The sector map, now in glorious A1 on my wall

I've been working on a massive project for a Star Wars campaign.

Many years ago, I read West End Games "Rebel Alliance handbook" and thought, "****, wouldn't it be cool to play a game as a rebel sector command, making all the decisions and fighting ground battles, space battles and doing spying missions and the like in one big setting.

It was always too complex to pull off in a role-playing game. Too fiddly to use those mechanics for all the different kind of fights and decisions involved.

Now, I don't have to.

With Armada, Imperial Assault and X-wing, I have the tools to fight space battles and skirmishes, all i'm missing is full scale military assaults, but "Onslaught at Arda 1" has game rules for those as well.

So I got my players together and we created the sector using shared world building. A "tourists guide" to the sector is available online if anyone wants to read it.

The idea is that the four players are playing different ideological factions within the rebellion with slightly different goals, and while they have a shared goal of defeating the empire. The intrigue and friction from having competing secondary goals should make for some excellent stories to be told. While they play the faction leaders, they will also be playing all the characters within their faction.

The "winner" will be the faction leader who accumulates the most "glory" from their actions in the fight against the empire.

Finally, I am playing the "Chief of staff", a rebel officer from rebel command who is neutral and acts as the arbitrator and administrator of the rebellion.

How it works

The core of the game is the minor NPC's that belong to each faction. Now, each character is introduced to the game and each faction bids on their services. Once a character joins a faction, their actions occur on behalf of the faction and earn the faction leader "clout" (which is used for bidding on new personnel) and "glory" which will ultimately decide the winner of the campaign

Some of the 100+ characters in the campaign. Note that some of the characters aren't the characters they may appear to be, I just used character pics that fitted characters I had in mind

Now, each character card is pretty straight forward. They have three stats. Martial prowess, social skills, and mental skills. Those values represent the number of green "FFG Star Wars rpg" dice they roll when doing a task. They also have character traits which boost rolls or provide other advantages.

In Lianna's case she is Diplomatic and Connected, Which means she will be rolling 2 green and 2 yellow dice on a diplomatic mission. She is also rich, which means when has financial power she can add to the rebellion cause. However, she is "wanted", so if a mission fails she is twice as likely to be captured.

Each charatcer is unique and has their own skills and strengths. And some are very mediocre, while others are skilled and amazing. Lianna is one of the better ones.

Each character is assigned, by vote, a job in the alliance. The job boards are below. Characters can be reassigned or fired later, it all comes down to voting from the faction leaders.

Right now, you are probably thinking "Holy cow, that looks a bit complicated".

Well, it is and it isn't.

During the planning phase we go through the boards one at a time and decide what each group is doing. What planets the diplomatic core are visiting, what engagements the fleet or special forces are taking on. We simply use the star wars dice mechanics to determine their success.

So, if someone fails a roll planning a fighter attack, well there will be more points of imperial fighters in the mission than if they had an excellent success. Starfighter battles will be fought with X-Wing, Fleet with Armada and Ground operations with Imperial Assault.

There is also a group of "player characters" who represent the heroes of the rebellion. While the faction leaders are like Mon Mothma, these characters are the Han, Luke, Leia and Chewie of the sector. And will be doing roleplaying game "special missions" each game turn.

Success on diplomacy will improve the rebellions standing on world and make missions easier, recruitment gets more NPC's into the alliance, training improves piloting and imperial assault skills, and R&D controls what upgrade cards are available. For example, at game start Squadron command only has Z-95's and a handful of missiles. They need to research, buy, or steal better equipment.

Intelligence rolls will determine what missions are available on the next turn. A failure might mean that some of them are going to be traps.

The idea is to have a rules structure that makes decision interesting, without bogging them down in detail.


Session 1 report.

The first half of the session was spent rolling up the characters for the hero team. I'll tell you more about them after their first mission.

What we did do is bid on the first 16 NPC's available and assign them jobs in the Sector command.

