The Celestia rules

Celestia is played between 2 and 6 players, from 8 years old. It is a game of chance and strategy where each player is an adventurer whose goal is to collect the most impressive treasure. To do this, they must stop in a city and search for treasure. In order to reach a city, the captain of the aircraft must face the events that will be presented to them.

Material

• 9 oval city tiles,
• 78 Treasure cards,
• 1 aircraft,
• 6 Adventurer tiles,
•  6 Adventurer counters,
•  8 Turbo cards,
• 8 Power cards,
• 68 Equipment cards:

                – 20 blue compasses,

                – 18 yellow lightning rods,

                – 16 red foghorns,

                – 14 black cannons,

• 4 event dice,
• 1 rulebook.

Set up

• Form a column by arranging the oval City tiles in ascending order.
• Sort the Treasure cards by city, then shuffle each pile.
•  Form a face-down deck with each pile and place each deck to the right of the corresponding City.
• Place the aircraft on the oval City tile number 1.
• Each player chooses an Adventurer tile and places it in front of him.
•  Take the corresponding Adventurer Token and place it in the aircraft.
• Shuffle the Turbo Cards, Power Cards and Equipment Cards into a single deck.
• In a game with 2 or 3 players, each player receives 8 cards.
  – In a game with 4 or more players, each player gets 6 cards.
  – Form a deck, face down, with the rest.
• Designate the first player to be the captain of the aircraft.
• Play clockwise.
•  If a deck is exhausted, use the discard pile to form a new deck.

Principle and goal of the game

You play as adventurers whose main objective is to collect a prestigious treasure. To do so, you must stop over in the cities that make up Celestia. To reach a city, the captain must face events.

How does a game unfold?

• A game takes place in several stages.
• During a journey, the aircraft moves from city to city.
• The players take it in turns to take on the role of captain of the aircraft. The rest of the players will be the passengers.
• The captain’s role is to fly the aircraft and its passengers to the next city. If he fails, the aircraft crashes.
• The passengers have the choice of stopping in a city to pick up treasure or continuing the journey.

How does a stage work?

 A stage has 5 phases:

• The captain discovers the events of the journey.
• The passengers choose to continue the journey or not.
• The captain faces the events of the journey.
• The captain moves the aircraft.
• The captain hands over to the next player.

Phase 1: The captain finds out about the events of the journey

• Study the next destination tile.
•  Roll the required number of dice.
•  Each side of the dice indicates the event the player must face to reach the next city.

More passengers

•  The captain is alone in the aircraft.
• Instead of rolling the dice, he can go down to look for treasure.
• A new journey begins.

Phase 2: Passengers choose to continue the journey or not

• In turn, starting with the player to the left of the captain, each passenger announces whether or not they are leaving the aircraft.

I stay

•  If a passenger feels that the captain can cope with the events, he/she announces “I am staying”. 
• He/she stays in the aircraft.

I am getting off

• If a passenger feels that the captain will not be able to cope with the events, he announces “I am getting off”.
• He removes his counter from the aircraft and places it on his Adventurer tile.
• He draws a Treasure card from the city he descended from and keeps it face down. But he can look at it at any time.
• Once all passengers have spoken, the effect of some Power cards may apply.
• The captain can never get off the aircraft.
• Passengers have the right to ask how many cards the captain has.

More Treasure

• If a player takes the last treasure in a city, no one can get off the aircraft and the aircraft does not stop there anymore.
• Turn over the corresponding oval City tile or remove it.

The events and the corresponding cards

Events	Maps Equipment
	Compass
	Lightning arrestor
	Foghorn
	Canon

The different cards

Phase 3: The captain faces the events of the journey

• For each face of the die, the captain must play an event card.
• Be careful! You must play as many event cards as there are dice, regardless of the event displayed.
• Playing a Turbo card is not mandatory.

Phase 4: The captain moves the aircraft

• If the captain has successfully dealt with all the events of the journey, he moves the aircraft to the next city.
• All cards that have been played are discarded.
• If the captain fails, the aircraft crashes.
• No one gets a Treasure card and a new journey begins.

New Journey

• The aircraft returns to the first city.
• All counters are placed back on the aircraft.

Reaching the last city

• Captain and passengers pick up a Treasure card clockwise, starting from the captain.
• A new journey begins.

Phase 5: The captain hands over to the next player

• The player to the left of the captain becomes the new captain.
• Please note! Players who have left the aircraft cannot become captain.

End of the game

• Before starting a new journey, check the points.
• As soon as a player scores 50 points, the game ends.
• The player with the highest score wins the game.

Variation for beginners

• Remove the Power cards and the Magic Spyglass cards.
• As soon as a player collects 5 different treasures, the game ends.
• Before starting a new game, check your treasure cards.
• Count up the points.