Splicing

Splicing is an effect unique to the Twilight's Fall variant of Fourth Edition.

It is the primary method through which players gather additional abilities, unit upgrades and genomes. Each type of splice is generally initiated by a different Strategy card, and will grant cards from the respective decks.

Any time a splice card is discarded, it is shuffled back into its respective deck.

Purged cards are not shuffled back into the deck.

Resolving a Splice

When a splice is initiated, it will be for one of the aforementioned card types. The strategy card of game effect that caused the splice will indicate the type of splice as well as which players can participate.

The player who initiated the splice draws and reveals a number of cards of the indicated type equal to the number of participating players plus one. That player then choses one of the cards to keep. Then, the next player to the right that is participating chooses a card to keep. This continues until each participating player has chosen a card to keep.

Any remaining cards in the splice are shuffled back into their respective decks.

If there are not enough cards to fully resolve a splice, players who are unable to choose a card have their command tokens and other costs refunded, if they spent any.

Ability Cards

This type of spliced card alters the core capabilities of a player's Mahact King. They are placed in the player's play area when gained, and count as technologies of the color indicated in the lower-right corner of the card.

This type of splice is mostly caused by the "Magus" Strategy Card.

List of Ability Cards

Name	Origin	Tech Color	Ability
Abundance			When 1 or more of your units use PRODUCTION, you may gain 1 trade good.
Aerie Hololattice			Other players cannot move ships through systems that contain your structures. Each planet that contains 1 or more of your structures gains the PRODUCTION 1 ability as if it were a unit.
Aetherstream			After you or one of your neighbors activates a system that is adjacent to an anomaly: You may apply +1 to the move value of all of that player's ships during this tactical action.
Agency Supply Network			Once per action, when you resolve a unit's PRODUCTION ability: You may resolve another of your unit's PRODUCTION abilities in any system.
Amalgamation			Capture your opponent's non-structure units that are destroyed during combat. When you produce a unit, you may return 1 captured unit of that type to produce that unit without spending resources.
Ambush			At the start of a space combat: You may roll 1 die for each of up to 2 of your cruisers or destroyers in the system. For each result equal to or greater than that ship's combat value, produce 1 hit; your opponent must assign it to 1 of their ships.
Armada			The maximum number of non-fighter ships you can have in each system is equal to 2 more than the number of tokens in your fleet pool.
Assimilate			When you gain control of a planet: Replace each structure on that planet with a matching unit from your reinforcements.
Awaken			After you activate a system that contains 1 or more of your infantry, you may replace 1 of those infantry with a PDS from your reinforcements.
Bio-Synthetic Synergy			Your action cards cannot be canceled by "Shatter" action cards. Your other abilities cannot be taken, purged, or discarded by other players and cannot have singularity tokens placed on them.
Bioplasmosis			At the end of the status phase: You may remove any number of ground forces from planets you control and place them on 1 or more planets you control in the same or adjacent systems.
Chaos Mapping			At the start of your turn during the action phase: You may produce 1 unit in a system that contains at least 1 of your units that has PRODUCTION.
Crafty			You can have any number of action cards in your hand. Game effects cannot prevent you from using this ability. During your turn of the action phase, players that have passed cannot play action cards.
Crucible			Your ships do not roll for gravity rifts; apply an additional +1 to the move values of your ships that would move out of or through a gravity rift instead.
Courier Transport			After you activate a system: You may move your structures from adjacent systems that do not contain your command tokens onto planet you control in the active system.
Devotion			After each space combat round: You may destroy 1 of your cruisers or destroyers in the active system to produce 1 hit and assign it to 1 of your opponent's ships in that system.
Dimensional Splicer			At the start of a space combat in a system that contains a wormhole and 1 or more of your ships: You may produce 1 hit and assign it to 1 of your opponent's ships.
Dimensional Tear			Systems that contain your space docks are also gravity rifts; your ships do not roll for these gravity rifts. Place a dimensional tear token beneath your space docks as a reminder.
Distant Suns			When you explore a planet that contains 1 of your mechs: You may draw 1 additional card; choose 1 to resolve and discard the rest.
E-Res Siphons			After another player activates a system that contains 1 or more of your ships: Gain 4 trade goods.
Entropic Harvest			At the end of any player's combat: Gain 1 commodity or convert 1 of your commodities to a trade good.
Fabrication			ACTION: Either purge 2 of your relic fragments of the same type to gain 1 relic or purge 1 of your relic fragments to gain 1 command token.
