Ruling — Khôra: Rise of an Empire

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The game involves several phases and specific procedures for actions and card drafting:

**Card Drafting**

1. Shuffle all Politics cards and deal each player 5 random cards, face down.[1]

2. All players simultaneously choose one card from their hand, place it face down in front of them, and pass the remaining cards to the player on their left.[1][2]

3. Repeat this process with the new cards received until you receive only a single card, which you must keep.[1][2]

**Action Phase**

1. Each player secretly assigns one of their seven Action tiles to each of their [tiles].[3]

2. Once all players have assigned their Action tiles, reveal them.[3]

3. Adjust the position of your Citizen marker:

* If the value showing on the [tile] is less than the number on the Action tile, you must move your marker down on the [Track] a number of spaces equal to the difference between these two values.[3] If you cannot lose the required [tokens], you must set the tile aside with your other unused tiles.[3]

* If the [tile] is greater than or equal to the number on the Action tile, leave the tile and the Action tile in front of you.[3]

4. Resolve Action tiles in order, starting with Philosophy (0) and continuing in increasing number order.[4]

5. All players with an active tile can take their Actions simultaneously, except for the Military tile, which must respect turn order (starting with the Start Player and going clockwise).[4]

6. After the Action Phase, continue to the PROGRESS Phase.[3][5]

**Playing a Politics Card**

To play a Politics card, complete these steps in order:

1. Verify that you have the required token(s) shown in the upper right of the card (Knowledge tokens can be Major or Minor).[6][5]

2. Keep these tokens in front of you; a token can fulfill requirements for multiple cards.[6][5]

3. Pay the required cost shown in the upper left of the card and return the [tokens] to the reserve.[6][5]

4. Place the card face up in front of you.[6][5]

* Yellow background (Archives) cards have an immediate effect that you apply as much as possible upon playing.[6][5][7]

* Purple background (Extraordinary Collection) cards have an ongoing effect that remains active for the remainder of the game.[6][5][7]

* Red background (Central Government) cards have an end-game effect that is applied during final scoring.[6][7]

[1] RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook · p.3 · City board , placed in front of you. · DRAFTING CARDS

[2] RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook · p.3

[3] RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook · p.7

[4] RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook · p.8 · D. ACTION · Legislation · Culture

[5] RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook · p.10

[6] RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook · p.10 · Military · Politics

[7] RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook · p.10

🔧 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 85 ms · ask 5644 ms · total 5731 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 5731 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "City board , placed in front of you. · DRAFTING CARDS", "sharpsignalDocId": 842}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 842}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 842}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "D. ACTION · Legislation · Culture", "sharpsignalDocId": 842}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 842}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Military · Politics", "sharpsignalDocId": 842}, {"page": 10, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 842}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 842 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 842 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 0.89830 of 1937 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 15, 2026 05:05

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 Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.3	0.043908 (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 Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)	D. ACTION · Legislation · Culture	p.8	0.042838 (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 Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.7	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
#4	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.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))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.1	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
#6	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)	OVERVIEW AND GOAL OF THE GAME · EACH PLAYER CHOOSES A COLOR AND TAKES THE CORRESPONDING COMPONENTS: · City board , placed in front of you.	p.2	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 Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.8	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 Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.10	0.030159 (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 52 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 Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)	Military · Politics	p.10	#11	0.029116 (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
#2	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.7	#3	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
#3	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)	City board , placed in front of you. · DRAFTING CARDS	p.3	#21	0.024749 (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 Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)	D. ACTION · Legislation · Culture	p.8	#2	0.042838 (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 Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.2	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.10	#8	0.030159 (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 Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.3	#1	0.043908 (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
#8	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.10	#9	0.029907 (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

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)	City board , placed in front of you. · DRAFTING CARDS	p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.7	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)	D. ACTION · Legislation · Culture	p.8	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.10	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)	Military · Politics	p.10	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Khôra: Rise of an Empire — Rulebook (corpus doc 842)		p.10	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 85 ms · first delta 2870 ms · total 5731 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 85 ms · ask 5644 ms · gateway work 5731 ms · total 5731 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3845
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 574
tok/sec: 203.8 tok/sec — 574 output tokens in 2.817 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 39s 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 777), 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.