Ruling — Andromeda's Edge

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How do I take my turn?

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Asked with: Andromeda's Edgebg-358661-en-1e

On your turn, you must choose to either launch a ship onto the board or bring back all your ships in a return TO STATION [1][2]. You may also use any number of free actions during your turn [1][3]. **Launch Turn** 1. Choose a ship in your Launch Bay and place it in a region of your choice on the board [1]. * If you have no ships on the board, you may launch to any unoccupied region (a region is occupied if it contains a raider or at least 1 player's ship) [1]. * If you have 1 or more ships on the board, you must launch to a region within range of at least one of your other ships using that ship's range value; you may not launch to a region where you already have ships [1]. * You may only launch to an Alliance Base if you are able to activate it and do not use a nebula unless the ship has Voyage [1][2]. 2. Activate the region to take its specific action [1]. 3. If the active region is occupied by 2 or more players or by 1 or more players and raiders, resolve a battle [4]. 4. At the end of your turn, discard any resources in excess of your limits [1]. **Return to Station Turn** 1. Return all your ships one-by-one from the board and Scrapyard to your station [5]. 2. During this step, you may activate any number of modules on your station, in any order, to gain their printed benefit [5]. * To activate a module, take 1 ship from anywhere on the board (or the Repair Barge area of the Scrapyard) and place it on the module, or take 1 energy from your storage area and place it on the module [5]. * You may not activate a module that already has a ship or energy on it, nor modules with damage markers [5]. * You may only activate a module using energy if you have already activated a module in the same row using a ship [5]. 3. Return all ships from modules, the Scrapyard, and the board to the Launch Bay on your station [3]. 4. Remove all damage markers from any ships with shields [3]. 5. Return all energy spent to activate modules to the supply [3][6]. 6. Discard any tactics cards with sustain abilities [3][6]. **Free Actions (can be used during your turn)** * Slot a moon token into a module or Tactical Operations area [3]. * Play tactics cards (at their indicated time) [3][7]. * Use a development card [3]. * Discard a discovery/supremacy token to gain its benefit [3][7]. * Recruit any number of leaders of your color from regions where you have ships [7]. * Discard a claimed moon to gain resources/VP or to repair a ship/module [7]. * Gain bonus resources from regions where you have ships [7]. * Use faction abilities (unless otherwise specified) [7].

[1] RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook · p.9 · TAKING YOUR TURN · LAUNCHING · First Launch · Subsequent Launches · Additional Launch Requirements

[2] RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook · p.8 · GAME OVERVIEW · 96 REGIONS OF THE EDGE · Planets · 91 Alliance Bases · Nebulae

[3] RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook · p.13 ·

[4] RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook · p.21 · BATTLE · BATTLE preparations

[5] RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook · p.12 · RETURN TO STATION · Core Modules

[6] RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook · p.13 ·

[7] RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook · p.14 · Action · Event · SUSTAIN · Diplomacy · Battle · Tactics Card Limit · …

🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 236 ms · ask 13441 ms · total 13688 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 0 ms · generation 13688 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 320 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 320 boosted
answered-before recall: this ruling was answered, so past rulings were not offered
similarity threshold in force: 0.55 (rulesage.answered-before.similarity-threshold; the exact-question tier is not gated by it)
debug row retained until: Nov 6, 2026 12:12

retrieval — what the search arm returned

score = the fused retrieval score (reciprocal-rank fusion over the search arms) — NOT a cosine similarity. This ruling ran the THREE-ARM fuse (full-text + vector + the doc-priority boost arm, which carried the base rulebook and/or the errata corrections this query matched), whose arithmetic ceiling is 0.04918 — all three arms ranking the same chunk #1 (ceiling = arms/(k+1) at k=60). The measured healthy band 0.016–0.033 was measured on TWO-arm asks and does not bound this one: its high end is the two-arm ceiling, and a third arm has room above it. A chunk only one arm ranked highly lands near 0.016 (that one arm's #1 vote), so 0.03 here is an excellent hit, not a 3% match.

per-arm ranks (the rank each search arm gave a chunk): NOT DISCLOSED by the gateway. Fusion happens gateway-side and only the FUSED score crosses the wire, so rulesage cannot show them without a gateway change. The rank column below is the FUSED rank (position in the returned list), which is real.

token count per chunk: NOT DISCLOSED — chunk token counts are not reported on the ask path. The character counts below are of the bounded snippet/quote rulesage actually received — a real measurement of what we hold, never an estimate of the chunk.

fused rank	document	heading	page	fused RRF score	snippet chars
#1	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)	TAKING YOUR TURN · LAUNCHING · First Launch · Subsequent Launches · Additional Launch Requirements	p.9	0.048412 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#2	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)		p.13	0.047183 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#3	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)	Final Scoring · Resolving Ties	p.25	0.045235 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#4	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)	RETURN TO STATION · Core Modules	p.12	0.045009 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#5	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)		p.25	0.044563 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#6	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)	Leaders: · Start Player:	p.7	0.031746 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#7	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)	BATTLE · BATTLE preparations	p.21	0.03125 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300
#8	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)		p.13	0.030886 (healthy, below this ruling's 3-arm ceiling 0.04918 (the measured band 0.016–0.033 was taken on two-arm asks and does not bound a 3-arm one))	300

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)	TAKING YOUR TURN · LAUNCHING · First Launch · Subsequent Launches · Additional Launch Requirements	p.9	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)	GAME OVERVIEW · 96 REGIONS OF THE EDGE · Planets · 91 Alliance Bases · Nebulae	p.8	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)		p.13	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)	BATTLE · BATTLE preparations	p.21	no quote on the wire
[5]	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)	RETURN TO STATION · Core Modules	p.12	no quote on the wire
[6]	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)		p.13	no quote on the wire
[7]	RULEBOOK Andromeda's Edge — Rulebook (corpus doc 320)	Action · Event · SUSTAIN · Diplomacy · Battle · Tactics Card Limit · …	p.14	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 236 ms · first delta 8660 ms · total 13688 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 0 ms · retrieval 236 ms · ask 13441 ms · gateway work 13688 ms · total 13688 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4021
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 672
tok/sec: 135.4 tok/sec — 672 output tokens in 4.962 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 46s ago)
stream path: streamed — the gateway pushed at least one accumulated draft
watchdog: first-token watchdog: 30s per arming window (rulesage.table.first-token-watchdog-seconds), re-armed once by the passages frame — so the worst case before a reader falls back to polling is 60s. Whether it actually fired is a BROWSER-side decision that never reaches the server, so it is not recorded here. The stream path above is the server's half of that story: whether a delta was emitted at all.
num_ctx · think posture: both are the CHILD's settings, not rulesage's, and no ask reply carries them — an answer never states which context window or think posture produced it. The live-seat line above reads them from the running child instead, where the gateway can answer for itself; it describes the child NOW, not this ask.

disposition

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
abstain rationale (n/a — this ruling answered): answered — no abstain rationale applies

setup-shape — why the checklist band did or didn't render

decision: NOT_SETUP_SHAPED — no setup-shape pattern matched this question

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 249), so "no registered errata card matched" above could never have matched one

Errata scope: the gate above matched this ruling's own edition only. When an ask also reads an expansion, that expansion's own registered errata cards stay outside the match — a stated phase-1 limitation, not a failed lookup.