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This is a sealed, untouched display of 36 Booster Packs Series V Time Gates to build out your Galactic Empires decks or just to collect the cards for their incredible Sci Fi Art.
This is for 1 sealed display of the Time Gates Edition only.
Galactic Empires was one of the "first wave" of collectible card games to come out on the heels of Magic: The Gathering's success. Produced by Companion Games, the first cards were released in August, 1994, and can be difficult to find; however, excepting a few misprints, they were all reprinted in Series II Primary Edition released in December, 1994. A large number of expansions and a revised core set (Series U Universe Edition) were released over the following 2 years; this ended abruptly when Companion Games filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy in May 1997. Carl Schulte, the spokesman for the game, hoped Component Game Systems would have purchased Companion Games and continue the game.
Over 3000 cards were printed altogether, perhaps more than any other collectible card game of the era. These included several hundred promotional cards, some of which can be nearly impossible to track down today. By the time of the game's demise, at least 40 different empires (and 16 distinct "tribes" of one empire, the Indirigan Nomads) had been printed in varying numbers and levels of playability.
Game play
As with all collectible card games, every player puts together his or her own deck. In Galactic Empires, each player takes the role of the leader of a "sector" of a galactic empire. The object of the game is to defend one's Sector HQ while destroying the other players' Sector HQs. There are a variety of card types, the principal ones being resource-providing terrain (mostly planets and moons) and resource-consuming ships, which can deal damage to opposing ships, terrain, and Sector HQs (and a variety of other card types). Each empire had its own unique trait, usually a weapon; there were also several "shipless" empires, for instance the Space Dragons and the Time Knights, that damaged and defended using other means.
As with all collectible card games, every player puts together his or her own deck. In Galactic Empires, each player takes the role of the leader of a "sector" of a galactic empire. The object of the game is to defend one's Sector HQ while destroying the other players' Sector HQs. There are a variety of card types, the principal ones being resource-providing terrain (mostly planets and moons) and resource-consuming ships, which can deal damage to opposing ships, terrain, and Sector HQs (and a variety of other card types). Each empire had its own unique trait, usually a weapon; there were also several "shipless" empires, for instance the Space Dragons and the Time Knights, that damaged and defended using other means.
Sets and expansions were in English. A German version of Series II Primary Edition was released at about the same time as its English-language counterpart, but with fewer cards.
The set sizes in the table below have been compiled from checklists on the Internet and may be inaccurate. Many of the sets contain cards that are identical except for artwork and/or flavour text; for most sets these have been counted as separate cards. An exception was made for Series VIII, which has 100 distinct cards, among which 23 have 4 versions, 1 has 3 versions, and 1 has 2 versions, all but one of which have the same artwork and slightly different flavour text; so the die-hard collector would count 172 different cards. Some sets have cards for empires other than those listed, but not enough such to play these empires from this set alone.
Series - Set - Release date - Empires - Size
Series 0 - "Alpha" - August 1994 - Argonian, Krebiz
Series I - "Beta" - August 1994 - Argonian, Krebiz - 90
Series II - Primary Edition - December 1994 - Argonian, Bolaar, Corporate, Space Dragon, Indirigan, Krebiz, Mechad, Vektrean - 441
Series III - New Empires - March 1995 - Clydon, Plasma Occupied Territory/P.O.T., Scorpead, Tufor - 210
Series IV - Powers o/t Mind - August 1995 - Filarian, Psycanti, Visonic - 152
Series V - Time Gates - August 1995 - Time Knight, Tranoan - 157
Series U - Universe Ed - November 1995 - Argonian, Clydon, Corporate, Space Dragon, Indirigan, Krebiz, Mechad, P.O.T., Scorpead, Tufor, Vektrean - 565
Series VI - Advanced Technologies - January 1996 - 152
Series VII - Piracy - May 1996 - Bolaar, Corporate Pirate, Indirigan, Leopan - 204
Series VIII - Comedy Club on the Far Side of the Galaxy - July 1996 - Comedy Club Network - 100
Series IX - Persona - August 1996 - 205
Series X - Galactic Invaders - October 1996 - Aqaaran, Gekonauak, J'Xar, Orgon, Treglean, Zedan - 260
Series XI - Allied Forces - December 1996 - Drone, Erodi, Noble, Pakta'don, Paraloid, Shon-ti, Tarra'ki, Treglean, Trochilidae - 145
Promo cards - 315
For a complete listing of all cards including artwork, please google 'The Galactic Empires Card Museum'
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