The Very Flower of Humanity

by Maggie Geppert, Next in Line

10th October 2017

Mirror Kirk kept control of his ship in the Mirror Universe by any means necessary, including torture. He uses the Agonizer to maintain control on his ship.  You too can keep your preeminent crew members in your attempt using this piece of equipment, one of many from the latest Second Edition expansion, The Nth Degree.  Say a subordinant (an personnel) is trying to take over the ship (i.e. your best  personnel is about to be stopped by a dilemma).  Keep your grip on power by putting the subordinant in the Agonizer (stop them) to prevent the other stop. 

I wonder how history would have played out if Cochrane hadn't turned the tables on your invasion force. Humans might be your slaves instead of the other way around.

                                                                                    -Jonathan Archer from "In a Mirror, Darkly"

I really enjoy playing Mirror Starfleet.  I find their flavor of getting bonuses for having no cards in hand to be particularly intriguing and I've been looking for an excuse to play them again.  This is an achievement deck, going for "Everything's...alternate!"  That's why there are so many personnel in this deck.  I'd have put in a few normal universe Starfleet personnel otherwise.  As it stands, Brennan Scott, D'Vela, Trip and T'Pol are probably the standout personnel in the deck.

You want to do Jupiter, Test Experimental Engine first and then Investigate Refinery so you can play Accumulated Knowledge cheaply late game.  You'll want to use Optimism to get stuff out of your hand and under your deck if it takes awhile to get out the Starship Defiant.  And I've added in some Delphic Expanse missions and Trellium-D to maximize my use of, oh, wait, ummmm, never mind!

Look over there!  Squirrel!

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This deck is currently eligible for the following family or families of achievements:

• Starfleet Player
• Mirror Starfleet Player
• Unbroken I
• Good Casting: Armstrong (Maximilian Forrest)

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Dilemma Deck Total Dilemmas 28 Space 7 (25%) Cost 1 5 Cost 2 2 Planet 7 (25%) Cost 1 5 Cost 2 2 Dual 14 (50%) Cost 0 3 Cost 2 5 Cost 3 6 Total Dilemma Deck cost 46

Draw Deck Total Draw Deck 49 Equipment 2 (4%) Cost 2 2 Event 9 (18%) Cost 2 4 Cost 3 3 Cost 5 2 Interrupt 7 (14%) Personnel 26 (53%) Cost 1 3 Cost 2 14 Cost 3 2 Cost 4 6 Cost 6 1 Ship 5 (10%) Cost 2 1 Cost 3 2 Cost 4 2 Total Draw Deck cost 114

Skills Count Skill # Missions # Personnel 1x 2x 3x Total Acquisition 0 1 1 Anthropology 1 6 6 Archaeology 0 2 2 Astrometrics 0 6 6 Biology 0 5 5 Diplomacy 0 5 5 Engineer 1 10 2 12 Exobiology 0 1 2 3 Geology 0 3 3 Honor 0 4 4 Intelligence 0 0 Law 0 2 2 Leadership 3 6 6 Medical 0 9 9 Navigation 1 7 7 Officer 0 8 8 Physics 1 5 5 Programming 0 9 9 Science 1 7 7 Security 3 7 7 Telepathy 0 0 Transporters 0 4 4 Treachery 2 5 5 10 Icons Count Icon # Personnel % Personnel Staffing Icons Command Star 11 42.31 % Staff Star 12 46.15 % Temporal Icons Alternate Universe 26 100.00 % Past 22 84.62 % Keyword Count Keyword # Cards Admiral 1 Cloaking Device 2 Commander: I.S.S. Avenger 1 Commander: I.S.S. Enterprise 2 Commander: Phoenix 1 Consume: 2 3 Genetically Enhanced 1 MACO 5 Mirror 1 Persistent 4 Region: Delphic Expanse 1 Region: Sector 001 1