Minimizing Risk In The Primed Area

As cubes collect in the Primed Area, the threat of a Breach rapidly increases. It cannot be stated strongly enough how important monitoring and managing the Primed Area is to your success. Players cannot take cubes from the Primed Area with their basic Actions, but the cubes can be managed in the following ways to reduce your risk:

• Whenever you Adjust a Primed cube with a value of"l n down, you may destroy it.

• Players can and should consider dedicating Actions to Adjusting cubes in the Primed Area, either bringing them closer to "1 n to destroy them - or to even out the distribution of cubes. Two matching cube values in the Primed Area is an imminent threat. Sometimes, adjusting them to higher values is just as much a help.

• Whenever you Contain a cube, you may destroy 1 cube in the Primed Area that matches both the color and value of the Contained cube. This effect occurs for any Containment, even if it was achieved through card play.

• Certain Research, Containment and Character cards may also have the ability to adjust, destroy or otherwise manipulate cubes in the Primed Area.