Foundation

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The Galactic Empire is crumbling as the outer systems break free. As the leader of one of them, you use economy, politics and science to challenge the Empire and lay the foundation of a new one. Each game has three hidden goals (which may be economic, political, or scientific) that must be researched. Once you know a goal and fulfill it, you claim the victory. Each player has an action board with six actions and a number of action tokens. In your turn, you may either add a token to your board and ”bump” previous tokens to higher levels or retrieve a token to take the token's action. The higher the level, the stronger the action, provided that you researched that action level. There are six actions: Space Travel: Extend links to planets. Colonize: Place link on planet for benefit. Produce: Place resource on planet. Trade: Exchange resources between planets. Research: Pay to advance on tech track. Battle: Pay to remove Empire link. All planets have a certain supply and demand of resources and all players may take actions on their behalf to earn rewards. Those rewards let them extend their networks and advance on the tech tree to unlock more powerful actions. Eventually they may peek at hidden goals and fulfill them to claim the victory. However, they may also manipulate the Empire to block each other. -description from the publisher