Cosmic Encounter - PBP: Deep Space Water

Anybody have a cosmic zap to hit the Tourist with here? Otherwise this is Game Point.

Voyager is Orange, yes?
I surely would like to establish a holiday home on scenic Voyager A, unless of course someone interrupts me in some fashion.

Also while we're at it, might as well play my Engineer flare.

Alas, the inhabitants of Voyager A are a little feral. They tend to bite strangers so for your safety we'll have to Cosmic Zap your disembarkment. We'll send up a supply of snow globes for your troubles.

The movement USE goes through fine, but the disembarking is prevented by the cosmic zap.

Engineer activates!

Wild: You may draw cards from the deck until you draw an artifact card. Non-artifacts drawn are discarded. If you exhaust the deck without drawing an artifact, take any one artifact from the discard pile. Give this flare to the Engineer after use (or discard it, if the Engineer isn't playing).
(As Any Player) (Any Phase)

Tourist draws two cards and.... that is all. An attack 10 is discarded, and something else is kept.

Launch time.

Directing a ship from Tourist B, a ship from Tourist C, a ship from Reactor C, and a ship from Laser D to Voyager D.
Scans make it looks like basically nobody lives here, so it's fine if we just set down and have a look around right?

wait so tourist disembarking is considered a colony capture? isnt that a little bit overpowered? its just a free victory point...

It requires a bit of luck in terms of what gets drawn and is foiled by various other mechanics but otherwise... yep!
If I can book enough holidays I win the game, although that's harder for me now that I gave away my tourist flare.

HYPERSPACE GATE
Offense:4
Defense: VoyagerD(0)

Alliance times! Tourist invites, and then Voyager.

I'll invite my good friends "literally anyone who wants to come" but with the advice that as this planet is clearly totally undefended and a bunch of us have hangovers we're planning on just flying in there with all of our weapons and lights turned off and will maybe just have a quiet chat with anyone who tries to stop us, and would appreciate if you did the same.

Fellow inhabitants of the cosmos, we have too long ignored the threat that radical Tourism poses to our way of life. If we let even one of them in then it's over, the Tourists win. To that end, I ask each and every one of you to do your part and finance a great wall of ships around my unprotected border.

My supporters will also receive complimentary hats.

Everyone invited everyone!

Accept these in the following order:
1. Yin-yang
2. Laser
3. Reactor

3 from Reactor C to Voyager. 1 from Yin-Yang E to... Voyager as well. Tourist is only getting one ship from Yin-Yang A.

Complimentary hats? Don't mind if we do!

Four Laser ships join the Voyagers from planets A, B, C, and D.

Our hat supplies are running low.

Two from A, two from C, to Voyagers.

HYPERSPACE GATE
Offense:4 + 1 = 5
Defense: VoyagerD(0) + 4,4,4, = 12

Time for Planning, and/or other abilities.

Voyager reveals: 10
Tourist reveals: Negotiate

1. Tourist ships and the single Yin-yang ship will go to the warp.
2. Tourist may get up to four rewards due to yin-yang powers
3. Yin-yang gains 4 rewards
4. Laser gains 4 rewards
5. Reactor gains 4 rewards
6. Tourist steals 4 cards from the hand of Voyager

unless anyone interrupts with something

As many ships as possible and the rest in cards.


unless anyone interrupts with something

4 cards, please

I'll have four cards too

EVENT!

Man, those Voyagers, always with the wandering. Even while their home system was in peril, one of the ships from ReactorC jury-rigged a warp drive from a local scrapyard and made its way over to Tourist D.

Activate Wild Reactor

Voyager will gain a planet, and then give this flare to the Reactor, unless anyone opposes.


Order of resolution after the PLANETTING:
1. Tourist ships and the single Yin-yang ship will go to the warp.
2. Tourists gets 4 cards as a reward
3. Yin-yang select 4 cards as a reward
4. Laser gains 4 rewards
5. Reactor gains 2 ships and 2 cards as rewards
6. Tourist steals 4 cards from the hand of Voyager

Voyager settles on the planet, and Reactor flare is given to the Reactor.

Ships get lost to the warp, nobody saving them...

Tourist gets four new cards!

Yin-yang gets four new cards! Where will the yy ships return to?

further queue:
1. Laser 4 rewards: none selected yet; need to send home ships
2. Reactor 2 ships, 2 cards, need to send home ships

A A D E

2 to voyager D, 2 to reactor C

1. Laser 4 rewards: none selected yet; need to send home ships
2. Reactor 2 ships, 2 cards, A A D E

Laser reward time!

Also, uh, if you want to queue things out of turn order next time please do it in your QT

4 reward cards, ships to A, B, C, D.