Ruling — Star Trek: Frontiers

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How do I play?

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1. Pick a scenario from the 'Playing Scenarios' section on page 17.[1][2]

2. Use any Variant Rules as long as all players agree to them.[1][2]

3. Determine an order for players to make their ship selection.[1][2]

4. In that order, each player chooses one of the available ships and takes all of the associated ship components.[1]

5. When a player takes a ship, they put that ship's Round Order Token on the table, placed sequentially in a column such that the first player's token is at the top and the last player's is at the bottom.[1]

6. Play out the Rounds of the game until you fulfill the endgame conditions outlined in the scenario, or until you reach the Round limit.[1][3]

7. During a turn, you may (but do not have to) move, which may result in a mandatory Action if you provoke Enemy Ships.[4]

8. If you do not forfeit your turn, you have two options: playing a Regular Turn, or performing Emergency Repairs.[4]

9. A Regular Turn consists of two voluntary parts: Movement and Action.[4]

10. If there are no mandatory Actions, you may choose to perform one (and only one) voluntary Action, such as an Interaction with a location, exploring planets, challenging Enemy Ships, launching an assault, or engaging in Player vs. Player combat.[4]

11. You may perform only one Action each turn (mandatory or voluntary).[4]

12. When the game is over, follow the scoring rules outlined in the scenario.[1]

[1] RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook · p.1 · 4. Play the Game · 5. Outcome of the Game · 1. Choose a Scenario · 2. Player Order/Ship Selection

[2] RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook · p.1

[3] RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook · p.24 · Choose scenario and variants. · Setup the game. · Prepare the Round (not during the fi rst Round): · Players choose Tactics. · Players play turns in order, until someone announces the End of the Round. · If your Ship Deck is empty, you may forfeit your turn to announce the End of the Round. · …

[4] RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook · p.5 · REGULAR TURN

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🔧 debug — where this ruling came from

outcome: ANSWERED — Answered
corpus profile: live,vps
answerer pin (deploy-frozen, attribution only): gemma4:26b think:false 5571076f3d70
timings: search 130 ms · ask 10614 ms · total 36096 ms
single-flight (PR-5): queued 25350 ms · generation 10746 ms
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citations (raw) — what the answer cited, chosen from a retrieval this page cannot show: [{"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "4. Play the Game · 5. Outcome of the Game · 1. Choose a Scenario · 2. Player Order/Ship Selection", "sharpsignalDocId": 1088}, {"page": 1, "quote": null, "headingPath": "", "sharpsignalDocId": 1088}, {"page": 24, "quote": null, "headingPath": "Choose scenario and variants. · Setup the game. · Prepare the Round (not during the fi rst Round): · Players choose Tactics. · Players play turns in order, until someone announces the End of the Round. · If your Ship Deck is empty, you may forfeit your turn to announce the End of the Round. · …", "sharpsignalDocId": 1088}, {"page": 5, "quote": null, "headingPath": "REGULAR TURN", "sharpsignalDocId": 1088}]
boost provenance — errata + base rulebook (E2/E3): no registered errata card matched this query; base rulebook doc 1088 boosted; rulesage.errata.boost-enabled=true, rulesage.errata.supersedence-enabled=true
base rulebook doc 1088 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)
answer fence: passed — letter density 0.89854 of 1163 non-space chars (floor 0.45); 0 glyph-index tokens (max 2)
debug row recorded: Sep 7, 2026 03:01 UTC

retrieval — what the passage search returned

what this block IS: the PASSAGE SEARCH's own results — the same search that fills this page's closest-passages list — and NOT the passages the answerer read. Answering runs its OWN retrieval: a far wider candidate pool, re-ranked down to a final handful, plus floors this search never applies — the base rulebook, surviving errata corrections, and one slot per book on a multi-book read. Each of those armed only if THIS ask sent what it needs: the boost block names the ids it forwarded, and the scope line names the books it read. A document the answer CITES that no row here names is therefore EXPECTED, not a defect: two searches, two candidate pools, two orders. The answerer's own final rows are shown in their own block below, beside these and never mixed into them.

