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Available Now: June 10

Published 10 June 2022 | Star Wars: Outer Rim

Available Now: June 10

The Unfinished Business Expansion for Star Wars: Outer Rim is Available Now

Check out the latest product from Fantasy Flight Games, now available in the United States at your local retailer or online through our web store!

Unfinished Business

You’ve made a name for yourself in the Outer Rim, but there is still Unfinished Business. Hyperlanes through the Core Worlds hold the promise of untapped opportunities. The market is flush with new merchandise, from valuable cargo to tools of the trade. Just watch your step; the latest crop of bounties is even deadlier, and your rivals are looking to take you down!

Unfinished Business, an expansion for Star Wars: Outer Rim, is packed with more of everything the game has to offer: characters, ships, gear, bounties, jobs, encounters, dice, and more! Two new tiles allow players to cross the galaxy by passing through the Core Worlds, and the new “favors” and “ambitions” change up how the game is played. Fire up your engines—it’s time to get down to business.

Not a standalone product. A copy of the Star Wars: Outer Rim base game is required to play.

You can pick up your own copy of Unfinished Business (SW07) at your local retailer or online through our webstore today!*

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Business As Usual

Published 24 May 2022 | Star Wars: Outer Rim

Business As Usual

A Recap of What’s Been Shown So Far for Unfinished Business

The release of Unfinished Business, the long-awaited expansion for Star Wars™: Outer Rim, is fast approaching! As we head into the final months before the expansion comes out, we’d like to take a look back at everything we’ve revealed so far. This includes content we recently showed off in our unboxing and gameplay preview livestreams. Whether you missed the streams or simply hoped for another look at it all, read on to see what’s been shown so far!

New Faces

First and foremost, one of the most important aspects of this expansion is the addition of new playable characters.

We shined a spotlight on some of these characters during our two livestreams for Unfinished Business. In the gameplay livestream, we showed off what Dengar , Hera Syndulla , and Hondo Ohnaka were like in action, and the unboxing stream also highlighted Chewbacca . Many of these characters were encounterable in the base game, and now they’re playable. Not only that, but each of the playable characters from the base game can now be encountered!

Unfinished Business introduces a set of 11 new contact tokens that are colored orange to set them apart from the tokens of the base game. These orange contacts are a mixture of playable characters from the base game—such as Boba Fett and Han Solo—and characters that haven’t been seen in Star Wars: Outer Rim before, such as Ahsoka Tano. If you ever encounter a contact token for a character that someone is currently playing as, you immediately discard it and can encounter something else at that space.

With the addition of encounterable characters to the playable roster, players may occasionally find themselves receiving a bounty for a character that someone else is playing as. These “player bounties” are resolved a bit differently than normal—since contact tokens belonging to controlled characters are immediately discarded, the only way you can complete a player bounty is by challenging that player to a fight. Win the combat, and you can reap the rewards!

New Places

Another major addition in Unfinished Business is the introduction of the Core Worlds to the game board.

These new endcaps each feature a Core Worlds space—either the Spinward Core or the Trailing Core—which function as planet spaces for all game purposes, such as market actions and encounters. Both Core Worlds spaces use the same deck of encounter cards, and whenever you encounter them you can choose to either visit the Core Worlds or attempt to travel Across the Core.

Crossing through the Core Worlds has potential for great rewards, but it also comes with a lot of risk. The Empire controls the Core Worlds, and trying to cut across the Core can be extremely dangerous and/or costly for players with negative Imperial reputation. You’ll have to weigh your options carefully if you wish to cross the Core, otherwise you’ll be stuck going the long way around.

Outside of the Core Worlds, each of the encounter decks from the base game will be expanded with more cards. With more things to see than ever before, you’ll want to encounter as many planets as possible during your quest for fame. And who knows? Maybe you’ll indulge in some light piracy along the way.

New Gear

With new sights to see and people to meet, it’s only natural that Unfinished Business would also add plenty of new goods to pick up during your adventures.

First and foremost is a spread of new ships, such as the scrappy Rogue -Class Porax-38 Starfighter and the rebellious VCX-100 Light Freighter . With each ship comes a new ship goal and a new opportunity for fame and prestige; the only question is, which vessel is the right one for you?

