Ares Games announced Battlestar Galactica: Faster Than Light, a new expansion pack for Battlestar Galactica: Starship Battles, for release in January.

This expansion rules set adds optional rules that allows players to increase their game options. It includes more rules for planetoids and clouds, spaceship to take-off and landings, and missiles. The new rules set also features Advanced FTL movement rules, and the game box comes with a rulebook, 2 Navigation panels, 2 FTL rulers, 12 FTL markers, 12 FTL location markers, 10 FTL preparation markers, 2 Colonial missile templates, 2 Cylon missile templates, 2 Orbiting planetoid movement cards, 4 Orbiting planetoids, 2 Colonial missile maneuver cards, 2 Cylon missile maneuver cards, 24 Missile damage counters, 5 Planetoid templates, 20 different markers, and 3 Dust clouds/Clouds.

Battlestar Galactica: Faster Than Light will retail for $19.90, and requires Battlestar Galactica: Starship Battles to play (see " First Details on 'Battlestar Galactica - Starship Battles'").