Militia ships begin the game based at a station orbiting the appropriate planet.

  Fortress Kdikit (Madderly's Star)
  Fortress Redoubt (Gollywog, White Light)
  Fortress Gollwin (Morgaine's World, Prenglar)
  Fortress Pale (Truane's Star)

Each fortress is in orbit around the indicated planet. All fortresses have the following statistics:

  HP 300 / ADF 0 / MR 0 / DCR 200
  Weapons: LB (x3), EB, PB, RB (x12)
  Defenses: RH, MS (x3), ES, PS, ICM (x20)
 

Fortified and Armed Space Stations
 

Each station is in orbit around the indicated planet. All fortified and armed space stations have the following statistics:
 

The Frontier Deployment Map (FDM) is an abstracted representation of the Frontier. It is used to keep track of fleet and ship locations on a daily basis. Combat never takes place on the Deployment Map.

Star Systems

The large yellow starbursts labeled with system names represent the inhabited star systems of the Frontier. Each star system has one or two planets pictured inside. Each planet is labeled by name.

Transit Boxes

The paths of light blue boxes between systems mark the known travel routes in the Frontier. The boxes are "transit boxes." Each transit box marks one day of acceleration or deceleration along that route. Thus, transit boxes measure speed, not distance. Ships move from system starbursts to transit boxes, and along transit boxes to other star systems. A ship normally moves only one transit box per turn.

If a player decides that a ship should stay where it is and not jump to another system, it must decelerate back toward the star at the rate of one transit box per day. A ship in a transit box can stop accelerating and coast, maintaining its speed, for any number of turns. The ship can resume moving along the transit box track in either direction on any turn.

Sathar Start Circles

The dark red circles are Sathar Start Circles. These are possible locations from which the Sathar can launch their attacks on the Frontier. The light red boxes connecting the Start Circles to star systems are the paths that the Sathar must follow in order to attack the star systems. Each of the light red boxes is a transit box, representing one day's travel.

The start circles represent the positions of Sathar ships as they emerge from the Void. The start circle leading to Prenglar, for example, is actually inside the Prenglar system, but the ships inside the circle are moving at tremendous speed toward the star. The boxes leading to Prenglar represent the number of days the Sathar ships need to slow down enough to attack the stations and ships based there.

Combat

If Sathar and UPF ships occupy the same star system on the FDM, the counters may be moved to the boardgame map for combat.