Fleet Logistics			During each of your turns of the action phase, you may perform 2 actions instead of 1
Foresight			After another player moves ships into a system that contains 1 of more of your ships: You may place 1 command token from your reinforcements in an adjacent system that does not contain another player's ships; move your ships from the active system into that system.
Future Path			When you gain trade goods from choosing a previously unchosen strategy card or from the "Amicus" strategy card: Triple those trade goods.
Genetic Research			At the start of the status phase: Choose a technology color and gain trade goods equal to the number of abilities you own that have that technology color.
Guild Ships			You can negotiation transactions with players who are not your neighbors. You can exchange action cards with other players as part of transactions.
Harrow			At the end of each round of ground combat: Your ships in the active system may use their BOMBARDMENT abilities against your opponent's ground forces on the planet.
Hegemonic Trade Policy			When 1 or more of your units uses PRODUCITON: You may swap the influence and resource values of 1 planet you control during this use of PRODUCTION.
Indocrination			At the start of a ground combat: You may spend 2 influence to replace 1 of your opponent's participating infantry with 1 infantry from your reinforcements.
Inheritance Systems			During the status phase: Draw 1 additional action card and gain 1 additional command token.
Instinct Training			When another player plays an action card: You may spend 1 token from your strategy pool to cancel that action card.
Lazax Gate Folding			During your tactical actions: Treat systems that contain legendary planets you do not control as if they contain both an alpha and beta wormhole.
Liberate			When you gain control of a planet: Ready that planet if it contains a number of your infantry equal to or greater than that planet's resource value; otherwise, place 1 infantry on that planet.
Magmus Reactor			Your units can move into and through supernovas. Each supernova that does not contain other players' units and each system that contains 1 or more of your war suns gains the PRODUCTION 5 ability as if it were one of your units.
Mirror Computing			When you spend trade goods: Each trade good is worth 2 resources or influence instead of 1.
Mitosis			At the start of the status phase: Place 1 infantry from your reinforcements on any planet you control.
Munitions Reserves			At the start of each round of space combat: You may spend 2 trade goods; you may reroll any number of your dice during this combat round.
Nanomachines			ACTION: Exhaust this card to place 1 PDS on a planet you control. ACTION: Exhaust this card to repair all of your damaged units. ACTION: Exhaust this card and discard 1 action card to draw 1 action card.
Neural Parasite			At the start of your turn: Destroy 1 of another player's infantry in or adjacent to a system that contains your infantry.
Neuroglaive			After another player actvates a system that contains 1 or more of your ships: That player removes 1 token from their fleet pool and returns it to their reinforcements.
Nomadic			You can score objectives even if you do not control the planets in your home system. Other players cannot activate asteroid fields that contain 1 or more of your ships.
Non-Euclidean Shielding			When 1 of your units uses SUSTAIN DAMAGE: Cancel 2 hits instead of 1
Nullification Field			When another player activates a system that contains 1 or more of your ships: You may exhaust this card and spend 1 token from your strategy pool to immediately end that player's turn.
Orbital Drop			ACTION: Spend 1 token from your strategy pool to place 2 infantry from your reinforcements on 1 planet you control.
Overwatch			After another player moves ships into a system that contains 1 of your command tokens: You may return that token to your reinforcements.
Pacifist			When ground forces are committed: If your units on that planet are not already coexisting, you may choose for your units to coexist.
Peace Accords			After you spend a token from your strategy pool: You may gain control of 1 planet that does not contain the custodians token or any units and is adjacent to a planet you control.
Pillage			After 1 of your neighbors gains trade goods or resolves a transaction: If they have 3 or more trade goods, you may take 1 of their trade goods or commodities.
Planesplitter			When you gain this card put The Fracture into play. Apply +1 to the MOVE value of each of your ships that starts its movement in The Fracture. Apply +2 to the result of each of your units' combat rolls in The Fracture.
Proxima Targeting VI			Cancel 1 hit produced by each BOMBARDMENT roll against your units. At the start of a round of ground combat, you may resolve BOMBARDMENT 7(x3) against your opponent's ground forces; if you do, resolve BOMBARDMENT 7(x3) against your own ground forces.
Puppet Council			At the start of the strategy phase: Replenish your commodities, then gain 1 trade good.
Quantum Datahub Node			At the end of the strategy phase: You may spend 1 token from your strategy pool and give another player 3 of your trade goods. If you do, give 1 of your strategy cards to that player and take 1 of their strategy cards.
Quantum Drive			You can produce your flagship without spending resources.
