Objective Card

Victory Points
The primary way to accumulate victory points is to qualify for the requirements of an Objective Card.

Imperial Objective Card
Grants 1 VP to any player with 12+ planets outside their HS.

Any number of players may qualify for this, restricted only by the number of planets available.

Claimed in the status phase.

Magisterial Objective Card
Grants 1 VP to any player with 8+ planets outside their HS.

Any number of players may qualify for this, restricted only by the number of planets available.

Claimed in the status phase.

Preliminary Objective Card
Attainable by all players (1 only in any given round), but once any given Preliminary Objective has been claimed by one or more players it is no longer available.

Claimed in the status phase.

Public Objective Card
Attainable by all players. Once 8 Stage I objectives have been revealed, new objectives will be Stage II.

Claimed in the status phase (1 only in any given round). Additional objectives may be claimed using the Bureaucracy Strategy Card's Primary Ability.

Secret Objective Card
Individual to each player, and revealed only when being claimed (in the status phase).

Racial Objective Card
May be claimed instead of a Secret Objective during the status phase. Once one Racial Objective has been claimed, the other two are discarded.

Special Objectives and Political Cards
Collectively, Artefacts and Voice of the Council, together with Imperial and Magisterial Objectives (above) are known as Special Objectives, and they are mandatory to score.

There are also Political Cards that grant and deduct victory points. These cards are not considered objectives, and a player may gain points from Political Cards in the same round he claims objectives.

Losing Victory Points
When a card or rule makes players lose victory points, a player's victory point total may never be less than the number of Special Objectives he currently has claimed, nor can a player’s victory point total ever be less than zero.