1. Place the main board and cloud trays in the center of the table. Put the blue cloud board on the main board. Then place the white cloud board on top.

2. Shuffle the small cloud tiles. Place 1 face down over each of the 3 bottom collection ports, then return the rest unseen to the box.

3. Shuffle the large cloud tiles. Place 1 face down over each of the 3 small cloud tiles and the 3 middle collection ports, then return the rest unseen to the box.

4. Keeping the starting wonder cards separate, sort the wonder cards into 3 decks according to their backs. Shuffle each of the 3 wonder decks separately and place them face up at their respective wonder port next to the corresponding wonder track.

5. Shuffle the encounter deck and place it face down on the board on the space with the icon.

6. Shuffle the outpost tiles and return them to the cloud tray. Draw 3 tiles and add 1 face up to each of the top-level collection ports.

7. Shuffle the outfitting cards and place the deck face down next to the cloud tray. Then reveal 4 cards face up at the Free Flyer’s Guild.

8. Fill the fame token supply area with fame tokens.

9. Fill the tapstone token supply area with tapstones (yellow, blue, and red).

10. Fill the tourist supply area with tourists.

11. Randomly select a starting player. Give this player the starting player token.