Breakthroughs

31 faction breakthroughs

Psychospore

ACTION: Exhaust this card to remove a command token from a system that contains 1 or more of your infantry and return it to your reinforcements. Then, place 1 infantry in that system.

Synergy:

WarfareBiotic

Argent Flight

Wing Transfer

When you activate a system that contains only your units, you may place command tokens from your reinforcements into any system adjacent to that system that contain only your units; at the end of this action, you may move ships among the active system and systems adjacent to it that contain your command tokens.

Synergy:

PropulsionCybernetic

Cabal

Al'Raith Ix Ianovar

This breakthrough causes The Fracture to enter play without a roll, if it is not already in play. After this card enters play, move up to 2 ingress tokens into systems that contain gravity rifts. Apply +1 to the Move value of each of your ships that start their movement in The Fracture.

Synergy:

WarfareBiotic

Creuss

Particle Synthesis

Each wormhole in a system that contains your ships gains PRODUCTION 1 as if it were a unit you control. Reduce the combined cost of units you produce in systems that contain wormholes by 1 for each wormhole in that system.

Synergy:

PropulsionCybernetic

Crimson

Resonance Generator

During your tactical actions, apply +1 to the move value of each of your ships that start in your home system or in a system that contains an active breach.ACTION: Exhaust this card to flip any breach or place an active breach in a non-home system that contains your units.

Synergy:

PropulsionWarfare

Deepwrought

Visionaria Select

ACTION: Exhaust this card to allow each other player to spend 3 trade goods and give you 1 promissory note. Each player that does may research a non-faction, non-unit upgrade technology. You also gain each technology researched this way.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Empyrean

Void Tether

When you activate a system that contains or is adjacent to a unit or planet you control, you may place or move 1 of your void tether tokens onto a border that system shares with another system; other players do not treat those systems as adjacent to each other unless you allow it.

Synergy:

BioticPropulsion

Firmament

The Sowing

When you gain this card and at the start of the status phase, you may place up to three of your trade goods on this card. Flip this card if you become The Obsidian faction.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Hacan

Auto-Factories

When you produce 3 or more non-fighter ships, place 1 command token from your reinforcements into your fleet pool.

Synergy:

WarfareCybernetic

Jol-Nar

Specialized Compounds

When you research technology using the "Technology" strategy card, you may exhaust a planet that has a technology specialty instead of spending resources; if you do you must research a technology of that color.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Keleres

I.I.H.Q. Modernization

When you gain this card, gain the Custodia Vigilia planet card and its legendary planet ability card. You are neighbors with all players that have units or control planets in or adjacent to the Mecatol Rex system.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Unlocks:PlanetCustodia VigiliaLegendary

Resources 2Influence 2

Custodia Vigilia

While you control Mecatol Rex, it gains SPACE CANNON 5 and PRODUCTION 3. Gain 2 command tokens when another player gains a victory point using the second clause of "Imperial."

Gain your breakthrough as the Council Keleres player.

L1Z1X

Fealty Uplink

When you gain control of a planet, place infantry from your reinforcements equal to that planet's influence value on that planet.

Synergy:

WarfareBiotic

Last Bastion

The Icon

When you produce ships, you may exhaust this card to place those ships in a system that contains one of your command tokens, at least one of your ground forces, and no other player's ships.

Synergy:

WarfareCybernetic

Letnev

Gravleash Maneuvers

Before you roll dice during space combat, apply +X to the results of 1 of your ship's rolls, where X is the number of ship types you have in the combat. During movement, your non-fighter ships' move values are equal to the highest move value amongst moving ships in the system they started in.

Synergy:

PropulsionWarfare

Mahact

Vaults of the Heir

ACTION: Exhaust this card and purge 1 of your technologies to gain 1 relic.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Mentak

The Table's Grace

If you have the Cruiser II unit upgrade technology, flip this card and place it on top of Cruiser II.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Unlocks:CruiserCorsair

Cost

Combat

Move

Capacity

If the active system contains another player's non-fighter ships, this unit can move through systems that contain other players' ships.

