Ruling — Beyond the Sun

You asked

How do I draft my Leader cards?

Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below counted as honest abstain

Asked with: Beyond the Sunbg-317985-en-1e

I looked through Beyond the Sun's rulebook and couldn't find a solid answer to that one — and I'd rather tell you so than guess at your table. Try asking it another way, or ask me about setup, turns, or how the game ends: those I know cold.

The closest rulebook passages are below — check them before ruling.

RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook · p.15 · 1. Choose Technology slot 1. Choose Technology slot 1. Choose Technology slot · 2. Place Population cube 2. Place Population cube · 3. Trigger Event (undiscovered Level II or III Technologies only) 3. Trigger Event (undiscovered Level II or III Technologies only)

Higher -level T echnologies require 1 or 2 prerequisites. Some Level IIII T Higher -level T echnologies require 1 or 2 prerequisites. Some Level IIII T echnologies only require echnologies only require 2 out of 3 prerequisites. 2 out of 3 prerequisites. If the symbol contains an eye If the symbol co

RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook · p.15 · 4. Choose Technology card (undiscovered Technologies only) 4. Choose Technology card (undiscovered Technologies only) · a. Determine T echnology type a. Determine T echnology type

If this is an undiscovered T echnology , the researching player has the oppor tunity to choose a new T echnology card from the deck to place on the board, unlocking new actions and abiliti es: If this is an undiscovered T echnology , the researching player has the oppor tunity to choose a new T echn

RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook · p.6 · 1. Action Phase 1. Action Phase

To take an Action, the player moves their Action pawn P and places it on an Action space They then take the Action printed to the right of that Action spa ce. To take an Action, the player moves their Action pawn P and places it on an Action space They then take the Action printed to the right of th

RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook · p.6 · 1. Action Phase 1. Action Phase

The player must have already researched the T echnology the Action space is on. This is indicated by the presence of the Faction' s Population cube p to the left of the T echnology card. (Action spaces printed directly on the T echnology board do not require research). A player may not take an Actio

RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook · p.23 · Rule and Card Clarification Rule and Card Clarification

'Upgrade then Jump' (e.g., Supply Outpost (tech II), Hyperdrive Boosters (tech III), etc.) - resolve any System control changes after upgrade, then resolve again after Jumps. · 'Upgrade then Jump' (e.g., Supply Outpost (tech II), Hyperdrive Boosters (tech III), etc.) - resolve any System control cha

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome

ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below

warm abstain

this ruling — W1 — generic warm abstain · receipt: none (generic)

corpus profile

live,vps

answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only)

gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70

timings

search 91 ms · ask 3377 ms · total 3470 ms

single-flight (PR-5)

queued 0 ms · generation 3470 ms

retrieval refs (raw) — what the PASSAGE SEARCH returned, not what the answerer read

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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show

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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3)

no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 297 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true

base rulebook doc 297 boosted

answered-before recall

no past answered ruling for this game matched closely enough

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 12, 2026 17:19

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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	1. Choose Technology slot 1. Choose Technology slot 1. Choose Technology slot · 2. Place Population cube 2. Place Population cube · 3. Trigger Event (undiscovered Level II or III Technologies only) 3. Trigger Event (undiscovered Level II or III Technologies only)	p.15	0.032787 (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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	4. Choose Technology card (undiscovered Technologies only) 4. Choose Technology card (undiscovered Technologies only) · a. Determine T echnology type a. Determine T echnology type	p.15	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
#3	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	1. Action Phase 1. Action Phase	p.6	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
#4	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	1. Action Phase 1. Action Phase	p.6	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
#5	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	Rule and Card Clarification Rule and Card Clarification	p.23	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
#6	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	4. Take System card and discover new System 4. Take System card and discover new System · 5. Place additional production disc 5. Place additional production disc	p.21	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
#7	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)		p.16	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
#8	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	Rule and Card Clarification Rule and Card Clarification	p.23	0.029412 (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 60 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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	4. Take System card and discover new System 4. Take System card and discover new System · 5. Place additional production disc 5. Place additional production disc	p.21	#6	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
#2	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	4. Choose Technology card (undiscovered Technologies only) 4. Choose Technology card (undiscovered Technologies only) · a. Determine T echnology type a. Determine T echnology type	p.15	#2	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
#3	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	46 Technology cards · 20 Event cards: 10 each of Level II and III · Technology board	p.3	#24	0.011905 (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
#4	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	b. Reveal T echnology cards b. Reveal T echnology cards	p.15	#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
#5	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	Scoring Scoring	p.11	#34	0.010638 (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 Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	Scoring Scoring	p.11	#26	0.011628 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	3. Check System bonuses · 1. Determine eligibility 1. Determine eligibility	p.20	#28	0.011364 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Beyond the Sun — Rulebook (corpus doc 297)	1. Choose Technology slot 1. Choose Technology slot 1. Choose Technology slot · 2. Place Population cube 2. Place Population cube · 3. Trigger Event (undiscovered Level II or III Technologies only) 3. Trigger Event (undiscovered Level II or III Technologies only)	p.15	#1	0.032787 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 91 ms · first delta 3332 ms · total 3470 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 91 ms · ask 3377 ms · gateway work 3470 ms · total 3470 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3628
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 9
tok/sec: 142.9 tok/sec — 9 output tokens in 0.063 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 32s 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: ABSTAINED — Abstained — no grounded answer; closest passages below
abstain rationale: I don't have enough information.
the answerer's own words, verbatim — hostile corpus/LLM text, rendered escaped

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

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 225), 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.