19 Place 7 Player markers of each selected player color on the lowest position of each of the 7 House Influence tracks.
20 Populate the 7 tracks with tokens. Place 1 token on Steps 2, 5, and 8 of each track (total of 3 per track). The token type depends on the House:
20a
Fenrax: Material tokens
20b
Shiveus: Contain Corruption tokens
20c
Yarvek: Discovery Data cubes
20d
Belitan: Science tokens
20e
Zenor: Neutronium tokens
20f
Novaris: Gain Tactics tokens
20g
Dunlork: Energy tokens
21 Place 2 House Power tokens in a stack above the top space of each of the seven Houses’ Influence tracks (a total of 14 tokens), such that a token showing “2” is on the bottom, and a token showing “3” is on the top of each stack.
22 Place the 7 Shuttles above the Influence board.