Quantum Entaglement			You treat all systems that contain either an alpha or beta wormhole as adjacent to each other. Game effects cannot prevent you from using this ability.
Radical Advancement			At the start of the status phase: You may choose to replace 1 of your abilities; if you do, reveal abilities from the deck until you reveal another ability with the same technology color and gain it; shuffle the replaced ability and the other revealed cards back into the deck.
Raid Formation			When 1 or more of your units uses ANTI-FIGHTER BARRAGE: For each hit produced in excess of your opponent's fighters, choose 1 of your opponent's ships that has SUSTAIN DAMAGE to become damaged.
Reclaimation			After you resolve an action during which you gained control of a legendary planet: You may place 1 PDS and 1 space dock from your reinforcements on that planet.
Scavenge			After you gain control of a planet: Gain 1 trade good.
Scheming			When you draw 1 or more action cards: Draw 1 additional action card. Then, choose and discard 1 action card from your hand.
Singularity X			Once per combat, after 1 of your opponent's units is destroyed: You may place the "Singularity X" token on one of your opponent's abilities. While that token is on a card, this card gains that card's text. You cannot place a singularity token on a card that already has a singularity token.
Singularity Y			Once per combat, after 1 of your opponent's units is destroyed: You may place the "Singularity Y" token on one of your opponent's abilities. While that token is on a card, this card gains that card's text. You cannot place a singularity token on a card that already has a singularity token.
Singularity Z			Once per combat, after 1 of your opponent's units is destroyed: You may place the "Singularity Z" token on one of your opponent's abilities. While that token is on a card, this card gains that card's text. You cannot place a singularity token on a card that already has a singularity token.
Sled Factories			When 1 or more of your units use PRODUCTION: Reduce the combined cost of the produced units by 2.
Slipstream			During your tactical actions: Apply +1 to the move value of each of your ships that starts its movement in a system that contains a wormhole.
Smothering Presence			Other players' units in or adjacent to systems that contain your structures lose all of their unit abilities.
Spatial Conduit Cylinder			After you activate a system that contains 1 or more of your units: That system is adjacent to all other systems that contain 1 or more of your units during this action.
Spec Ops Training			After 1 of your ground forces is destroyed: Roll 1 die. If the result is 5 or greater, place the unit on this card. At the start of your next turn, place each unit on this card on a planet you control in your home system.
Stall Tactics			ACTION: Discard 1 action card from your hand.
Star Forge			ACTION: Spend 1 token from your strategy pool to place either 2 fighters or 1 destroyer from your reinforcements in a system that contains 1 or more of your ships.
Stellar Genesis			After you spend a token from your strategy pool: You may gain 1 trade good.
Styme			After another player moves ships into a system that contains 1 or more of your units: You may place 1 command token from that player's reinforcements in any non-home system.
Subatomic Splicer			When one of your ships is destroyed: You may produce a ship of the same type at a space dock in your home system.
Supercharge			Before making a combat roll: Choose 1 of your units and apply +2 to the result of its combat roll.
Survival Instict			After a player actives a system that contains your ships: You may move up to 2 of your ships into the active system from adjacent systems that do not contain your command tokens.
Tactical Brilliance			After you roll dice for a unit ability: You may reroll any of those dice.
Telepathic			At the end of the strategy phase: Place the Naalu "0" token on your strategy card; you are first in initiative order. This card cannot have a singularity token place on it.
Temporal Command Suite			After any player's genome becomes exhausted: You may spend 3 influence to ready that genome; if you ready another player's genome, you may perform a transaction with that player.
Terraform			Planets that contain your structures are treated as having all 3 planet traits (cultural, hazardous, and industrial)
The Burning Eye			You can treat planets in systems that contain your ships as if you contolled them for the purpose of scoring secret objectives.
Unrelenting			Apply +1 to the result of each of your unit's combat rolls.
Valkyrie Particle Weave			After making combat rolls during a round of ground combat: If your opponent produced 1 or more hits, you produce 1 additional hit.
Valkyrie Vanguard			During the "Commit Ground Forces" step: You can commit up to 1 ground force from each planet in the active system and each planet in adjacent systems that do not contain 1 of your command tokens.
Versatile			When you gain command tokens during the status phase: Gain 1 additional command token.
Voidborn			Nebulae do not affect your ships' movement. You can allow other players to move their ships through systems that contain your ships.
Yin Ascendant			When you score an objective: Draw 1 genome, ability or unit upgrade.
Zealous			When 1 or more of your units roll dice for a unit ability: You may choose 1 of those units to roll 1 additional die.

