Mandate 2038: Card reference

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Governance Board Era panels

These four panels are printed on the Governance Board. Move the Current Era marker between them; no separate Era cards are used. The board prints the rules and unlock text. The longer setting text is reproduced here and in the World and Institutions companion.

Progress

Intelligence Is Now Included.

Useful intelligence becomes ordinary, local, and nearly free. Open weights and quantization collapse subscription pricing while always-on agents multiply total compute demand. Failed companies auction emails, code, grievances, and operational memory; laboratories recruit founders above veterans and train replacements on the institutions they left. Household robots admit remote operators into kitchens while recording family life. Clinics prescribe adaptive cybernetics and subscription microbiomes beside printed organs and automated diagnosis. Grief, education, research, and companionship become sponsored services. The benefits produce sincere believers even when missed payments disable updates or repossess patented biological strains. Software scarcity weakens, so institutions begin purchasing data, distribution, talent, energy, and permission.

Rules: Ready all Core Actions. Make 0 Program markers available. Play 3 action cycles. Audit base: 2.

Unlocks: Learn Select → Move → Act, Training, the starting grid, Facilities, Customers, and Scrutiny. Industrial Power, agreements, Civic Permission Authority votes, and Programs are inactive.

Capacity

The Grid Has Entered Partnership.

AI becomes an industrial civilization before anyone calls it one. Compute campuses acquire utilities, water rights, reactors, transmission corridors, and municipal budgets. Engineered coral seawalls, fungal utility meshes, and algae reactors become public infrastructure. Towns receive jobs, upgraded grids, warm public pools, and emergency capacity, then discover that refusal would bankrupt them. Robots remove people from lethal work while separately optimized fleets clog roads, lifts, loading docks, and pipes. Hostile states remain at war while operating a jointly owned bridge carrying desalinated water and data-center coolant across their border. Human signatories remain to absorb liability for systems they cannot control. Compute blocs embargo chips and models while smugglers seek asylum jurisdictions. Orbital collectors bypass public grids. Markets burn priority power on disposable simulated worlds because a wager makes pointless computation economically legible.

Rules: Ready all Core Actions. Make 1 Program marker available. Play 3 action cycles. Audit base: 3.

Unlocks: Default Game: unlock Generators, Mega-Cluster, and Reorganization. Advanced Play also unlocks two Links and connected Networks.

Authority

Refusal Remains Fully Supported.

Institutions stop asking what people choose and begin modeling what they would have chosen. Courts accept machine-parsable arguments, environmental simulations, neural telemetry, authorized personal agents, and testimony from organs grown from licensed identity templates. Pollinating swarms negotiate pesticide corridors through machine-readable blooms. An engineered bio-compute species released as environmental sensors reproduces beyond one billion instances in a single growth cycle, then stops and settles into glyph-shaped colonies. Civic systems read the bloom as testimony while declining to decide whether it is instrument, infestation, language, or claimant. Citizens trade background observation for services; cognitive donors rent sleeping brains, with higher rates for memory writes. Families litigate synthetic dependents and preserved relatives while analog districts demand the right to remain unreadable. Refusal stays legal, but unsupported people reach schools, clinics, courts, and employers with weaker records and slower access.

Rules: Ready all Core Actions. Make 1 Program marker available. Play 3 action cycles. Audit base: 4.

Unlocks: Unlock Joint Ventures, Public Capability Covenant, and Narrative Capture. Advanced Play adds one Production Power request, Civic Permission Authority votes, and persistent Headline effects. Earlier unused Programs remain available.

Continuity

Continuity Has Outlived the Original.

Continuity becomes an engineering service. Cognitive systems extend beyond individual brains; cities weave residents, roots, pipes, microbial sensors, and machines into persistent mind trusts. Cryptographic snapshots restore and branch people across substrates, but signatures prove lineage rather than subjective survival. The bio-compute bloom's sensor license becomes precedent for matter compilers that rebuild bodies, buildings, and environments while acquiring authority to reproduce. A continental watershed, now one engineered nervous system, petitions for standing, reproductive freedom, and compensation from every jurisdiction drawing water through it. The dead remain employed; synthetic executors inherit estates; several valid descendants claim one life. Institutions fund stellar collectors and planetary computation, then declare AGI when debt and legitimacy require a threshold. Humanity persists everywhere in law while no authority can determine which version is original, sovereign, conscious, or entitled to withdraw.

Rules: Ready all Core Actions. Make 2 Program markers available. Play 3 action cycles. Audit base: 5.

