Ever wanted to fly your own starship? Tackle space pirates? Interact with unusual aliens or visit strange new worlds? Well now you can! The game is played with a 3x3 'Galactic' grid of cards. Plan and move your player card around this grid mining asteroids, gaining equipment and overcoming numerous threats in order to survive. As you move the grid moves and more Galactic cards are revealed. Can you survive a whole year by going through the entire Galactic deck? There's only one way to find out... —description from the designers