Ruling — Xia: Legends of a Drift System

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How do I set up the game?

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Asked with: Xia: Legends of a Drift Systembg-82222-en-1e

1. Shuffle the Sector Tiles and place them face down in a stack within reach of all players [1]. 2. Deal one Sector tile per player (3 for a 3-player game, 4 for a 4-player game, 5 for a 5-player game) face up in the center of the play area, one at a time, lining up the edge symbols to the previously laid Sector as shown; if a Sector without a Spawn Point is drawn, re-shuffle it into the deck and draw another tile [1]. 3. Shuffle the Exploration Tokens ({ ) and place them face down within reach of all players [1]. 4. Place an Exploration Token face down on any Exploration Spaces on the starting tiles [1]. 5. Shuffle the Mission Cards and Title Cards and place the decks face down within reach of all players [1]. 6. Place the Cargo Cubes, Damage Markers ( } ), Outfits (organized by shape), Credits, and Dice within reach of all players [1]. 7. Give each player one How To Win Card and 3,000 % worth of Credits (3 silver coins) [1]. 8. Shuffle the three NPC Cards and deal one face up to each player (in a 4 or 5-player game, not everyone will get one) [1]. 9. Players take the corresponding NPC miniature and place it on the NPC Card [1]. 10. Place the Fame Point Track in the play upon the play area [1]. 11. Players decide the number of Fame Points needed for victory and place the Victory Marker on the Fame Point Track to indicate this total [1]. 12. Separate the blue Tier 1 $ Ship Mats and matching Ability Cards, setting green Tier 2 ^ and purple Tier 3 & mats and cards aside [1]. 13. Each player rolls the Ï [d20]; the player with the highest roll chooses a Tier 1 $ Ship Mat, Miniature, and Ability Card, continuing counter-clockwise around the table until each player has chosen [1]. 14. All players place their chosen items closest to them [1]. 15. The player with the highest roll takes the matching Miniatures on the Spawn Point of the Sector Tile Spawn Point [1]. 16. Each player takes an Impulse Token and a set of Markers [1]. 17. Place the Impulse Token face up (yellow side) on the Impulse Space of the Ship Mat [2]. 18. Place one Marker on the Fame Point Track at 0 (Unknown) [2]. 19. Place one Marker on the highest number of the Ship Mat's Energy Meter [2]. 20. Place the remaining four Markers on the Ship Mat, filling out the Armed section [2]. 21. In the same order as ship selection, each player may spend their Credits to purchase Outfits, which are placed in the Ship Mat's Hold (players may only purchase what fits and are not required to spend all Credits) [2].

[1] RULEBOOK Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook · p.2 · Setup

[2] RULEBOOK Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook · p.2 · Setup

🔧 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 252 ms · ask 16313 ms · total 1084876 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 1068303 ms · generation 16573 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 332 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 332 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 14:26

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 Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook (corpus doc 332)	Setup	p.2	0.047712 (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 Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook (corpus doc 332)	Setup	p.2	0.032258 (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 Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook (corpus doc 332)	Combat	p.8	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
#4	RULEBOOK Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook (corpus doc 332)	Player Turn Detail	p.10	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
#5	RULEBOOK Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook (corpus doc 332)	Respawn · Example Tier 1 $ :	p.9	0.030769 (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 Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook (corpus doc 332)	1. Action Phase · 3. Status Phase	p.3	0.030303 (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 Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook (corpus doc 332)	Overview: Become a Legend	p.3	0.029851 (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 Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook (corpus doc 332)	Overview: Become a Legend	p.3	0.029412 (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 Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook (corpus doc 332)	Setup	p.2	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Xia: Legends of a Drift System — Rulebook (corpus doc 332)	Setup	p.2	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 252 ms · first delta 12170 ms · total 1084876 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 1068303 ms · retrieval 252 ms · ask 16313 ms · gateway work 16573 ms · total 1084876 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4145
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 640
tok/sec: 147.7 tok/sec — 640 output tokens in 4.334 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 14s 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: NO_APPROVED_CHECKLIST — setup-shaped, but no approved setup checklist exists for this game
pattern that matched: SETUP — "setup" / "set up"
matched words (in the normalized question): set up

errata registry — what the gate above had to match against

this game registers NO errata cards (edition 260), 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.