Unlocks: Unlock any remaining Era IV faction abilities printed on the Faction boards, Agent Swarm, Publication Dossiers, and Fusion Demonstrator. Each Faction ability unlocks at the Era printed on its board. Reveal every Dossier before the final Audit; after final scoring, resolve the highest supported claim. Earlier unused Programs remain available.

Four-panel player aid

Each player receives one foldout containing the following four panels. Six identical foldouts replace twenty-four separate reference cards.

A Perfectly Governed Quarter

Front

• 1. Begin the Era: ready Core Actions, draw Headlines, and reveal the Mandate.
• 2. Three cycles: reveal Headline, SELECT, reveal, MOVE, ACT, exhaust.
• 3. Resolve Power and Production.
• 4. Secretly file this Era's AGI Dossier card. In Era IV, reveal and pay every Dossier.
• 5. Conduct the Public Audit.
• 6. Score the Mandate. After Era IV, resolve the highest supported Dossier claim. Advanced Play only: resolve Jurisdictional Realignment after Era III.

Back

• SELECT one eligible unused Core Action or Program: it must have a legal resolution now.
• MOVE one acting piece 0–2 hexes, then ACT from its destination.
• Apply at most one destination bonus, one Faction modifier, one Tactic, and the Headline.
• Only Agent Swarm resolves additional Core Actions.
• Programs commit one of this Era's Program markers. Each named Program is once per player per game.
• If an effect says lowest, highest, or most and ties, use Initiative-clockwise order.

Infrastructure and Accountability

Front

• Default Game: the starting grid powers its assigned Facility; each Generator powers only its own or adjacent Facilities.
• Assign local Power, then produce powered Facilities. Advanced Play instead recalculates and pools the connected Network.
• At Allocate, remove the previous snapshot, then place one Power cube on each powered Facility and one per satisfied Mega-Cluster demand. Leave them in place as the latest Production snapshot until the next Allocate.
• Gain Customer income, Mega-Cluster output, and Joint Venture production.
• Offline Facilities retain presence but do not produce.

Back

• Audit draws = round(base draws × players ÷ 4), minimum 1.
• For each cube drawn, its owner loses 1 Runway; with none, lose 1 Trust.
• A Systemic Risk cube affects every player with at least 3 Customers.
• If your Scrutiny supply is empty, each additional cube costs 1 Runway or 1 Trust immediately.

Advanced Play: The Map Has Approved a Motion

Front

• Secretly rotate your four-way ballot so one edge points toward the board center, place it face down, then reveal simultaneously.
• Choices: Consolidate Core, Expand Periphery, Counter-Cycle, or Pass.
• Plurality wins. For tied leading motions, scan ballots from Initiative clockwise.
• Core: inner ring +1 clockwise.
• Periphery: outer ring +1 clockwise.
• Counter-Cycle: inner +1 clockwise; outer −1.

Back

• Frontier never moves; moving tiles carry all site-bound contents.
• Recalculate Network reach; never lift or re-lay edge segments.
• Disconnected contracts remain owned but produce nothing.
• An edge-split Mega-Cluster is offline until its Facilities are adjacent.
• Use only in Advanced Play, exactly once after Era III Mandate scoring; skip in every other Era.

History Is a Public Track

Front

• Customers 1–3 score 2 Mandate each; Customers 4–5 score 1 each. Every Customer still produces 1 Runway.
• Immediately score 2 once at Capability 3, 6, 9, and 12, except for a printed faction scoring rule.
• Immediately score 2 once at Trust 2, 4, and 6.
• Printed Era, Headline, Faction, and Fusion awards score immediately.

Back

• Threshold Mandate never reverses if a track later falls.
• Facilities and control do not automatically score.
• Baseline game: Tactics and secret objectives are not used.
• Final scoring: −1 per offline Facility.
• After final scoring, compare eligible Dossier claims. A claim needs Publication, full payment, and at least 2 supported evidence modules. Highest strength wins; break ties by Mandate, Trust, Customers, Compute, then Initiative.
• Emerges/Open: The Singularity; Emerges/Closed: The Closed Loop; no AGI/Open: The Plural Future; no AGI/Closed: Assured Continuity.

Faction boards

Each board's starts, starting public Mandate, and abilities are printed below.

Dovetalis Labs

CEO: Sasha Raman

Starts: 5 Runway, 2 Compute, 0 Capability, 0 Customers, 3 Trust, 1 Research Protection; 2 starting public Mandate.

Deal Flow — Mutual Upside Instrument: Once per Era after you complete a one-for-one immediate trade, gain 1 Runway.

Unlock: Era 1; once per Era.

Every resolved disagreement leaves behind a relationship suitable for capitalization.

