SETI: Space Agencies

Description

--- **SETI: Space Agencies** expansion introduces asymmetric organizations with unique abilities to deepen strategic alien life searches. Key mechanics include: - *Asymmetric organizations* Powerful institutions (private tech companies to global networks) offering distinct abilities, advantages, starting conditions, specialized tools, and long-term strategies. - *New alien species* Three species each with unique twists. - *Project cards* Over 40 new cards inspired by real-world initiatives, integrating into the main deck for greater variety and options. - *Quick Start cards* Enable skipping the slower opening round with organizations, adding setup asymmetry and accelerating lower player count games. - *Signal tokens* New mechanism that subtly enhances scanning efficiency. SETI: Space Agencies, an expansion for SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, introduces asymmetric organizations led by players as heads of diverse institutions—from private tech companies to global research networks—each providing unique abilities, strategic advantages, starting conditions, specialized tools, and perspectives that unlock bold strategies and reward long-term planning. It adds three new alien species with distinctive twists, over forty project cards drawn from real-world initiatives that seamlessly blend into the main deck to expand variety and options, "Quick Start" cards that bypass the initial slow round for immediate action while introducing extra setup asymmetry and speeding up games at lower player counts, and signal tokens as a subtle mechanism boosting scanning efficiency, collectively deepening the strategic landscape of interstellar missions to detect life beyond Earth. ---