Description

A colonial ship plowing the expanses of space pursues one single goal – to deliver people to a planet that has not yet been touched by anyone to create a new, beautiful world on it. But what if not all crew members pursue this goal? The act of sabotage causes the ship to deviate from the set course and crash on an unknown planet. Now you have only one goal – to survive.

About the game

Instead of a calm, planned colonization, you will have to escape to a hostile planet. Why hostile? Yes, because it is very difficult to survive on it. And no, there will be no terrible aliens in the spirit of "Alien", it's just that the atmosphere of this planet is practically uninhabitable: the temperature on the surface is so low that even in the midst of a local summer day, a mercury thermometer will be useless – the metal will simply freeze. But there is hope for salvation: you have discovered warm underground caves in which you can escape from the cold "hospitality" of the planet. Now you need to collect everything from the wreckage of the ship that can be useful, find as many crew members as possible and hide underground before the planet offers you to admire the local sunsets. Also, be careful and don't forget about those who sabotaged it. They also need resources and shelter.

How to play?

All players take turns, the move is transmitted clockwise from the first player – it is determined in any random way. In the order of the turn, you can either send your drone to explore the compartments of the crashed ship (there are four in total, and each is associated with certain actions), or recall a previously sent drone. Each compartment has docks for landing drones, each dock has no more than 4 possible actions: by sending a drone, you can perform one of them. All actions require certain resources:

crystals are the fuel used to produce organic matter;

organics are resources for life support;

machinery is tools, drawings and other elements required for construction and repair;

Nanites are microscopic robots that can reproduce other resources, as well as be spent like any of the above resources.

For successful survival, it is important not only to have resources, but also to use technology wisely. In the game, they are represented by three types of cards:

upgrade – a card that gives you a special ability until the end of the game;

Mission – These cards are played closed and placed to the left of the game tablet. You can have no more than three of them and only one of each type. They add special conditions that will bring more points at the end of the game;

Transportation – this technology allows you to transport the capsules with the crew from the compartments of the ship to the caves, and this is the main way to earn victory points.

When you decide to recall the drones, you must sequentially perform 3 actions that can earn you extra points, make life difficult for other players, and even end the game.

The game ends at the end of the turn in which one of the conditions is met: the player has used the sunset token, or all the capsules of the crew of one player have been saved or destroyed.

Who won?

At the end of the game, the winning points are counted. They are earned for each crew capsule on the platform, in transport and moved to the cave, for excellence in caves, for each upgrade or transport card, as well as for the number of star symbols on mission maps. The player who scores the most points becomes the winner.

Equipment

The playing field

4 platforms

12 drones

60 crew capsules

16 material markers

4 energy rods

48 cards

14 Cave Tokens

12 Damage Tokens

60 Resource Tokens

33 incident tokens

A scoring pad

The rules of the game

 

Box size: 309x219x70 mm

Weight: 1.585 kg