The Loop Rulebook

Table of Contents

Goal of the Game
Components
Setup
Dimensions
Anatomy of an Agent Tile
Anatomy of an Artifact Card
How Agent Decks Work
Game Flow
I. Foo Phase
II. Action Phase
III. Add 1 card to your Deck
IV. Archive 1 Sabotage tile
- Attendance Bonus!
V. End of Turn
- Empty draw pile and Dr Foo's new Cycle
End of the Game
- Victory
- Defeat
Clarifications on Sabotage Tile Missions
Artifact Card Abilities
- General terms
- Energy
- Rift
- Duplicate
- Artifact card
Clarifications on Artifact Cards and Agent Tiles

Goal of the Game

Your shared goal is to defeat Dr Foo. And here at the Agency, we cooperate: either you win together, or Dr Foo will have ruined the Universe too much for it to make sense to wonder who lost the least.

Each turn, Dr Foo time-travels, generating new Duplicates and Rifts throughout Spacetime. When an Era contains too many Rifts, it turns into a Vortex… Too many Vortexes and the universe is destroyed, which means you lose (obviously). Use your powerful artifacts wisely and stop Dr Foo's Machine before it is too late!

Components

1 Spacetime board
1 HQ board
1 Dr Foo's 3D Machine
5 wooden Agent pawns
100 cards (79 Artifact, 7 Foo, 14 Ultramachina)
65 plastic cubes (30 red, 30 green, 5 blue)
10 Sabotage tiles
3 Vortex tiles
8 big tiles (5 Agent, 1 Player's Aid, 2 Game mode)
38 tokens (28 Duplicate, 7 Supa Duplicate, 3 Centrifuge)
1 bag
1 Operational Booklet
1 Solo Mode leaflet
This rules booklet

Setup

1. Spacetime board

Place it in the middle of the table. It shows how easily Dr Foo's Machine connects the 7 Great Eras of Spacetime: Dawn of Time, Medieval, Renaissance, Industry, Globalization, Age of Robots, and End of Times.

2. Dr Foo's Machine

Assemble the 3 parts of Dr Foo's Machine, then wedge its base into the circular hole in the center of the gameboard. How it is oriented does not matter for now.

3. Sabotage tiles

These are the Machine pieces you must damage to prevent Dr Foo from winning. Each tile includes a Mission to fulfill in order to sabotage this piece of the Machine. Shuffle the 10 tiles together and place 7 of them, Machine side up, around the 7 Eras on the gameboard. Place the remaining tiles back into the box without looking at them — they will not be used.

4. Rift cubes (red)

Form a pool next to the board with all 30 of the red cubes. These are the spacetime Rifts that Dr Foo's Machine creates. Each Era has 3 spaces where these cubes can be placed. Rifts damage an Era and eventually turn it into a Vortex. Which is... bad.

5. Energy cubes (green)

Form a pool next to the board with all 30 of the green cubes. Energy is a Time Agent's main resource. Throughout a game, you can add them onto the Eras, and spend them (= put them back into the pool) from where your Agent is located.

6. HQ board

Our Headquarters, where we track our operations. Place it away from the Spacetime board.

7. Screen / Game Mode tiles

These tiles provide a summary of your game mode. Place the screen corresponding to your game mode onto the HQ board.

8. Vortex tiles

A Temporal Agent's worst nightmare... Place the 3 tiles to the right of the HQ board. Unless otherwise specified, use the Vortex side. (Mega Vortexes are covered in the Operational Booklet.)

9. Foo cards

Each of these 7 cards indicates one of the 7 game Eras. There are 3 Cycle spaces at the bottom of the HQ board. Shuffle the 7 Foo cards into a facedown pile, then place this pile onto the leftmost Cycle space.

10. Artifact cards

The powerful temporal objects used to fight Dr Foo. Put aside the 30 starting cards (with an Agent icon on their bottom-left). Shuffle the 49 remaining cards into a pile and place them face down onto the HQ board's top-left space. In our special Agency jargon, we call this pile the Huge Deck.

11. Agents, pawns and starting cards

Each player selects an Agent to play and takes their tile, their pawn and their 6 starting cards (which show their Agent icon) from among the set-aside Artifact cards. Each player places their pawn onto the board, on the Era indicated on their Agent tile. Put the components related to all unused Agents back into the box.