Once you have your new ship, you’ll need some things to fill it with. Fortunately, this expansion provides plenty of new gear, cargo, mods, and jobs for you to experience! Many of these cards have two assets: one on each end. These “rotating assets” have special features or represent 2-part tasks, and the rules for rotating them depend on the cards themselves. For example, the Bowcaster is a powerful weapon, but it takes great strength to reload; delivering Astromech Droid Parts to Ord Mantell gets you some completed Astromech Droids that you can then deliver to Naboo; and a Custom Paint Job paired with impeccable dogfighting can make you even more famous than before.

You may have noticed that these cards have a new icon on them that shows a contact token and a range of numbers. This is the “reveal contact icon,” which can be found on most of the market cards added in this expansion. Similar to patrol movement icons, when a card is flipped faceup after a player buys or gains a card from the market, any reveal contact icon on that card is resolved. So long as the player count is within the range of numbers on the icon, the current player must choose a facedown contact token on their planet and turn it faceup, if able. This doesn’t mean they encounter that token, but it does mean they can see who it is and decide if they want to encounter the contact during their encounter step.

New Goals

If all the new things to see and goods to grab aren’t enough for you, then you’ll be happy to know that Unfinished Business also gives you lots of new things to do. For starters, a pile of new interactive jobs, such as Honest Robbery and Sail Barge Sabotage , present you with opportunities to earn credits and fame by interacting with other players, while new passenger cargo cards like the Rebel Traitor let you build up your reputation.

The expansion also adds some fantastic new features that shake up how Star Wars: Outer Rim is played. With the new favors system, you’ll have even more opportunities to negotiate with your opponents. Play your cards right, and you may put other players in your debt, allowing you to call on them in a moment of need to give yourself a boost. If you and your fellow players want to change up how you win the game, you can utilize ambitions.

Ambitions provide players with a series of goals that they must complete in addition to gaining the requisite number of fame in order to win the game. Each player gets their own ambition sheet with its own set of goals. Some sheets, such as Servant of the Emperor , have you completing tasks in a specific order, while others—such as Galaxy's Most Feared —can have you completing the goals in any order you want. Do you wish to become the Hero of the Rebellion ? Or do you have designs to reign as a Crime Lord ? Or maybe your goal is simply to become the most Renowned Smuggler in the Outer Rim? No matter what form your ambitions take, they are sure to enhance your games of Star Wars: Outer Rim for ages to come!

New Foes

Finally, for those of you who enjoy playing the game solo, Unfinished Business adds in a brand-new AI opponent for you to face: the bounty hunter AI deck!

This deck allows you to face off against an AI-controlled character with a more aggressive, bounty-hunting playstyle than the AI deck from the base game. When you choose to face a bounty hunter AI, you must select one of the characters who begins the game with databank card #90 to be your opponent. Each of those characters has their own AI card that gets shuffled into the bounty hunter AI deck, which adds a bit of extra flavor to their playstyle compared to the others. Playing the game with the bounty hunter AI deck is similar in many ways to playing with the AI deck from the base game, and the best part is you can use both decks in tandem with each other to have a “three-player” game with two AI opponents! You’ll find some character-specific cards for the base game’s AI deck here as well, so no matter who you face, they will all have their own spin on the gameplay.

More Business to Come

Even with everything we’ve shown so far, we’ve only scratched the surface of everything that can be found in Unfinished Business. What will you do to become a living legend? Find out when Unfinished Business arrives in stores this summer!

You can pre-order your own copy of Unfinished Business (SW07) at your local retailer or online through our webstore today!

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Unfinished Business Wallpapers

Published 22 April 2022 | Star Wars: Outer Rim

Unfinished Business Wallpapers

Check Out These Wallpapers for Unfinished Business

Get ready to take on Unifinished Business by downloading these exclusive wallpapers! Utilizing the stellar artwork from the expansion depicting iconic characters and ships, these wallpapers make the perfect backgrounds for your mobile device.

To download on an iPhone/Android phone, first click on the thumbnail. When you see the full image, press the image and hold until you see "Save Image/Download Image". Once the image has been saved, you'll need to set it as a wallpaper in your device's settings.

Click here for a larger resolution, here for Android, or here for iPhone.

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Unfinished Business

Published 24 March 2022 | Star Wars: Outer Rim

Unfinished Business

Announcing a New Expansion for Star Wars^TM: Outer Rim

“This is just business, and once I get my money, we can go back to being friends.” – Hondo Ohnaka

You’ve made a name for yourself in the Outer Rim, and you are well on your way to becoming a living legend. But business is far from over; there are still plenty of jobs to do and bounties to hunt. Hyperlanes through the Core Worlds hold the promise of untapped opportunities, and the market is flush with new merchandise. Just be sure to watch your step, because the Outer Rim has gotten even more dangerous, and your rivals are eager to take you down.

Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce Unfinished Business, the long-awaited expansion for Star Wars™: Outer Rim!

This expansion comes packed with new content for this terrific game, more than doubling the number of cards in the game and featuring more of everything that made the base game so special, as well as some exciting new features for you to enjoy. With more encounters to confront, more things to do, and more characters to meet (and play as), this expansion is an absolute must-have for any fan of Outer Rim.

Across the Core

Perhaps one of the most significant features added in Unfinished Business is the addition of the Core Worlds to the game board.

These take the form of two new endcaps on the board that, in addition to containing new planets to encounter, also function as quick travel points that let players skip from one end of the board to the other. Each Core Worlds encounter card, like the other planetary encounter cards in the game, has two possible encounters: one for the Core Worlds themselves, and one for traveling Across the Core. When you encounter a Core Worlds space, you decide which of the two options you’d like to encounter before drawing your card, then resolve that option.

An example of a Core Worlds encounter card.

Traveling across the Core can save you a lot of time, but it also comes with some risk. The Core Worlds are under the control of the Empire, and if you have negative reputation with the Imperials, then you can expect some difficulty when flying across the Core.

Familiar Faces

The base game for Star Wars: Outer Rim already had a plethora of iconic characters in its playable roster, and Unfinished Business rounds them out even further. Where characters like Chewbacca , Dengar , and Hera Syndulla were merely contacts before, now they are fully playable characters in their own right. There are also some characters that weren’t in the base game at all, such as Cad Bane .

In a similar vein, new contact tokens and databank cards have been added to make the characters from the base game encounterable as well. You can even gain the likes of Han Solo and Boba Fett as crew (so long as they aren’t being played by another player).

Here is an example of a new databank card for Boba Fett, one of the playable characters from the base game, now in crew form.

This not only makes the Outer Rim feel more expansive and lived-in, but also creates some interesting opportunities for player interaction when you receive a bounty for another player’s character. Whenever a contact token of a player’s character is revealed, it is immediately discarded, so you won’t be able to use that token to fulfill a bounty for that character. Instead, you will have to enter combat with that player and win if you want to collect on the bounty. The rewards for player bounties are different from what’s printed on the cards; you will always gain money and fame, but you can also gain reputation with any faction that the target has negative reputation with (and lose reputation with any faction they have positive reputation with).

This, of course, just scratches the surface of the new content and new means of player interaction added to Star Wars: Outer Rim with this expansion. You can look forward to new ships, new jobs, new market cards, new encounters, and an expanded single-player mode as well!

New Ways to Play

In addition to more of everything that made the base game so great, Unfinished Business also brings new optional rules to the table that can enhance the experience of Star Wars: Outer Rim even further. The first of these rules is the ability to give favors to other players.

A debt token, used to represent the promise of a future favor.

When playing with this optional rule, each player begins the game with a debt token, which, like credits, can be traded at any time during the game. At any point later in the game, you can request a favor from another player, offering them credits or the promise of a future favor in return. This favor can take multiple forms, such as gaining one of that player’s skills for a test or being endorsed by that player for a faction they have positive reputation with (and thus treating your own reputation as positive as well). While your opponents can choose to refuse your request for a favor, if you have another player’s debt token, then you can give that token back to them to force them to grant your request. Having someone owe you a favor really is a powerful boon!

The other optional addition to the game is ambitions.

An example of an ambition sheet. If the player completes all four objectives on this sheet, they win the game!

When playing with ambitions, you no longer win just by gaining the required amount of fame; you must also complete a series of goals (determined by your own ambition sheet) in order to win the game. Playing with ambitions provides a strategic direction for you to pursue during the game and a unique story arc for your character’s career, and it also creates more climactic endings to the game.

Both favors and ambitions are fantastic additions to the game and provide serious ways of shaking up the gameplay. Just be careful—once you play using one or both of these optional rules, you may find yourself never wanting to play without them again!

Business as Usual

Star Wars: Outer Rim was already a phenomenal board game that provided hours upon hours of exciting adventures for players around the world. Now, with Unfinished Business adding more content and expanding upon what made the base game so great, it seems that the legend of this game will only continue to grow. You can look forward to once again flying through the Outer Rim when Unfinished Business lands in stores this summer!

You can pre-order your own copy of Unfinished Business (SW07) at your local retailer or online through our webstore today!

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