Ruling — Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game

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What does this expansion add?

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This expansion adds the following:

**New Components**

* **Game Boards:** The Pegasus game board [1] and the New Caprica game board.[1]

* **Characters:** Seven new character sheets [1][2] and seven plastic character stands.[1]

* **Cards:**

* A new skill type: Treachery Skill Cards,[3][1] which include new abilities such as Movement powers and Reckless Skill Cards.[3]

* New Skill Cards for each existing Skill type (Leadership, Tactics, Politics, Piloting, and Engineering).[3][1][2]

* 20 Crisis Cards.[1]

* 30 New Caprica Crisis Cards.[1]

* 5 Super Crisis Cards.[1]

* 12 Agenda Cards.[1]

* 9 Quorum Cards.[1]

* 25 Destination Cards (the Treachery cards are mixed into the existing Destination deck).[1][4]

* 1 New Caprica Objective Card.[1][2]

* 3 Loyalty Cards.[1]

* 5 Infiltration Reference Cards.[1]

* 1 Admiral Title Card and 1 President Title Card.[1]

* **Tokens and Overlays:**

* A Cylon Locations Overlay to replace existing Cylon locations.[5][2]

* 18 Cardboard Tokens: 1 Piloting Token, 4 Occupation Forces Tokens, 4 Pegasus Damage Tokens, 1 Scar Token, and 8 additional tokens (implied by the total count).[1]

* Plastic Basestars (two separate halves that are assembled).[1][4]

**New Rules and Concepts**

* **Movement Powers:** Abilities used during a player's Movement step in lieu of moving.[3]

* **Reckless Skill Cards:** Cards played before a skill check to represent making sacrifices; playing one makes the check "Reckless".[3]

* **Pegasus Mechanics:** The Pegasus is a separate ship that requires discarding one Skill Card to travel to.[5] Its locations can be damaged by Cylon attacks using Pegasus damage tokens, and if all four locations are damaged, the ship is destroyed.[5]

* **Execution Effects:** New effects that result in character execution, such as the 'Airlock' location on Pegasus.[6]

* **Revised Cylon Locations:** Updated Cylon locations (e.g., the Resurrection Ship is now a Hazardous location).[5]

[1] RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook · p.2 · Expansion Overview · Component List · Component Breakdown · Pegasus Game board

[2] RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook · p.6 · Expansion Setup

[3] RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook · p.9 · New Abilities

[4] RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook · p.5 · Treachery Skill Cards · Destination Cards · New Caprica Objective Card · Plastic Basestars · Pegasus Expansion Icon · Assemble the Basestars

[5] RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook · p.9 · How To Use This Expansion · Pegasus Game Board · Damaging and Destroying Pegasus · Revised Cylon Locations

[6] RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook · p.12 · Execution · Human: 3.

🔧 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 80 ms · ask 7473 ms · total 7554 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 7554 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Expansion Overview · Component List · Component Breakdown · Pegasus Game board", "sharpsignalDocId": 878}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Expansion Setup", "sharpsignalDocId": 878}, {"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "New Abilities", "sharpsignalDocId": 878}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Treachery Skill Cards · Destination Cards · New Caprica Objective Card · Plastic Basestars · Pegasus Expansion Icon · Assemble the Basestars", "sharpsignalDocId": 878}, {"page": 9, "quote": null, "headingPath": "How To Use This Expansion · Pegasus Game Board · Damaging and Destroying Pegasus · Revised Cylon Locations", "sharpsignalDocId": 878}, {"page": 12, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Execution · Human: 3.", "sharpsignalDocId": 878}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 354 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 354 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)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.84278 of 1641 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 12, 2026 18:56

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 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Expansion Setup	p.6	0.032522 (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 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Treachery Skill Cards · Destination Cards · New Caprica Objective Card · Plastic Basestars · Pegasus Expansion Icon · Assemble the Basestars	p.5	0.032002 (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 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Game Variants · Selective Variants · No New Caprica · No Cylon Leaders · Sympathetic Cylon	p.18	0.030798 (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 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 354)	Card Clarifi cations · Frequently Overlooked Rules	p.30	0.030478 (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 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 354)	Example of Jumping · Kobol Objective Card	p.14	0.030018 (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 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 354)	Event Crises · Activate Cylon Ships Step · Prepare for Jump Step · Losing Resources · Core Rules	p.11	0.029387 (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 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 354)	FTL Control Jump · Destination Cards	p.13	0.028958 (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 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 354)	Activating Cylon Raiders	p.23	0.028543 (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 80 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 — 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.

one thing that looks wrong and is not: a row a floor seated can carry a fused rank LARGER than the pool size above it. The floors draw from the whole fused list, not only from the passages the re-ranker scored — so a rank past the pool is a floor reaching down for something the re-ranker would never have seen, which is exactly what the floors are for.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	New Abilities	p.9	#14	0.015385 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Execution · Human: 3.	p.12	#60	0.008333 (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
#3	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	How To Use This Expansion · Pegasus Game Board · Damaging and Destroying Pegasus · Revised Cylon Locations	p.9	#13	0.015625 (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 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Rules Changes and Clarifi cations · 'Cylon Players' and 'Human Players'	p.7	#17	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 Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Expansion Overview · Component List · Component Breakdown · Pegasus Game board	p.2	#12	0.016393 (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 re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Treachery Skill Cards · Destination Cards · New Caprica Objective Card · Plastic Basestars · Pegasus Expansion Icon · Assemble the Basestars	p.5	#2	0.032002 (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 re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Expansion Setup	p.6	#1	0.032522 (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 re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game — Rulebook (corpus doc 354)	Card Clarifi cations · Frequently Overlooked Rules	p.30	#4	0.030478 (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	guaranteed a slot by the one-slot-per-book floor

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Expansion Overview · Component List · Component Breakdown · Pegasus Game board	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Expansion Setup	p.6	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	New Abilities	p.9	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Treachery Skill Cards · Destination Cards · New Caprica Objective Card · Plastic Basestars · Pegasus Expansion Icon · Assemble the Basestars	p.5	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	How To Use This Expansion · Pegasus Game Board · Damaging and Destroying Pegasus · Revised Cylon Locations	p.9	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game – Pegasus Expansion — Rulebook (corpus doc 878)	Execution · Human: 3.	p.12	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 80 ms · first delta 3509 ms · total 7554 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 80 ms · ask 7473 ms · gateway work 7554 ms · total 7554 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3650
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 555
tok/sec: 139.7 tok/sec — 555 output tokens in 3.974 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 27s 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: 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 283), 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.