Unit Upgrade Cards

This type of spliced card is placed over the top of a unit on a faction sheet and upgrades the capabilities of a unit type.

If a player ever gains two (or more) unit upgrade cards that would be placed on the same slot of a faction sheet, they must choose one to keep and discard the others, this does not apply to mechs, as mechs can have multiple unit upgrades at once.

These cards count as unit upgrade technologies, and they do not have a color.

This type of splice is mostly caused by the "Calamitas" Strategy Card.

List of Unit Upgrades

Name	Unit	Origin	Cost	Combat	Move	Capacity	Ability
Advanced Carrier	Carrier		3	9	2	8	SUSTAIN DAMAGE
Ahk Syl Fier	Cruiser		2	6	3	1	At the start of your turn, you may place or move a Creuss wormhole token into this system
Ambassador	Carrier		3	9	2	6	After you commit units, if units transported by Ambassadors are the only units committed to a planet, you may place those units into coexistence instead.
Corsair	Cruiser		2	6	3	2	If the active system contains another player's non-fighter ships, this unit can move through systems that contain other players' ships.
Dawncrusher	Dreadnought		3	5	2	1	This unit cannot be destroyed by "Spark" action cards. SUSTAIN DAMAGE BOMBARDMENT 4
Echo of Ascension	Flagship		-	-1 & (+*)	+1	+2	Keep this card in your play area and adjust the printed values of your flagship by the indicated amounts.
Eidolon Landwaster	Mech		-	+*	-	-	Keep this card in your play area; your mechs roll 1 additional die during combat.
Eidolon Terminus	Mech		-	-1	-	-	Keep this card in your play area; the COMBAT value of your mechs is reduced by 1.
Exile	Destroyer		1	8	4	-	This unit can move through systems that contain other players' ships. ANTI-FIGHTER BARRAGE 6(x3)
Exotrireme	Dreadnought		4	4	2	1	This unit cannot be destroyed by "Spark" action cards. After a round of space combat, you may destroy this unit to destroy up to 2 ships in this system. SUSTAIN DAMAGE BOMBARDMENT 4(x2)
Floating Factories	Space Dock		-	-	2	5	This unit is placed in the space area instead of on a planet. This unit can move and retreat as if it were a ship. If this unit is blockaded, it is destroyed. PRODUCTION 7
Guild Agents	Infantry		1 (x2)	7	-	-	After you move this unit into a system that contains another player's units, you may look at that player's action cards and take 1 of them.
Hel-Titan	PDS		-	5	-	-	This unit is treated as both a structure and a ground force. It cannot be transported. You may use this unit's SPACE CANNON ability against ships that are adjacent to this unit's system. PLANETARY SHIELD SPACE CANNON 5 SUSTAIN DAMAGE PRODUCTION 1
Helios Entity	Space Dock		-	-	-	-	This unit's PRODUCTION value is equal to 2 more than the resource value of this planet. The resource value of this planet is increased by 2. Up to 3 fighters in this system do no count against your ships' capacity. PRODUCTION X
Hybrid Crystal Fighter	Fighter		1 (x2)	7	2	-	This unit may move without being transported. Each fighter in excess of your ships' capacity counts as 1/2 of a ship against your fleet pool.
Justicier Rail	PDS		-	-	-	-	Your may use this unit's SPACE CANNON ability against ships that are adjacent to this unit's system. Hits produced by this unit must be assigned to non-fighter ships if able. PLANETARY SHIELD SPACE CANNON 5
