The city’s fractured electricity grid is beginning to falter, reducing the light and power of essential buildings with no warning. Engineers advise shutting down local substations for repairs and a black start from the old generators, but in the short term this would be even more disruptive to the day-to-day running of the districts.

Do the Districts continue to work through the power failures, or follow the engineers’ recommendations?

Persist: Govern and Lose 1 Ingenuity*

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Shutdown: Gain 4 to your Energy Trap and Lose 4 from your Energy Trap**

* or lose your lowest-cost understood Innovation (selecting one at random if there’s a tie) instead if you have no Ingenuity
** or lose all of your Energy Trap instead if your Defences are less than 0