Android Netrunner LCG The Spaces Between Data Pack

All code is just input designed to process output. Used properly, lag is static, and static is another form of code.
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As theLunar Cyclere-establishes the games cyberstruggles amid the moons reduced gravity, recycled air, and corporate-sponsored colonies, it simultaneously re-examines one of the games fundamental conceits. What happens to events and operations after theyre played?

Events and operations represent a variety of ephemeral processes that occur both in the meat world and the virtual one. When they hit the discard pile, do their impacts just disappear? Or if they transmit signals into space, might their echoes ever linger, gain a sort of permanence in their repetition, and impact future events?

The sixty new cards fromThe Spaces Between(three copies each of twenty different cards), re-examine the essential natures of the games events and operations, and every faction gains a newcurrentthat resides in the data streams somewhere between a state of transience and a state of permanence.

Current Events and Operations

The Spaces Betweenasks,What lies in the spaces between the data?And part of the answer is comprised by the newcurrentevents and operations introduced for each of the games factions.

Currentsare new forms of events and operations that arent immediately resolved and discarded. Instead, they all come with a shared line of text that carves out a niche somewhere between event and resource, between operation and asset.

• Each operation reads,This card is not trashed until another current is played or an agenda is stolen.
• Each event reads,This card is not trashed until another current is played or an agenda is scored.

Thus, the benefits acurrentoffers its controller will echo throughout the network, persisting from turn to turn until another player triggers its discard. In fact, thoughcurrentsare nominally events and operations, they are in some ways more permanent than resources or programs, hardware, assets, or upgrades. They cant be blasted by ice that trash programs. They cant be stolen or derezzed, and they cant be trashed when a Runner sweeps through your servers. Indeed, their pseudo-permanence should be especially intriguing to the Corp because they force the Runner to play by your rules if he wants to disrupt yourcurrent

All told,currentsare likely to create an entirely new game within the game as Corp and Runner vie not only for control of the games data, but also for the spaces between the data.

• Will you allow the Corp to increase yourLag Time(The Spaces Between, 31)?
• How will you respond to an Anarchs efforts to erode your ice withScrubbed(The Spaces Between, 34)?

The different effects thesecurrentsintroduce are too powerful to ignore, so youll have to decide:

• Will you fight fire with fire? You can pack your own contingent ofcurrentevents or operations to control the flow of the game.
• Will you alter your tempo to score or steal agendas at critical moments, thus discarding your opponentscurrentswithout ever playing your own?
• Will you gamble that your opponent simply doesnt play acurrent? Sometimes, if you focus your deck on other core efficiencies, you might just get lucky.

No matter how you respond to these new events and operations, you can expect to encounter them during your runs and system maintenance. AsAndroid: Netrunnerheads to the moon and looks to exploreThe Spaces Between, everything is new again, and the game is likely to be won by the player who can most quickly re-establish his center of gravity.

Temporal Resources and Persistent Threats

The newcurrentevents and operations arent the only new cards inThe Spaces Betweenthat blur the boundaries between card types.Will O the Wisp(The Spaces Between, 32) is an upgrade that functions much like an Ambush asset, andCache(The Spaces Between, 37) is avirusthat provides roughly the same effect as an event except spread out over a timespan controlled by its owner.

How will you blur the boundaries between card types withThe Spaces Between, and how will its new surprises help you control the flow of data?