The four characters at the top are the faction leaders, and their faction colour is in the circle.

How it all shook out was very interesting.

The faction of republic loyalists who are mostly interested in restoring the old republic gained control of the Fleet and Ground commands, setting themselves up as the military powerhouse of the rebellion.

The Luxon militia, a fiercely independent planet who want's sector independence from both the Empire and republic gained control of Fighter command and the diplomatic corp. A strong and balanced position.

The merchant guilds (who are secretly controlled by an AI) gained control of R&D, Intelligence and Logistics. A clear attempt to forgo direct military power and glory at the start of the campaign, but to focus on building the rebellion the way they want it.

And finally, the ecological union and anti-slavery movement grabbed Training and recruitment. In a clear effort to shape the people being recruited by the rebellion and to be the faction who decides who signs up.

The interplay, the wheeling and dealing and general political grandstanding in this first phase of the game was amazing to watch and incredibly enjoyable.

One NPC in particular, probably the single most powerful character in the first 16, who has a negative trait that he's a pompous git who earns half glory, failed to be elected to 4 different positions that he probably would have been better at than the person who finally got the job.

Comedy gold.

With the power structure sorted for the time being, next week we will begin the first round of planning and get into some missions shortly after.

The war for Talethen sector has begun.

1. The Policy phase, where the faction leaders make high level decisions.
2. The strategy phase where we use the job boards to make strategic decisions for the game.
3. The operations phase where we fight X-Wing, Armada and Imperial Assault missions.
4. The character phase, where we conduct a roleplaying focused special forces mission.
5. The upkeep phase, where the strategic board is updated and the consequences of the players actions are noted.

• First, they may attempt a short term financial transaction, which adds a number of supply to the stores next turn equal to 4 for every success +1 for each advantage.
• They may attempt a long term investment as well. Each success allows them to spend store equal to double the current income, to increase it by 1. Each advantage reduces this cost by one. (or, on a failure produces 1 supply for next turn)
• Finally, the head of Logistics can support smuggling. Each success rolled on a hard roll adds an advantage dice to each smuggling attempt.

The head of finance can do the first two actions, but not the third.

A Smuggler in the smuggling pool picks whether they will do an easy, medium or hard risk run. Then, in combination with squadron command, they decide if any escorts will be provided. A light escort is 1 fighter, medium is 2 and heavy is 4. Escorts cost 1 supply point per twelve fighters, and if even 1 fighter is on escort duty, that squadron is considered "used" for the phase.

The formula for how much supply a smuggler generates is as follows

Supply = (Risk value*successes*ship modifier)+advantages rolled

The risk value for easy is 1, 2 for medium and 4 for hard. The ship modifier is 1 for a light freighter like a YT-1300 and 2 for a medium freighter like a GR-75.

On a failed smuggling run, the smuggler rolls the "evil red dice of despair". Negative results include being captured, being damaged, or being killed. Escorts allow this dice to be re rolled, at the cost of the escort taking the hit instead.

Supply points are needed for operations to be supported, or in some cases to happen at all. Fleet, ground and starfighter missions need support tokens to even occur. R&D also needs support tokens to make progress on developments. All other departments are hampered by a lack of support in the form of disadvantage dice.

NOTE: I HAVE COMPLETELY REWRITTEN THE LOGISTICS RULES AND THE NEW ONES ARE COMING SOON

Logistics command, as it happened.

Logistics command did not have a stellar turn. The head of logistics tried for a long term investment, failed and generated 2 supply. The head of finance made his roll and increased income to 3!

Then the sole smuggler, Roark garnet, flying without an escort failed his roll and rolled the red dice of despair. Instant death on the first roll.

Now, I could have let that go as it was. But I thought that as the first turn of the game, that was a bit harsh. So I simply had him critically wounded and removed from the game for a turn. That was the rebels "one freebie".

Logistics command now had to offer up supplies to the Chief of staff for the round. And, another little special ability of Logistics command is they can pick where half of these resources go. That represents logistics being able to control who gets what, while not giving them total control of the matter.

