Before play: vote on the status of LA'DAU

1. Event Chit Segment
2. The Rounds 1. Round One
   1. Year Card Distribution Phase
   2. Raider Phase
   3. Outworlder Phase
   4. Initiative Determination Phase
   5. First Player-Turn
   6. Second Player-Turn
   7. Remaining Player-Turns
   8. Colonization Phase (optional)
   2-5. Rounds Two through Five
3. Stargate Maintenance
4. Vote to End the Game
5. End of the Game-Turn

Effects of Range

Stargate is equivalent to making the Base adjacent to every target and costs +1 RP whenever used. However, if both Base *and* Target have Stargates, added RP cost is 0. There is never a range penalty to ER due to Stargate, but Base Tech Level of at least 2 is necessary.

Scenarios

Notes to keep in mind

1. Exploitation automatically reduces Tech Level by 1.
2. Stargates may only be used by the owning player.
3. Raiders and Outworlders may attack other than adjacent systems.
4. After the DraKa have come and gone, a 6 is treated as a normal Outworlder.
5. Don't spend for Range on Communications although it still subtracts.

Subtle Differences with Empires of the Middle Ages

1. Tech Level Norm has no effect on Tech Level Maximum; it is always +3. Tech Level of +4 is not allowed.
2. Sector Checks affect only the branch of government currently in use.
3. Seats may be changed to areas of different ideology in the following order of priority:
   1. same race/same ideology
   2. same race/related ideology
   3. same race/unrelated ideology
4. Players may not return from exile via Raiders or Outworlders.
5. The number of owned Confederation systems is added to the Diplomatic Sector in Special Sessions. Atjay is worth 5 votes.
6. Atjay Tech Level always increases unless affected by Genocide or at +3 (at the beginning of each round).
7. Event chits are not replaced until all 50 have been drawn.
8. Diplomatic Success B chits affect a group of the same ideology.
9. Tech Level is added to the die roll in Raid/Exploitation attempts.
10. Range for Conquest, Raid and Communication Endeavors is based on Tech Level limitations.
11. Conquest has a basic cost of 1.
12. Communications may be attempted from any owned system.
13. T/C gives either a Trade Connection or a Conquest.
14. Intercepts may be undertaken if a player's path runs through an owned system. Thus, conceivably, several players could conduct intercepts against a single operation.
15. Partial Conquest markers reduce by their number the owning player's ER when undertaking Stellar operations and also reduce Tax Value.
16. Atjay may not be converted or colonized. When Stellar operations are undertaken, Rebellion checks are made.
17. If the final modified Conversion Differential is 5 or less, then all independent systems of that specific Ideology are converted.
18. To colonize, each Base must be capable of undertaking an Interstellar Operation against the Target.
19. The LA'DAU vote is made at the outset of each scenario.