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Let’s delve a little deeper into the corporations in Fleets – the Pleiad Conflict. Four giant corporations struggle for power, and each one of them has their own list of merits from previous accomplishments. Today, we give you the background of the two first;

Teractor-Olympiac
After the terraforming of Mars, several Mars-based corporations joined to form Olympiac. Trying to become the number one corporation in the solar system, Olympiac made a bid for Inventrix and Ecoline as well, but failed. Instead, an unlikely match was made when Teractor, a ruthless but mighty corporation even owning a few countries on Earth, suggested a merger. Being formed from so many different corporations, Teractor-Olympiac is perhaps the most versatile of the corporations. They spread their influence throughout the solar system and founded several interstellar colonies. When the race to the Pleiades began, they failed to fully commit to it, letting their advantage slip to other competitors. 

ThorGate Alliance
Energy specialist ThorGate has a Nordic origin but grew far beyond that during the settlement of the solar system, their expertise being requested everywhere. They even invented and had the monopoly on the warp drive for a short while. With the Pleiades now open for the taking, ThorGate arrived and formed an alliance with a host of smaller corporations in order to stand up to Teractor-Olympiac and the other giant corporations.

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In Fleets, 2-4 corporations struggle for supremacy in the Pleiades. Two of the resources in the game are megacredits (money), and diplomatic points (influence). Money is used for building your military force, while influence is used either for playing cards with diplomatic effects, or use generic effects like withdrawing a fleet or forcing an opponent’s fleet to withdraw. You also collect your Victory Points on the corporation board – first to reach 7 VPs win the game!

Teractor-Olympiac and the other corporations in Fleets each have their own background story. Stay tuned for more flavour…

One of our more resource-oriented fleets looks like this:

Besides having place for some escort ships it can also use energy to produce… eh, consumables… to sell at a good price. Now, what should this fleet be called? We thought we’d leave that up to you guys! Comment your suggestion on our facebook page (here), or by e-mail (info@fryxgames.se)! We’ll pick the coolest one and use it in the game.

What are we fighting for in the upcoming boardgame Fleets – The Pleaid Conflict? The combat rages over the colonized star systems of the Pleaid star cluster. From the desolate Merope asteroid fields to the lush paradise planet Eden, and why not take the dangerous route to Tartarus in the midst of the Maia nebula, where previous battles have left tons of debris floating in space? Or perhaps Corpas, oldest and largest of the colonies, now a diplomatic center struggling with dwindling resources?

No matter what system you choose to occupy with your fleet, you can be sure to get competition. Maybe we’ll delve deeper into the game mechanics surrounding the battle system next week.

Although Fleets offers violence for all interested, that is still only one part of the game. One of the reasons for mankind to populate the Pleiad star cluster is the abundance of helium-3 encased in asteroids. This scarce resource is what makes warp-drive technology and interplanetary travel possible. As such, it’s an important economic factor in the Pleiads. The new escort ship, the Refinery, is specialized in obtaining this resource, represented in the game by spending energy to get money. The refinery is big and has a decent strength as well.

The game designer just finished another marvelous flagship image. Here is Gomorra VII, a small and agile fleet.