Each player gets the following cards in their decks:
1 Politics
1 Warfare
2 Colonize
2 Research
2 Survey
2 Produce/Trade
Each player also gets:
Remove unused Politics cards from the game
Place the Role cards on the 5 stacks
Shuffle Planet cards and place facedown
Set aside the 8 blue influence tokens
Separate Technology cards into:
Fertile
Advanced
Metallic
Each player draws 5 cards from their deck into their hand