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End-of-round summary:

Round 11
Connie Neil
Layout
Damaged Alien Factory (Military Yellow Production World)
Artist Colony (Non-Military Blue Production World) + good
Public Works (Development)
Epsilon Eridani (Non-Military World)
Colony Ship (Development)
New Vinland (Non-Military Blue Production World) + good
Galactic Federation (6-Cost Development)
Smuggling Lair (Non-Military Brown Windfall World) + good
Terraforming Robots (Development)

Cards in Hand: 3
Victory Points: 6
Layout Value: 10
6-Cost Developments: 5

omnis
Layout
Galactic Trendsetters (Non-Military World)
Public Works (Development)
Comet Zone (Non-Military Brown Production World) + good
Galactic Engineers (Non-Military World)
Secluded World (Non-Military Blue Production World) + good
Mining Conglomerate (Development)
Volcanic World (Non-Military Brown Production World) + good

Cards in Hand: 6
Victory Points: 5
Layout Value: 11
6-Cost Developments: 0

Laga
Layout
Old Earth (Non-Military World)
Distant World (Non-Military Green Production World) + good
Gem World (Non-Military Blue Production World) + good
Consumer Markets (Development)
Investment Credits (Development)
Galactic Survey: Seti (6-Cost Development)
Interstellar Bank (Development)
Space Port (Non-Military Blue Production World) + good

Cards in Hand: 7
Victory Points: 2
Layout Value: 11
6-Cost Developments: 5

VP Pool: 23

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Action cards for this round:

Connie Neil: Phase III - Settle
omnis: Phase II - Develop
Laga: Phase IV (x2) - Consume (double VPs)

Three phases. Phase II (Develop) opens with Laga drawing 1 card, courtesy of Interstellar Bank.

Everyone, if you haven't put in COs for Phase II (or Phase III), send them in. If you have a choice on Consume powers, you can also send me COs for Phase IV.

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Administrative note: Laga's card draw exhausted the deck. I've reshuffled the discards.

Now, Phase II. Connie plays Investment Credits. She gets -2 cost from Galactic Federation, so it costs nothing. It gives a further -1 cost on any future decelopments. She then draws a card from Public Works.

omnis plays Colony Ship for 1 discard. He chose this phase, so he gets -1 cost. He also picks up 1 card from Public Works.

Laga passes.

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Phase III (Settle):

Connie discards Colony Ship to play Lost Species Ark World. This normally costs 5 discards, but she plays it for free. It's a Green production world; whenever she produces on this world, she draws 2 cards. She then draws 2 cards - 1 for choosing this phase, and 1 from Terraforming Robots.

omnis just played the other Colony Ship, and he discards it to play Galactic Studios. This also normally costs 5 discards. It's a Blue production world. Whenever he produces on it, he draws 1 card; it also allows him to consume 1 good for 1 VP and 1 card.

Laga plays Earth's Lost Colony for 2 discards. This is a Blue production world, and also allows her to consume 1 good for 1 VP.

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We are down to Phase IV (Consume). Everyone has 3 goods to consume.

Connie consumes her goods on Public Works, Epsilon Eridani and Terraforming Robots, for 3 VPs and 2 cards.

omnis consumes his goods on Galactic Trendsetters, the freshly placed Gaalctic Studios and Public Works for 4 VPs and 1 card.

Laga consumes her goods on Consumer Markets and Old Earth (either of which can take more than one good) for 3 VPs. However, she chose this phase, and opted to double her points; she gets 6 VPs.

Cards are going out now to finish Round 12. Everyone, please send me your choice of Action card for Round 13.

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End-of-round summary:

Round 12
Connie Neil
Layout
Damaged Alien Factory (Military Yellow Production World)
Artist Colony (Non-Military Blue Production World)
Public Works (Development)
Epsilon Eridani (Non-Military World)
Lost Species Ark World (Non-Military Green Production World)
New Vinland (Non-Military Blue Production World)
Galactic Federation (6-Cost Development)
Smuggling Lair (Non-Military Brown Windfall World)
Terraforming Robots (Development)
Investment Credits (Development)

Cards in Hand: 6
Victory Points: 9
Layout Value: 13
6-Cost Developments: 5

omnis
Layout
Galactic Trendsetters (Non-Military World)
Public Works (Development)
Comet Zone (Non-Military Brown Production World)
Galactic Engineers (Non-Military World)
Secluded World (Non-Military Blue Production World)
Mining Conglomerate (Development)
Volcanic World (Non-Military Brown Production World)
Galactic Studios (Non-Military Blue Production World)

Cards in Hand: 5
Victory Points: 9
Layout Value: 14
6-Cost Developments: 0

Laga
Layout
Old Earth (Non-Military World)
Distant World (Non-Military Green Production World)
Gem World (Non-Military Blue Production World)
Consumer Markets (Development)
Investment Credits (Development)
Galactic Survey: Seti (6-Cost Development)
Interstellar Bank (Development)
Space Port (Non-Military Blue Production World)
Earth's Lost Colony (Non-Military Blue Production World)

Cards in Hand: 5
Victory Points: 8
Layout Value: 12
6-Cost Developments: 6

VP Pool: 10

so ...we have Virtual Desktop. Anybody else?

What is it? (Which means I do not have it).

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I do not have a virtual desktop as far as I know, but what I do have is orders for Round 13.

Connie Neil: Phase II - Develop
omnis: Phase V - Produce
Laga: Phase V - Produce

Phase II (Develop) is first. Laga draws 1 card from Interstellar bank, but passes on playing a development.

omnis also passes.

Connie plays the 6-cost development, New Galactic Order. She gets -1 cost for choosing this phase, 1 cost from Investment Bank and -2 cost from Galactic Federation, so she winds up paying a grand total of 2 cards. This card gives her +2 military strength. At game end, it's worth her military strength in VPs (currently 3 VPs); it also increases the value of Galactic Federation by 2 VPs. She then draws 1 card from Public Works.

Cards are going out now.

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Phase V (Produce): everyone now has four production worlds, and produces four goods.

Connie produces 2 Blue goods, 1 Green good and 1 Yellow good. She discards 1 card to produce on Damaged Alien Factory. She then draws 2 cards from Lost Species Ark World.

omnis produces 2 Blue and 2 Brown goods. He then draws 4 cards, from Comet Zone, Galactic Studios and Mining Conglomerate.

Laga produces 3 Blue and 1 Green goods, and also draws 4 cards, from Gem World and (mostly) Consumer Markets.

Cards are going out now. That concludes Round 13, nice and easy. Everyone, please send me your choice of Action card for Round 14.

Please note: Connie now has 11 cards in her layout. If she plays one more, it will end the game. There are 10 VPs left in the pool, and 12 goods sitting on peoples' layouts. If Phase IV is selected and the pool exhausted, the game will end. Basically I'm saying it's very likely that this will be the last round. Bear that in mind when choosing your action.