Shattered Empire

Shattered Empire was the First Expansion for Twilight Imperium Third Edition 
It was released in December 2006 and designed to be Modular; such that any parts may be added to the base game without having to include every new component 
The content it adds to the Base Game is discussed below 
== New Components ==
* 4 New Factions: The Clan of Saar, The Embers of Muaat, The Winnu and The Yin Brotherhood 
* Artifacts: An additional way to obtain Victory Points
* Shock Troops
* Space Mines
* The Wormhole Nexus
* Race (Faction)-specific technologies: Each race has 2 faction-specific technologies they may research with no prerequisites
* Facilities: May be added to improve the resources or influence of planets
== Improvements Upon Existing Components ==
* 2 New Player piece sets in the colors Orange and Gray (increasing the maximum play count to 8) 
* Variant Strategy Cards: May be used instead of base game Strategy Cards or in combination (with certain restrictions). Notable is the option to play with the New Variant Imperial II Strategy instead of Imperial 
* Variant Objectives: May be used instead of Base Game objectives
* Territorial Distant Suns (Plus New Domain Tokens)
* System Tiles 
** Regular Systems: 14 New Regular Systems, some with Special Refresh Abilities 
** Special Systems: Ion Storm and Wormhole Nexus 
* Action Cards: 35 New cards + 5 Replacement Cards 
* Political Cards: 31 New Agendas + 1 Replacement Agenda