Professor Scott wrote: ↑Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:12 pm
From the rulebook:
Headquarters are the centers of government located on each affiliation's homeworld. If both players are playing the same affiliation, they share control of its headquarters.
In context, this sentence is from the same section of the rules that describes artifacts as "rare and precious objects with special powers" and events and incidents as representing "developments within the universe." We're just trying to give players a sense of what the cards do!
But the fact that Ablative Armor doesn't fit the broad definition of "portable tools and other devices" doesn't mean you can't play Ablative Armor as an equipment. Nor does the fact that outposts represent "operational bases on the frontiers of known space" mean you can't build a Federation Outpost at
Reunion (quite the opposite of a frontier!).
In short, when a card overrides a general rule, follow the card. Headquarters
in general represent the centers of government on each affiliation's homeworld. But OOTP says it can seed on Earth, so OOTP can seed on Research Devastating Attack.
(Also, this sentence about HQs was written well before Research Devastating Attack existed, so, at the time, it was true! It may be due for an update, although what that update should be I've no idea. It should be the same number of words or shorter.)
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