I played a grand total of two rounds of Core Space with my partner last night. This is a game with a 200 page manual, and I got her up to speed and playing within 5 minutes. Amazing.
The game works on an escalation mechanism, so not a lot went down over our two activations, but we have some Purge on the board (including a now-dead Harvester that managed to nick my captain for 2HP) and one is actively seeking to off our civilian pool. As for the civilians themselves, they’ve basically been pacing the field. Good times there. The goal in this scenario is to win over the trust of a disgruntled employee (one of the three civilians) and get their company intel back to the ship. If the Harvester has its way, sussing out which civilian is the disgruntled one won’t be tough!
Anyway, hardly even a first impression but I was pleased enough with how easy it was to just jump in and get looting that I wanted to post already. At this rate we’ll clear the first scenario by next November!
[EDIT] I really should add that nothing about our two rounds taking an entire session had anything to do with the game itself. Baby drama.