Ok before i review i need clarity. What does advantage and speed do and mean?

Why do characters have phrases like each pilot here? Why would a pilot be on a personnel?

How do you win a round? Once all your phases and the turn is up, what determines who won it?

And now some of those productions, followed by a card or two from different card types.

(Atmospheric Production) Automated Trawler
Play onto a Deadrock location.
Production- Once per round, relocate Automated Trawler to a related location to make your curbite generation +2.
1C156

Okay, exactly how difficult is it to get curbite? That may help in reviewing the cards. Is it guarded? Is it thrown out at will like LotR? Is it in-between like MtG?

(Spacial Production) Off-planet Storage Facility
Each time you discard a card from your hand to pay a card’s cost, add a curbite token here.
Production- Remove 3 curbite tokens here to make your curbite generation +2.
1U167

I see that its somewhat guarded. Hm...interesting. As I said, I’l have to look at it more in-depth. Are there any general production cards? Like, at the start of the turn, add a curbite token here, remove X number of curbite tokens to make curbite generation +1?

(Atmospheric Production) Untapped Spire
Production- Once per turn, discard a card from your hand to make your curbite generation +2.
1C172

Nice.

(Human Personnel) ∙Corlu Sald, In the Know (Curbite 2)
“Corlu”
Advantage-0 Power-0 Speed-1 Vitality-1
Corlu may not participate in combat unless he is at Sald’s Shop and Diner, where he is advantage +3 and power +3.
Each time you replenish your hand, you may look at the top 4 cards of your deck and replace them in any order.
1R12

Okay, so what’s advantage?

(Xenthu Personnel) ∙Lia’niti, The Warrior Sorceress (Curbite 5)
“Lia’niti” ∙ Leader ∙ Warrior
Advantage-3 Power-4 Speed-4 Vitality-2
Ambush.
When you ambush with Lia’niti, until the end phase, each time you would use any curbite, you may use 0 curbite instead.
1R70

WHOA! Free stuff! . So how does an ambush work?

(Xenthu Event) ∙Approaching Tide (Curbite 0)
Core. When you play Approaching Tide, use X curbite to add X distance tokens here.
At the start of each ambush phase, remove a distance token here. If there are no distance tokens here, play X starships or X personnel from your deck to any eligible locations; each card played this way is curbite cost -3. Destroy Approaching Tide.
1R107

Whoa...again powerful. Are you going to start the game off as broken?

(Human Event) ∙The Opening Prayer (Curbite )
Core.
At the start of your ready phase, you may reveal an event from your hand to add a rally token here.
Combat- Make your pilot operating a starfighter advantage +1, power +1, speed +1, or vitality +1 for each rally token here. Destroy The Opening Prayer.
1C128

Nice. Hang on, so events aren’t discarded?

(Human Tech) Trench-class Starcruiser (Curbite 4)
Large Starship ∙ Trench-class Starcruiser
Capactity-4 Power-2 Speed-3 Armor-5
Once per round, if another of your large starships here is engaged by the opponent, you may use 3 curbite to make the opponent engage Trench-class Starcruiser instead.
1C192

Cool. Assignment replacing. Still not sure how the curbite curve works, though.

(Xenthu Tech) Eti’les Swiftpod (Curbite )
Swiftpod
Play onto your large starship.
Standoff- Relocate a warrior aboard this starship at a space location to a related location. Shuffle Eti’les Swiftpod into your deck.
1R196

Okay, not sure how locations work, but cool. Not sure how your notation works completely yet, but I’d try to clean up the card a little.

(Key Location) ∙Crescent
Space Location
While the Human player controls Crescent, the Xenthu player may not play to or more to related locations.
1C2

Move to? That’s pretty cool. What is a related location?

(Support Location) ∙Arson Sea
Deadrock ∙ Ground
At the start of each players’ turn, each of that player’s non-piloting personnel here is wounded.
1U218

Sweet. Arson Sea or Arsenic Sea?. I like it, it means that if you play the right deck, you can rule the site, and nothing the opponent can do can overrun it. Is this kinda like SWCCG sites? If so, that makes this card completely sweet. I wanna see some cards that key off of site domination.

Haha! You’ve fallen into my trap!

(Human Tech) Charged Rifle (Curbite 2)
Ranged Weapon
Play onto your guard or warrior. This personnel is power +2.
Combat- Once per combat, use 2 curbite to wound the opponent’s personnel here with speed less than this personnel’s speed.
1C176

Eh...geez. I hope that your curbite curve is pretty guarded. Otherwise, this card is broken real quick. Power +2? Geez. That’s a lot. I’d make it +1.

So let me break that card down.
It’s a human tech, which costs you 2 curbite to play. It can only play onto a personnel with a guard or warrior trait, and grants that personnel 2 more power.
Now, it says Ranged Weapon. Until I can find something better to call it, that just tells you what kind of tech it is.

Firearm? Then you can have, like, a side-arm, heavy weapon, etc.

Then the combat phase ability allows you to wound "the opponent’s personnel here" which translates to "the opponent’s personnel at this location." Pretty good, basic weapon.

(Human Tech) Enhanced Weaponry (Curbite 3)
Starship Upgrade
Play onto your starship with power. It is power +2.
At the end of this starship’s engagement, you may damage a starship it is engaged with.
1U180

Damage...like 1 damage? You mean, wounding a starship?

Here’s a very good uncommon. The only condition is that it goes onto a starship with power (which rules out all starfighters and escape pods; you’ll see why in a minute). Granting power +2 and an extra damage (damage is wounding for starships, btw) all for 3 curbite ain’t nothin’ to sneeze at.

So why doesn’t Enhanced Weaponry work for starfighters? Here’s your basic Human starfighter:

(Human Tech) N.F.C. Fighter (Curbite 2)
Small Starship ∙ NF-04-class Starfighter
Play onto your pilot. This personnel is power +1 and speed +2.
1C187

Nice. A lot nicer. Hey, are you planning on culturally enforcing these cards at all?

Starfighters play onto a personnel, and in this card’s case, that personnel must also be a pilot. They cannot be in play by themselves without a pilot. Starfighters work just as if you played a gun like Charged Rifle. The only difference with a starfighter is that, while a personnel is piloting one, he can’t use any of his other techs. They aren’t destroyed or discarded, they just aren’t active until the starfighter leaves play.
So, for why Enhanced Weaponry doesn’t work for a starfighter. A starfighter has no power. It provides power to the pilot, yes, but it itself has nothing. Now, a large starship...

(Human Tech) ∙Prophet (Curbite 9)
Large Starship ∙ Terrsa-class Defensor
Capacity-5 Power-6 Speed-4 Armor-5
Combat- Once per round, use 4 curbite to make the opponent’s starship here power = 0 and speed = 0.
1R190

HOLY COW! But 9 curbite to play and 4 curbite to use its ability. Eh...WHOA!

... has lots of power!

Now, as for keywords in Deadrock, there aren’t many in this set. In fact, there are only three in the normal sense of the word: Ambush, Cloak, and Core.
Ambush lets you play cards out of their normal turn. Cloak (which actually just appears once in the set) makes the cloaked card unable to be engaged or targeted. Core is just a word for "plays to your support area" (more or less).

But most personnel have one or more traits, such as the aforementioned guard and warrior. There are also leaders, politicians, scientists, etc. Those are what really define a personnel’s potential.