Keeper Matrix	PDS		-	-	-	-	Your may use this unit's SPACE CANNON ability against ships that are adjacent to this unit's system. PLANETARY SHIELD SPACE CANNON 5 (x2)
Letani Warrior	Infantry		1 (x2)	7	-	-	PRODUCTION 2
Linkship	Destroyer		1	8	2	-	When this unit retreats, you may destroy 1 ship in the active system that is damaged or does not have SUSTAIN DAMAGE. ANTI-FIGHTER BARRAGE 6 (x3)
Morphwing	Fighter		1 (x2)	7	2	-	This unit may move without being transported. Fighters in excess of your ships' capacity count against your fleet pool. This ship can be committed during an invasion; either return it to the space area or replace it with 1 infantry at the end of combat.
Production Biomes	Space Dock		-	-	-	-	Up to 3 fighters in this system do not count towards your ships' capacity. When this unit uses PRODUCTION, you may spend 1 token from your strategy pool to gain 4 trade goods and choose another player to gain 2 trade goods. PRODUCTION 9
Prototype War Sun	War Sun		12	3 (x3)	2	6	Other players' units in this system lose PLANETARY SHIELD. This unit and other units moving at the same time can move into and through supernovas. SUSTAIN DAMAGE BOMBARDMENT 3 (X3)
Saggitaria	Cruiser		2	6	3	1	SUSTAIN DAMAGE
Strike Wing Alpha	Destroyer		1	7	2	1	When this unit uses ANTI-FIGHTER BARRAGE, each result of 9 or 10 also destroys 1 of your opponent's infantry in the space area of the active system. ANTI-FIGHTER BARRAGE 6(x3)
Super-Dreadnought	Dreadnought		4	5	2	2	This unit cannot be destroyed by "Spark" action cards. SUSTAIN DAMAGE BOMBARDMENT 4
The Dragon, Freed	War Sun		12	3 (x3)	2	6	While you own this card, you can only have 1 war sun. When this unit uses BOMBARDMENT, it uses it against each planet in its system and each adjacent system, even yours, ignoring PLANETARY SHIELD SUSTAIN DAMAGE BOMBARDMENT 3 (X3)
Triune	Fighter		1 (x2)	7	2	-	This unit may move without being transported. Fighters in excess of your ships' capacity count against your fleet pool. You may remove 3 of your fighters from systems that contain or are adjacent to a player's units to cancel an action card played by that player.
University War Sun	War Sun		10	4 (x3)	3	6	Other players' units in this system lose PLANETARY SHIELD. SUSTAIN DAMAGE BOMBARDMENT 4 (X3)
Valefar Prime	Mech		-1	-	-	-	Keep this card in your play area; the COST of your mechs is reduced by 1.
Vortexer	Carrier		3	9	2	6	Capture other players' infantry and fighters that are destroyed or removed in this unit's system or an adjacent system. At the start of your turn, you may spend captured infantry or fighters to place equivalent units from your reinforcements in this system.
Yin Clone	Infantry		1 (x2)	7	-	-	After this unit is destroyed or removed, place the unit on this card. At the start of the status phase, place each unit that is on this card on a planet you control.

Genome Cards

This type of spliced card represents the genetic material of one of the fallen species of the galaxy. They can be exhausted for an effect and ready each round during the status phase. They are placed face-up in player's personal play area when gained.

Each card refers to the Agents of one of the 30 base game factions, and many are copies of those effects. However, some have strange new effects exclusive to Twilight's Fall, which can drastically alter the game.

This type of splice is mostly caused by the "Noctis" Strategy Card.

