Rules Reference
Influence represents a planet’s political power. Players spend influence to gain command tokens using the Leadership strategy card, and the influence values of planets are used to cast votes during the agenda phase.
- A planet’s influence is the rightmost value (surrounded by a blue border) found on the planet’s system tile and planet card.
- A player can spend a planet’s influence by exhausting that planet’s card.
- A player can spend a trade good as if it were one influence.
- Players cannot spend trade goods to cast votes during the agenda phase.