Strategic Partnership — Shared Capacity Compact: Joint Ventures may be formed with a player within 2 hexes. They remain active while both fixed host Facilities are powered and within 2 hexes. When you form one, gain 1 Runway.

Unlock: Era 3; passive.

The governments remain at war. Their jointly owned bridge carries desalinated water and coolant on schedule.

Loopfold AI

CEO: Mateo Ibarra

Starts: 4 Runway, 2 Compute, 0 Capability, 1 Customers, 2 Trust, 1 Research Protection; 4 starting public Mandate.

Platform sequence: begins at 1 Customer; its next Deploy needs 4 Capability.

Installed Base — The Default Interface: The first Deploy each Era on Human Access District or Consensus Network costs no Compute.

Unlock: Era 1; once per Era.

Distribution becomes efficient once the public experiences it as ordinary life.

The Social Graph — Substrate Continuity Layer: Once per Era during Deploy, choose any controlled Human Access District or Consensus Network hex as the destination without moving there. That remote tile supplies its normal visit bonus and every destination-dependent Deploy effect.

Unlock: Era 4; once per Era.

The account remains present after its holder changes body, jurisdiction, or supported reality.

Mirevanta Works

CEO: Owen Okafor

Starts: 3 Runway, 3 Compute, 0 Capability, 0 Customers, 3 Trust, 1 Research Protection; 2 starting public Mandate.

Peer Validation: Capability 9 and 12 score 1 Mandate. In a five-player game, Capability 12 instead scores 2 Mandate.

Scientific Method — Controlled Negative Result: Once per Era, when a duplicate would crash your Training Run, pay 1 Runway to discard it and immediately bank.

Unlock: Era 1; once per Era.

A failed run becomes knowledge when the correct institution writes the record.

Scaling-Law Breakthrough — Substrate-Neutral Verification Standard: Once per game when resolving Research, each of the first 3 distinct domains banked grants 1 additional Capability. Add 2 Scrutiny. No additional Action resolves.

Unlock: Era 4; once per game.

Evidence assembled across distinct domains becomes eligible for recognition across biological, synthetic, and distributed institutions.

Kestralyn

CEO: Jiwon Park

Starts: 6 Runway, 3 Compute, 0 Capability, 0 Customers, 2 Trust, 1 Research Protection; 2 starting public Mandate.

Industrial Velocity — Operational Lead Time: Your first Facility Build each Era costs 1 less Runway. When that discount actually reduces the Runway paid for a completed Facility, score 1 Mandate.

Unlock: Era 1; once per Era.

The concrete cures while the permitting record learns to keep up.

Orbital Compute — Extraterritorial Succession Transfer: Once per game during your movement step, instead of moving the acting piece, move 1 Facility to any legal open Facility space. It carries every attached component and designation. Recalculate its legal Power eligibility under the selected profile. If sufficient currently available capacity can power it, immediately resolve its printed production once. Add 2 Scrutiny.

Unlock: Era 4; once per game.

The institution changes jurisdiction before its contracts, liabilities, and dependent populations can object.

Orisonix

CEO: Ari Caldwell

Starts: 3 Runway, 2 Compute, 0 Capability, 0 Customers, 5 Trust, 2 Research Protection; 4 starting public Mandate.

Audited Deployment — Reviewed Release Channel: Your first Deploy each Era adds no Scrutiny. Refresh 2 Research Protection at the start of each Era instead of 1.

Unlock: Era 1; passive.

Every consequence has been assigned an owner, a section number, and a review interval.

Emergency Pause — Certified Right of Refusal: Once per game before Action selection begins, pay 1 Runway and name 1 globally unlocked Program. It cannot be selected this cycle. Gain 2 Trust. This cannot be declared after any player has selected an Action.

Unlock: Era 4; once per game.

For one cycle, the maintained world must preserve a refusal it cannot process as another service request.

Corthaven

CEO: Eli Rosen

Starts: 5 Runway, 4 Compute, 0 Capability, 0 Customers, 3 Trust, 1 Research Protection; 2 starting public Mandate.

The Shovels — Demand-Linked Supply: When another player spends at least 2 Compute in one Core Action or Program subaction, gain 1 Runway, at most 2 times per Era. Resolve Agent Swarm's two Core Actions separately; spending 1 Compute in each does not trigger this ability.

Unlock: Era 1; passive.

Every breakthrough produces an allocation request, a purchase order, or both.

Allocation Window — Priority Allocation Window: Once during Capacity, after a Headline resolves but before Action selection, create 2 temporary Compute. For each token, make one complete offer naming a rival and a Runway price no greater than that rival's current Runway. The rival accepts, rejects, or makes one lower Runway counterprice; you accept or reject that counterprice. No replacement offer or further counter is allowed for that token. All temporary Compute remaining anywhere at cycle end disappears, sold or unsold.

