ORBIT

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Come, come all to the Silo System, the beating heart of our galaxy, for the race of the decade! We have recruited the finest tourists from across the cosmos: seasoned explorers and travel experts who will compete in the ultimate race. These pilots will race to visit all the planets in the Silo System, surfing orbital courses, teleporting between jump gates, and teleporting through hyperspace. Enjoy the vacation of your dreams on one of our luxurious planets or on our luxurious space stations, witnessing the ultimate interstellar marathon. All eyes in the galaxy will be on this ten-year event celebrating the unification of our systems under the Silo Supremacy.

ORBIT (Orbital Race Between Interstellar Tourists) is a tactical space race set in the 24th century, with simple but challenging turns. Players compete to visit all the planets in the system, and then return to the starting planet first.

On your turn, you play a card, activate its actions in any order, then draw more cards up to your hand limit. Cards let you do a combination of things: move your ship, gather energy for bonus movement, advance planets in their orbits, or even reverse a planet's orbital direction.

When your ship docks with a planet, the moving planet will carry you along its orbital trajectory, helping you traverse the map even faster. Carefully planning your route as you ride the orbital currents and bounce between planets is the key to success, but your fierce competition will undoubtedly try to ruin your plans and sabotage your touristic progress. Being flexible and adapting on the fly is key, literally.

You shouldn't ignore the opportunity to upgrade your ship along the way. Visiting certain space stations and planets increases your hand size and energy storage capacity, so you need to balance short-term efficiency with long-term benefits. The game board offers additional tactical resources such as fuel depots, hyper-jump gates, and hyper-acceleration cannons.

Players can enjoy a random setup on two unique game boards. The game also includes a few variations: a single player mode, a four-player duo mode, and a stationary planet.

ORBIT is the third and final game in Reiner Knizia's Cosmic Silos trilogy, and with the Nebular expansion , you can add three modules to the game: navigation tokens, hyperaccelerator engines, and artificial nebulae.