February Rules Update

by Jon Carter, First Edition Rules Master

4th February 2019

Welcome to February! I am glad the groundhog did/did not see its shadow. I hope the team you love/hate won/lost the big game, and my birthday was awesome/fine/sad!*

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled rules article. 

This month we have what looks like a busy rules update. However, I let me reassure you most of it is small cleanup. Inside you will find the following:

• The glossary changes needed to divorce the rules from 2EBC
• The creation of the term "Exposed." Design got tired of having to list a bunch of states a ship "was not" (landed, cloaked, etc.) so we decided to add this term to the rules. I guess for now this is a broken link, as it is a rule that doesn't impact a single card... 
• You all saw a test draft of a Preserver Obilesk.  We made sure the rules let this card work by letting planets be named in lore. 
• We added some clarification to how the Shades of Gray cards add numbers and a weird interaction with Rascals that is a result.

As always if there are things that need addressing, PM me or post in the forums.

The First Edition Rules Committee is scheduled to release rules updates on the first Monday of each month, if necessary.

This update takes effect immediately.

*these statements have been qualified because they happened between writing the article and its posting. However, since I wrote this in a bout of insomnia at 4 in the morning, I thought it was funny. 

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