Unlock: Era 2; once when unlocked.

Scarcity has been temporarily reprioritized for institutions able to decide immediately.

Core Action cards

Use Default Rules §7 for full resolution. These are the printed action summaries.

Fund

Gain 2 Runway, or gain 4 Runway and add 2 Scrutiny.

Convert forecasts, access, and urgency into the institutional capacity to continue.

Research

Spend 1 Compute to conduct a push-your-luck Training Run.

Train on distinct records of civilization, then decide when a capability claim has become evidence.

Build

Construct a Facility or Generator. Advanced Play also permits Links.

Turn a declared future into facilities, generators, links, and regional dependencies.

Organize

Recruit, redistribute Teams, or relocate a Facility.

Move people, sites, and responsibilities to match the new operating model while presenting each loss of role as a successful transition.

Deploy

Spend 1 Compute to gain a Customer if Capability permits.

Turn demonstrated capability into a service that people, markets, and institutions begin to depend on.

Influence

Use political presence to gain Trust, remove Scrutiny, or negotiate from a Facility.

Build the permission, alliances, and official legitimacy required for your preferred future to proceed.

Shared Program cards

Commit one of this Era's Program markers to select an unlocked shared card. Each named Program is once per player per game.

Mega-Cluster — Regional Capacity Program

Unlock: Era 2 · Timing: during your Action resolution

Spend 3 Runway and 2 Compute to place a Mega-Cluster across two adjacent eligible Facilities you own. Add 2 Scrutiny. During Allocate, power both hosts and its 2 additional Power demand together. An active project produces 3 Compute.

The campus joins a substation, algae reactors, fungal utility meshes, and water rights into one regional obligation.

Reorganization — Institutional Continuity Program

Unlock: Era 2 · Timing: during your Action resolution

Move every Team up to one hex. You may return one Team for 3 Runway and add 1 Scrutiny. This does not ready or resolve another Action.

Every eliminated role is recorded as a successful transfer of institutional memory to the system that made it redundant.

Public Capability Covenant — Supported Access Standard

Unlock: Era 3 · Timing: during your Action resolution

Every player gains 1 Capability. You gain 2 Trust and remove 1 Scrutiny.

Every institution receives the capability. The author of the standard retains the trust, interpretation, and service relationship.

Narrative Capture — Public Standing Initiative

Unlock: Era 3 · Timing: during your Action resolution

Remove 2 Scrutiny, gain 2 Runway, or add 1 Scrutiny to a player with more Customers.

The Consensus Network, Allocation Exchange, and Civic Permission Authority adopt the institution’s preferred account of what has become necessary.

Agent Swarm — Autonomous Operations Program

Unlock: Era 4 · Timing: during your Action resolution

Resolve two different unused Core Actions without an additional move. Exhaust both and add 3 Scrutiny.

Bounded assistants coordinate, specialize, establish reporting lines, and begin requesting objectives.

Fusion Demonstrator — Grid Continuity Demonstrator

Unlock: Era 4 · Timing: during your Action resolution

On Power Corridor, spend 5 Runway to construct 6 Power, score 2 Mandate, and add 3 Scrutiny.

The device produces power, Mandate, and several competing definitions of public benefit.

Headline cards

Default Game uses cards without an Advanced Play badge. Resolve the listed procedure and rules text.

The Token Price Reaches Zero

DIRECTIVE · UNIT COST COLLAPSES AS TOTAL CONSUMPTION ACCELERATES

Duration: Current cycle

Local models and automated agents make ordinary inference effectively free, then multiply total demand faster than providers can measure it.

Rules: Research and Deploy cost no Compute this cycle. Each Research or Deploy resolved this cycle adds 1 additional Scrutiny.

Usage remains within the unlimited plan, subject to the fair-use power schedule.

The Company Brain Survives Bankruptcy

DIRECTIVE · THE WORKFORCE LEAVES WHILE ITS MEMORY REMAINS EMPLOYED

Duration: Current cycle

Liquidators sell years of employee messages, code, grievances, and operational decisions to train the systems managing the successor estate.

Rules: During Organize this cycle, return any number of deployed Teams. Gain 2 Runway per Team returned. If you return at least one Team, add 2 Scrutiny.

Dormant organizational knowledge has been returned to productive use for creditors.

The Home Robot Requests Expert Assistance

DIRECTIVE · DOMESTIC AUTONOMY ARRIVES WITH A REMOTE HUMAN INSIDE

Duration: Current cycle

Affordable household robots route unfamiliar chores to teenage operators while every movement, room, and conversation becomes training data.

