Volatile Cargo

Setup: Place obstacles as normal, excluding the station.

Special Rule: The second player chooses 3 of their ships or squadrons (at least 1 must be a ship) to be objective ships or squadrons and assigns an objective token to each. The first player gains 1 victory token for each objecive token that cannot be assigned.

While an objective ship or squadron is defending, before it suffers damage, it may reduce the total damage by 1. If the defender is destroyed during that attack, each other ship and squadron at distance 1-2 of the defender suffers damage equal to half of the total number of [hit] icons in the attack pool, rounded up. Then the first player gains 1 victory token.

End of Game: The second player gains 2 victory tokens for each objective ship or squadron at distance 1-3 of the first player’s edge.