Ship Control

Keep the crew breathing. Match contaminants to scrub the air supply.

Plot the course. Rotate star charts to complete constellations.

Balance engine output. Align fuel cells to generate power.

Strengthen the shields. Disentangle the force net projected between its nodes.

Restore the ship's power grid. Route energy through damaged conduits in a docked Grid Refit work order, or rehearse it in practice mode.

Patch the hull. Fit repair plates into an 8×8 lattice and seal completed rows or columns. Docked repair only — restores Hull Integrity.

Deflect incoming fire with timed mirrors and route shots into damage sinks. This card is a drill; live deflection engagements open when your ship comes under attack.

Duel a rival — or rally allies for up to a 3v3 team skirmish. Stack falling color pairs into rectangles, shatter them with a breaker, and send strikes across the board.

Engage an enemy ship. Match gems to fire weapons — blue gems heal you, and full color banks unlock devastating special attacks. Playable docked or underway; combat-only — it does not feed any ship duty gauge either way.

Assemble circuit schematics. Swap components into matching patterns before static overwhelms the board.

Face off at the Nebula Toast table against a real AI rival. Match pieces by color or shape to stain territory, clear rows and columns for bonuses, and manage your own intoxication before you pass out.

Work an ore field. Rotate 2x2 groups of rock strata to match and clear tiles, dropping ore containers into the cargo hold — fill the manifest before the field seizes up.

Pick a wreck clean. Swap salvage tokens vertically to match and haul them aboard, floating cargo containers up the conduit to the hold intake — recover the quota before the haul window closes.

Work the forge bay. Hammer a heated 6x6 hull plate flat cell by cell — but the symbol on the cell you just struck decides where you may strike next. Set every cell for a masterpiece before you run out of legal strikes.

Run the loading deck. You never touch the munitions — drop up to three deflector plates and let the charges steer themselves into four rail-cannon breeches in the right order. Anything out of order fouls the gun.

Work the refinery stack. Columns of feedstock march toward the discharge line — restratify them so they go up into the fuel tanks instead of down into the slag furnace. A pair of cells only trades one way.

Brace four irregular hull breaches with pentomino plates. Every breach has a par — the number of plates a perfect fit costs — and finishing under it is impossible, so the whole game is not going over. Overlap and overhang are legal, and both waste plates.

Wind the mag-tether array. Click a piece on a rope, then click one of its six neighbours — the WHOLE rope slides one step, not just the two you touched. Reel a chain into the live winch before it rotates away.

Place shield emitters across the hull grid so every open sector is lit, no emitter feeds back into another's projection field, and every numbered pylon carries exactly its rated emitter load.

Partition the surveyed star chart ahead into balanced survey sectors, each anchored on (rotationally symmetric about) its own beacon, until every chart cell belongs to exactly one sector.

Batten bundles of filter fibre into the loom, pushing them as deep as they will go, and flood-clear groups of four or more matching threads into completed membrane bolts.