Strategy Card, Prospect

9. THE PROSPECT STRATEGY

The Prospect Strategy is only used in 4, 7 and 8 player games. It is the simplest of the Strategy Cards and has no secondary ability.

Activating the Prospect Strategy, the active player has 3 options:

a) Draw two Stage I Public Objective cards and choose one to place on his race sheet. Only he may qualify for that objective. Qualifying for this Objective is done during the Status Phase (or using the Bureaucracy Strategy Card) and is considered as the same as any Public Objective. He may not qualify for another Public Objective at the same time (although, if in the Status Phase, he may still qualify other types of Objectives, as usual). The other objective goes either to the top or bottom of the deck.

b) Receive one Action Card, one Political Card and 2 Trade Goods.

c) Immediately relocate any or all of his Leaders to friendly planets or ships. After relocation, the active player may discard up to a total of three Action or Political Cards and draw an equal number of new corresponding cards. Example: The Creuss player discards 1 Political Card and 2 Action Cards. He draws 1 new Political Card and 2 new Action Cards.

Note that the player with the Prospect Strategy Card may still only score one Public Objective in the Status Phase. He may not score an additional Objective when using the primary ability.