Am I in a loop?

[Vulcano]

After some time without playing BTS, I joined a match; everything ok untill I fell in a "trap" set by myself (unwittingly): I've spent ALL my resources and I have not even a person... And there is not even one technology that could allow me to spend/burn one of my many ships so I could recover a dice so I could convert it into "persons/people". The only thing I can do right now is move my ship and gain mineral (I have almost 50 minerals..useless)
Am I missing something or I'm indeed in a loop?

[MoiMagnus]

After some time without playing BTS, I joined a match; everything ok untill I fell in a "trap" set by myself (unwittingly): I've spent ALL my resources and I have not even a person... And there is not even one technology that could allow me to spend/burn one of my many ships so I could recover a dice so I could convert it into "persons/people". The only thing I can do right now is move my ship and gain mineral (I have almost 50 minerals..useless)
Am I missing something or I'm indeed in a loop?

You're missing something.
At the end of your turn, choose "Resource trade" and activate "Decommission a Spaceship: The player pays 1 Ore, then takes 1 of their Spaceships from anywhere, and turns it into a Population cube" as many times as you wants. [You can activate as many trade abilities as you want per turn]

[CoconutTank]

After some time without playing BTS, I joined a match; everything ok untill I fell in a "trap" set by myself (unwittingly): I've spent ALL my resources and I have not even a person... And there is not even one technology that could allow me to spend/burn one of my many ships so I could recover a dice so I could convert it into "persons/people". The only thing I can do right now is move my ship and gain mineral (I have almost 50 minerals..useless)
Am I missing something or I'm indeed in a loop?

The last action on the Basic Spacefaring panel lets one get 1 pop and 1 ore, and any number of worker pawns can go to that action, so that is always available if one needs pop or ore in a pinch.

[BenInJapan]

You shouldn't be able to use that action when you have used up all your available cubes as the OP had encountered

[MoiMagnus]

The last action on the Basic Spacefaring panel lets one get 1 pop and 1 ore, and any number of worker pawns can go to that action, so that is always available if one needs pop or ore in a pinch.

The problem OP had is that ALL their cubes where on technologies and spaceship. I've looked at their game (https://boardgamearena.com/9/beyondthes ... =200305780) and his supply is empty, he has 12 spacehips of various strength, and 8 technologies.

So even this basic spacefaring action would not work as their supply is empty. That's why I advised to use "decommission a spaceship" instead.

[Vulcano]

THANKS A LOT.
Never had to use that "Resource trade" option, so for was like..."invisible"

It was so embarrassingly simple...

[CoconutTank]

Ah, thanks for the corrections, glad that Vulcano can get pop nonetheless.