12. Duplicate tokens

Place the 28 Duplicate tokens into the bag. They will get drawn out of this bag to assist Dr Foo in his senseless master plan.

Generation side: where the Duplicate must be put into play.
Destruction side: the face-up side of the Duplicate, showing the Era to which it must be returned to destroy it.

13. Player's Aid tile

Set out the Player's Aid tile.

14. Game-mode components

Set aside the components for the different game modes: the Operational Booklet, 5 blue Perpetual Energy cubes, 7 Supa Duplicate tokens, 3 Centrifuge tokens, and 14 Ultramachina cards.

Finishing Setup

Reveal 2 Foo cards and place them onto the HQ board. On the two Eras shown on these cards, place 1 Rift cube onto one of the Rift spaces, then reveal the Mission on the Sabotage tile there. Next, reshuffle the two Foo cards into their draw pile. Place 1 Energy cube onto each of the five other Eras.

Depending on the number of players, generate Duplicates (on the Era that their Generation side indicates) and reveal cards from the Huge Deck:

Players	1	2	3	4
Duplicates	7	7	5	4
Cards	2	2	3	4

Place the cards that you just revealed around the Spacetime board, just above their Original Eras (indicated on the bottom-left of the card).

Finally, each player shuffles their 6 starting cards face down in front of them to form their Draw pile. Each player then reveals the 3 first cards from their pile and places them face up next to it, to form their Hand.

Now, read the section related to your game mode in the Operational Booklet. Adjust setup as indicated, then randomly determine which player will go first. You are ready to start the game.

(The Agency strongly advises new players to begin with the S.A.B.O.T.A.G.E mode at the Employee of the Month difficulty level before attempting other modes or difficulty levels.)

Revealed Missions

Throughout the game, there are always two revealed Missions among the Sabotage tiles. Whenever there are fewer than two, immediately reveal the Mission for Dr Foo's Era. If this is not possible (because this Mission was already revealed or there is no Sabotage tile there), then reveal the one on the next Era, and so on, until there are 2 revealed Missions again.

Dimensions

Each Artifact card has a Dimension. There are 3 different elementary Dimensions: Spiral, Star and Stripe. And a 4th Black Hole Dimension, which isn't like the others: you can't use the LOOP technique on these cards.

Anatomy of an Agent Tile

A reminder of your Agent icon indicates whether you are on the Full batteries side or on the Low batteries side.
Free move: a free move that you can perform when your batteries are full, by turning the tile to its Low batteries side.
Your special ability: in addition to the ability itself, it indicates when and under which conditions you can use it during your turn. Using it is never mandatory.
Distribution of the Dimensions on your starting cards. This is important for choosing which new cards to add to your Deck.
Your name and starting Era.

Anatomy of an Artifact Card

Artifact's Dimension: important for doing LOOP actions.
Artifact's name.
Types of Abilities: icons to get a rough idea of the effects of a card, at a glance.
Card's Ability: what precisely it does when you use it.
Agent icon: only appears on starting cards, to show which Agent these cards belong to.
Original Era: where the card is made available when it comes into play. This is also important for some abilities.

How Agent Decks Work

Each Agent manages their own deck of cards to fight against Dr Foo.

Your Deck: your very own Deck of Artifact cards. These cards are split between your Draw pile, your Hand and your Discard pile. Each Agent starts with a Deck made up of their 6 starting cards.
Hand: the cards, placed face up in front of you, that you can use to perform actions during your turn. Each card in your Hand is in one of two states: either Ready (normal reading orientation) or Exhausted (turned sideways). All cards you draw always arrive into your Hand Ready. When you use a card, turn it to indicate that it is Exhausted: it can no longer be used until it is made Ready again. Most of the time you will have 3 cards in Hand, but some abilities can cause you to have more.
Draw pile: whenever an ability or game phase asks you to draw 1 card, reveal the first card from your Draw pile and place it face up with the other cards in your Hand. The term draw always refers to cards from a player's own Deck.
Discard pile: whenever you have to discard one or more cards, place these cards face up onto your Discard pile. The term discard always refers to cards from a player's own Deck.
Empty Draw pile: whenever you can't draw because the Draw pile is empty, shuffle all the cards currently in your Discard pile into a new face down Draw pile, then proceed with the resolution of your draw action.

Game Flow

Starting with the first player, players take successive full game turns, one after the other, going clockwise, until either a victory or defeat condition is met.

