Your Captain is the head of your Crew, represented by its special figure. The rank of your Captain is tracked on the Rank track of the Crew board, ranging from Rank 0 to 3.

When you increase the rank of your Captain, move the Rank marker one step up on its track. Any ability or advantage on the rank you arrive at is immediately available to you.

Your Captain’s abilities are found to the right of the Rank track (on the Crew board). The basic ability on the bottom stays the same throughout the game. The progressive ability has four levels, improving with every rank you reach. Both trigger on the turn you use your Captain.

The activate ability, found under the advantages on the bottom left, is independent of rank, and the Captain. It triggers when you resolve the Activate Bonus action on your turn.

See Abilities for further rules, and find every ability explained in detail in the Glossary.

There are three advantages that scale with rank, found on the left of the Rank track:

• Operation Income: This determines how many Operation cards you may draw at the end of the Rift phase or the Hyperjump phase.

• Hidden Influence Manipulation: Every time you gain Hidden Influence, draw the number of cards shown here, choose one of them, and discard the rest (see Influence).

• Tactics Reset: In the Hyperjump phase (see Hyperjump Phase), when you reset your Tactics, you move it back to this value on the track.