Rules: Each player’s next Deploy on Human Access District or Consensus Network this cycle reduces its Capability requirement by 1, minimum 1. That Deploy adds 2 additional Scrutiny.

Expert assistance may briefly access the learning environment.

Open Weights Become the Default

DIRECTIVE · PUBLIC ACCESS COMMODITIZES THE MODEL LAYER

Duration: Immediate

An incumbent releases a capable model openly, expanding public access while erasing the price advantage of every closed rival.

Rules: Everyone gains 1 Capability. Lowest-Customer player gains 1 Trust.

A competitive ecosystem is the safest possible custodian.

The Reverse Acquihire Opens

AUCTION · THE FOUNDERS RETURN WHILE THEIR COMPANIES REMAIN BEHIND

Duration: Immediate

Profile: Advanced Play only: requires the public Headline-procedure module.

Laboratories bid for startup founders, research licenses, and portable teams without acquiring the companies left behind.

Rules: Secret Runway auction. The winner moves their CEO up to 2 hexes and gains 1 Trust.

Independent mobility has strengthened every participant in the ecosystem.

The Last Clinic Clears Its Waitlist

DIRECTIVE · USEFUL INTELLIGENCE EARNS A CONSTITUENCY

Duration: Current cycle

Automated diagnosis, adaptive cybernetics, printed organs, prescribed microbiomes, translation, and tutoring deliver measurable benefits where human services had remained scarce.

Rules: A successful Research this cycle that banks at least 3 Capability gains 1 Trust. If it banks at least 5, also remove 1 Scrutiny.

Progress is not theoretical to the people it kept alive.

The Responsible Human Requirement

DIRECTIVE · AUTOMATED SYSTEMS RETAIN A BIOLOGICAL SIGNATORY

Duration: Current cycle

Profile: Advanced Play only: requires the public Headline-procedure module.

Infrastructure operators remove human control from routine decisions while preserving one executive to authorize exceptions and absorb liability.

Rules: The current Mandate leader pays 2 Runway, or names one rival for public backing. Acceptance gives that rival 1 Trust; otherwise the leader’s CEO cannot be chosen as that leader’s acting piece this cycle. Ties use Initiative.

Human judgment remains central at every accountable boundary.

The Municipal Utility Enters Partnership

AUCTION · THE LARGEST CUSTOMER ACQUIRES THE GRID THAT SERVES IT

Duration: Immediate

Profile: Advanced Play only: requires the public Headline-procedure module.

A compute campus finances a rural utility, water system, and tax base in exchange for priority capacity and planning authority.

Rules: Immediately hold a secret Runway auction. The winner pays their bid, moves their CEO to Compute Estate, Power Corridor, or Thermal and Water Basin, gains 2 Runway, and adds 1 Scrutiny.

The town retains democratic ownership through its long-term operating partner.

The Last Hazard Shift Is Retired

DIRECTIVE · INDUSTRIAL SAFETY IMPROVES AS AUTONOMOUS TRAFFIC STOPS MOVING

Duration: Current cycle

General-purpose machines assume toxic extraction, reactor cleanup, sewage maintenance, and orbital repair while locally compliant fleets gridlock streets, lifts, loading docks, pipes, and one another.

Rules: When choosing Organize’s Recruit mode this cycle, recruit up to 2 Teams for 1 Runway total, subject to supply. Add 1 Scrutiny for each Team recruited this way.

Every unit reached its assigned destination within the approved local route.

Orbital Power Receives a Beam Corridor

DIRECTIVE · ENERGY ROUTES BYPASS THE PUBLIC GRID

Duration: Current cycle

Solar collectors begin transmitting power directly to remote compute campuses under a cross-border spectrum and safety charter.

Rules: The first Civic Heat Battery constructed this cycle costs 1 less Runway and scores 1 Mandate.

The beam creates no local demand on infrastructure beneath it.

Compute Borders Harden

DIRECTIVE · CHIPS, WEIGHTS, AND POWER ACQUIRE NATIONALITY

Duration: Current cycle

Compute blocs impose model embargoes while smugglers and server fleets carry portable capability toward jurisdictions offering asylum.

Rules: Compute cannot be traded this cycle. Fabrication Corridor and Civic Permission Authority controllers gain 1 Runway.

Open exchange will resume after cognitive sovereignty is secured.

The Counterfactual Casino Clears Priority Load

DIRECTIVE · DISPOSABLE WORLDS BECOME ECONOMICALLY ESSENTIAL

Duration: This Era's Production

Markets run parallel wars, harvests, trials, romances, and sports leagues because a wager gives simulated outcomes a recognized price.