Your turn is broken down into 5 phases, played in the following order.

I. Foo Phase

Dr Foo does what he does best: cause trouble. This happens in two successive steps.

A) Generate Duplicates and make 1 card available

The number of Duplicates to be generated and Artifact cards to be made available evolves throughout the game. It is indicated on the HQ board, just above Dr Foo's draw pile.

Generate Duplicates: whenever you must generate a Duplicate, draw one Duplicate token out of the bag and place it onto the Era that its Generation side indicates. Make sure to place it with its Destruction side face-up. If there are not enough Duplicates available in the bag, simply ignore the ones that you are not able to generate.

Make 1 card available: to make 1 card available, reveal the first Artifact card from the Huge Deck. Look at its Original Era and place it face-up close to the board, just above that Era. From now this card is available: players will have opportunities to add it to their Deck. The term make available always refers to cards that are in the Huge Deck.

B) Reveal and apply 1 new Foo card

Reveal one card from Dr Foo's draw pile and place it just below the HQ board, next to any Foo cards revealed on previous turns.

This card indicates which Era Dr Foo is moving to. Dr Foo is represented on the board by the front of his Machine, at the center of the Spacetime board. This side is purple, and is located in front of the middle foot. Rotate the Machine so that this side is facing the Era indicated on the Foo card that you just revealed.

This is where real trouble starts: you must now drop Rift cubes into the Machine. Take 2 from the pool, plus 1 additional Rift for each Duplicate token on this Era. Drop these Rifts into the Machine, through the opening on the top.

Now, place these Rifts onto the Era where they landed, using the Rift spaces (on the edge that meets the Sabotage tiles).

Vortex!

As soon as there are too many Rifts on an Era to place them (which happens from the 4th Rift onward), that Era gets turned into a Vortex. Take one of the Vortex tiles available to the right of the HQ board and place it above this Era, where Sabotage tiles are placed.

If there is still a Sabotage tile on this Era, whether its Mission is revealed or not, put it back into the box. Any cubes it had on it are put back into the pool. (Do not forget to immediately check whether a new Mission should be revealed.)

Put all the Rift cubes currently on this Era back into the pool, including the ones that just caused the Vortex. You have not lost (yet), and this Era continues working normally as it did before. New Rifts can once again be placed here.

If there are Artifact cards available on this Era, destroy them. From now on, no new Artifacts can be placed here: as soon as a card from this Era is made available, it is destroyed.

Destroy 1 card: whenever an Artifact card is destroyed, place it face up on top of the Destroyed Cards pile on the top right of the HQ board. If an ability destroys several cards at the same time, place them in the order of your choice. The term destroy can refer either to cards in a player's own Deck, or to cards from the Huge Deck, depending on the context — it is always specified.

II. Action Phase

Once Dr Foo's Rifts have been dropped into the Machine and placed onto their Eras, and any potential Vortex resolved, you can perform your actions. For all of the actions performed during this phase, the position of your Agent pawn (which represents you on the board) is essential. Some important terms:

Your Era: the Era where your pawn is, on the Spacetime board.
Adjacent Era: the Spacetime board forms a loop, in which each Era has two Eras adjacent to it: the one that precedes it and the one that follows it in time (going clockwise). Unless otherwise specified, the terms adjacent Era, previous Era, and next Era are always based on the position of your Agent pawn. By extension, an adjacent piece (Duplicate, Rift, etc.) refers to a piece located on an adjacent Era.

Available Actions

There are 3 types of actions that you can perform, as many times as you wish and in any order, until you decide to stop. There is only one restriction: you must have completely resolved an action before beginning a new one.

Moving

You can always spend 1 Energy on your Era to move to an adjacent Era. Put one of the Energy cubes currently on your Era back into the pool, then move your pawn to one of the two adjacent Eras. If there is no Energy on your Era, you cannot perform this action.

Free Move: once per turn, your Agent tile provides you with a free move of one Era. Instead of spending 1 Energy cube, flip your Agent tile to its Low batteries side.

Applying the ability of a card in your Hand

You can exhaust a Ready card from your Hand in order to apply its ability. Each card is unique, with its own rules text, so read them carefully.

When you use a card from your Hand, begin by exhausting it. Then, apply its ability in the indicated order, applying as much of the ability as you are able to. Being unable, or only partially able, to apply a given part of a card's ability does not prevent you from resolving the remaining text.

