Ruling — Tiny Epic Galaxies

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How do I setup the game?

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Asked with: Tiny Epic Galaxiesbg-163967-en-1e

For a standard game setup:

1. Give each player a Galaxy Mat in a color of their choice.[1]

2. Give each player 4 Ships, 1 Culture Token, 1 Energy Token, and 1 Empire Token in their color.[1]

3. Place 2 of the player's ships upright in the center of their Galaxy Mat (these are starting ships) and place the other 2 ships on the ship track on the number spaces outlined with a square.[1]

4. Place the corresponding culture and energy tokens on the resource track of the Galaxy Mat, starting with 1 culture and 2 energy.[1]

5. Place the Empire Token on the first space of the empire track on the Galaxy Mat.[1]

6. Shuffle the Planet Cards deck.[1]

7. Draw 2 more than the number of players and place them face up in a line in the center (for example, 5 planets for a 3-player game, but only 6 planets for a 5-player game).[1]

8. Place the Control Mat and the 7 Action Dice in the center of the table.[1]

9. Shuffle the Secret Mission Cards and deal two to each player; each player selects one to keep under their Galaxy Mat and discards the other.[1]

10. Put any remaining Secret Mission cards face down back into the box.[1]

For solo play (Rogue Galaxy):

1. Select a Rogue Galaxy Mat (found on the reverse side of the Galaxy Mats) for your opponent.[2]

2. Flip the Control Mat to the Rogue Galaxy side.[2]

3. Set the Rogue Galaxy to zero energy and zero culture, but start with all 4 ships in the center of its Galaxy Mat.[2]

4. Do not deal out Secret Mission Cards.[2]

[1] RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook · p.3 · GAME SETUP

[2] RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook · p.10 · THE ROGUE GALAXY  Rules for Solo Play · GAME SETUP

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 100 ms · ask 3944 ms · total 4049 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4049 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 435 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 435 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 11, 2026 07:55

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	GAME SETUP	p.3	0.048916 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	THE ROGUE GALAXY  Rules for Solo Play · GAME SETUP	p.10	0.045805 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	GAMEPLAY · REROLLING DICE · FOLLOW ANOTHER PLAYER · ACTIVATING DICE	p.4	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	MOVE A SHIP · 2. Orbit the Planet · General Movement Rules:	p.5	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	MOVE A SHIP · ADVANCE COLONIZATION · ACQUIRE RESOURCES · UTILIZE A COLONY · END OF SOLO GAME	p.11	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	UTILIZE A COLONY · Galaxy Mat Action:	p.8	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	CONVERTING DICE · FINISHING YOUR TURN · END OF GAME AND SECRET MISSIONS · END OF GAME	p.9	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	ACQUIRE RESOURCES	p.6	0.029851 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 13 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	GAME SETUP	p.3	#1	0.048916 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	CONVERTING DICE · FINISHING YOUR TURN · END OF GAME AND SECRET MISSIONS · END OF GAME	p.9	#7	0.030303 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	MOVE A SHIP · 2. Orbit the Planet · General Movement Rules:	p.5	#4	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	UTILIZE A COLONY · Galaxy Mat Action:	p.8	#6	0.030769 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	ROGUE ACTIONS	p.10	#9	0.014493 (below 0.016, the low end of the measured band — a weak fuse (that band was taken on two-arm asks; only its low end, one arm's #1 vote, carries over to a 3-arm one))	vector	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	MOVE A SHIP · ADVANCE COLONIZATION · ACQUIRE RESOURCES · UTILIZE A COLONY · END OF SOLO GAME	p.11	#5	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	GAMEPLAY · REROLLING DICE · FOLLOW ANOTHER PLAYER · ACTIVATING DICE	p.4	#3	0.032258 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	THE ROGUE GALAXY  Rules for Solo Play · GAME SETUP	p.10	#2	0.045805 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	GAME SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	THE ROGUE GALAXY  Rules for Solo Play · GAME SETUP	p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 100 ms · first delta 1428 ms · total 4049 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 100 ms · ask 3944 ms · gateway work 4049 ms · total 4049 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2926
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 389
tok/sec: 151.0 tok/sec — 389 output tokens in 2.577 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 31s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): setup

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 365), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.