Sentience is an expansion for Clockwork Wars an epic board game of conquest discovery & espionage from Eagle Games It adds a number of new Discovery & Espionage cards a new Court more hexagonal tiles to make even larger & more varied maps 2 new Territory types (the Observatory & Nexus) & a fifth race the Inventions This now allows for 5-player games The civil war between the Purebreeds Mongrels Troglodtyes & Rhinochs has raged for what seems like ages Amidst this endless chaos the races struggle for any advantage that will turn the tides of war Recently some Mongrel scouts happened upon a gaping chasm of magical energy deep beneath the surface of the earth Technowizards from across the land swiftly converged upon this newly christened “nexus” & set about harnessing its power Meanwhile scientists & priests have constructed magnificent observatories to study the heavens & the mysteries revealed therein have been both startling & profitable But by far the most significant turn of events has been the emergence of a new race – the autonomous thinking machines known as the Inventions Some suspect the first Invention was created by Sir Erasmus Paniscus the brilliant Troglodyte engineer They have rapidly multiplied since their origin due to their miraculous ability to build new Inventions in their astonishing magical workshops For reasons unclear they possess a profound almost mystical love of the natural world & have chosen to shape themselves primarily in the forms of insects spiders & beetles They are a young race exhibiting an innocent naivety of their immense potential & power But they understand that they must defend themselves in this time of war if they wish to survive as a free sentient race