Core Space: Deluxe Rulebook

About this expansion

Core Space: Deluxe Rulebook is a 176-page hardback companion for Core Space, supporting games for 1–6 players with play times of around 180 minutes. Designed to be used with the Starter Set and other associated products, it brings the game’s essential rules and expanded options together in one place.

The rulebook begins with a comprehensive guide to the components and core rules. It also provides full rules for the AI-controlled Galactic Corps, Security, Criminal Gangers, and Civilians, helping define the different NPCs encountered during play.

Use the mission section to shape your own stories with objectives, maps, and difficulty settings. Campaign rules connect individual games into one continuous story, adding systems for Extraction, Advancement, and Trading.

• Core rules and component guidance
• NPC rules for four types of AI-controlled characters
• Missions with objectives, maps, and difficulty settings
• Campaign rules for linked stories
• Advanced rules, including a Game Master, new terrain, and Trader injuries
• Character creation for Traders, Classes, NPCs, and new enemies

The book includes The Perseus Arm Campaign, a sequence of 10 narrative missions in which the crews of the Ion Hope and Black Maria must stop a Purge invasion. This campaign offers a defined storyline while the mission and campaign tools support custom adventures.

For groups seeking greater control over their games, the advanced rules introduce new ways to add twists. Detailed character-creation rules allow custom Traders, Classes, NPCs, and enemies, while the background section explores the history of the characters, locations, and deadly Purge threat.

Rounding out Core Space: Deluxe Rulebook is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Core Space. Together, its rules, narrative content, customisation options, and setting information make it a comprehensive reference for expanding the game.