Antares: Breach

In the 9th solar month of the year 2315, the abandoned merchant vessel Antares drifted inside Saturn’s orbit, and was coupled to the Orbital Dry Dock station, Hermes.

The crew of the Hermes was unaware that 80 years before, the Antares had encountered a hostile alien life form. The alien had been brought on board when its hibernation crysalis was mistakenly collected as an ancient relic from an archaeological site on a small moon near the Alpha Centauri cluster.

Data indicates that the Antares had arrived under low power, and sensors and scans did little to confirm its condition. Once the ship was docked, and its main airlock breached, the crew of the Hermes encountered the alien life from. During the years of travel from the Alpha Centauri cluster the alien had multiplied.

External communications went dark a few minutes after initial contact. Using the collected audio and video download data from on board the facility most of the information has been pieced together.

What follows is a record of the events that occurred during the final hours on the Hermes while the crew tried desperately to lockdown the facility, and escape.

Play out the crew's final hour as they attempt to secure the facility from the alien swarm. Antares: Breach is geared for easy solitaire play, but can be expanded to up to 8 players.

Antares: Breach is a themeatic, space horror game. The actions of the crew are up to you, and the choices you make may well determine who survives, and escapes the overrun Hermes facility, and who falls victim to the alien lifeform.

Antares: Breach is the second game in the series. Telling the next chapter of the story of the doomed ship Antares, and its alien cargo.

Antares: Breach is playable solo or co-op.

Game experience

Build the Hermes using the Cabin and Corridor tiles. The facility must have all corridor ends connected to Cabins. Different builds of the Hermes offer different levels of difficulty.

Choose your crew selecting one side from each of the eight crewmember cards. Each crewmember has their own unique ability and choice of two starting locations.

Complete the Comms, Dry Dock, Systems, & Mainframe Access objectives. Spedning an action in the Comms, Dry Dock Ops, Systems, or Mainframe Access cabins will advance the matching counter 1 spot forward. Use of the Air Ducts can expidite movement through the facility, but the alien lifeform has found them to be useful as well.

Collect valuable Ammo and Stationary Guns from the Armory, or Medkits from Medical to kill aliens or survive an attack.

Avoid the alien lifeforms. The lifeform has multiplied diring its trip aboard the Antares, and they swarm the Hermes relentlessly. After each action performed a Scan card must be drawn which will indicate if the aliens attack, or if the crew is safe for one more round.

Escape if the crew manages to complete all objects they may regroup in the Escape Pod, and execute the Delta Launch Code to escape the Hermes Facility.

Game Play

Each crewmember may perform one of the following actions:

Move to an adjacent Cabin, Corridor or the Airducts (Crewmembers may move into a location with an alien(s) if they have enough Ammo)

Move an Objective forward, if a civillian is in an appropriate Cabin

Collect one Ammo or Stationary Gun from the Armory or other location if dropped/placed (Max Ammo of 1 for some civilians/3 for Marines)

Trade Items with another Crewmember in the same Cabin or Corridor

Place a stationary Gun in a Corridor

Drop any or all Items

Lay the Crewmember's matching meeple down to indicate they have taken their action for the round.

After a Crewmember performs an action, Draw the top card of the Scan Deck. If the Scan Card shows 4 cabins or corridors (or the Air Ducts), the crew is safe.

If it shows an image of the alien liifeform draw Scan cards until you draw one with 4 Cabins showing. In ascending order, place an available alien lifeform meeple in each location. If any alien lifeforms were eliminated in the previous round, move them from the alien spawn point card to the Dry Dock. If Crewmembers occupy any of these locations they must encountetr the alien lifeform.

Shuffle the deck if you exhaust the draw pile.

If there are multiple Crew in the location, the lowest numbered Crewmember is the target of the attack, and is eliminated unless they have a Medkit or any Crewmember in the location has Ammo. If there is a single Crewmember, they are automatically the target.

Medkits keep the Crewmember alive, but the alien lifeform remains in the location, and any Crew left must use their next action to leave the location.

Ammo Crewmembers may eliminate one alien lifeform from the current location for each ammo in their inventory.

If an eliminated Crewmember has items in their inventory, lay their meeple on its side to indicate the location of those items.

Once all Crewmembers have taken an action, stand the meeples up and bein the next round.

Continue taking an action with a Crewmember and drawing Scan Cards until any Crew complete the Objectives and Escape, or the alien lifeform eliminates all the crew.

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Antares: Breach ships with a small, black, velvet bag for easy storage and portability.

Note: Cards and components will not come shipped inside the bag, and the tag will not be attached due to fulfillment restrictions.

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