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Alone Time: Decline and Fall of the Galactic Empire

I normally don't let article titles run onto the second line, but in this case I couldn't NOT use this title.

Have you ever wanted to play a solo science fiction board game about running a galaxy-spanning super-empire that’s more Asimov than Herbert or Lucas? And carefully sheltering it from alien invaders, power-hungry usurpers, and squabbling offshoot empires? Or observing the rise of cults that worship your emperor as omniscient, sweeping galactic enlightenment movements, or the appearance of a future-predicting Institute?

And would you like that game to have tight, enjoyable, and logical rules?

Because if you answered yes to that last question, Struggle for the Galactic Empire is not for you. All that other stuff is in there though.

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