Take these additional steps before the Player area setup steps.

1 Take 3 Crew figures of an unused color to form the Corrupted Crew: they are now called the Harbinger and its two Followers.

2 Create the Corrupted House deck:

2a Sort the Hidden Influence cards by House to form seven face-down decks, one deck per House.

2b Place each deck in separate shuffling envelopes, and shuffle those envelopes amongst themselves.

2c Remove all decks from the envelopes, keeping them face down.

2d Take 7 cards from one random deck, 5 cards from another one, 3 from another one, and 2 from a fourth deck. Shuffle these 17 cards together without revealing them.

2e Place this Corrupted House deck face down, next to the Corrupted Crew.

3 Re-create the Hidden Influence deck: Shuffle all remaining Hidden Influence cards into a single deck, without revealing them.

4 Shuffle the Solo Action cards, and reveal them in a 2x2 grid.

4a Make sure the Revenant card has its “A” side up.

4b Place the Corrupted Tactics tile on the connecting edge of the top 2 cards.

4c Take the Captain Rank marker of the Corrupted Crew’s color and place it on the top right card. It is now called the Assignment marker.

5 Place the Solo Phase Aid card above the Sequence board, with the side showing in the top left corner.

6 Place the Solo Tactics Aid card below the Sequence board.

7 Return the 3 Personal Agenda cards that show a “not in Solo” icon to the box.

8 Select a Difficulty level: Trouble, Hardship, or Voidfall. This will affect the next setup steps.

9 Place the 7 Influence markers of the Corrupted Crew’s color on the Influence tracks:

Trouble: Step 1 of all tracks.

Hardship: Step 2 of all tracks. Remove the Bonus tokens from these steps.

Voidfall: Step 3 of all tracks. Remove the Bonus tokens from Step 2.

10 Place a player marker of the Corrupted Crew’s color on the Tactics track:

Trouble: Step 3

Hardship: Step 5

Voidfall: Step 5

11 Place the 1st Player token by the Corrupted Crew. They will always be first in player order.

12 You may discard one Voidborn ship from up to 3 different sectors (3 ships in total).

Note: You gain no Tactics for the Voidborn ships removed at setup.