Event Cards Faction Cards Architect Cards Starting Cards Location Cards

Starting CardsChosen randomly:1 Architect2 Specialized faction cardsSET UPSame for all players:5 Material Assets3 Sentinel PrototypesStarting Tokens1 Ship Token and 5 Embassy Tokens all of the same color4 Cryo CountersEach Player recieves the above cards and tokens. Set your randomlychosen Architect aside. This card will not be shuffled into your deck.Specialized faction cards are also chosen randomly and received as apair (take both Bio faction cards, both Transport faction cards, etc.).All starting deck cards are signified by an orange dot in the upper leftcorner. Take your 10 starting deck cards and shuffle them. This formsyour starting deck. Draw 5 cards. This is your starting hand.Quick start rules alternative: For a simpler and quicker first game, inplace of both specialized faction cards you may instead use a singlePrime Asset (your starting deck will have 9 cards instead of 10). For thisversion, place all Events in a single Event Deck using only only 7 eventsper player, do not use Architects, and do not include any CatastrophicEvents. All other rules remain the same.Event DeckEight events per player, plus 1 Catastrophic Event per player. Divide theEvent deck into 3 equal decks called Events I, Events II, and Events III.The first deck (Events I) will include no Catastrophic Events, the seconddeck (Events II) will include half of the Catastrophic Events (roundeddown) and the third deck (Events III) will include the other half of theCatastrophic Events (rounded up). Place these decks in order fromleft to right starting with the first deck (Events I - which contains noCatastrophic Events).The MarketSeparate all faction cards into 4 piles based on faction and shufflethose decks. This forms the Market. Flip the top card of each Marketdeck. These face up cards are available for purchase.Place Prime Assets in a separate pile.