I am a new player - just purchased. I have watched the video, read through the instructions, and have separated all of the cards into the 4 main decks.

After separating the decks and organizing everything I noticed that there are Scum/Villainy and Gamblers/Spies cards. I read through the entire instruction manual and there is no explaination for these cards. Can anyone shed some light on these and explain what to do with them because there are not enough of these cards to make a separate deck for LS or DS?

Thanks so much for any clarification.

Welcome to the game! Hope you enjoy it!

Smugglers & Spies and Scum & VIllany are the 5th and 6th factions in the game. FFG decided they couldn't fit in an equal amount of cards for them into the starter, so they just gave one objective set each to give players a "taste" of what was to come for those factions.

Many players will use the S&S objective with Han in it with their light side decks: they play mostly Jedi but then throw Han in and use the S&S affiliation card to make sure they can match his resources and play him. Boba Fett doesn't see much play yet…

If you want to play more of those factions, the force packs have already introduced more objectives for them. As well, in the next month and a half or so the Edge of Darkness expansion will hit stores and essentially act as a core set for those two factions, bringing them up to equal representation with the rest of the factions.

Welcome to the game. You will love it. In July Smugglers and Spies and Scum and Villainy will each be getting seven new sets in the Edge of Darkness expansion and will basically be caught up with the other factions. In the meantime you can use those sets by mixing them with other affiliations. Most decks end up being a mix of 2 affiliations from LS or DS. There are "pure" decks but especially for LS mix decks are the norm.