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What does passing in the Orb phase do?

The designer (Tom Lehmann) answered this directly on BoardGameGeek.

  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2014-01-06
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-11-27
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-04-03
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2014-02-08

Passing forfeits all your orb actions for that turn, not just one; returning trapped survey teams to an airlock is part of the pass option, so a player who chose Explore: Orb can still pass to do it. Each player completes all their orb actions in turn order before the next player.

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