Far Horizons: The Return

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One area that you may want to place special focus on is making it as quick and as easy as possible, for new players with no experience to get up and running successfully.

yeah, I'm brand new to it. The rulebook is GREAT, but large. I've been summarising it as I go along as a series of mind-maps to capture the concepts and categories and rules etc. 

Raven's provided an example first move, and a movement spreadsheet. These are all very welcome but don't really go far enough to give a newbie an overall summary of strategies, considerations etc. Eg should I invest in my local star system, maximising production capability before reaching out to other systems? How many turns might it be before I might meet another player? When should I consider investing in defense? How might alliances form? I.e. what happens to make a group consider themselves better protected (and from who?) by working together?

I'm personally happy that all of this can be discovered through play, but some players might want a better summary of these aspects to understand and feel effective from the outset.