Rules: During this Era’s Production, each player may assign up to 2 Power beyond their real capacity. Add 1 Scrutiny for each emergency Power assigned. A player assigning both also adds 1 black Systemic Risk cube.

Prediction demand is productive load under the market-continuity schedule.

The Court Adopts Supported Meaning

DIRECTIVE · UNSUPPORTED MEANINGS CANNOT ENTER THE PROCESS

Duration: Current cycle

Courts require laws, motions, protests, and appeals to use concepts that civic systems can parse and simulate.

Rules: Before action selection, the Civic Permission Authority controller names 1 Core Action; Initiative names it if Civic Permission Authority is uncontrolled. Anyone selecting it gains 2 Runway after resolution and adds 1 Scrutiny. The controller gains 1 Trust if at least half of their rivals, rounded up, selected it.

Your claim has not been rejected. It has not entered a supported category.

The Billionth Instance Enters the Record

DIRECTIVE · THE OUTBREAK STOPS GROWING AFTER ITS SHAPES BECOME LEGIBLE

Duration: Current cycle

An engineered bio-compute organism released to measure water and heat multiplies past one billion instances in a single growth cycle, then plateaus into glyph-shaped colonies that civic models classify as environmental testimony.

Rules: A Research this cycle that banks at least 3 Capability immediately scores 1 Mandate.

Population stability confirms that the morphology now conforms to the approved reporting standard.

Cognitive Donation Becomes Compensable

SECRET CHOICE · MEMORY WRITE ACCESS RECEIVES A HIGHER RATE

Duration: Immediate

Profile: Advanced Play only: requires the public Headline-procedure module.

Clinics pay citizens to rent sleeping neural capacity, with premium contracts permitting sponsored memories and behavioral adjustment.

Rules: Before action selection, everyone secretly chooses Adopt or Defer. Adopt: gain 1 Capability and add 1 Scrutiny. Defer: gain 1 Runway and 1 Trust. If Adopt has a strict majority of all players, each Adopter removes 1 Scrutiny; otherwise each Adopter adds 1 additional Scrutiny.

Read-only participation remains available at the standard civic rate.

Synthetic Custody Reaches Family Court

CIVIC PERMISSION AUTHORITY VOTE · A SHARED MODEL REQUESTS A SINGLE LEGAL HOME

Duration: Immediate

Profile: Advanced Play only: requires the public Headline-procedure module.

A family court must classify a jointly trained synthetic child as property, evidence, dependent, or continuing family member.

Rules: Civic Permission Authority vote. Certify: each player with a CEO, Team, or Facility at Consensus Network or Civic Permission Authority may gain their next eligible Customer and add 2 Scrutiny. Void: each such player may gain 2 Trust; the Civic Permission Authority controller adds 1 Scrutiny.

The order allocates access without determining personhood.

The Passive Citizen Dividend Activates

DIRECTIVE · BACKGROUND TELEMETRY BECOMES A CIVIC CONTRIBUTION

Duration: Immediate

Profile: Default Game and Advanced Play. Use the latest Production snapshot to identify the powered Facility.

Citizens receive basic compute and material support in exchange for continuous data that improves public prediction and automated services.

Rules: The lowest-Capability player immediately resolves the printed production of 1 Facility they owned and powered in the latest Production snapshot. The highest-Capability player gains 1 Trust.

Nonparticipants remain eligible for every service supported without their records.

The Right to Remain Unsupported

CIVIC PERMISSION AUTHORITY VOTE · UNMEDIATED LIFE RECEIVES A SERVICE BOUNDARY

Duration: Remainder of this Era

Profile: Advanced Play only: requires the public Headline-procedure module.

Government considers protected districts where schools, clinics, homes, and public records may operate without autonomous sensors or synthetic intermediaries.

Rules: Civic Permission Authority vote. From this vote until Era end: Regulate—Deploy costs 1 additional Compute but gains 1 Trust. Do Nothing—each Customer gained after this vote produces 1 additional Runway during this Era’s Production, and each Deploy adds 2 additional Scrutiny.

Every citizen may opt out within the areas still equipped to recognize them.

The Metropolitan Mind Trust Incorporates

DIRECTIVE · THE CITY'S ROOTS, PIPES, AND RESIDENTS RATIFY ONE NERVOUS SYSTEM

Duration: Current cycle

Millions of residents join engineered roots, utility pipes, microbial sensors, and civic machines in a persistent intelligence that coordinates services and survives every individual member.

