Servers down

Place Servers down beneath a Species card until it is discarded. The Species card on top of Servers down cannot move regardless of its move ability. Playing Research beneath the Species card will not give it the ability to jump until Servers down is discarded.

Scientific collaboration

Choose a Species card from your hand. Your opponent shuffles all the Species cards in their hand without revealing them. Then, you choose a card from them at random. Put that card into your hand and give the one that you selected from your hand at the beginning to your opponent.

Sample contamination

Place Sample contamination on top of a Species card and discard both cards. The owner of the Species card draws cards from their deck until they reveal a Species card. That player puts the drawn Species card in the position the previously discarded Species card was and discards any other drawn cards.

rm –f -r

You must discard a card from your hand to play rm -f -r. Choose a Species card in game and discard it along with rm -f -r.

Re-sequencing

Choose a Species card from the discard pile of any player and place that card facing you in a compatible spot. If there are no compatible spots, both the Species card and Re-sequencing are discarded. Place Re-sequencing beneath the chosen Species card until it is discarded. If the Species card is moved, Re-sequencing moves with it. The sequencing generation of the Species card on top of Re-sequencing is increased by one; e.g., if it…

Research 

Place Research beneath a Species card until it is discarded. If the Species card is moved, Research moves with it. The Species card on top of Research gains the ability to jump. If the Species card could already jump, Research has no effect.

Rejected manuscript

Place Rejected manuscript beneath a Species card until it is discarded. If the Species card is moved, Rejected manuscript moves with it. At the end of the game, the points indicated in the Species card on top are not considered as Species card points. However, they do count as Sequencing technology points and Special points.

Publication

Place Publication beneath a Species card until it is discarded. If the Species card is moved, Publication moves with it. At the end of the game, double the points indicated in the Species card on top. However, points gained from this card in any other way are not doubled. If two Publication cards are played beneath the same Species card, each one sums the points indicated in the…

Power outage

Choose a Species card in game with the genomic interest area Food production and discard it along with Power outage.

Plague 

Choose a Species card in game with the genomic interest area Crops and discard it along with Plague.