

Systems that contain your space docks are also gravity rifts; your ships do not roll for these gravity rifts. Place a dimensional tear token beneath your space docks as a reminder.

When you explore a planet that contains 1 of your mechs: You may draw 1 additional card; choose 1 to resolve and discard the rest.

After another player activates a system that contains 1 or more of your ships: Gain 4 trade goods.

At the end of any player's combat: Gain 1 commodity or convert 1 of your commodities to a trade good.

Action: Either purge 2 of your relic fragments of the same type to gain 1 relic or purge 1 of your relic fragments to gain 1 command token.

During each of your turns of the action phase, you may perform 2 actions instead of 1.

After another player moves ships into a system that contains 1 or more of your ships: You may place 1 command token from your reinforcements in an adjacent system that does not contain another player's ships; move your ships from the active system into that system.

When you gain trade goods from choosing a previously unchosen strategy card or from the "Amicus" strategy card: Triple those trade goods.

At the start of the status phase: Choose a technology color and gain trade goods equal to the number of abilities you own that have that technology color.

You can negotiate transactions with players who are not your neighbor. You can exchange action cards with other players as part of transactions.

At the end of each round of ground combat: Your ships in the active system may use their BOMBARDMENT abilities against your opponent's ground forces on the planet.

When 1 or more of your units use PRODUCTION: You may swap the resource and influence values of 1 planet you control during this use of PRODUCTION.

At the start of a ground combat: You may spend 2 influence to replace 1 of your opponent's participating infantry with 1 infantry from your reinforcements.

During the status phase: Draw 1 additional action card and gain 1 additional command token.

When another player plays an action card: You may spend 1 token from your strategy pool to cancel that action card.

During your tactical actions: Treat systems that contain legendary planets you do not control as if they contain both an alpha and beta wormhole.

When you gain control of a planet: Ready that planet if it contains a number of your infantry equal to or greater than that planet's resource value; otherwise, place 1 infantry on that planet.

Your units can move into and through supernovas. Each supernova that does not contain other players' units and each system that contains 1 or more of your war suns gains the PRODUCTION 5 ability as if it were one of your units.

When you spend trade goods: Each trade good is worth 2 resources or influence instead of 1.

At the start of the status phase: Place 1 infantry from your reinforcements on any planet you control.

At the start of each round of space combat: You may spend 2 trade goods; you may reroll any number of your dice during this combat round.

Action: Exhaust this card to place 1 PDS on a planet you control. Action: Exhaust this card to repair all of your damaged units. Action: Exhaust this card and discard 1 action card to draw 1 action card.

At the start of your turn: Destroy 1 of another player's infantry in or adjacent to a system that contains your infantry.

After another player activates a system that contains 1 or more of your ships: That player removes 1 token from their fleet pool and returns it to their reinforcements.

You can score objectives even if you do not control the planets in your home system. Other players cannot activate asteroid fields that contain 1 or more of your ships.

When 1 of your units uses SUSTAIN DAMAGE: Cancel 2 hits instead of 1.

When another player activates a system that contains 1 or more of your ships: You may exhaust this card and spend 1 token from your strategy pool to immediately end that player's turn.

Action: Spend 1 token from your strategy pool to place 2 infantry from your reinforcements on 1 planet you control.

After another player moves ships into a system that contains 1 of your command tokens: You may return that token to your reinforcements.

When ground forces are committed: If your units on that planet are not already coexisting, you may choose for your units to coexist.

After you spend a token from your strategy pool: You may gain control of 1 planet that does not contain the custodians token or any units and is adjacent to a planet you control.

After 1 of your neighbors gains trade goods or resolves a transaction: If they have 3 or more trade goods, you may take 1 of their trade goods or commodities.

When you gain this card put The Fracture into play. Apply +1 to the Move value to each of your ships that starts its movement in The Fracture. Apply +2 to the result of each of your units' combat rolls in The Fracture.

Cancel 1 hit produced by each BOMBARDMENT roll against your units. At the start of a round of ground combat, you may resolve BOMBARDMENT 7 (x3) against your opponent's ground forces; if you do, resolve BOMBARDMENT 7 (x3) against your own ground forces.