The main types of abilities (shown by icons on each card):

Energy: helps you add Energy onto one or more Eras. Take the needed Energy cubes from the pool.
Rift: helps you remove one or more Rifts. Put all Rift cubes that you remove from the indicated Eras back into the pool.
Duplicate: helps you move one or more Duplicate tokens on the board. Dr Foo's Duplicates are tough, but they have a fatal weakness: look at the Era depicted on their Monocle. If you can bring the Duplicate back to that Era, it is immediately destroyed by a temporal paradox — put this token back into the bag.
Movement: helps you move your Agent pawn and/or other Agent pawns.
Card: has some sort of interaction with Artifact cards (draw, discard, destroy, make available, etc.).

Doing a LOOP

The LOOP (also known as a time loop) allows you to drain the Energy from your Era to ready your already Exhausted cards… and apply their abilities once again!

To do a LOOP, spend 1 Energy on your Era. This allows you to immediately ready all cards in your Hand that share a single Dimension. You must choose one of the three Elementary Dimensions (Spiral, Star or Stripe). You can never choose the Black Hole Dimension.

The LOOP technique is very Energy-consuming: you can take several LOOP actions within a single game turn, but each LOOP requires you to spend 1 more Energy than the previous one. Your first LOOP in a turn costs 1 Energy, the second costs 2 Energy, the third costs 3 Energy, and so on.

Agent special abilities and the Action Phase

Each Agent features a special ability at the bottom of their tile. If you want to use a special ability that is meant to be used during the Action phase, treat it as its own completely separate action: fully resolve it before starting a new action.

Damaging a Sabotage tile

When taking actions during your turn, you will sometimes fulfill the conditions on one or both of the revealed Missions. Each time this happens, you do 1 damage to that tile: place a cube from the pool onto one of the corresponding spaces on the tile. (You are free to use whatever color of cube you want.)

III. Add 1 card to your Deck

If you wish, you can now take one Artifact card from among all the cards available on your Era. Place it face down on top of your Draw pile in order to add it to your Deck. You can never take more than one card, but you may also choose not to take any.

IV. Archive 1 Sabotage tile

In this phase of the turn, you may archive the Sabotage tile on your current Era, but only if that tile has the required number of damage cubes on it. Remove the Sabotage tile and place it to the left of the HQ board. This pile of trophies will remind you of every blow struck against the dastardly Dr Foo.

All cubes on an archived tile are put back into the pool. Do not forget to immediately reveal a new Sabotage tile. Archiving a Sabotage tile has no impact on the cards that are available on this Era. Only the presence of a Vortex destroys those cards.

Attendance Bonus!

Immediately after archiving a Sabotage tile, you receive a small reward: reveal as many cards from the Huge Deck as there are players, plus one. Each player adds one of these cards to their Deck. Destroy the remaining card. Should the extreme tension between your team members prevent you from easily coming to an agreement, choose in turn order, starting with the currently active player.

V. End of Turn

Turn your Agent tile back to its Full batteries side.
Discard all of the cards in your Hand.
Then, all players with fewer than 3 cards in Hand each draw as many cards as needed to have 3 cards in their Hand again.
Finally, check on the HQ board whether there are any cards remaining in Dr Foo's draw pile.

Empty draw pile and Dr Foo's new Cycle

If Dr Foo's draw pile is empty, reshuffle the 7 Foo cards into a new draw pile. Place this pile onto the next Cycle space to the right, to indicate that Dr Foo has finished a Cycle.

Once that is done, the next player starts a new game turn.

End of the Game

The game immediately ends whenever either a Victory or Defeat condition is met. Go on taking successive game turns until one occurs.

Victory

Your entire team wins as soon as they archive their 4th Sabotage tile. Some game modes add their own victory conditions.

Defeat

Your entire team loses as soon as any one of the 3 following situations occurs:

You are forced to place a 2nd Vortex tile onto a given Era. ("...everyone knows the famous equation: V+V = defeat.")
You are forced to place a 4th Vortex tile around the board. ("Vortexes are a non-renewable resource!")
You are forced to shuffle Dr Foo's draw pile to start a new Cycle, but it was already on the 3rd Cycle space of the HQ board. You were not able to stop Dr Foo in time.

