Independent Station

Setup: Place obstacles as normal, excluding the station and replacing the 2 debris fields with 2 dust fields. Then, the second player places the station in the setup area beyond distance 1 of all obstacles and beyond distance 5 of both players’ edges. The station is an armed station; place the Armed Station card near the second player’s ship cards.

Special Rule: The armed station does not have the ability to discard damage cards or recover hull points for ships and squadrons that overlap it.

After the Command Phase of each round, the armed station performs 1 attack against the first player’s closest ship. If there are no ships at attack range, the station performs attacks against all of the first player’s squadrons that are at attack range.