Ruling — Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon

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How should we prepare everything before the first turn?

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**For a standard game:** 1. Each player chooses a color, then takes the matching components and a player board (which is their base) [1]. 2. Each player places their structures on the matching spaces of their base, their 3 Goal markers at the bottom of their base, their VP marker on space “0” of the VP track, and their Reputation marker on space “<0xC2><0xA0>0<0xC2><0xA0>” of the Reputation track [1]. 3. The last player who traveled into space becomes the 1st player for the 1st round (if no player has ever traveled into space, a 1st player is determined randomly) [1]. 4. In clockwise order starting with the 1st player, each player places their turn order marker on the available space of lowest value on the turn order track [1]. 5. Place Agency leader tiles (on random side, A or B) near the main board equal to the number of players [1]. 6. In turn order, each player chooses an Agency leader tile, places the leftmost Dome from their base on one of the 6 central sectors on the main board, places a Solar Panel in this sector (starting at the top of the crater and proceeding clockwise), and activates a Corporation token from this sector [1]. **For a 2-player game:** 1. Choose a player color for yourself and one for AstroBot [2][3]. 2. Follow the setup for a 2-player game, but draw only one Agency Leader tile for yourself and do not place the AstroBot's dome yet [2][3]. 3. Place your Turn Order marker on the 1st slot and AstroBot’s on the 2nd [2][3]. 4. Take a third player board and place it to the right of AstroBot’s board, showing its Solo side; this board has 3 Corporation slots (A, B, and C) with a track below and the AstroBot’s Development track at the bottom [2][3]. 5. Take the solo Corporation cards of the 3 corporations in play and place one on each of the 3 corporation slots (A, B, and C) of the Solo Board [2][3]. 6. For an easy game, place all corporation cards on their Easy side; for more challenging games, place one or more on their Hard side [3]. 7. Place the 3 AstroBot's goal markers on the 0 of the project tracks located under the Corporation cards [3]. 8. Place the Development marker on the 0 of the Development track of the Solo board [3]. 9. Shuffle the Solo Action cards into a deck and place it face down below the solo board [3]. 10. Draw one Solo Action card and use it to decide where AstroBot will place its first Dome; look at the letter with a red background in the top right corner of the card, then place the starting Dome in a sector from the inner circle next to the corresponding Corporation token (if both adjacent sectors are occupied by the neutral Dome and yours, use the letter without the red background) [3].

[1] RULEBOOK Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook · p.3 ·

[2] RULEBOOK Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook · p.10 ·

[3] RULEBOOK Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook · p.11 · 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 208 ms · ask 14641 ms · total 37949 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 23092 ms · generation 14857 ms
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boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 431 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 431 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 05:10

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 Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)	3 Maintenance phase	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 Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)		p.12	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 Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)		p.3	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 Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)	Gameplay · Shuttle phase · Action Phase · 1 Check the letter	p.12	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 Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)		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 Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)		p.10	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 Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)	General setup · Corporation setup	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 Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)		p.10	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 Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)		p.3	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)		p.10	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Shackleton Base: A Journey to the Moon — Rulebook (corpus doc 431)	Setup	p.11	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 208 ms · first delta 7400 ms · total 37949 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 23092 ms · retrieval 208 ms · ask 14641 ms · gateway work 14857 ms · total 37949 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 4271
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 665
tok/sec: 89.8 tok/sec — 665 output tokens in 7.408 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 360), 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.