Operation Manual

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Place the Colony board in the center of the play area.
Sort the Credit tokens, the Battery tokens and resources into piles to form the supply.
Place all Reward tokens in the bag. Then, draw 2 tokens for each level of the board and place them with their Immediate Effect side
faceup on their spaces on the Colony Display.
Randomly place the 5 Sponsor tiles on the Colony Display, to the left of the Colony board.
Note: Sponsor tiles are double-sided; a Basic side and an Advanced side (showing a
). If this is your  rst game,  ip the Sponsor tiles to their
Basic side. Otherwise, randomly determine which side will be used for each Sponsor tile.
Take 2 resources of the same color, 1 resource of a second color, and 1 resource of a third color, and place them on the spaces of
the Store matching the type of each resource starting from the top row. For example: 2 fuel, 1 metal, and 1 plant.
Shuf e the Contract cards and place them facedown near the board to create a deck. Then, draw the top 3 cards of the deck and
place them faceup in the Contract card spaces located above the board. These contracts are public.
In a two-player game, draw the top 2 cards instead.
Place the neutral X Key tokens in a pile near the board.
Place each player’s marker on space “0” of the Score track.
Note: There is an unlimited amount of resources, credits, and batteries.