Shards of the Throne: Mercenaries!

Shards introduces a new option, mercenaries. They are recruited through the use of the trade III strategy card. They have separate values for Space Battle, Invasion Combat, and Movement. They also each have special rules associated with them. These rules are sometimes, really fucking awesome. There are sixteen mercenaries, I have outlined them below.

Blake Stryker
Space: 5
Ground: 7
Movement: 2
Evasion(6), When you win a space battle in which this mercenary participated, gain 1 trade good.

Barudin
Space: 6
Ground: 8
Movement: 3
Evasion(6), Your cost to purchase Technology is reduced by 1.

Saygra
Space: 7
Ground: 7
Movement: 2
Evasion(5), At the start of a battle, you may spend 1 trade good to build a ground force or fighter in this system. It will participate in this battle.

52N6
Space: 7
Ground: 7
Movement: 2
Sustain Damage, At the start of a battle you may choose 1 Technology. The enemy cannot use that Technology during this battle.

Rhelat
Space: 8
Ground: 7
Movement: 3
Evasion(6), This Mercenary can be used as a PDS unit when on a planet.

Urrsik
Space: 5
Ground: 7
Movement: 3
Evasion(6), This mercenary may move through systems containing enemy ships.

Krevvil
Space: 6
Ground: 6
Movement: 2
Evasion(6), At the start of a battle, you may deal 1 hit to a participating enemy mercenary or ship of your choice.

Felrey
Space: 5
Ground: 6
Movement: 3
Evasion(7), At the start of a battle, draw 1 action card.

Murrag
Space: 6
Ground: 5
Movement: 2
Evasion(6), When this mercenary is destroyed, you may assign 1 hit to any 1 unit participating in this battle.

Nolad
Space: 6x2
ground: 6
Movement: 2
Evasion(7), Capacity(1)

Hep'kuk
Space: 6
Ground: 7
Movement: 3
Evasion(7), When this mercenary would be destroyed, you may instead destroy a friendly fighter in this system.

T'ugar
Space: 6
Ground: 7
Movement: 2
Evasion(6), At the start of a battle, you may look at your opponent's hand of action cards and choose 1 to discard.

Daffren
Space: 9x2
Ground: 8
Movement: 2
Evasion(7), At the end of the Strategy Phase, you may give this Mercenary to another player to trade Strategy cards with that player. Limit once per round.

Kav'lik
Space: 5
Ground: 5
Movement: 2
Evasion(8), At the start of a battle, destroy 1 enemy fighter or ground force.

Sara Crane
Space: 6
Ground: 6
Movement: 3
Evasion(7), Your cost to purchase Command Counters from Strategy Cards is reduced by 1.

R'una
Space: 5
Ground: 9
Movement: 2
Evasion(4), During each round of a Space Battle, reduce the number of hits scored by your opponent by 1 (to a minimum of 1).

-Mike