Meteors to most commanders are a mere bother and nothing really to be mindful of that is until a shower, or even worse a storm, smacks into a number of ships that were not paying attention. Easy to avoid until you are also under attack.

Meteors travel across the star-field in a single direction – they always come from the same side and head towards the opposite side. On each player’s turn, three battle dice are rolled and for each blast symbol rolled a meteor is placed on the star-field. These are then allocated to a row of the star-field by rolling two six-sided dice.

Once they’re in play, at the end of each player’s turn, all meteors move across the star-field at the speed shown on each meteor tile. If a meteor moves into or through a hex containing a unit, there’s a meteor strike!