Ruling — Tiny Epic Galaxies

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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Asked with: Tiny Epic Galaxiesbg-163967-en-1e

To prepare for the game, follow these steps: 1. Give each player a Galaxy Mat in a color of their choice [1]. 2. Give each player 4 Ships, 1 Culture Token, 1 Energy Token, and 1 Empire Token in their color [1]. 3. Place 2 of the player's ships on the center of their Galaxy Mat, standing upright, and place the other 2 ships on the ship track on the number spaces outlined with a square [1]. 4. Have players place tokens on the resource track of their Galaxy Mat to start with 1 culture and 2 energy [1]. 5. Place the Empire Token on the first space of the empire track on the player's Galaxy Mat [1]. 6. Shuffle the deck of Planet Cards, then draw two more than the number of players and place them face up in a line in the center (e.g., 5 planets for a 3-player game) [1]. 7. Place the Control Mat and the 7 Action Dice in the center of the table [1]. 8. Shuffle the Secret Mission Cards and deal two to each player; each player selects one to keep under their Galaxy Mat and discards the other [1]. 9. Put any remaining Secret Mission cards back into the box face down [1].

[1] RULEBOOK Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook · p.3 · GAME 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 209 ms · ask 4735 ms · total 52497 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 47543 ms · generation 4954 ms
retrieval refs (raw): [{"page": 4, "score": 0.032787, "snippet": "The youngest player goes first or choose your own method to determine and remember first player. Players take turns rolling and activating a number of dice determined by their empire level. Play continues until one player reaches 21 or more victory points . After that occurs, continue play until the", "headingPath": "GAMEPLAY · REROLLING DICE · FOLLOW ANOTHER PLAYER · ACTIVATING DICE", "sharpsignalDocId": 435}, {"page": 3, "score": 0.032258, "snippet": "Give each player a Galaxy Mat in a color of their choice. The back of the Galaxy Mats, the Rogue Galaxies, are only used for solo play, described on page 10. Give each player 4 Ships , 1 Culture Token , 1 Energy Token , and 1 Empire Token in their color. Players start the game with 2 ships on the ce", "headingPath": "GAME SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 435}, {"page": 9, "score": 0.031746, "snippet": "Found on the Control Mat, this is used to turn an inactive die to any die face of the player's choice. This requires 3 dice: 2 for the Converter and 1 that gets 'converted.' Place any two inactive dice into the Converter two slots, and then change the face of a third inactive die to the face of your", "headingPath": "CONVERTING DICE · FINISHING YOUR TURN · END OF GAME AND SECRET MISSIONS · END OF GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 435}, {"page": 8, "score": 0.03125, "snippet": "Activate this die to perform either the action on your Galaxy Mat or the action on one of the planets you have colonized. For instance, in the example on the right you can use one of the 3 planets' actions OR the galaxy's action. Pay the number of resources equal to the next level of your Empire Tra", "headingPath": "UTILIZE A COLONY · Galaxy Mat Action:", "sharpsignalDocId": 435}, {"page": 11, "score": 0.030769, "snippet": "Move one ship from the Rogue Galaxy Card to the leftmost planet in the row that does not have a Rogue ship orbiting, and place it in orbit's starting space . A Rogue ship can never land on a planet's surface. When either a Diplomacy or Economy action is taken, advance ALL Rogue ships on that type of", "headingPath": "MOVE A SHIP · ADVANCE COLONIZATION · ACQUIRE RESOURCES · UTILIZE A COLONY · END OF SOLO GAME", "sharpsignalDocId": 435}, {"page": 7, "score": 0.030303, "snippet": "While orbiting a planet, ships work toward colonizing it by advancing along its track. Based on the planet type, use either Diplomacy or Economy to do so: the symbol on the final space of the track determines which action you must use. Activate the corresponding die to advance one ship forward one s", "headingPath": "ADVANCE COLONIZATION · Colonizing Planets:", "sharpsignalDocId": 435}, {"page": 2, "score": 0.029851, "snippet": "Somewhere in the middle of deep space, your galaxy is overpopulated and hopes to expand across the intergalactic planets. You will grow your starfleet, expand your influence, and colonize planets in the name of intergalactic conquest. However, you are not the only empire looking to expand. Opportuni", "headingPath": "PROLOGUE · OBJECTIVE · COMPONENTS", "sharpsignalDocId": 435}, {"page": 6, "score": 0.029412, "snippet": "Energy Culture Planets can produce two different kinds of resources: energy and culture . When an 'Acquire Resource' die is activated, acquire 1 of that resource for each of your ships on, or orbiting, planets with the matching symbol. Acquire 1 energy for each ship on your Galaxy Card. In the examp", "headingPath": "ACQUIRE RESOURCES", "sharpsignalDocId": 435}]
citations (raw): [{"page": 3, "quote": null, "headingPath": "GAME SETUP", "sharpsignalDocId": 435}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 435 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 435 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 7, 2026 05:02

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 Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	GAMEPLAY · REROLLING DICE · FOLLOW ANOTHER PLAYER · ACTIVATING DICE	p.4	0.032787 (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 Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	GAME SETUP	p.3	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 Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	CONVERTING DICE · FINISHING YOUR TURN · END OF GAME AND SECRET MISSIONS · END OF GAME	p.9	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 Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	UTILIZE A COLONY · Galaxy Mat Action:	p.8	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 Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	MOVE A SHIP · ADVANCE COLONIZATION · ACQUIRE RESOURCES · UTILIZE A COLONY · END OF SOLO GAME	p.11	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 Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	ADVANCE COLONIZATION · Colonizing Planets:	p.7	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 Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	PROLOGUE · OBJECTIVE · COMPONENTS	p.2	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 Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	ACQUIRE RESOURCES	p.6	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 Tiny Epic Galaxies — Rulebook (corpus doc 435)	GAME SETUP	p.3	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 209 ms · first delta 2887 ms · total 52497 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 47543 ms · retrieval 209 ms · ask 4735 ms · gateway work 4954 ms · total 52497 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2929
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 280
tok/sec: 137.8 tok/sec — 280 output tokens in 2.032 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 52s 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 365), 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.