![]() ![]() Its button also lights up red to remind you that you’re dead! A white “regen” button allows you to regenerate your ship when the time is right. ![]() When it hits zero, it extinguishes your on-screen player spot. When Player 2 presses the large red button on its face, a countdown timer lights up and begins counting down. The Damocles controller plugs into the ACC port on the Odyssey. In addition to Game Card #13 and the Switch Controller, Tannhauser Gate makes use of the Damocles controller, the first Accessory controller for the Odyssey besides the light rifle. ![]() This is extremely risky, however, as misjudging the ever-changing rhythm of the gate could cause the ship to implode before it can reach safety! Meanwhile, the Explorer must charge up their ship, activate their life support system, wait for the right moment, and zip out into the expanse, attempting to complete their missions (given on special Explore cards) and return to safety inside the gate before their ship is destroyed by the energy fields of the expanse. The Scanner draws Scan cards that provide specific assignments to carry out. The Scanner player remains stationary throughout the round, but may send C-beams (represented by the Odyssey’s ball) through the gate to scan various objects in the expanse beyond. The Gate Keeper player draws a special Gate card at the beginning of each round, which contains a special gate pattern that must be followed. The switch controller opens and closes the gate. This card includes an external Aux jack and a “Switch Controller” that attaches to it. Tannhauser Gate is a 3 player game that makes use of a newly designed game card (#13). Will you be the one to discover the secret of Tannhauser Gate? Take on the roles of the Scanner, Explorer, and Gate Keeper as you compete to complete your missions and disrupt your rivals. ![]() Their rivals, however, use replicant-manned spacecraft to explore outside of the Gate, directly. Located safely behind Tannhauser Gate, it launches and receives C-beams capable of probing any form of matter. While an interstellar team of engineers has managed to harness the local energy flux to construct the Gate, its operation remains partially at the whim of the energy patterns that feed it, making the expanse beyond the Gate even more risky to explore.įor this reason, the largest scientific collective to currently study the area has created a specialized, long-range scanning platform. To venture beyond its boundaries is to be bombarded with a relentless stream of dark particles. These researchers must uneasily share a moon base shielded by the Gate. While ostensibly a demilitarized zone, Tannhauser Gate is plagued by intense rivalry over the scientific knowledge that it provides to its sponsoring corporations, governments, and collectives. Multiple interstellar civilizations have sent researchers to the area, mainly in an attempt to understand the intergalactic wormhole that serves to connect this remote spot to the energy-rich Flywheel Galaxy via Quantum Refluctuation. Such is the fate of even the most regal of mineral-poor planets. Because few minerals or supplies of interest can be found there, it is used mostly as a garbage dump. Closer at hand, yet surprisingly more barren, is the planet Coronation. Unfortunately, the planet and its single natural satellite, “Odysseus,” are isolated from the gate by the massive parade of interstellar stone known as the Scyllan Corridor. Crimson Maw, a mostly uninhabitable planet, nonetheless provides researchers in the area with an ample supply of both common and rare minerals. Charybdis, a black hole, lies not far from the Gate, and is clearly related to it in some way. Spacetime here seems to have a will of its own. On the other side of the Gate is The Expanse, one of the most mysterious and deadly regions of outer space yet discovered, a zone that seems to vacillate in its allegiance to the laws of the quantum to the laws of the galactic. In a remote wing of a remote galaxy, on the frontiers of cosmic knowledge, lies Tannhauser's Gate, a colossal directed energy beam fed by a spacio-temporal anomaly of seemingly ceaseless energy. ![]()
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