Clarifications on Sabotage Tile Missions

General reminders

A single action that fulfills the conditions of multiple Missions can allow you to do 1 damage to several tiles.
Unless otherwise specified, a single action that fulfills a condition of a Mission several times allows you to do multiple damage to that tile.
A Sabotage tile can only be archived during your Archiving phase, and only if you are on that tile's Era.

Reminder: Revealed Missions

There must always be two revealed Missions among the Sabotage tiles, unless there is only one Sabotage tile left in play. Whenever there are fewer than two revealed Missions, immediately reveal the Mission on Dr Foo's Era or the closest possible one (going clockwise), until there are 2 revealed Missions again.

Mission examples

Clog up Dr Foo's Machine! For each Rift that you remove / LOOP that you do / Duplicate that you destroy on the Era that Dr Foo is in, you can do 1 damage to this tile. You can do multiple damage to this tile each turn. You can archive this Mission when there are 5 / 4 / 4 damage cubes on it (depending on the tile).
Quantum Sealant! For each Rift that you remove / LOOP that you do / Duplicate that you destroy on an Era, you can place 1 damage cube onto the corresponding space of this tile. If there is already a cube on that space, then nothing happens, meaning that you have to target a new Era each time. You can do multiple damage to this tile each turn. You can archive this tile when there are 7 / 6 / 6 damage cubes on it.
Reunite the Foos! Place a damage cube onto this Mission whenever you fulfill its condition, before or after an action (not during one): one Agent has to be on the Era before the one Dr Foo is in and another Agent has to be on the Era after the one Dr Foo is in. You must be one of these two Agents. You can only place one damage each turn, at most, onto this tile. You can archive this Mission when there are 3 damage cubes on it.
(Empty Era Mission) Once per turn, during your Action phase, if you are on an Era with no Duplicates and no Rift on it, you can place 1 damage cube onto the spot on this Mission corresponding to that Era. If there is already a cube on this space, nothing happens, meaning that you have to target a new Era each time. You must be on the Era corresponding to the space on the Mission that you want to damage. You can only place one damage each turn, at most, onto this tile. You can archive this Mission when there are 3 damage cubes on it.
(Energy on this Era Mission) For each Energy that you add onto this Era, you can do 1 damage to this tile. You can do multiple damage to this tile each turn. You do not need to be on this Era yourself to do damage to this tile. You can archive this Mission when there are 6 damage cubes on it.
(Energy everywhere Mission) To be able to damage this tile, there must already be at least 1 Energy on every Era in the game, including this Mission's Era, at the beginning of your action. If this condition is met at the beginning of your action, you may do 1 damage to this tile for each Energy that you add onto this Era. You can do multiple damage to this tile each turn. You do not need to be on this Era yourself to do damage to this tile. You can archive this Mission when there are 3 damage cubes on it.

Artifact Card Abilities

Here is a compilation of all the keywords and terms that you may need to apply the effects of the various cards and special abilities in the game.

General terms

Apply a card's ability: apply the text on the card, in the indicated order, applying as much of the ability as you are able to. The indicated Eras most often refer to the position of your Agent. Being unable, or only partially able, to apply a given part of a card's ability does not prevent you from resolving the remaining text.
Or: indicates that you must choose only one of the options given.
You can: you can if you want, but applying this part of the text is not mandatory.
Any one Agent: any Agent of your choice. This can be yourself.
Another Agent: any Agent of your choice, except you.
On your Era: where your Agent pawn is.
Adjacent Era / Previous Era / Next Era: the previous and next Era are the two Eras adjacent to a given Era. When you do something on an adjacent Era, you can choose between the previous Era and the next Era. Unless otherwise specified, these terms are always relative to the position of your Agent pawn. By extension, an adjacent piece (Duplicate, Rift etc.) refers to a piece that is on an adjacent Era.
Move one (or more) Era(s): if moving one Era, place your pawn onto either adjacent Era. If moving more than one Era, move your pawn that number of Eras away from your current one.
Swap a piece with another piece: swap the position of these two pieces on the board.
Wherever you want: on the Era of your choice.
On a Vortex: on an Era with a Vortex tile.
On Dr Foo's Era: where the front side of his Machine is.

Energy

Add 1 Energy: take an Energy cube from the pool and place it onto the indicated Era.

Rift

Remove 1 Rift: take one of the Rift cubes on the indicated Era and put it back into the pool.

