It's where you get good and bad karma throughout the game and then basically everyone gets executed for being bad at the end.
Or something.
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Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2013 9:55:50 am PST #18951 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
billytea - Feb 11, 2013 2:27:03 pm PST #18952 of 26134
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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It's where you get good and bad karma throughout the game and then basically everyone gets executed for being bad at the end.
No, not everyone! Just one person. Maybe.
Here's the longer explanation of the Ionian Nebula:
The most noticeable change for most of the game is that at any time, there will be three 'Allies' ensconced at various locations. When you encounter them, they can help or hurt the fleet, depending on whether they have good or bad trauma.
Everyone has trauma. Accumulate too much of the wrong sort, and you can get booted from the game. You can manage your trauma by encountering allies, because you contribute a piece of your damage to decide their replacement's mood. However, bad trauma for you is also bad trauma for the Ally. You can get more trauma in various ways, notably by landing in Sickbay or the Brig.
When the fleet hits Distance 8, you reach the Crossraods phase. Everyone (Cylons included) faces a personal crisis, the resolution of which depends on (again) your trauma. After resolving the Crossroads, if anyone has too much wrong trauma, there's an elimination! And after that, the Cylons launch an all-out assault on Galactica, the outcome of which decides the game.
In practice, eliminations don't seem to happen very often; but the threat of them changes player behaviour. Going by the bgg experience, the Ionian Nebula makes the game notably harder for the humans - more so than the Cylon Fleet. Nonetheless, it's proven popular on bgg, and is the last module that we haven't yet tried here.
Polter-Cow - Feb 11, 2013 2:55:52 pm PST #18953 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
BSG
the Ionian Nebula makes the game notably harder for the humans
Because until then, the humans were having just too easy a time of it.
chrismg - Feb 11, 2013 7:01:31 pm PST #18954 of 26134
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
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I'm in. I move for Ionian Nebula, since we haven't tried it, and no conflicted loyalties, since they make things even more complicated.
Liese S. - Feb 11, 2013 7:58:19 pm PST #18955 of 26134
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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I'm out. My life has gotten very weird lately and I don't think I can handle the commitment.
Laga - Feb 12, 2013 6:56:16 am PST #18956 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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wow that sounds really complicated. Still it's the only thing we haven't tried before, right? I vote for that, but take away cylon fleet and conflicted loyalties.
omnis_audis - Feb 12, 2013 9:36:21 am PST #18957 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
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Email sent. I'm in. I like Cylon Fleet. But not if we are trying the nebula thingie.
Should we start a pool, on whether or not ND & PC are Cylons? And what round they become outed?
Polter-Cow - Feb 12, 2013 9:47:31 am PST #18958 of 26134
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
BSG
Yeah, I'd agree that Ionian Nebula is new and complicated enough that it should be the only module we use. That way we can actually focus on how the hell it works and determine whether we want to use it again.
Should we start a pool, on whether or not ND & PC are Cylons? And what round they become outed?
I'll just reveal in the first round to save everyone the trouble.
omnis_audis - Feb 12, 2013 9:51:52 am PST #18959 of 26134
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
(puts down omnis for PC round one reveal)
OK, any other betters?
(it's great getting inside tips like that!)
Laga - Feb 12, 2013 12:38:34 pm PST #18960 of 26134
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
But I want to be a cylon this game. Hey, let's all be cylons! Death to all humans!