Logistics command put its resources into R&D and recruiting, as those areas of infrastructure are needed to develop the rebellion further.



Intelligence centre overview

The intelligence centre is a relatively straight forward job board, with a few options for each operative.

Each Operative as the following options

• Gather information (personal). Make an social intelligence roll to add to the intelligence pool.
• Gather information (Slicing). As above, but a mental roll.
• Misinformation. Make an intelligence roll and target a planet with heat. Heat is reduced depending on successes and advantages.
• Targeted intelligence mission. Sometimes, specific missions will appear on the strategy map for operatives to undertake.
• Sabotage missions.
• Abduction/Assassinations.
• Coordinate intelligence efforts. (leader only). Make a hard intelligence roll, each success adds and advantage to all other intelligence rolls

• Provide close intelligence to a planning roll in the form of an advantage dice (max 2) (Cost, 1 per dice)
• Provide additional information to an A-team mission(1 point per clue)
• Simple investigation of a specific topic (1 point)
• Detailed investigation of a single topic (3 points)
• Extensive investigation of a single topic (5 points)
• Answer one specific question about a person or location (5 points)
• Perform counter intelligence, allows a reroll of a "consequences" dice on a mission failure (1 point per reroll)

Even if no intelligence rolls succeed on a turn, some information will be available to the players each round. Some stuff doesn't require spies to find out after all.


Intelligence phase as it happened Two operatives, and the boss decides to focus on gathering intelligence. A good roll generating 1 triumph and 2 sucesses. Now I don't have the questions the intelligence leader asked for, because I've already changed how this system works from when he rolled. I was initially going to have it all done behind the scenes, but the ideas of questions and lines of inquiry increases interactivity in the game.

The second operative was sent on a sabotage mission to Nadir and Zenith to blow up some Tie Fighters scheduled to do a "Imperial day" parade. A reasonable success on that roll, but the players do not find out the consequences of missions until the "end phase".

Diplomacy Centre overview.

• Bolster support. Make a diplomacy roll to increase rebel support on a planet. Difficulty is determined by how strong the current support is. Moving a planet from 7 to 8 is harder than from 0-1. Only 1 point made me moved regardless of successes, unless triumphs are rolled.
• Undermine support. Exactly the same process as above, but instead of improving rebel support, you undermine imperial support.
• Targeted diplomatic mission. Sometimes, specific missions will appear on the strategy map for diplomats to undertake.
• Gather information. Use a diplomacy roll to add to the amount of intelligence generated by the rebellion on this turn. Represents a diplomat focusing more on rumors than building influence.
• Liaise with rebel HQ. (liaison and leader only, and only one per turn). Make a diplomacy roll to get support from Rebel HQ. These points can be spent later on ships and other resources.
• Coordinate diplomatic efforts. (leader only). Make a hard diplomacy roll, each success adds and advantage to all other diplomacy rolls.

Diplomacy Centre as it happened

Well, there is only one diplomat in the diplomacy centre at the moment. Lianna, and she decided to visit Selano to undermine imperial support by pointing out that they are building a massive military base there, and that it can only mean bad things for the people of Selano.

Two triumphs, an additional success and some disadvantages later. And Lianna has completely undermined imperial support on Selano, and built up a little favor for the rebellion. The disadvantages manifest as "heat", as the imperials are suspicious that the people of Selano are suddenly given them the cold shoulder.

Continuing on from the last blog post, I'll talk more about the other strategic roles. Now we've already begun making changes based on the first rounds play through, which is great. I want every player to feel their decisions make an impact. I also want every strategic role to feel important in it's own way, not equal, but important.


