Ruling — Celestia

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How do I play?

Answered counted as answered

Asked with: Celestiabg-175117-en-1e

**Setup**

1. Place the 9 City tiles in ascending order on the table (from 1 to 25).[1]

2. For each City tile, shuffle the corresponding numbered treasure cards and place them in a facedown pile next to the City tile.[1]

3. Place the aircraft on the first City tile.[1]

4. Each player chooses an Adventurer tile and places the Adventurer pawn of the same colour in the aircraft.[1]

5. Shuffle all Equipment, Power and Turbo cards into a single deck.[1]

6. Each player is dealt a starting hand from this deck (8 cards for 2 or 3 players; 6 cards for 4 or more players).[1]

7. Use any method to determine the first captain of the aircraft.[1]

**A Turn (Leg of a Journey)**

1. The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges, rolling as many dice as indicated on the next City tile.[2][3]

2. Passengers (players still in the aircraft) take turns, starting with the player sitting immediately to the left of the captain, declaring whether they will stay aboard or disascend.[4][3]

* If a passenger feels the captain can overcome the challenges, they announce “I will stay” and leave their pawn in the aircraft.[4]

* If a passenger feels the captain cannot overcome the challenges, they declare “I will leave,” take their Adventurer pawn out of the aircraft and put it on their Adventurer tile, and draw the top Treasure card from the corresponding deck.[4]

3. Once all passengers have announced their intentions, and before the captain plays (or fails to play) their cards, Power cards may be used.[4] All players, including the captain, may play any number of Power cards any time during this period.[4]

4. The captain faces the challenges by using required Equipment cards (or Turbo cards) from their hand to overcome the events shown on the dice.[5][6] The captain must play one Equipment card for each die.[6]

5. The captain moves the aircraft:

* If the captain overcomes all challenges, they move the aircraft to the next city and all played cards are discarded.[6]

* If the captain cannot face all events, they play no Equipment card, the aircraft crashes with all passengers, and the current journey ends.[6]

6. The captain passes control of the aircraft to the next player; the passenger sitting to the left of the captain becomes the new captain.[3][6]

**New Journey**

1. Place the aircraft on the first City tile.[6]

2. Return all Adventurers pawns to the aircraft.[6]

3. Each player draws one Equipment card.[2][6]

4. The captain changes.[2]

**Ending the Game**

The game ends immediately if any player reaches 50 points by adding the values on their collected treasure cards.[6] Alternatively, at the beginning of a new journey, players check their treasures; the game ends as soon as a player has 5 different types of treasure.[7] The player with the highest score wins.[3][6]

[1] RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook · p.2

[2] RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook · p.8 · Summary of a turn · Power cards · Aaron W eissblum < Author · Gaétan N oir < Illustrator · Acknowledgements

[3] RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook · p.3 · Goal of the game · Gameplay · Players take turns being the captain. · Progress of a leg · The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges.

[4] RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook · p.4

[5] RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook · p.6

[6] RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook · p.5 · The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges. · New Journey · End of the game

[7] RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook · p.7

So says the rulebook. So plays the table.

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
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timings: search 182 ms · ask 4438 ms · total 4622 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 4622 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 2, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 810}, {"page": 8, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Summary of a turn · Power cards · Aaron W eissblum < Author · Gaétan N oir < Illustrator · Acknowledgements", "sharpsignalDocId": 810}, {"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Goal of the game · Gameplay · Players take turns being the captain. · Progress of a leg · The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges.", "sharpsignalDocId": 810}, {"page": 4, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 810}, {"page": 6, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 810}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges. · New Journey · End of the game", "sharpsignalDocId": 810}, {"page": 7, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 810}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 810 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 810 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 0.90375 of 2317 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row retained until: Nov 27, 2026 15:06 UTC

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 Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)	The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges. · New Journey · End of the game	p.5	0.047619 (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 Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.4	0.046875 (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 Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)	Goal of the game · Gameplay · Players take turns being the captain. · Progress of a leg · The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges.	p.3	0.046751 (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 Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)	Summary of a turn · Power cards · Aaron W eissblum < Author · Gaétan N oir < Illustrator · Acknowledgements	p.8	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
#5	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.6	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
#6	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.7	0.044557 (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 Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.2	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
#8	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)	The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges.	p.4	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))	1

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 Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.4	#2	0.046875 (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 Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)	Summary of a turn · Power cards · Aaron W eissblum < Author · Gaétan N oir < Illustrator · Acknowledgements	p.8	#4	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
#3	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.6	#5	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
#4	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.6	#9	0.029469 (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
#5	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.7	#6	0.044557 (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
#6	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)	Goal of the game · Gameplay · Players take turns being the captain. · Progress of a leg · The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges.	p.3	#3	0.046751 (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
#7	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)	The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges. · New Journey · End of the game	p.5	#1	0.047619 (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 Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.2	#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))	vector + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)	Summary of a turn · Power cards · Aaron W eissblum < Author · Gaétan N oir < Illustrator · Acknowledgements	p.8	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)	Goal of the game · Gameplay · Players take turns being the captain. · Progress of a leg · The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges.	p.3	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.4	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.6	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)	The captain rolls the dice to determine the challenges. · New Journey · End of the game	p.5	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Celestia — Rulebook (corpus doc 810)		p.7	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 182 ms · first delta 1203 ms · total 4622 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 182 ms · ask 4438 ms · gateway work 4622 ms · total 4622 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 3608
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 679
tok/sec: 201.9 tok/sec — 679 output tokens in 3.363 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 24s ago)
gateway schema (read from the running child): schema head 0042_definer_search_path (live revision not readable by this principal)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 60h, checked 1s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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 745), 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.