Expeditions

• Choose 1 card in your hand:
  • Cards "in your hand" are kept to the left of your mech mat
• Play it to your active row:
  • Your active row is to the right of your mech mat
  • You must play the card immediately to the right of the rightmost card in the active row
  • Cards in the active row always stay in the order that they were placed in the active row

In any order, then you may do the following things in any order (and each step is optional):

• Gain the card's core value
• Place a worker on the card to activate its ability

To gain the card's core value:

• Gain either the guile or power as shown in the card's top left corner
• Some cards have conditional benefits based on your current guile or number of melded meteorites in your possession. If you meet those requirements, also gain these benefits
• You may never have more than 10 power or 10 guile:
  • Any extra you receive above these values is lost

To gain the benefits of the card's ability:

• Place an available worker of the matching colour on the card:
  • If a benefit is shown above the worker icon on the card, you gain the benefit immediately after placing a worker on the card
• Gain the benefit as stated at the bottom of the card
• Unless the card says otherwise, any references to tokens, cards, workers or mechs are only to components you currently possess
• Each card can only ever have one worker on it
• Some cards have an ongoing benefit that refer to anything you do, including when you are gaining the benefit shown above the card's worker icon. This ongoing benefit is available for as long as the card is in your active row
• If a card has multiple abilities, you may trigger them in any order you like but if an ability has a cost, you must pay the cost before receiving the benefit

Some keywords you may see on abilities when they are activated:

Previous

• Refers to the card in the active row immediately to that card's left

Card colour

• It refers to the colour of the worker required by its ability

Gain or Discard

• Gained or discarded cards are played to the rightmost position of the active row, but the player does not receive any of its benefits:
  • Core value is not received and the player is not allowed to place a worker on the card to activate its ability at this time

Or

• Obviously, this gives the player the option of doing one of two things. The player cannot do both

Trash

• Trashing a card removes it from the game entirely

Activating

• When activating another card, you may gain the effect of its ability without placing a worker on it. If the ability is an ongoing benefit, it only lasts until the end of this turn

Solve

• When using a solve ability:
  • Your mech must be on a tile matching a quest card that you control
  • Pay the solve cost:
    • This cost is shown on the right side of the quest card
    • Gain the benefit below the cost
    • Tuck the quest card above your mech mat, or above previously solved quests, so that the top of the card remains visible
    • You may only solve a maximum of 4 quests in a game
    • If a worker was on a solved quest, return it to your mech mat

Vanquish

• When using a Vanquish ability:
  • As many times as you wish and can afford:
    • Pay the cost on the topmost corruption token at your mech's current location
    • Place this corruption token on your mech mat
  • After the last corruption token is removed from a location, a new benefit is revealed that can be received with a Gather action
  • The values and colours on corruption tokens, and the benefits underneath these tokens, are public information
  • If an ability destroys corruption on a location that does not result in a player receiving that corruption, return the tokens to the corruption token bag

When you take a Gather action, you receive benefits that are exposed at your mech's current location. These benefits are shown at the bottom of the location's tile. If there is a / between the benefits, that requires the player to choose only the benefits on one side of the /

Face-up Cards

• Any benefit that refers to face-up cards refers to the cards placed among the locations
• Some benefits refer to face-up cards that are adjacent to your mech's current location
• If a face-up card is received by a player, replace it with the top card from the card deck

Gaining Cards

• Gained cards are added to the rightmost position of the active card row
• Some benefits allow you to gain the topmost card of the deck
• Other benefits allow you to take the topmost two cards from the deck and keep one of them:
  • The other card is placed face-up in a sweep pile next to the card deck
  • If the card deck is ever empty, shuffle this sweep pile to form a new card deck

Sweep

• Choose any number of the face-up cards among the locations and place them into the sweep pile next to the card deck

Gaining Workers

• Workers are limited to 10 per colour
• You only gain a worker if at least one worker of that colour is still in the supply
• Workers that are gained are placed on your mech mat:
  • Workers on your mech mat are considered "available"

Gaining a Benefit from an Adjacent Location

• You gain the benefits from 1 icon on the location, not one side of a / if that symbol is on the location

Activating an Adjacent Card's Ability

• The adjacent cards here refer to the face-up cards among the locations
• No worker needs to be placed on the card to activate the ability
• Any ongoing benefit activated this way lasts until the end of the turn

Playing a Card from Hand

• Play a card from your hand as usual

Refresh Cards and Workers

• Return all workers placed on active cards to your mech mat
• Return all active cards to your hand
• Do not move your action token when taking this benefit

Rescue

• Rescue a card from your active row to your hand
• If the card has a worker on it, return the worker to your mech mat

Location 14's Map Token

• Gain 1 map token from the general supply, if any are still available

Upgrade

• Tuck an item card from your hand or active row under the right edge of your mech mat, or under a previous upgrade, so that only the card's ability is showing
• The ongoing part of this ability is now active for the rest of the game
• Any instant benefits are ignored when the card is upgraded
• You may only upgrade a maximum of 4 items per game
• If the item card had a worker on it, return it to your mech mat

Meld

• Turn a meteorite card from your hand or active row sideways under the bottom edge of your mech mat, or under the previous melded meteorite, so only the meld bonus is shown
• Immediately gain the meld bonuses of all melded meteorites on your mech, including the card just melded
• You may only meld a maximum of 4 meteorites per game
• If the meteorite card had a worker on it, return it to your mech mat

Boast

• Whenever you boast, choose exactly one glory category for which:
  • You have reached or exceeded the goal value
  • You do not currently have a glory token on the basecamp board:
    • An opponent's glory token being on the category already does not block you from placing a glory token there
• Place one of your glory tokens on the selected category

When you take a Refresh turn or gain the benefit of a Refresh turn:

• Return all workers to your mech mat
• Return all cards to your active hand:
  • Cards in your active hand are placed to the left of your player board, not actually into your hands as they must be visible to all players at all times

Only when you are actually taking a Refresh turn:

• Shift your action token from Move, Play or Gather to cover the Refresh space on your mech mat:
  • If your action token was on the blank space on your player board, you cannot take a Refresh turn

On your next turn, you must move your marker to the blank space on your mech mat and take all three of the Move, Play and Gather actions.

On the turn after that, you must move your market to cover either Move, Play or Gather and take the two exposed actions as usual.