Fleet Command Overview

• Plan an attack. Pick a mission on the board or create one. Make a tactics roll and generate tactical points equal to 5 for a triumph, 2 per success, 1 per advantage - 1 per disadvantage. I'll explain how those points are spent later on
• Support the rebel fleet. Generate fleet favor points equal to the class of the ship sent to support the fleet. 1 point for small base, 2 for medium based, 3 for huge base.
• Drydock/service. All ships consume 1 supply point per size class when used. Putting the ship into drydock means you don't spend supply points on them.
• Patrol/reconnaissance. Make a tactics roll, each success adds to the intelligence pool.
• Coordinate fleet (Admiral only). Make a hard leadership roll, each success adds an advantage dice to each subsequent roll in fleet command that turn.

Squadron command overview

• Plan an attack. Pick a mission on the board or create one. Make a tactics roll and generate tactical points equal to 5 for a triumph, 2 per success, 1 per advantage - 1 per disadvantage. I'll explain how those points are spent later on
• Escort logistics command. Already mentioned under logistics command, but supplying even 1 fighter to this action means the squadron is "used" for the turn
• Service. All squadrons consume 1 supply point a turn. Putting them on standby means they do not consume a supply point.
• Patrol/reconnaissance. Make a tactics roll, each success adds to the intelligence pool.
• Conducting training. Make a leadership roll, generate training points equal to 5 for a triumph, 2 per success, 1 per advantage - 1 per disadvantage. Results of training are outlined in the training section.
• Coordinate Squadron operations (Director only). Make a hard leadership roll, each success adds an advantage dice to each subsequent roll in fleet command that turn.

Ground Command is the final of the "glory positions". You may also notice that we have four players and three positions that generate the most glory. This is by design

Additional XP gained is added to the little box to the right of their character name on the sheet.

Ground command as it happened.

Ground command is in a sad state, like many of the rebellions current forces. Special forces only has three soldiers of reasonable skill, and one of them is a foul mouthed rodian gunslinger.

Not deterred by this, the amazingly uninspiring General Kern decided to pull off a daring raid on a Imperial base that was under strength due to the Imperial day celebrations. Despite boring his troops to death with a 237 slide PowerPoint presentation on the operation, he managed to plan the attack well. Rebel forces had ideal position to catch the Imperial personnel napping while they placed demolitions charges.


Recruitment overview

• Recruit NPC's. Make a leadership roll to recruit NPCs. For each success rolled you can choose one characteristic that you want in the recruit pool. For example, Smugglers, which will mean at least one of the recruit pool will be a smuggler. A triumph allows for a powerful NPC with the requisite traits to be recruited. Advantages rolled add to your clout for next round.
• Bolster support, As per the diplomacy rules, but the difficulty is increased by one.

Recruitment as it happened.

Pol Trall, the head of recruitment decided that special forces should be the focus on recruitment. And while he managed only one success on his recruitment roll, that ensures that at least one new solider will be available in the next round of recruitment. Something ground command sorely needs right now.



Training overview

• Train civilian to be a rookie pilot (1 point)
• Upgrade rookie pilot to veteran (2 point)
• Upgrade veteran pilot to elite (4 points)
• Increase special ops bonus XP by 1 (equals cost of new XP number)
• Develop elite pilot skill card (2 points)
• Develop crew skill for X-wing (3 points)
• Develop crew skill for Armada (3 points)

Training as it happened. Evo Tras talked a big game during his pitch to become head of recruitment about needing a modern military force that used guile and cunning rather than brute force. His first action was to train starfighter command, resulting in 4 pilots becoming veterans.


Research and Development overview

• New card for X-wing (cost equal to points cost of card, minimum 1)
• New card for Armada (cost equal to points cost of card, miniumum 1)
• New card for Imperial Assault (cost equals credits cost /100)

All costs are rounded in the players favor.

Note that gaining a card only grants 1 copy of that card. To get 4 copies of "ion turret" you would need to spend 8 research points.