List of Genome Cards

Name	Origin	Ability
Action Genome		At any time: You may exhaust this card to allow any player to spend commodities as if they were trade goods.
Altruistic Genome		When a hit is produced against a unit: You may exhaust this card to cancel that hit.
Aristocratic Genome		At the start of a space combat round: You may exhaust this card to choose 1 ship in the active system. That ship rolls 1 additional die during this combat round.
Breach Genome		ACTION: Exhaust this card to choose 1 player. That player may swap the position of 2 of their ships in any systems; they may transport units when they swap.
Brutal Genome		After a player activates a system: You may exhaust this card to allow that player to replace 1 of their infantry in the active system with 1 mech from their reinforcements.
Captain's Genome		After a player activates a system: You may exhaust this card to increase the move value of 1 of that player's ships to match the move value of the ship on the game board that has the highest move value.
Clever Genome		This card has the text ability of each other player's genomes, even if those genomes are exhausted.
Cosmic Genome		After a player moves ships into a system that does not contain any planets: You may exhaust this card; that player gains 1 command token.
Courier Genome		ACTION: Exhaust this card to draw 2 action cards; give 1 of those cards to another player.
Curious Genome		At the end of a player's turn: You may exhaust this card to allow that player to explore 1 of their planets.
Deployment Genome		At the end of a player's turn: You may exhaust this card to allow that player to remove up to 2 of their ground forces from the game board and place them on planets they control in the active system.
Diplomatic Genome		ACTION: Exhaust this card to ready any planet; if that planet is in a system that is adjacent to a planet you control, you may remove 1 infantry from that planet and return it to its reinforcements.
Divine Genome		When 1 or more of a player's units use PRODUCTION: You may exhaust this card to reduce the combined cost of the produced units by 2.
Enigmatic Genome		After a player activates a non-home system that contains a wormhole:: You may exhaust this card; if you do, that system is adjacent to all other systems that contain a wormhole during this tactical action.
Experimental Genome		When a player spends resources: You may exhaust this card to allow that player to remove any number of their infantry from the game board. For each unit removed, reduce the resources spent by 1.
Human Genome		At the start of a ground combat round: You may exhaust this card to choose 1 ground force in the active system; that ground force rolls 1 additional die during this combat round.
Hyper Genome		At any time: You may exhaust this card and choose another player; that player gives you 1 trade good, if able, then you each draw 1 action card.
Investment Genome		When you gain trade goods from the supply: You may exhaust this card to place an equal number of trade goods on this card. When this card readies, gain the trade goods on this card.
Limit Genome		After any player's command token is place in a system: You may exhaust this card to return that token to that player's reinforcements.
Mirror Genome		When a player moves ships: You may exhaust this card; if you do, SPACE CANNON cannot be used against those ships. If they are not transporting units, they can also move through other players' ships.
Molten Genome		ACTION: Exhaust this card to choose a player; That player may produce up to 2 units that each have a cost of 4 or less in a system that contains one of their War Suns or their Flagship.
Pacific Genome		ACTION: Exhaust this card and choose any player's non-fighter ship; that player may replace that ship with one from their reinforcements that costs up to 2 more than the replaced ship.
Ravenous Genome		After another player replenishes commodities: You may exhaust this card to convert their commodities to trade goods and capture 1 unit from their reinforcements that has a cost equal to or lower than their commodity value.
Recursive Genome		During the action phase: You may exhaust this card to choose a player; that player may discard 1 action card or spend 1 command token from their command sheet to gain 2 trade goods.
Research Genome		Whenever a player initiates a splice: You may exhaust this card to add 3 additional cards to that splice.
Scornful Genome		When a player produces ground forces in a system: You may exhaust this card; that player may place those units on any planets they control in that system and any adjacent systems.
Silver Genome		During the action phase: You may exhaust this card to gain 2 commodities or replenish another player's commodities.
Splitting Genome		After a player's destroyer or cruiser is destroyed: You may exhaust this card; if you do, that player may place up to 2 fighters from their reinforcements in that unit's system.
Swarm Genome		At the end of a player's tactical action: You may exhaust this card; if you do, that player may place 2 infantry from their reinforcements on a planet they control in the active system.
Temporal Genome		After the "Roll Dice" step of combat: You may exhaust this card. If you do, hits are not assigned to either player's units. Return to the start of this combat round's "Roll Dice" step.
Valiant Genome		When a player's unit is destroyed during combat: You may exhaust this card to roll 1 die. If the result is equal to or greater than that unit's combat value, their opponent must choose and destroy 1 of their units.