The Nomad

Faction Abilities[]

THE COMPANY - During setup, take the 2 additional Nomad faction agents and place them next to your faction sheet; you have 3 agents.

FUTURE SIGHT - During the Agenda phase, after an outcome that you voted for or predicted is resolved, gain 1 trade good.

Faction Promissory Note[]

The Cavalry

At the start of a space combat against a player other than the Nomad:

During this combat, treat 1 of your non-fighter ships as if it has the SUSTAIN DAMAGE ability, combat value, and ANTI-FIGHTER BARRAGE value of the Nomad's flagship.

Return this card to the Nomad player at the end of this combat.

Faction Technologies[]

Temporal Command Suite

After any player's agent becomes exhausted, you may exhaust this card to ready that agent; if you ready another player's agent, you may perform a transaction with that player.

Prerequisites:

Flagship[]

Name

Cost

Combat

Move

Capacity

Abilities

Memoria

8

7 (x2)

1

3

Sustain Damage

Anti-Fighter Barrage 8 (x3)

You may treat this unit as if it were adjacent to systems that contain one or more of your mechs.

Note: This unit can be upgraded.

Faction Unit Upgrades[]

Name

Cost

Combat

Move

Capacity

Abilities

Prerequisities

Memoria II

8

5 (x2)

2

6

Sustain Damage

Anti-Fighter Barrage 5 (x3)

You may treat this unit as if it were adjacent to systems that contain one or more of your mechs.

Mech[]

Quantum Manipulator
While this unit is in a space area during combat, you may use its SUSTAIN DAMAGE ability to cancel a hit that is produced against your ships in this system. Sustain Damage
2	6
Cost	Combat

Leaders[]

	Name	Unlock Criteria	Ability
Agent	Artuno the Betrayer	At Game Start	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.
Agent	Field Marshal Mercer	At Game Start	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.
Agent	The Thundarian	At Game Start	After the "Roll Dice" step of combat: You may exhaust this card. If you do, hits are not assigned to either players' units. Return to the start of this combat round's "Roll Dice" step.
Commander	Navarch Feng	Have 1 scored secret objective	You can produce your flagship without spending resources.
Hero	Ahk-Syl Siven	Have 3 Scored Objectives	PROBABILITY MATRIX ACTION: Place this card near the game board; your flagship and units it transports can move out of systems that contain your command tokens during this game round. At the end of that game round, purge this card.

Gallery[]

FAQ[]

Q: Does the Duranium Armor technology allow you to repair Nomad Mechs that have used their ability to cancel a hit during space combat?

A: No, Duranium Armor only affects units participating (rolling dice) in a combat.

Q: Does Nomad’s Temporal Command Suite faction technology bypass transaction limits?

A: Yes, Temporal Command Suite’s transaction does not affect performing a second transaction with the same player that turn.

Q: Does the Nomad’s Hero, Ahk-Syl Siven, allow their flagship to pick up groundforces in systems that contain their tokens?

A: Yes.

Trivia[]

According to Dane Beltrami^[1], the Nomad claims to come from the future, despite their faction sheet never explicitly stating this. The following factors point to this being true:
- Their emergence shortly after and deep interest in the Acheron disaster.
- Quickly gaining recognition out of no where with seemingly infinite wealth and resources.
- Having an agent able to revert time.
- Having an ability called "Future Sight".
- Starting with their flagship.
The Nomad was accompanied by The Company, the five characters that make up the Nomad faction's leaders.^[1]
- Artuno the Betrayer is in charge of the Space Station Sumerian at the behest of the Nomad, and answers to the Nomad. ^[1]
The subtitle for the Nomad's hero Ahk-Syl Siven is "Sole Survivor", which according to Dane Beltrami^[1] is because he is (supposedly) the last living Creuss in the future from which the Nomad comes.
- Alternatively, it would make sense for him to be the sole survivor of the Creuss expedition to Acheron
In the Aug 2020 Reddit AMA, Dane Beltrami confirmed that the Nomad's Flagship, Memoria, is a reference to the penultimate dungeon of Final Fantasy IX.
- Memoria is Latin for 'Memory' or, specifically, the ability to remember/recall the Arguments of a Discourse.

^[1] Discussed on Space Cats Peace Turtles episode 147.