REBELLION SPACE

FLIGHT MANUAL

Welcome aboard, Captain.

Your goal: earn 10 Reputation. You lose at 10 Heat or Hull below 0. Hull 0 is still alive under the printed rules.

1. Find a mission. Roll two d6s separately for category and entry, then a d12 destination. Accept up to three contracts if you have enough cargo space.
2. Travel. Burn 1 fuel and roll Engines. A strong hit grants 3 spaces; a weak hit grants 1. Click a glowing adjacent space or use its button. Small transit circles also count. The Asteroid Field costs another fuel.
3. Do the mission. At its destination, roll Operators. Strong hits earn 2 progress and 2 Reputation; weak hits earn 1 each. Fill the progress track to collect your reward. Delivery jobs have pickup and delivery stages.
4. Fight or flee. Choose Attack (Weapons) or Evade (Engines). After an attack hit, select a weapon and target, then roll damage. Torpedoes require a strong hit and are consumed. After a miss, roll incoming damage and armor.
5. Upgrade. Markets sell fuel, weapons, armor, crew, and system upgrades. Ports unlock equipment bays and cargo capacity and repair damage. Outpost Lorg does both.

Read the dice

Power is d6 + your system rating. Compare it separately against each d10 Fate die: beat both for a strong hit; beat one for a weak hit; beat neither for a miss. The dice tray shows every result. Rep 5+ grants the better of two Power dice; Heat 5+ forces the worse.

Web edition rulings

The two-page original leaves some details open. This alpha uses these explicit interpretations:

• Ties do not beat Fate. At both Rep 5+ and Heat 5+, the modifiers cancel.
• Start at Outpost Lorg. You may end movement early. Every map circle counts as a space. Fuel must cover asteroid entry.
• The two mission d6s are category and entry, not their sum. Cargo is reserved across all active contracts. Delivery jobs require a full progress track at each stop; identical rolled destinations advance to the next planet. The medicine job uses the Asteroid Field.
• On combat hits only your selected target takes damage; on misses each surviving enemy attacks. This follows the action outcome table despite the general “simultaneous” wording. Armor blocks the lower of d4 and current rating; rolling 1 reduces rating afterward. Destroyed armor must be replaced.
• Equipment uses four unlockable bays, separate from the starting laser. Crew bonuses stack. An operator loss applies −1 to base Operators rather than deleting a specific hired crew member.
• System improvements cost 4,000 credits per +1. Hull repair costs 1,000 per point, capped at 5. These prices were not specified. Armor repair costs the printed 2,000 per point.
• Reputation, credits, fuel and progress cannot drop below zero; system penalties can. Loss takes priority over victory if both occur at once. No combat bounty is added.
• At zero fuel, optional emergency towing returns you to Outpost Lorg with 1 fuel, costs up to 1,000 credits and adds 2 Heat. This rescue option is a web addition.

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Read the supplied original rules