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How do I take my turn?

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A turn consists of the following phases and steps:
1. **ABILITIES MAY BE TRIGGERED**: All players may optionally trigger abilities as desired.[1] The active player may trigger abilities with blue or green ability boxes, while inactive players may only trigger abilities with red or green ability boxes.[1] Certain abilities, such as those with the 2 dice icon, may not be triggered.[1]
2. **ROLL**: The active player rolls both dice.[1] Some "re-roll" or "set dice" abilities may be used during this phase.[1] Specifically, "set dice" abilities must be used before rolling and allow a player to choose a result instead of rolling.[2][3]
3. **ALLOCATE DICE**: Each player chooses to claim the dice separately or as a sum.[1] This choice is independent for each player.[1] Certain green abilities (showing a 2 dice and arrow icon) can be used during this phase if the player chose to allocate the sum of the dice.[1][4]
4. **GAIN REWARDS**: Each player receives rewards on their cards for the sector(s) the dice hit.[1] The active player gains blue rewards for cards on their board, and passive players gain red rewards for deployed cards.[1] If doubles are rolled and dice are taken separately, a player gains rewards for that sector twice.[1] Certain abilities, such as "2X - STATION (ACTIVE)", can be used during this phase to gain blue rewards for one sector twice.[5]
5. **BUY A CARD**: The active player may buy any one affordable card from the 18 available ship cards in the Shipyard, or buy a Colony card.[6] If a card is bought, the player must spend all of their (set their yellow cube to 0) even if it exceeds the price.[6] If the "Buy a Card" ability is used, the player only spends the exact cost of the card.[7] The active player may also choose not to buy a card.[1][6]
6. **CHARGE ABILITIES MAY BE TRIGGERED**: Players may trigger charge abilities if possible and desired.[6]
7. **REFILL SHIPYARD**: If cards were taken from the shipyard, they are replaced with the top card of their respective deck so that each level has six cards at the end of the turn.[6]
8. **INCOME**: If the active player's cube is lower than their cube, they move their cube up to be equal with their cube.[6] Passive players do nothing during this step.[6]
The turn ends, and play passes clockwise to the next player.[1][6]
[1] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook · p.12 · HOW TO PLAY · ON A TURN
[2] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook · p.26 · SET DICE · EXCHANGE THIS CARD WITH ANY OTHER CARD ON YOUR BOARD · YOU WIN!
[3] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook · p.26
[4] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook · p.23 · DICE+ARROW(S) · EXAMPLE OF USING GREEN-DICE-ARROW EFFECTS
[5] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook · p.27 · 2X - STATION (ACTIVE) · 2X - DEPLOY (PASSIVE)
[6] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook · p.13 · ON A TURN · END OF TURN!
[7] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook · p.24 · BUY A CARD / CLAIM A CARD · BUY A CARD · CLAIM A CARD · SWAP SECTORS
🔧 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 83 ms · ask 10714 ms · total 10799 ms
single-flight (PR-5)
queued 0 ms · generation 10799 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 375 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 375 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 0.89682 of 1919 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until
Nov 12, 2026 21:06

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 rankdocumentheadingpage fused RRF scoresnippet chars
#1 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) HOW TO PLAY · ON A TURN p.12 0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1) 300
#2 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) BUY A CARD / CLAIM A CARD · BUY A CARD · CLAIM A CARD · SWAP SECTORS p.24 0.047131 (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 Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) END OF THE GAME p.16 0.046432 (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 Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) TIMING RESTRICTIONS OF ABILITIES: · 1. COMMAND CONSOLES · 2. COLONY CARDS · 3. THE SHIPYARD · 4. CHARGE TOKENS · 5. DETERMINE STARTING PLAYER p.10 0.045037 (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 Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) SET DICE · EXCHANGE THIS CARD WITH ANY OTHER CARD ON YOUR BOARD · YOU WIN! p.26 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
#6 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) ON A TURN · END OF TURN! p.13 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
#7 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) p.26 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
#8 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) REROLL DICE · ALL PLAYERS LOSE 4 · PLACE ONE CHARGE ANYWHERE · PLACE A CARD ON ANY 7-12 SECTOR p.25 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 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 — 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 atdocumentheadingpage fused rankfused RRF scorecarried byhow it got its slot
#1 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) HOW TO PLAY · ON A TURN p.12 #1 0.04918 (at the 3-arm ceiling (0.04918) — every arm ranked it #1) vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#2 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) 2X - STATION (ACTIVE) · 2X - DEPLOY (PASSIVE) p.27 #9 0.028139 (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
#3 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) DICE+ARROW(S) · EXAMPLE OF USING GREEN-DICE-ARROW EFFECTS p.23 #10 0.027746 (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
#4 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) BUY A CARD / CLAIM A CARD · BUY A CARD · CLAIM A CARD · SWAP SECTORS p.24 #2 0.047131 (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
#5 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) ON A TURN · END OF TURN! p.13 #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)) vector + the doc-priority boost arm the re-ranker chose it
#6 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) SET DICE · EXCHANGE THIS CARD WITH ANY OTHER CARD ON YOUR BOARD · YOU WIN! p.26 #5 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
#7 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) p.26 #7 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
#8 RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) END OF THE GAME p.16 #3 0.046432 (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

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.

#documentheadingpagequote chars
[1] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) HOW TO PLAY · ON A TURN p.12 no quote on the wire
[2] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) SET DICE · EXCHANGE THIS CARD WITH ANY OTHER CARD ON YOUR BOARD · YOU WIN! p.26 no quote on the wire
[3] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) p.26 no quote on the wire
[4] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) DICE+ARROW(S) · EXAMPLE OF USING GREEN-DICE-ARROW EFFECTS p.23 no quote on the wire
[5] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) 2X - STATION (ACTIVE) · 2X - DEPLOY (PASSIVE) p.27 no quote on the wire
[6] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) ON A TURN · END OF TURN! p.13 no quote on the wire
[7] RULEBOOK Space Base — Rulebook (corpus doc 375) BUY A CARD / CLAIM A CARD · BUY A CARD · CLAIM A CARD · SWAP SECTORS p.24 no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split
retrieval 83 ms · first delta 6978 ms · total 10799 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 83 ms · ask 10714 ms · gateway work 10799 ms · total 10799 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read)
3568
tokens out (what the answerer generated)
559
tok/sec
148.9 tok/sec — 559 output tokens in 3.753 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child)
answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 46s 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 304), 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.