Mandate 2038: Map reference

Use this aid beside the board. It owns the map’s setup, spatial vocabulary, district effects, Facility spaces, presence, and control.

Build the jurisdiction

Use nineteen tiles in a complete radius-two hexagon:

One Frontier
Three Research Commons
Three Compute Estate
Two each of Human Access District, Consensus Network, Civic Permission Authority, and Thermal and Water Basin
One each of Fabrication Corridor, Allocation Exchange, Workforce Transition District, and Power Corridor

Place Frontier at the center. Six operational districts form the complete inner ring. Twelve public districts form the complete outer ring. Every outer district touches its two outer neighbors and either one or two inner districts according to the printed wells. One movement step crosses one shared tile edge; move up to two steps.

Shuffle this operational ring around Frontier:

One Research Commons
One Compute Estate
One Fabrication Corridor
One Allocation Exchange
One Workforce Transition District
The Power Corridor

Shuffle this public ring among the twelve outer positions:

Two Research Commons
Two Compute Estate
Two Human Access District
Two Consensus Network
Two Civic Permission Authority
Two Thermal and Water Basin

These ring pools are fixed; shuffle tiles only within their listed ring. All copies of one named district are mechanically identical. Names, art, and flavor may distinguish copies, but visit effects, production, Facility spaces, and contract icons must remain identical.

Every piece placed on the board during setup begins at Frontier, the jurisdiction’s standing civic exception rather than property to be controlled. Two movement reaches any tile from the center; opposing outer tiles are four hexes apart.

Every non-Frontier hex has a visit bonus, two Facility spaces, Facility production, and a control value used by Headlines and Mandates. Frontier has no Facility spaces and is never controlled. It is not a category for the hex-category Mandate. Once pieces leave it, positioning, Teams, local Power, and negotiated adjacency matter.

Presence and control

CEO, Team, or Facility: one presence

The player with the most presence controls each non-Frontier hex. Ties mean nobody controls it. Frontier has no controller regardless of presence.

District effects

Location	Visit bonus	Facility production	Contract icon
Research Commons	Gain one additional Research Protection for this Training Run	Gain one Compute	Compute
Compute Estate	First Compute cost is reduced by one	Gain two Compute	Compute
Human Access District	Deploy costs zero Compute	Gain one Runway	Runway
Fabrication Corridor	Build costs one less Runway	Gain one Compute and one Runway	Compute
Allocation Exchange	Fund gains one Runway	Gain two Runway	Runway
Workforce Transition District	Recruit costs one less Runway	Move one Team one hex during Production	Runway
Consensus Network	Influence may remove one additional Scrutiny	Remove one Scrutiny before Audit	Runway
Civic Permission Authority	Influence may gain one additional Trust	Gain one Trust	Runway
Power Corridor	Build Emergency Power Complex here for one Runway: capacity four local Power; add one Scrutiny each Production it operates	Gain one Compute	Compute
Thermal and Water Basin	Build Civic Heat Battery here for two Runway: capacity three local Power; gain one Trust when constructed; no recurring penalty	Remove one Scrutiny before Audit	Runway
Frontier	After Act, you may gain one Runway and add one Scrutiny	No Facility spaces	None

Resolve Frontier’s optional Runway after the Action, once per acting player who ended movement there. It does not modify the Action or create production or Mandate.

The two Energy-tile visit boxes are the complete ordinary Generator contracts. No separate Power Source reference cards are used. Each player may construct only one ordinary Generator; the full Fusion contract is printed on its Era IV Program card.