Lux Aeterna: Promo Pack
Lux Aeterna: Promo Pack Rulebook
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Glitch
Deadlocked Processor (German: 100% Auslastung)
Card type: Glitch. The card carries no type word; it is classed as a Glitch by the source catalogue, as the base game's Glitches are.
Card text: Choose 2 damaged Systems: one of them is now collapsed; the other is now fully operational.
Translated from the German card, which is fully legible. The English card in the BGG photo is partly hidden by the Paradox card. What is visible reads "Collapse 1 … system … then make a different … system operational", which matches this text. The word the English card uses for "damaged" is hidden, so the German word is kept here as the translation.
Main Deck Cards
Paradox (German: Paradoxon)
Card header: Any System. Top-right label: Lowest dice value (lightning-bolt icon). Bottom-left label: Highest dice value.
Card text: Play as an Action or save in cache until played as an Action. When played: ignore chosen Event and Speed cards; instead, apply Paradox's Event and Speed. Then remove deck from game, shuffle discard pile and make it your new deck.
Source: the English card text, as printed on the English card in the BGG photo. The German card (translated) reads: "IMMEDIATELY: You may only place PARADOX in Action/Buffer. AS ACTION: Ignore the cards in Event & Speed; use PARADOX instead. Then remove PARADOX and the remaining deck. Shuffle the discard pile. This is your new deck." The English card does not repeat "PARADOX" in the removal step, and the German does not say "from game". The English text is kept as printed. The German card's "IMMEDIATELY:" heading has no English counterpart on the card.
Beyond the Infinite (German: Blick ins Nichts)
Card header: All Systems. Top-right: lightning-bolt icon with the value 1.
Card text: Flip over the next 6 cards (ignoring Glitches): for each in turn, apply both Event and Speed. After this, if you have not lost, you win the game immediately.
Source: the English card text, legible in the BGG photo. It matches the German card ("Ziehe die nächsten 6 Schiffskarten (überspringe Störfälle). Führe bei jeder Karte das Ereignis UND die Gravitation aus. Überlebst du das, hast du jetzt GEWONNEN!").
Alternative System Cards
Each alternative System card has a portrait face with the card's lose text and a flat face with the system's name and a diagram. The base rulebook describes System cards in words; the diagram on the CAT card is not explained in the base rulebook or in printed words on the card, so it is described here and not interpreted.
CAT (German: KTZ)
Portrait face: Your doom! You have lost.
Translated from the German card (DEIN UNTERGANG! DU HAST VERLOREN.). The English portrait face is not visible in the BGG photo.
Flat face: System designation PDX-FEL-IX (English card: PUS 9-LIFE), name KTZ (English card: CAT). Three boxes stacked down the left side, each with an X and a small numeral, joined by lines to a red square with a curved arrow above and below it. The card has no printed rule text on this face.
The numerals on the three boxes are too small to read reliably at the scan's resolution, so they are not transcribed.
JCN
Front, dark top half: HAL AI-2K-1. JCN.
Flavour text: "Without your space helmet, you're going to find that rather difficult."
Lose line: You have lost!
Translated from the German card (Du hast verloren!). The English card's lose line is legible in the BGG photo as "…the game."
Red box at the seam of the card: This is now the LES system. It is damaged. Set the die to 2.
Translated from the German card (Das ist jetzt das LES-System. Es ist beschädigt. Setze den Würfel auf 2.). "LES" is the German abbreviation printed on the card. The base game's life-support System is abbreviated LIF in English; the German abbreviation is kept as printed. The English text of this box is hidden by a black panel in the BGG photo.
Win half, green (printed upside down on the card): You have won immediately!
Translated from the German card (Gewonnen! Du hast jetzt sofort gewonnen!). The English photo's last visible line appears to read "You win the game!" The green block also carries a quoted line of dialogue in both languages. It is flavour, is rotated and too small to read reliably, and is omitted.