Beyond Mission To Planet Hexx

This is an expansion. It cannot be played on its own. If you need the core rules first, start with how to play Mission to Planet Hexx.

Beyond adds 88 cards and several new systems on top of the base game: tokens, boosters, all-play and hybrid hexes, surprise maps, new icons, and mega mission files that stretch your win condition from six sides to eight.

Setup

Add the 76 game hexes to the base game and shuffle the whole deck together.

You can also build a custom deck from any mix of base and expansion hexes. The recommended starting ratio is:

Type	Count
Aliens	20
Dilemmas	20
Objects	20
Planets	24
Space hexes	31

Treat that as a baseline rather than a rule — experimenting with the mix is part of the point.

The rest of setup matches the base game, with one change: the first player adds a third space hex to the starting layout, chosen from the specific hexes the expansion designates for this.

Mega Mission Files

For a longer game, connect two of the new mission cards along their circuit edges to form a mega mission with eight upload sides instead of six.

Two things to get right:

• The text must face up. Each card has a distinct left and right side.
• They join via the circuits. If you are not building a mega mission, use the sides without circuits.

The Control Panel

Your control panel is everything in front of you: your mission file uploads plus your dashboard, which holds tokens.

This matters because several new effects target the control panel as a whole rather than one specific area.

Tokens

When you play a token, put it on your dashboard, where it stays in play until your next turn.

Tokens on your dashboard are automatically deleted at the beginning of your next turn, after any beginning-of-turn effects have resolved.

If a hex tells you to delete a token from your control panel, you choose which one — from anywhere on the panel, dashboard or uploads.

Boosters

A booster grants a continuous effect once it has been uploaded to a mission file.

If a hex tells you to delete a booster, you must pick one from anywhere in your control panel — including your uploads. Boosters are not safe just because they have been uploaded.

New Hex Types

All-play hexes

An all-play hex begins with normal text that the active player carries out, followed by italic text that every player must do — starting with the active player and continuing to the next.

Hybrid hexes

Some hexes carry multiple categories and types. When you play a hybrid, you choose exactly one category and perform that action. The other category is then ignored.

This has a sharp tactical consequence. If the active player plays a hybrid as a map, an opponent’s hex that cancels events cannot touch it — because it was never played as an event.

The types on a hybrid hex behave differently: they are always active, can be targeted by other hexes, and can be used as uploads.

Surprise map hexes

These follow the normal rules for map hexes but can also be played as a surprise — including on another player’s turn. Some of them go further and let you play an additional surprise during that same player’s turn.

New Icons

Icon	Meaning
Continuous	This map hex affects the galaxy continuously while it remains in play.
Disintegrate	Discard a map hex from the galaxy. If your ship is on a hex that gets disintegrated, you are out of the game permanently.
Roll on the die	Refers to the exact number rolled, before any modifiers are applied.

Glossary

Term	Meaning
Delete	Discard a hex from the control panel.
Automatic roll	A notional die roll — you do not physically roll for it, you just take the stated value.
Straight line	Continuously connected adjacent hexes without changing direction at any point.
Replace	When an event hex replaces another hex, the replaced card does not go to the discard pile.
Disconnected map hex	A map hex cut off from the galaxy stays where it is until another map hex reconnects it.

Common Mistakes

• Playing this without the base game. It is an expansion and has no standalone mode.
• Assuming uploaded boosters are safe. A delete-booster effect can reach into your uploads.
• Forgetting tokens expire. Dashboard tokens are wiped at the start of your next turn, after beginning-of-turn effects — so use them.
• Trying to use both halves of a hybrid. You pick one category and the other is ignored, though the hex’s types stay active either way.
• Cancelling the wrong category. A hybrid played as a map cannot be cancelled by an event-cancelling hex.
• Parking on a fragile hex. Disintegrate removes a map hex from the galaxy, and a ship standing on it is eliminated for good.
• Applying modifiers to a die-roll icon. That icon reads the raw number rolled, before modification.
• Tidying away disconnected hexes. They stay on the table until something reconnects them.