An earlier inquiry and exploration into the systems involved in large scale space travel revealed a compelling narrative of balancing forces and in- fluences, which were later combined with strategy and game theory, and designed into a cooperative multiplayer board game. Evaluations (play- tests) of a prototype board-based game revealed several intriguing dynamics affecting the probabilities of complex futures, one of which suggested that futures are not the outcomes of planned trajectories, but are continuously changing possibilities over time, capable of moving between directional dynamics such as continuation, discipline, collapse, and transformation. Player motivations, interactions, decisions, and actions, both initiated or in response to events, were the primary authors of a game’s progression. This research project further investigates the influence of active intervention into future outcomes by explicitly incorporating critical uncertainties into an updated version of the board game. Using the updated game as a framework for interaction, the project collects data from Design Action Research workshops to discover a rubric effective for measuring patterns of change based on the Dator 4 Futures framework.