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Does the game end the instant someone gets a fifth colony, or can others still respond?
Designer comments say the game does not end instantly but concede the rules do not state when victory is checked.
- Bill Martinson · Designer · 2011-10-14
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- Bill Martinson · Designer · 2011-09-15
Not necessarily. The rules never say exactly when the game ends, and the designer's position is that players can still respond with legal effects, such as a Ship Zap or Cosmic Zap that removes the fifth colony, until nobody can do anything else. He called this only a 'probably' since it is not written explicitly.