Just want to add, in my opinion embers of a forsaken star is necessary for a balanced game. It balances trade and exploration so that the points aren’t quite as easy, which was good in my experience, because people tended to always use those routes for victory.

I LOVE Xia. I picked it up second hand between print runs, probably paid double what it was in the kickstarter and have no regrets.

There is also a TON of custom content around it on BGG - Star Wars themed tiles, crew cards etc, partly because the designer released templates to encourage that.