Duplicate

Push 1: choose a Duplicate token on the indicated Era and move it one Era away (= onto one of the two adjacent Eras).
Pull 1: choose a Duplicate token on an adjacent Era and place it onto your Era.
Destroy 1: choose a Duplicate token on the indicated Era and put it back into the bag.
Carry 1: this action is always linked to a movement ability. During this movement, your Agent can take 1 Duplicate token from their Era with them. If you move several Eras, you can pick up or drop this Duplicate on whichever Era of this movement you like (even an intermediate one).

Artifact card

Your Deck: your own Deck of Artifact cards, split between your Draw pile, your Hand and your Discard pile.
Your Hand: the cards face up in front of you that you can use to take actions during your turn, as long as they are in the Ready position. When you use a card, turn it sideways to show that it is Exhausted. Through drawing, your Hand can exceed 3 cards.
Draw a card: reveal the first card from your Draw pile and place it face up and Ready with the other cards in your Hand.
Discard a card: place this card face up onto your Discard pile.
Empty Draw pile: whenever you should draw a card but your draw pile is empty, shuffle all the cards currently in your Discard pile into a new face down Draw pile, then finish drawing.
Destroy 1 card: place this card face up onto the Destroyed Cards pile.
Add 1 card to your Deck: place this card face down on top of your Draw pile.
Available cards: the cards that are placed face up above their Original Era.
Huge Deck (and depletion): the big face down pile of Artifact cards on the HQ board. If this pile is ever empty, reshuffle the Destroyed Cards pile to form a new Huge Deck.
On its Original Era: on the Era matching the icon shown on the bottom-left of the card.

Clarifications on Artifact Cards and Agent Tiles

Destroying multiple Duplicates at once: if multiple Duplicates are destroyed during the same step of an action, you can choose the order in which they are destroyed.
Cancelling a Rift with your ability: the Rift that you choose to cancel is put straight back into the pool, without being placed onto a space on its Era. This Rift can thus never cause a Vortex.
Using your special ability during the Action phase: treat your special ability as its own completely separate action. You cannot use it in the middle of another action; you have to fully resolve it before starting a new action.
Applying the ability of a card that is not in your Hand: you are still the one applying this ability with your Agent. Refer to the position of your Agent while applying the ability.
Allowing another player to apply the ability of a card in their Hand: refer to the position of that player's Agent pawn for resolving their card's ability.
Making a card available and having it immediately destroyed by a Vortex: if the card that is made available is placed onto a Vortex, it is only destroyed after the effects of this card have been fully resolved.
Ability allowing multiple players to draw: players are free to resolve this ability in the order of their choice. One player can draw and decide what to do before the next player draws and decides.
Discarding or destroying a card from one's Hand: you can choose to discard or destroy an already Exhausted card, including the one that you just exhausted to apply this ability.
Drawing a card whose Original Era is used to resolve the ongoing ability: even if this new card's Original Era is used to resolve the ability of the card that made you draw it, it arrives Ready into your Hand, as with any other card that you draw.
Pushing multiple Duplicates at once: the Duplicates that you push can be sent to different Eras.
Pulling multiple Duplicates to your Era at once: the Duplicates that you pull can come from different Eras.
Carry a Duplicate with you: in the course of a movement of two Eras (e.g. from the Medieval Era to the Industrial Era), you can take 1 Duplicate either from the Medieval Era or from the Renaissance Era as you pass by, and drop it either on the Renaissance Era or on the Industrial Era.
On another Agent's Era: you can choose another Agent on the same Era as you.
On your Era, or on each Vortex: if you are on a Vortex, you only add one Energy onto your Era, whatever you choose.
Add or remove a piece on an Era, until there are the same number of them as of another indicated piece: for example, if the player uses Holy Grail on an adjacent Era that contains 1 Energy and 3 Rifts, they add 2 Energy cubes so that there are a total of 3 (as many as there are Rifts). If they instead target an Era that currently contains 2 Energies and 1 Rift, then nothing happens (as there are already as many or more Energies than there are Rifts).
Where you sent a Duplicate: if you do not push a Duplicate, then nothing happens. If you push a Duplicate, apply the ability even if this movement destroys the Duplicate.
If there is another Agent: the bonus triggers as soon as there is at least one other Agent. There can be more Agents, but the bonus can still only be applied once.
Then move wherever you want: you can choose to go to your current Era.