Results from the "special" category will be decided on by the group, but should represent hard to get and costly gear in the role-playing game. Or, if for specific story related matters


Research and Development as it happened

Now before I go any further i'd just like to make a few things clear. I won't be doing detailed battle reports, because they take a lot of time and note taking. So it will be highlights

I'll also mention I didn't take any photos as my camera was at the office when we played. One of our players did the photos, so it's more of a random selection than if I had set out to write a full report.

How missions work in the Campaign

Well, considering this is a narrative campaign and not a "hard points" campaign, the missions can be quite varied in the balence of points. In some cases, the rebels will be out-gunned and over-matched, but have defined objectives. At other times they will have the element of surprise, so will be able to bring greater forces against the Empire.

I start off with a preconceived idea of how the scenario will work in my head and then modify it based on the tactics roll made during the planning stage. A good roll will make for an easier mission, a bad roll ups the difficulty considerably.

We now have proper rules for this, but these missions were done before I created those rules and were based on feedback from players. They said they wanted more control on how their planning shaped the mission.

Now these first three missions may seem quite easy, and that was intentional. The Rebellion in the sector totally had the element of surprise on their side, and I want to use them as tutorial games to remind everyone of the different rules. As the campaign goes on, the difficulty will increase.

I'm also keeping track of technology and escalation as the campaign goes on. For example, this round of missions takes place only a month or so after the Battle of Yavin, so I didn't want Tie Defenders and Phantoms making an appearance.

So, here is a quick rundown of the missions for round one.

Squadron Command - Assassination mission at Talathen VII

A high ranking imperial officer, one of the Moff's general staff was making a visit to Primm Station on Talathen VII for empire day.

The Rebellion caught wind of this and decided to send a headhunter squadron to hunt some heads. Now in order to keep things sane i'm limiting most starfighter missions to 8 ships. It's a good number to manage, while still giving each battle a "squadron level" feel to it. 12 will be the absolute upper limit for a big fight. There is also the practical limitations of only have 4 of most fighters.

So the Rebel squadron consisted of Lt Blout, 3 Veteran z-95's and 4 rookie z-95's. All armed with concussion missiles, the only tech card that Starfighter command has.

Due to a really bad planning roll, the Z-95's deployed first and scattered into pairs. Also, the Lambda shuttle carrying the target also had a person the rebellion didn't want to kill on it as well as the target ("rebel prisoner" upgrade) and the Tie's were upgraded from Academy pilots, to Obsidian squad.

The objective: Kill the Lambda before it escapes off the board edge.

The Imperial plan was simple. Push the lambda shuttle ahead as quickly as possible, and try to engage each pair of Z-95's with 4 ties and destroy them bit by bit, or force them to break away and be out of position to hunt the shuttle.

As you can see on the right, even when flying in formation you can completely lose track of a fighter

My plan mostly worked, with the ties shooting down 3 Z-95s and forcing the z-95s to either park in front of their guns at short range, or lose pursuit of the Shuttle.

Fleet Command - Raid mission at Nimbala

The fleet commander was initially confused when I informed him that his Fleet operation was going to take place on the X-wing scale.

Then he remembered that I had the X-Wing corvette and got pretty darned excited about flying it into battle.

This was another objective based mission. The goal was to destroy the enemy fighters and knock out the freighters shields to make it surrender. Or to simply blow up the freighter, but doing so would mean they go less rewards.

The corvette was supported by 4 rookie Z-95s. Opposing them were two tricked out Y-Wings with droids, ion cannons and torpedoes, and a well equipped firespray.

The Scum tactics were to have the freighter quickly pick up supply tokens off the board until it's shields went, then it would attempt to flee. While it did that, the fighters would engage the corvette and use ion cannons to slow down the headhunters.

However, it is worth noting that the Corvette goes before a pilot skill 2 Y-wing. (turns out, i got that rule wrong.......)

As this was a "corvette a" I had given it some extra guns, and on this one round, they delivered. In 2 shots, he corvette did 5 damage to each y-wing, blowing them both out of the sky before they could fire torps.

With the Firespray out of position and badly damaged, I decided the freighter would surrender in the face of the corvette closing in on it.

