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Premiere Edition Rulebook: Supernova

    Supernova

    The explosion of a star, usually caused by natural processes toward the end of its life cycle.

    Event Event

    You must have Tox Uthat on table. Place atop any mission. Everything there is destroyed (discarded), but leave Mission card underneath for span reference.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    This event plays only on a Mission card, not on any other location. The mission is not discarded, but remains underneath for span reference only, leaving a spaceline location of unspecified type (neither Planet nor Space icon). None of its game text, icons, card title, etc. remain in effect other than the span. For example, if Wormhole Negotiations is destroyed, you can no longer play a Barzan Wormhole to report ships at that location.

    Any cards not affected by Supernova (e.g., staffed Gomtuu, completed Borg objectives), and any cards in play on them, are not discarded.

    Tox Uthat’s stipulation that you “may play Supernova on a later turn” is a restriction; you may not play Supernova on the same turn you play Tox Uthat even if you have an extra card play or download.

    If a mission was assimilated before being destroyed, reversing the effects of Supernova with Persistence of Memory does not unassimilate the mission (just as it does not “unsolve” a mission previously solved). Therefore it still cannot be solved or targeted for assimilation again.

    If a mission that corresponds to a time location in play is destroyed by this event, the time location is unaffected. See Temporal Vortex.

    Once this event has resolved and destroyed all cards at the mission location, nullifying it with Kevin Uxbridge or moving it with Dr. Q, Medicine Entity has no effect.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    Supernova

    This Card-Review article was written by openCards user Decipher-Games at Jan 2nd, 2008.

     

    Quote from Premiere Edition Rulebook:

    Supernovas devastate a spaceline location. A player must first have acquired the Tox Uthat artifact and played it to the table as an event. On a later turn, play the supernova as an event from your hand, face up, over any Mission card (which stays underneath for span reference). Everything else there is vaporized (ships, personnel, dilemmas, arti- facts, even outpost are discarded). Thereafter, ships may move across or stop at that location (span is unchanged). Some cards “de-nova” the explosion, and reinstitute the mission underneath. The Tox Uthat can also be played as an interrupt to stop a supernova. Other cards delay supernovas. A supernova does not cancel points for an already-scored mission.