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Your first mine
Learn the goal, pay for a mine and see how buildings grow your income.
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Gaia Project
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Chapters
Choose any chapter. Each lesson is a separate practice session.
The basics
Expand, improve your economy and turn six rounds into victory points.
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Terraforming and range
Read your range, reach farther with Q.I.C. or a booster, and pay for terraforming.
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Trading stations and research
Upgrade a mine, take a tech tile and spend knowledge to advance research.
- 04
Charging and spending power
Follow the three bowls and spend power without losing the tokens.
- 05
Burn power and convert resources
Get the resources you are missing without using up your main action.
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Passing and choosing a booster
Trade your remaining actions for next round’s booster, or wait for another player to return one.
- 07
Turn a purple planet green
Send a Gaiaformer, wait for the next round, then build a mine.
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Score the round and the game
Read the objectives before choosing an action, then see final scoring.
Federations
Connect buildings, plan legal routes and unlock advanced technologies.
- 09
Connect your first federation
Reach 7 building value, pay for satellites and claim a token.
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The tempting detour
Try two rejected routes, then reduce the group to a legal federation.
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Reaching research level 5
Use a green federation token to claim the top space of a research track.
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Taking an advanced technology
Flip a green federation token and choose which standard tile to cover.
Faction differences
Three examples of rules that change with your faction.
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Xenos: a smaller threshold
Use the planetary institute’s six-value federation rule.
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Ivits: one growing federation
Start with a planetary institute, place space stations and connect a federation without satellites.
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Terrans: recover Gaia power
Understand why Gaia projects fit the Terrans’ economy.
The Lost Fleet
Explore spaceships, use their actions and discover artifacts.
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Explore a spaceship
Spend a turn exploring and unlock a spaceship’s actions.
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Use Twilight’s range action
Use a ship action to reach a planet beyond your normal navigation range.
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Examine an artifact
Take an artifact reward and distinguish it from a federation token.
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Asteroids and protoplanets
Settle an asteroid, then compare the cost and reward of a protoplanet.