Logistics command were particularly happy, as the GR-75 was undamaged and will make a valuable addition to logistics commands efforts.

Ground Command - Base raid on Korvas

Imperial assault is the game which i've done the most changes for. We are using somewhat of a hybrid of the campaign game (using chararacters and upgrades) and the skirmish game (not using threat, but using premade forces)

I may not have mentioned I picked up a bunch of Star Wars collectible mini's for dirt cheap a while back. This allows me to deploy LOADS of stormtroopers and also give players a figure that more closely matches the character they are using, rather than one of the 6 hero figures from Imperial Assault.

Here is the figure for General Kern (who was using Gideon's card as his template)

End phase round 1

Well, we finally go through the first full round of the game. 1 week on planning/politicking, 2 weeks board gaming and 2 week role-playing. That seems like a pretty good balance for our gaming group and is keeping the content quite fresh.


Mission reports

Well the team conducted a number of missions, whether they were abstracted diplomacy/intelligence missions using the dice system, table top encounters using the board/miniature games or the roleplaying sessions.

• Logistics generated four supply from investments to be used next turn
• Intelligence forces sabotaged a "Empire Day" fly-by on Zenith, causing tie-fighters to collide midair during the parade flyover (2 Glory)
• Lianna Tell had an amazing diplomatic mission to Selano, removing all imperial support and creating some rebel support (2 Glory)
• Delta Squad attacked a military base on Korvas was bombed during the Empire day celebrations while it had a skeleton crew. (8 Glory for Leader, 2 for squad members)
• A chief aide to the Moff was assassinated heading to Talathen VII for Empire day celebrations when his Lambda Shuttle was shot down by Z-95's. (8 Glory)
• Czerka shipping was raided and a GR-75 stolen from Nimbala. (5 Glory, 2 Supply, 1 GR-75)
• Alpha Squad conducted a clandestine operation (wishbone) on Selano, full report here . (10 Rebel fleet Favour)
• Bravo Squad conducted a rescue operation on Fraxan to recapture Roark Garnet. During this mission misleading information about their location of the rebel base was planted. (Imperial focus shifted to Kronos)
• Due to no operations being conducted on Talathen Prime or Luxon during Empire Day, rebellion support dropped on those planets.

Purchasing

Clout and the draft.

Finally, Ged'Ruh Srazz, a Twilek who can hold his own in a fight, but who's specialty is blowing stuff up.

Continuing the plan of "doubling up", his services went to the Basra Consortium, who now have a strong grip on Intelligence and Logistics command.


Glory Scores for Round one

In addition to the rewards mention above, each player gets 1 glory for participating in a table top battle, even if they have no troops involved. It's a little "attendance bonus".

So final Glory Scores are

Bastra Consortium - 4 Glory
People's Movement - 6 Glory
Luxon Militia - 15 Glory
Republicans - 15 Glory

There is a clear split among the factions, with one group getting Glory now and banking it, and the others playing a longer game of building up their faction by getting more clout early on. I'm really interested to see how this shifts during the campaign.


End of Turn one!

So' i've rewritten the logistics system for the campaign. the original system was quite abstract, and pretty damned bland. It didn't really give the 4X ( eXplore, eXpand, eXploit, and eXterminate) feeling to the campaign that I was after. You know, like civilization where you develop tech, build infrastructure, get units and kick butt.

So I completely reworked it into a card driven system that use's building, trading a resource management. The rules are below, and all the resources for the new system are in this folder.

Please note, that like most things in this campaign, this is entirely off the top of my head and has undergone zero play-testing whatsoever at this time.

In this article, i've posted sample cards. These are not all the cards in the deck, but all the common cards are there (with the yellow saber marking)

Here is the updated logistic command, note the new head of manufacturing job, and production areas, as well as contracts. Also, smugglers have been moved to their own board.



