Planetarium: Primordial

What is Planetarium: Primordial

Primordial, the first expansion for Planetarium, adds a new frost line to the board, and new cards that allow you to heat and cool planets for extra points at the end of the game. A new Late Bombardment effect clears the evolution track and re-distributes matter around the board, and also creates comets, which can be used as "wild" matter.

-description from designer

This expansion adds two modules to the base game: Epochs and Frost Line. One or the other or both may be added.

Epochs: The solar system begins with no planets. A player may, instead of moving a Matter token or a Planet, create a Protoplanet. Later, a player may play a Proto Evolution card to turn the Protoplanet into a Planet. The first time the Acceleration space is reached, it triggers the Late Heavy Bombardment instead (all the matter on the evolution track fills the empty solar system spaces, and comets may appear. The second time the Acceleration space is reached, Acceleration occurs normally.

Game details

Players

2–4

Age

+10

Duration

60 min

Difficulty

Medium

Type

Expansion

Year

2019

Mechanics

Grid Movement · Hand Management · Set Collection

Categories

Educational · Expansion for Base-game · Science Fiction

Designer

Dann May · Stéphane Vachon

Publisher

Sparkworks · Tycoon Games