The corporations of Shackleton Base

We introduced you to 🌕Shackleton Base before. There are many great elements in the game, but perhaps the neutral Corporations are the best part. 🥰 In a given game you randomly choose 3 out of 7 of them and they change things up in big and fun ways. So let’s take a closer look at them! 🕵️

🛒Each corporation has a special resource that you can gather during the game. These are different to basic resources, as they are only used to interact with the corporations. As the game goes on more of these tokens will come into play, so there will be more options to collect them. 

🃏They also all come with unique decks of cards that can be purchased. These could be ongoing bonuses or effects that trigger when using basic actions. An interesting way of introducing some engine building into the game! 🙃

Finally, every corporation has a special action that let’s you interact with their central mechanic. There is quite a cool array of these! 
Oh and I almost forgot the public objectives that are also unique to corporations.
So what do all those corporations do? 👇

⛏️Moon Mining is perhaps the most simple, with a contract fulfillment aspect.

🔬Selenium Research has not 1 but 3 resources that you can exchange for research tiles, that have useful effects.

🚌Artemis Tours has tourist meeples that give you points. You can also assign them to cards with slots for more bonuses.

📡Skywatch has the biggest influence on the game. Basically a random part of the map will be hit by a meteor at game’s end, unless you stop it by working on the defense program. 😱 

🎟️To Mars let’s you launch already built buildings as Mars modules, where you take part in another majority scoring contest.

🤖Space Robotics has robots and factories you can collect. If you have both, you can connect them to activate the factories for their special ability.

🌱Evergreen Farms let’s players build neutral farms, that reward players if they win majorities in the rows where the farms are present.

There is great variety, and having a random combination of these 7 Corporation greatly boosts replayability, as subsequent games will feel quite different! 😊