Phases for Logistics command

1. Replenish supplies and income
2. Commander actions
3. Assign smugglers, escorts and make smuggling rolls
4. Purchase supplies
5. Assign supplies to chief of staff
6. End phase


REPLENISH SUPPLIES:

• Place a number of “Credits” cards on the logistic board equal to the current income value
• Then place basic resource cards equal to the manufacturing values for each basic resources in the production pool
• Layout the trading map
• Shuffle the common, illicit and rebel decks
• Deal out facedown common cards equal to the yellow boxes on each planet, illicit cards equal to the red boxes, and rebel cards equal to the green boxes
• Shuffle each planet deck and deal one card face up on top of the stack
• Deal out cards as described above to the local supply. Add cards for the planets Kronos, Cahn and Solitude X if the Rebels have established a diplomatic station there and have more influence than the Empire on that world. Place these cards face up

• Long term investment. Make a mental roll. You may then increase your income by one point. The cost of this improvement is the new income score in Galactic credits. This cost is reduced by 5 for each triumph, 2 for each success, 1 for each advantage to a minimum of one credit. The cost is increased by 5 for each despair, 2 for each failure, and 1 for each disadvantage. (Director, Finances only)
• Short term financing. Costs one galactic credit to take this action. Make a mental roll. Gain galactic credits equal to (5 for each triumph, 2 for each success, 1 for each advantage) divided by two. (Director, Finances only)
• Support smugglers. Make a hard mental roll. Each success adds one boost dice to each smuggling roll this turn, each triumph adds one skill dice to each roll. (Director only)
• Improve manufacturing capacity. Make a mental roll. You may then increase your manufacturing capacity in one area by one point. The cost of this improvement is the new score times five in Galactic credits. This cost is reduced by 5 for each triumph, 2 for each success, 1 for each advantage to a minimum of one credit. The cost is increased by 5 for each despair, 2 for each failure, and 1 for each disadvantage. (Director, manufacturing only)
• Enforced overtime. Make a mental roll. You may improve the production of an number of manufacturing areas by one equal to (5 for each triumph, 2 for each success, 1 for each advantage) divided by two. No area may improve production by more than one each turn. (Director, manufacturing only)

• Assign each smuggler in your smuggling pool to one planet. Only one smuggler may visit each planet per turn.
• Consult fighter command on escorts. If a squadron is on escort duty it is used for this turn. This action does not cost any resource cards.
• Each fighter assigned to the mission allows one reroll of the despair dice on a mission failure at the cost of the fighter being destroyed.
• Make a smuggling roll, if you fail roll the despair dice and check the results. Then end that smugglers action. The difficulty is based on the wold visited, one for low risk worlds, two for medium risk worlds, and three for high risk worlds.
• If you pass move to the next phase. For each triumph or two success rolled gain one galactic credit.

• Players with rich characters now receive one galactic credit each. They may give this to logistics command and receive one clout. Or they may hold on to it and use it later.
• Reveal all supply cards on each world visited
• Purchase cards in any order.
• You may purchase any cards from the local supply at the listed cost
• You may purchase any cards from the production pool facilities at the listed cost
• You may purchase any cards on successful visited worlds up to your ship carrying limit. Resolve immediately cards and contracts do not count towards this limit.
• A HWK or Firespray can carry two cards, other light transports three cards, and a GR-75 five cards
• Place all purchased cards into your stores
• Rich players with credits may now purchase supplies from the local supply or manufacturing if any remain.

• Decide which cards you are making available this turn and give them to the Chief of Staff. He will manage their expenditure in consultation with the command staff
• Rich players may give their purchased cards to the Chief of staff or send them to the stockpile. They may not keep resources between turns.
• Any cards you do not give to the chief of staff go into your stockpile and may be used again next turn. This includes unspent galactic credits.

END PHASE

• Any unpurchased cards from manufacturing go back to the deck
• All cards unpurchased from local supply go back to their decks
• All cards unpurchased from planets go back to their decks
• Trade map is removed from the board.