Cheat sheet for InterSpace – Basic Rules
Player Setup
• seven hexes per player – 1 home world (center), 1
planet, 1 asteroids and 4 empty
• 2 Ind. + 2 Tech counters (Home World at 8 Ind. +
3 Tech, Colony planet at 2 Ind. + 2 Tech)
• 3 scouts + 2 transports +
1 system station
• set aside Aleph-Null, Bet-Null and Vet-Null
Gameplay

Players take turns to perform all steps (one player at
a time) – draw a unit from a bowl or decide
otherwise.

1 Game turn = sum of Player turns

A player executes all, some or none steps, but
always in order.

2 Victory Points (VP) are earned for every
Industrial level controlled (total Ind. levels on your
planets * 2).

First player with 50 VPs wins (VPs are totalled at
the end of a game turn – possible multiple
winners).
Economic Step
 Either:
o increase Ind. level (planet)
must be equal or lower than Tech level,
max 8
o increase Tech level (planet)
must be equal or lower than Ind. level, max
8
o build a unit
adhere to Tech level and IOU cost (Home
World can have Transport bonus)
Movement Step
 stopping at asteroids, black hole, nebula, null space
(evaporation) or unknown hex.
 Black Hole – roll on exit, if less or equal to unit’s
V, you can move to adjacent hex; if higher, unit
remains in the Hole
 Dust Cloud – 2 upon entering (scout is allowed
when discovering unknown hexes, as are units with
a total V of 1)
 Wormhole – 1 upon entering, movement to partner
wormhole is optional and also costs 1
 Unknown hex – only scouts and their stacked units;
if no more hexes, unknown cannot be entered;
civilization level = max. unknown hexes in
Movement Step
 Pulsar – roll for an entering or leaving unshielded
unit: even number means destruction (2,4,6)
 Patrol boat must return to a friendly planet or
station every other turn (otherwise is removed).
 opposing warships block movement, also opposing
stations in wormholes
 exit hex with blocking units only if you have 1
warship per every blocking unit
 no stacking limit
Exploration Step
 draw a hex for every unknown hex entered
 Another region (or Home World) – return tile back,
search for Empty space, put it down and connect to
another Player’s region:
o roll d6 – 1,2,3 is left Player, 4,5,6 right Player
o if already connected to one of them, connect to
the other automatically
o roll again – at 1,2,3 your scout faces the left
side of its hex directly from your homeworld, at
4,5,6 it faces the right side
o roll again – die result determines the side of the
other player’s board (as per his Home World)
o if boards would overlap, do not connect; only
empty space was discovered
 Wormhole – place the Prime- wormhole under Scout
and determine the Null- partner location:
o roll d6
o 4 players – 1,2 left, 3,4 center, 5,6 right
o 3 players – 1,2,3 left, 4,5,6 right
o roll again – determines hex side of that
Player’s Home World
o place Null- partner Wormhole to the first blank
hex in that direction
Colonization Step
 If your colony ship is on an uninhabited planet (max
one per planet), return Colony ship to stock and take
the Planet Card
Combat Step
 player on turn is Attacker, opposing is Defender
 in each round both roll for every ship
 rolls must be below or equal to ship’s combat
rating to hit
 if succesful, opposing side takes the rolled number of
hits to a ship
 shields begin combat at full, but do not regenerate
during combat
 first the Attacker removes shields and/or units from
Defender
 then the Defender removes shields and/or units from
Attacker
 first the Attacker, then the Defender may opt to flee
 if fleeing, the player must leave 1 warship per each
opponent’s warship behind; otherwise he can’t flee
 if one side is gone, the other wins
 if after 3 rounds no side is a winner, it is a mate;
attacker must retreat (without leaving units behind)
 if Attacker runs out of warships, he must retreat
(without leaving ships behind)
 if Attacker wins on a Planet hex, he can conquer it
with Assault boats and take it from the opponent –
required number is ½ of Planet’s Ind. level