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The first thing you want to do is go forth and try to colonize the first thing you can. Try to get a good fuel supply at the beginning. If you place you spaceport in the right place, you will be there in two turns (providing no bad events). You want to be positioned so you can be the first to get to the closest yellow-blue intersection. Yes it's possible to get to a red dot and blue dot chip intersection in one turn if you are on the right place. Now stop and think about your mother ship. You can always (and should) terraform between a yellow and blue. Only chips with red dots on the back can have pirate lairs or be ice planets. Here is something that you should know about this if you haven't figured it out already: In this beginning of this game position is almost as important as probability. The setup for this game is different than that of the other catan games. If you invite your friends over, DON'T LET THEM HELP YOU PUT THE GAME AWAY, NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY! Don't let them take the boosters off what ever you do. If you casually take it off, you run that risk. Putting those yellow boosters onto your mother ships is one thing, but taking them off is another! If you don't do it carefully the plastic holders might snap off and you won't be able to put the booster there anymore. It's more like 90 minutes, but knowing my luck, I've been playing it wrong so don't quote me on that.ΔΆ. I have never played a game of this that lasted that long. It says on the box that the game lasts 2 hours.