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 Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)		p.1	0.048387 (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 Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	FULL RULEBOOK · 3. Set Up the Game	p.1	0.045921 (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 Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	USING SKILLS · 3. Players play their turns.	p.4	0.045607 (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 Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	4. Play the Game · 5. Outcome of the Game · 1. Choose a Scenario · 2. Player Order/Ship Selection	p.1	0.043794 (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 Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)		p.1	0.043155 (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 Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	PLAYING SCENARIOS · COOPERATIVE AND SOLO SCENARIOS · Dummy Player · NOTE: This applies to the Dummy Player only. Other characters start with no Data Crystals.	p.17	0.042351 (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 Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	REGULAR TURN	p.5	0.041757 (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 Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	Skills During a Solo Game	p.17	0.0385 (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

what the answerer read — the passages it actually had in front of it

what this block IS: the passages the ANSWERING read put in front of the answerer, in the order it read them — the other half of the two reads described above, and the one that decides what the answer could possibly say. Each row names the book it came from and where in that book it sits, what it scored when the search arms were fused, which arm carried it there, and whether the re-ranker chose it or a floor guaranteed it a slot. A row here that no passage-search row names is EXPECTED: a far wider pool, re-ranked, with floors the passage search never applies.

candidate pool: the answering read scored 80 passages, out of a ceiling of 80 set gateway-side. Both figures are reported by the gateway for THIS ask — measurements of what actually happened, not constants read out of anyone's source and printed here on faith.

floors armed for this ask: the base rulebook — armed · surviving errata corrections — not armed · one slot per book on a multi-book read — not armed. Every floor is stated on every ask, armed or not, so a floor that did not apply here is never mistaken for one this app does not know about.

arms fused for this ask: vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm. Stated separately from the rows because an arm that ran and carried nothing is a different fact from an arm that never ran.

read at	document	heading	page	fused rank	fused RRF score	carried by	how it got its slot
#1	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	4. Play the Game · 5. Outcome of the Game · 1. Choose a Scenario · 2. Player Order/Ship Selection	p.1	#4	0.043794 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#2	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	SHIP DECK CARDS	p.5	#28	0.0221 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#3	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	Choose scenario and variants. · Setup the game. · Prepare the Round (not during the fi rst Round): · Players choose Tactics. · Players play turns in order, until someone announces the End of the Round. · If your Ship Deck is empty, you may forfeit your turn to announce the End of the Round. · …	p.24	#10	0.029324 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#4	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	SHIP DECK CARDS	p.4	#9	0.030282 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#5	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)		p.1	#1	0.048387 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it
#6	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	Team Game	p.19	#31	0.021905 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#7	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	REGULAR TURN	p.5	#13	0.02605 (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))	vector + full-text	the re-ranker chose it
#8	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	REGULAR TURN	p.5	#7	0.041757 (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))	vector + full-text + the doc-priority boost arm	the re-ranker chose it

chosen chunks — what the answer actually cited

#	document	heading	page	quote chars
[1]	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	4. Play the Game · 5. Outcome of the Game · 1. Choose a Scenario · 2. Player Order/Ship Selection	p.1	no quote on the wire
[2]	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)		p.1	no quote on the wire
[3]	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	Choose scenario and variants. · Setup the game. · Prepare the Round (not during the fi rst Round): · Players choose Tactics. · Players play turns in order, until someone announces the End of the Round. · If your Ship Deck is empty, you may forfeit your turn to announce the End of the Round. · …	p.24	no quote on the wire
[4]	RULEBOOK Star Trek: Frontiers — Rulebook (corpus doc 1088)	REGULAR TURN	p.5	no quote on the wire

generation — timing and the path taken

timing split: retrieval 130 ms · first delta 4103 ms · total 36096 ms (retrieval and first-delta both measured from the START of gateway work, so first-delta INCLUDES retrieval — do not subtract)
full breakdown: queued 25350 ms · retrieval 130 ms · ask 10614 ms · gateway work 10746 ms · total 36096 ms
tokens in (the prompt the answerer read): 2726
tokens out (what the answerer generated): 353
tok/sec: 53.9 tok/sec — 353 output tokens in 6.554 s of generation
live seat (read from the running child): answering — gemma4:26b think:false · num_ctx 32768 (live-verified 46s ago)
answerer host (measured by rulesage): reachable (for 22h, checked 6s ago)
answerer node (the seat proxy's own header — this probe, not this ask): node1
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 1018), 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.