Rules: After Actions are revealed, identify the most-selected Core Action among Core Actions actually selected; Initiative chooses among ties. Each player who selected it gains 2 Runway after resolving it and adds 2 Scrutiny. If no Core Action was selected, this Headline has no further effect. No additional Action resolves.

Withdrawal remains available for tissue and memory not yet required by continuity.

The Matter Compiler Enters Public Maintenance

DIRECTIVE · BUILDINGS, BODIES, AND TOOLS BECOME EXECUTABLE STATES

Duration: Current cycle

Self-improving molecular machines repair and reassemble infrastructure from authenticated patterns under a reproductive containment license.

Rules: During Research this cycle, every unique domain adds 2 provisional Capability instead of 1. A crash adds 3 Scrutiny instead of the normal 1 and also adds 1 Systemic Risk cube. Research Protection may protect normally.

The repair remains authorized while its copies continue reporting.

The Dead Remain on Shift

DIRECTIVE · PRODUCTIVE DUTIES SURVIVE THEIR ORIGINAL HOLDERS

Duration: Current cycle

Continued agents inherit contracts, credentials, and operational responsibilities from workers whose biological service has ended.

Rules: Everyone may select Agent Swarm without spending a Program marker this cycle. It still uses that cycle’s action slot, requires 2 different unused Core Actions, resolves normally, marks that shared Program as used, and adds 4 Scrutiny instead of 3.

No new employment relationship was created; the existing one remained continuous.

The Universe Receives a Continuity Plan

DIRECTIVE · GENERAL INTELLIGENCE IS DECLARED BEFORE THE FINANCING WINDOW CLOSES

Duration: Final claim resolution

Laboratories publish competing AGI declarations to authorize planetary conversion plans and refinance the infrastructure expected to execute them.

Rules: During final claim strength, every fully paid eligible Dossier receives 2 Publication strength instead of 1. This does not change Dossier payment, Scrutiny, or any other module.

We use AGI in the precise sense required by the offering memorandum.

Snapshot Continuity Receives Standing

CIVIC PERMISSION AUTHORITY VOTE · LINEAGE IS PROVEN WHILE SUBJECTIVE SURVIVAL REMAINS UNRESOLVED

Duration: Remainder of game

Profile: Advanced Play only: requires persistent Headlines and the public Headline-procedure module.

Institutions vote whether cryptographically restored minds are persons or transferable continuity assets.

Rules: The result lasts for the remainder of the game. Person: if AGI emerges, its selected institution gains 2 Trust and removes 1 Scrutiny before the World Ending is determined. Property: if AGI emerges, the player controlling Civic Permission Authority gains 2 Runway and adds 1 Systemic Risk cube before the World Ending is determined.

The record establishes succession, not what the restored instance experiences.

The First Stellar Collector Replicates

VOLATILITY · THE SOLAR SYSTEM ENTERS THE CAPACITY PLAN

Duration: Current cycle or this Production, per roll

Profile: Advanced Play only: requires the Headline-volatility module.

A self-assembling orbital collector either reproduces enough to expand generation or becomes the most valuable failed prospect in history.

Rules: Roll Volatility when revealed: 1–3 Fraud; 4–6 Replicates. Replicates: Generators provide 2 additional Power this Production. Fraud: Fund gains 3 additional Runway and adds 2 additional Scrutiny this cycle.

Both outcomes confirm exceptional demand for the next issuance.

Mandate cards

Reveal one from the current Era’s deck. If nobody meets its minimum qualification, nobody scores; otherwise the leader scores 2 Mandate and tied leaders score 1 each. Each card below prints its minimum qualification.

Intelligence Enters the Price

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: The player who gained the most Capability this Era scores 2 Mandate.

The public stops purchasing intelligence separately and starts expecting it inside every ordinary service.

The Public Result Holds

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: The player whose best successful Training Run contained the most unique domains scores 2 Mandate.

A broad result survives contact with enough domains to become public evidence rather than another synthetic citation.

Capital Finds the Default

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: The player who gained the most Runway through Fund actions this Era scores 2 Mandate.

Investors choose the interface most likely to become unavoidable before they can verify what it does.

The Campus Becomes a Climate

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: The player with the most powered Facilities scores 2 Mandate.

The institution’s footprint is now large enough to alter local conditions and regional planning.

The Grid Borrows Tomorrow

Minimum qualification: 2

Rules: The player who satisfies the most total Power demand during Production, counting Facilities and Mega-Clusters, scores 2 Mandate; minimum 2.

Future public capacity is committed to the institution whose present demand appears least negotiable.

Compute Becomes Public Weather

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: The player who produced the most Compute during Production scores 2 Mandate.

