The Empyrean revision

Faction Abilities

VOIDBORN: Nebulae do not affect your ships' movement.

AETHERPASSAGE: After a player activates a system, you may allow that player to move their ships through systems that contain your ships.

DARK WHISPERS: During setup, take the additional Empyrean faction promissory note; you have 2 faction promissory notes.

Faction Promissory Note

Dark Pact

ACTION<em>: </em>Place this card face up in your play area.

When you give a number of commodities to the Empyrean player equal to your maximum commodity value, you each gain 1 trade good.

If you activate a system that contains 1 or more of the Empyrean player's units, return this card to the Empyrean player.

Blood Pact

ACTION: Place this card face up in your play area.

When you and the Empyrean player cast votes for the same outcome, cast 4 additional votes for that outcome.

If you activate a system that contains 1 or more of the Empyrean player's units, return this card to the Empyrean player.

Faction Technologies

Aetherstream

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.

Prerequisites:

Voidwatch

After a player moves ships into a system that contains 1 or more of your units, they must give you 1 promissory note from their hand, if able.

Prerequisites:

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Faction Specific Units

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Breakthrough

Void Tether

Synergy:

When you activate a system that contains or is adjacent to a unit or planet you control, you may place or move 1 of your void tether tokens onto a border that system shares with another system; other players do not treat those systems as adjacent to each other unless you allow it.

Flagship

Name	Cost	Combat	Move	Capacity	Abilities
Dynamo	8	5 (x2)	1	3	Sustain Damage After any player's unit in this system or an adjacent system uses SUSTAIN DAMAGE, you may spend 2 influence to repair that unit.

Name

Cost

Combat

Move

Capacity

Abilities

Dynamo

8

5 (x2)

1

3

Sustain Damage

After any player's unit in this system or an adjacent system uses SUSTAIN DAMAGE, you may spend 2 influence to repair that unit.

Mech

Name	Cost	Combat	Abilities
Watcher	2	6	You may remove this unit from a system that contains or is adjacent to another player's units to cancel an action card played by that player. Sustain Damage

Name

Cost

Combat

Abilities

Watcher

2

6

You may remove this unit from a system that contains or is adjacent to another player's units to cancel an action card played by that player.

Sustain Damage

Leaders

	Name	Unlock	Ability
Agent	Acamar	At Game Start	After a player moves ships into a system that does not contain any planets: You may exhaust this card; that player gains 1 command token. Acamar, the observer, greatest of the void-captains of the Empyrean. The lightless depths of space hold no terrors for them, for they have traveled from the raging black heart of the galaxy to its furthest edges, where even the starts grow cool and dim.
Commander	Xuange	Be neighbors with all other players	After another player moves ships into a system that contains 1 of your command tokens: You may return that token to your reinforcements. Xuange, the recorder, speaker to those who are not Empyrean. They learn all there is to know from other races, while revealing nothing in return.
Hero	Conservator Procyon	Have 3 Scored Objectives	MULTIVERSE SHIFT 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. Procyon, the seeker, eldest of the Empyrean. They have mastered the mysteries of dark energy, and thus, they know all possible realities.

Name

Unlock

Ability

Agent

Acamar

At Game Start

After a player moves ships into a system that does not contain any planets:

You may exhaust this card; that player gains 1 command token.

Acamar, the observer, greatest of the void-captains of the Empyrean. The lightless depths of space hold no terrors for them, for they have traveled from the raging black heart of the galaxy to its furthest edges, where even the starts grow cool and dim.

Commander

Xuange

Be neighbors with all other players

After another player moves ships into a system that contains 1 of your command tokens:

You may return that token to your reinforcements.

Xuange, the recorder, speaker to those who are not Empyrean. They learn all there is to know from other races, while revealing nothing in return.

Hero

Conservator Procyon

Have 3 Scored Objectives

MULTIVERSE SHIFT

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.

Procyon, the seeker, eldest of the Empyrean. They have mastered the mysteries of dark energy, and thus, they know all possible realities.

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FAQ

Q: When a player gives you their commodities and triggers Dark Pact, do you gain all the trade goods simultaneously or the Dark Pact TG separately? (For the purposes of Pillage)

A: It is a single gain of commodities and 1 TG simultaneously.

: Can the Empyrean flagship be used to repair the same ship, multiple times in the same combat round? Can it spend a 4 influence planet to use the ability twice?

A: The Dynamo’s ability can be used multiple times in the same combat round by spending 2 influence, individually, each time. However, the same unit could not use its Sustain Damage ability multiple times during the same timing window. ru:Возвышенные