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Persistent Field. Your Weapons gain Assault Protocol 1.

Speaks in commands no pilot hears, to guns that listen for nothing else.

Rapid Launch. Enters ready to attack an enemy unit.

Clamps released, checklist ignored, target already acquired before the launch alarm.

Environmental. At start of each turn, Drones without Evade or Skyward Maneuver take 2 damage. Replaces any active Environmental.

Nothing bigger than a boulder, nothing smaller than a truck, and a lot of both.

Auto-Repair 3. Heals 3 HP at end of your turn.

The calm voice that orders the wounded to keep working and be careful.

End Cycle: if you played no Weapon this turn, draw 1 card.

The magazine fills itself. The pilot pretends not to notice.

A redundant structural bulkhead.

Installed after the first time. Never removed after the second.

Attach to a Weapon you control. Host gains Priority Fire.

An extra inch of metal, an extra moment of accuracy, an extra ghost.

Play only if an enemy is attacking you. Dodge the next incoming attack entirely.

Old trick. Old saying. Older grave for the pilots who tried it twice.

Reactive. Play only when your ship is attacked. Enters with 3 defense.

Every pilot learns the deflector sigil before they learn their name.

Passive: Your Weapons deal +1 damage.

The oldest frame in the yard. Still welded on more ships than any newer model.

Draw 1 card.

Small black box. Smaller label. The pilot never reads the label. The box still works.

A standard ship-side subroutine.

Old code, clean code, code that nobody ever thought worth rewriting.

Interceptor. Enemy must attack this unit first.

Stands at the gap. Fills the gap. Dies in the gap. Paid in full.

All units you control gain Reactive this turn.

Time bends. The fleet finds itself speaking mid-sentence on the opposing turn.

Overclock. Deal 4 damage.

Runs hot. Fires hotter. The gloves were never optional.

Critical Breach: deal 3 damage to the unit that destroyed this.

Goes up fine, comes down louder, lands in somebody else's rear hangar.

Critical Breach: deal 4 damage to the unit that destroyed this.

Bigger warhead. Same temperament. Still friendly until touched.

Critical Breach: deal 4 damage to the unit that destroyed this.

Dies well, dies loudly, dies on purpose, writes its own brief obituary.

Attach to a Drone. Host gains +2 attack.

Extra thrust, extra heat, extra chance the drone is the one who wins the exchange.

Bounce. Return target enemy Drone to its owner's hand.

The drone takes a long rest on the hangar rack. Somebody else wears the war.