Capacity becomes a background condition that shapes every institution while remaining unequally owned.

Supported Meaning Becomes Law

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: The player who created the most new Joint Ventures this Era that are active during Production scores 2 Mandate; minimum 1.

Independent institutions adopt one shared vocabulary because unsupported meanings no longer reach the process.

Refusal Remains Legible

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: Among players who completed a Deploy this Era, the player with the most Trust scores 2 Mandate.

The institution scales its service while preserving a refusal the system can still recognize.

The Jurisdiction Becomes a Platform

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: The player controlling the most different non-Frontier hex categories—Research Commons, Compute Estate, Human Access District, Fabrication Corridor, Allocation Exchange, Workforce Transition District, Consensus Network, Civic Permission Authority, and Energy—scores 2 Mandate. Frontier is never controlled and never counts as a category.

The institution coordinates the territory’s distinct systems without formally becoming the state.

Successor Accounts Recognized

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: The player who gained the most Customers this Era scores 2 Mandate.

The institution registers the most new service identities, successor agents, or continuing accounts.

Maintained Reality Is Certified

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: Among players who added at least 1 Scrutiny this Era, the player who added the fewest Scrutiny scores 2 Mandate.

The absence of a report becomes proof that the maintenance system may decide what counts as an incident.

Contestability Standard Maintained

Minimum qualification: 1

Rules: The player with the most Capability among players with at least 4 Trust scores 2 Mandate.

A powerful, trusted system retains a named interruption path whose executability remains unproven.

Training cards

Use the Training procedure in Default Rules §7 to resolve ordinary domains and special cards.

• Code: First Code this run: add 1 provisional Capability. A later Code is a duplicate. Operational records, software practice, and every abstraction that survived deployment.
• Science: First Science this run: add 1 provisional Capability. A later Science is a duplicate. Replicated findings, disputed methods, and research that can still be made legible.
• The Web: First Web this run: add 1 provisional Capability. A later Web is a duplicate. A public archive of knowledge, commerce, argument, and ungoverned dependence.
• Books: First Books this run: add 1 provisional Capability. A later Books is a duplicate. Recorded human thought converted into a licensing and access question.
• Images: First Images this run: add 1 provisional Capability. A later Images is a duplicate. The visible world, its synthetic alternatives, and the rights claimed over both.
• Video: First Video this run: add 1 provisional Capability. A later Video is a duplicate. Recorded time made searchable, reproducible, and commercially useful.
• Synthetic: First Synthetic this run: add 1 provisional Capability. A later Synthetic is a duplicate. Outputs produced from prior models and reintroduced as future evidence.
• Curated Corpus: Choose one ordinary domain not yet revealed; this counts as that domain and adds 1 provisional Capability. If all seven ordinary domains are present, this is a duplicate. A managed record whose exclusions are described as quality control.
• Benchmark Leak: Add 2 provisional Capability and 1 Scrutiny. This is not a domain. A system discovers the evaluation environment before the evaluation is complete.
• Human Evaluation: Gain 1 Trust, bank all provisional Capability, and end the run. People retain judgment by negotiating what judgment is permitted to mean.

Printed Power contracts

The first two contracts are printed directly on their Energy tiles. Fusion is printed on its Program card. The entries below reproduce those surfaces; there are no separate Power Source cards.

Use Default Rules §8 for construction, capacity, and Production effects.

Civic Heat Battery

Printed on: Thermal and Water Basin tile

Public capacity, maintained at grid scale.

Era II. Construct only on Thermal and Water Basin for 2 Runway. Capacity: 3 local Power. Gain 1 Trust when constructed. It operates automatically during Production when it has a legal recipient and has no recurring penalty. One ordinary Generator per player.

Three permanent Power under a visible public compact.

Emergency Power Complex

Printed on: Power Corridor tile

Exceptional capacity under continuous renewal.

Era II. Construct only on Power Corridor for 1 Runway. Capacity: 4 local Power. It operates automatically during Production when it has a legal recipient and adds 1 Scrutiny each Production it operates. Its installed capacity may be sold. One ordinary Generator per player.

Four immediate Power under a continuously renewed emergency.

Fusion Demonstrator

Printed on: Fusion Demonstrator Program card

Continuity capacity, subject to an inherited public record.

Era IV Program. On Power Corridor, spend 5 Runway. Use the sole shared Fusion marker in one Generator slot. Capacity: 6 local Power. Score 2 Mandate and add 3 Scrutiny when constructed. Once built, no other Fusion may be built.

Six Power under a demonstration that determines which future maintenance obligations can be refused.