Requires:The Table's Grace

Muaat

Stellar Genesis

When you gain this card, place the Avernus planet token into a non-home system that is adjacent to a planet you control; gain control of and ready it. After you move 1 of your war suns out of or through Avernus's system and into a non-home system, you may move the Avernus token with it.

Synergy:

WarfareCybernetic

Unlocks:PlanetAvernusLegendary

Resources 2Influence 0

The Nucleus

ACTION: Exhaust this card to use the Embers of Muaat's STAR FORGE faction ability without spending a command token.

Gain your breakthrough as the Muaat player, or take control of the planet from Muaat once they have unlocked it.

Naalu

Mindsieve

When you would resolve the secondary ability of another player's strategy card, you may give them a promissory note to resolve it without spending a command token.

Synergy:

WarfareBiotic

Naaz-Rokha

Absolute Synergy

When you have 4 mechs in the same system, you may return 3 of those mechs to your reinforcements to flip this card and place it on top of your mech card.

Synergy:

BioticPropulsion

Unlocks:MechEidolon Maximum

Cost

Combat

4 (x4)

Move

Sustain Damage

This unit is both a ship and a ground force. It cannot be assigned hits from unit abilities. Repair it at the start of every combat round. Game effects cannot place or produce your mechs. When this unit is destroyed or removed, flip this card and return it to your play area.

Requires:Absolute Synergy

Nekro

Valefar Assimilator Z

When you would gain another player's technology using one of your faction abilities, you may instead place one of your "Z" assimilator tokens on that player's faction sheet. Your flagship gains the text abilities of that faction's flagship in addition to its own.

Synergy:

(none)

Nomad

Thunder's Paradox

At the start of any player's turn, you may exhaust 1 of your agents to ready any other agent.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Obsidian

The Reaping

Place one trade good from the supply on this card each time you win a combat against a puppeted player. At the start of the status phase, gain all trade goods on this card, then gain an equal number of trade goods from the supply.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Ral Nel

Data Skimmer

During the action phase, if you have not passed, when other players would discard action cards, they are placed on this card instead. When you pass, take 1 action card from this card and discard the rest.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Saar

Deorbit Barrage

ACTION: Exhaust this card and spend any amount of resources to choose a planet up to 2 systems away from an asteroid field that contains your ships; roll a number of dice equal to the amount spent, and assign 1 hit to a ground force on that planet for each roll of 4 or greater.

Synergy:

PropulsionWarfare

Sardakk N'orr

N'orr Supremacy

After you win a combat, either gain 1 command token or research a unit upgrade technology.

Synergy:

PropulsionWarfare

Sol

Bellum Gloriosum

When you produce a ship that has capacity, you may also produce any combination of ground forces or fighters up to that ship's capacity; they do not count against your PRODUCTION limit.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Titans

Slumberstate Computing

When COALESCENCE results in a ground combat, if you commit no other units, you may choose for your units to coexist instead. During the status phase, for each player you are coexisting with, you and that player each draw 1 additional action card. Other players may allow you to place a sleeper token on a planet they control.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Winnu

Imperator

Apply +1 to the results of each of your unit's combat rolls for each "Support for the Throne" in your opponent's play area. After you activate a system that contains a legendary planet, apply +1 to the move value of 1 of your ships during this tactical action.

Synergy:

PropulsionWarfare

Xxcha

Archon's Gift

You can spend influence as if it were resources. You can spend resources as if it were influence.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Yin

Yin Ascendant

When you gain this card or score a public objective, gain the alliance ability of a random, unused faction.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic

Yssaril

Deepgloom Executable

You can allow other players to use your STALL TACTICS or SCHEMING faction abilities; when you do, you may resolve a transaction with that player. During the action phase, that transaction does not count against the once-per-player transactions limit for that turn.

Synergy:

CyberneticBiotic