Discordant Stars Expansion (UNOFFICIAL)

**Discordant Stars** is an **unofficial** community-made expansion of Twilight Imperium Fourth Edition, created to be compliant with the Asmodee guidelines on community usage of TI4 Intellectual property.

The project began on August 1, 2020, and was formally announced online on reddit in September of 2021. It has since received a community-organized group buy. Though the first group order's distribution wave has concluded, a google form is available online to express interest in future printings of the expansion.

The initial expansion released 24 additional playable factions - each tested extensively both with each other and with the 24 official factions. An additional 10 factions were finalized in August of 2023.

An additional set of bonus content will be included in a 'Discordant Stars+' package currently in the final stages of testing. This bonus content will also be included here, and will be intermittently updated as updates occur, until it is finalized.

The expansion's most current information is always available on the project's Google Drive.

## Discordant Stars Background

Discordant Stars began as a group project led by discord user "Tactic Blue" to coordinate the efforts of various members of the community in development of a cohesive, balanced, and diverse faction pack.  Factions were organized around restoring the symmetry of faction starting technology assignments prior to the release of Prophecy of Kings, by using unused starting tech combinations extrapolated from those in the official expansion. Development was an extensive process involving multiple members of the community across many rounds of internal review, testing, and revision.

The project sought to create a collection of factions that mix well with the original set, significantly expanding the faction roster as a whole. They are most likely to be enjoyed by players who have a strong sense of the mechanical and technical nature of the rules and are looking to explore new game experiences. Many factions will significantly alter game play experience, enabling the development of new strategies for old and new factions alike.

## New Factions

The Discordant Stars Expansion introduces a total of 34 new factions. These fan-made factions represent a mix of old and new powers who, in the wake of the galactic turmoil caused by the events of Prophecy of Kings, have decided to make a play for the Imperial Throne. The pack includes factions across a wide variety of themes, from galactic rebellion, to sovereign mega-corporations, to technologically-driven societies.

The original 24 Discordant Stars factions are:

* The Shipwrights of Axis
* The Celdauri Trade Confederation
* The Savages of Cymiae
* The Dih-Mohn Flotilla
* The Florzen Profiteers
* The Free Systems Compact
* The Ghemina Raiders
* The Augurs of Ilyxum
* The Kollecc Society
* The Kortali Tribunal
* The Li-Zho Dynasty
* The L'tokk Khrask
* The Mirveda Protectorate
* The Glimmer of Mortheus
* The Myko-Mentori
* The Nivyn Star Kings
* The Olradin League
* The Zealots of Rhodun
* Roh'Dhna Mechatronics
* The Tnelis Syndicate
* The Vaden Banking Clans
* The Vaylerian Scourge
* The Veldyr Sovereignty
* The Zelian Purifier

The newer 10 additional factions are:

* The Bentor Conglomerate
* The Cheiran Hordes
* The Edyn Mandate
* The Ghoti Wayfarers
* The Gledge Union
* The Berserkers of Kjalengard
* The Monks of Kolume
* The Kyro Sodality
* The Lanefir Remnants
* The Nokar Sellships

## Additional New Content

   The Discordant Stars expansion spawned several side projects, including Uncharted Space, a pack including a variety of new content, including:

* 24 new system tiles, including 5 new legendary planets,
* 16 new exploration cards, with 4 each for the cultural, hazardous, industrial, and frontier decks,
* 7 new relics, and
* 40 new action cards, which include fan-made lore further entwining the Discordant Stars factions to the broader Twilight Imperium universe.

## Rules Clarifications

Discordant Stars has an additional Rules Clarification Document, which explains some of the set's more niche rules interactions and nuances. Overall however, the set is designed to be fully rules-system compliant, with rules questions being resolvable based on the text of components in question and Fantasy Flight's Official Living Rules Reference.

## Updates to existing components

Discordant Stars includes no updates to existing components, and is designed specifically to be purely additive to official content.

## Credits

Each faction's lore sheet has specific credits for the work and art done for that faction's components, but broadly the set as a whole is credited to discord users: andcat, Arinok, BradleySigma, BeepBeep, Berserker, Cacotopos, cows go moo, Griffy, Chastity (f.k.a. Gwen), Haymaker, JaHeit, JattaPake, Joojkin, Leary, Mozco, PhilRoi, Raptor, Ruinsage, Scwiggles, Spage, unfulvio, uwsnycusa, Vorox, and Wekker, with Tactic Blue serving as the project's lead coordinator and chief editor.