The second phase of Project Aleutian is cloudfall. After the first core crystal is removed, the stone cloud enters landfall and begins to descend toward the ground…

The first phase of Project Aleutian is the chase. During the chase, players will choose one of the “available” cards from the two adjacent displays to perform an action. An available card is a card in one of the two adjacent displays to a nation’s play area and that isn’t partially covered by other cards. Once the card is played, any available cards that are face down are revealed… 

To set up Project Aleutian, each player selects one of the six playable nations (Navaire, Seulana, Scivatan, Waviscia, Pohuan, and Henshina) to play and collects that nation’s deck of cards and crystals (currently represented as colored cubes). After each nation shuffles their respective deck, each player creates two stacks of 10 cards and returns the remaining cards to the box. Each player then keeps one stack and passes the other to the player on their left who then shuffles the mix of cards….