At the start of the strategy phase: Replenish your commodities, then gain 1 trade good.

At the end of the strategy phase: You may spend 1 token from your strategy pool and give another player 3 of your trade goods. If you do, give 1 of your strategy cards to that player and take 1 of their strategy cards.

You can produce your flagship without spending resources.

You treat all systems that contain either an alpha or beta wormhole as adjacent to each other. Game effects cannot prevent you from using this ability.

At the start of the status phase: You may choose to replace 1 of your abilities; if you do, reveal abilities from the deck until you reveal another ability with the same technology color and gain it; shuffle the replaced ability and the other revealed cards back into the deck.

When 1 or more of your units uses ANTI-FIGHTER BARRAGE: For each hit produced in excess of your opponent's fighters, choose 1 of your opponent's ships that has SUSTAIN DAMAGE to become damaged.

After you resolve an action during which you gained control of a legendary planet: You may place 1 PDS and 1 space dock from your reinforcements on that planet.

After you gain control of a planet: Gain 1 trade good.

When you draw 1 or more action cards: Draw 1 additional action card. Then, choose and discard 1 action card from your hand.

Once per combat, after 1 of your opponent's units is destroyed: You may place the "Singularity X" token on one of your opponent's abilities. While that token is on a card, this card gains that card's text. You cannot place a singularity token on a card that already has a singularity token.

Once per combat, after 1 of your opponent's units is destroyed: You may place the "Singularity Y" token on one of your opponent's abilities. While that token is on a card, this card gains that card's text. You cannot place a singularity token on a card that already has a singularity token.

Once per combat, after 1 of your opponent's units is destroyed: You may place the "Singularity Z" token on one of your opponent's abilities. While that token is on a card, this card gains that card's text. You cannot place a singularity token on a card that already has a singularity token.

When 1 or more of your units use PRODUCTION: Reduce the combined cost of the produced units by 2.

During your tactical actions: Apply +1 to the move value of each of your ships that starts its movement in a system that contains a wormhole.

Other players' units in or adjacent to systems that contain your structures lose all of their unit abilities.

After you activate a system that contains 1 or more of your units: That system is adjacent to all other systems that contain 1 or more of your units during this action.

After 1 of your ground forces is destroyed: Roll 1 die. If the result is 5 or greater, place the unit on this card. At the start of your next turn, place each unit that is on this card on a planet you control in your home system.

Action: Discard 1 action card from your hand.

Action: Spend 1 token from your strategy pool to place either 2 fighters or 1 destroyer from your reinforcements in a system that contains 1 or more of your ships.

After you spend a token from your strategy pool: You may gain 1 trade good.

After another player moves ships into a system that contains 1 or more of your units: You may place 1 command token from that player's reinforcements in any non-home system.

When one of your ships is destroyed: You may produce a ship of the same type at a space dock in your home system.

Before making a combat roll: Choose 1 of your units and apply +2 to the results of its combat roll.

After a player activates a system that contains your ships: You may move up to 2 of your ships into the active system from adjacent systems that do not contain your command tokens.

After you roll dice for a unit ability: You may reroll any of those dice.

At the end of the strategy phase: Place the Naalu "0" token on your strategy card; you are first in initiative order. This card cannot have a singularity token placed on it.

After any player's genome becomes exhausted: You may spend 3 influence to ready that genome; if you ready another player's genome, you may perform a transaction with that player.

Planets that contain your structures are treated as having all 3 planet traits (cultural, hazardous, and industrial).

You can treat planets in systems that contain your ships as if you controlled them for the purpose of scoring secret objectives.

Apply +1 to the result of each of your units' combat rolls.

After making combat rolls during a round of ground combat: If your opponent produced 1 or more hits, you produce 1 additional hit.

During the "Commit Ground Forces" step: You can commit up to 1 ground force from each planet in the active system and each planet in adjacent systems that do not contain 1 of your command tokens.

When you gain command tokens during the status phase: Gain 1 additional command token.

Nebulae do not affect your ships' movement. You can allow other players to move their ships through systems that contain your ships.

When you score an objective: Draw 1 genome, ability, or unit upgrade.

When 1 or more of your units roll dice for a unit ability: You may choose 1 of those units to roll 1 additional die.