Colonies rules

Colonies is an expansion for Terraforming Mars.

How Colonies changes play

Settle moons and planets with colonies and visit them with trade fleets for resources.

Setup: shuffle the new project cards and corporations into their decks. Draw Colony Tiles equal to the players plus 2, except 5 in a 2-player game (solo: draw 4, keep 3, and start with M€ production 2 steps lower). Put them beside the board.
Setup: put a white cube on the highlighted second step of each track. Titan, Enceladus and Miranda start on the moon picture instead, closed until a card in play can collect their resource.
Setup: place the Trade Fleets Tile beside the board; each player puts one trade fleet on it.
Build a colony: a 17 M€ Standard Project.
Trade: an action costing 9 M€, 3 energy or 3 titanium; move your fleet to a free Colony Tile.
Solar Phase: fleets come home and each white marker moves up a step.

Generation Structure With Colonies, the Solar Phase after Production returns trade fleets and moves each Colony Tile's white marker up a step, unless the game just ended.
Action Phase — What Counts as an Action Trading with a colony is also an action.
Standard Projects Build Colony: 17 M€, place a colony.

Colony Tiles The game uses as many Colony Tiles as there are players plus 2, except that a 2-player game uses 5. In a solo game, draw 4 and choose 3.
Build Colony Building a colony is a Standard Project that costs 17 M€.
Colony Limits Per Tile Each Colony Tile holds at most 3 colonies in total, with no exceptions.
Trading With a Colony Tile Trading is an action.
Colony Tile Tracks in the Solar Phase In the Solar Phase, return all trade fleets from the Colony Tiles to the Trade Fleets Tile, then move the white marker one step up the…
Titan, Enceladus and Miranda Start Markers The white markers on Titan, Enceladus and Miranda start on the moon picture itself.