Wanted Level

When your Heat level reaches 8 in a system, you gain a WANTED LEVEL and clear your HEAT (any excess HEAT “rolls over,” so if your HEAT was 7 and you took 4 HEAT, you’d reset with 3 HEAT marked).
The higher your WANTED LEVEL, the more serious the response when law enforcement takes action against you (they’ll send a force of higher quality and scale).
Also, your WANTED LEVEL contributes to the severity of the Entanglements that your crew faces after a job.

CLEARING HEAT & WANTED LEVELS

Running on the bad side of the law eventually catches up with you. To clear HEAT and WANTED LEVELS, your crew can Lay Low in a different system. See page 186 for more details.