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An Achievement Idea

by Charlie Plaine, Equilibrium Designer

24th December 2018

Lela

Dear Rogue,

I hope this letter finds you and your family in good health, and that you are ready to celebrate Christmas in style. I'd like to make a suggestion to you for a new deck building achievement for First Edition. In short, I think it would be a lot of fun to have an achievement or two for building a deck that features almost all female personnel. It's certainly not an optimal way to build a deck, but there are some cool component pieces for it. Besides, a big part of the original idea behind achievements was to challenge people to do fun and exciting things, and I think this qualifies.

I mention this now because Equilibrium is coming out this week, and it contains another "girl power" card. Lela was the first host of the Dax symbiont, a famous litigator on Trill and one of the first female councilors in the Trill government. While she never appeared directly on Deep Space 9, she was embodied by Kira in the episode "Facets." After the community made Joran in Sisko's body as part of the Will of the Collective, the Equilibrium design team decided to make Lela in the same vein.

Lela is a new Non-Aligned persona of Kira Nerys, and her skills and classification reflect her government experience. However, her special skill is what will really shine in decks that try for this new suggested achievement. She grants any female personnel present a blanket attribute boost - a literal bit of "girl power" gametext. Aside from Lela, there are other cards in the game such as Life's Simple Pleasures that reward having extra females in play. In the future, I'm sure there will be more such cards to support this achievement suggestion.

I've attached an example of a deck to this letter to illustrate the type of deck that one might build in support of this new achievement. It's not complete, so it offers lots of customization options. Since Lela is a [DS9] personnel, I made this a deck using Reshape the Quadrant. I stumbled upon Comfort Women, which turns all [Baj] females into [Car] personnel, and decided to make this a [Car] [DS9] I Miss This Office deck. It's good synergy, because Comfort Women also puts Bajoran females "Terok Nor" in their lore, making them all free to play aboard Terok Nor. The deck uses some nice Cardassian tricks, including Dominion War Efforts to grab support personnel each turn and A Better Alternative to draw more cards.

You'll notice the deck isn't 100% female, because it includes Morn. Morn is very valuable, since you can download him with Cargo Bay and then park him at Quark's Bar to draw an extra card each turn. I think Morn is above gender concerns, having love for his drink far more than for traditional gender roles. Besides, I think Morn is absolutely a feminist and would fully support the ladies going out and doing all the work.

All in all, I think some new achievements for all-female and/or mostly-female decks would be welcome by the community. We already have achievements for using gender-related dilemmas - Shore Leave and Parallel Romance - so making some to reward deck building is a natural addition. But no matter what you decide, I hope you and everyone else in the community will enjoy Lela and all the other new cards in Equilibrium, releasing this Friday.

Sincerely,
Charlie


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Mission (6)
Mission
4 V1x Acquire Illicit Explosives
29 V1x Alter Records
22 V1x Assist Damaged Vessel
23 V1x Characterize Neutrino Emissions
10 V1x Eliminate Virus
14 V1x Investigate Maquis Activity
Seed Deck (23)
Dilemma
3 V2x Brief Romance
2 V2x Distraction
124 VP2x Female's Love Interest & Garbage Scow
20 S2x Matriarchal Society
3 V1x No Mention of Crime
12 V2x Socializing with the Staff
U1x Strange Bedfellows
9 U1x Talosian Cage
Doorway
1 V1x Q's Tent
Event
11 V1x Crossover: An Invitation
18 C1x Dominion War Efforts
Facility
Cardassian
18 V1x Terok Nor
Incident
43 V1x Call for Reinforcements
201 VP1x Comfort Women
30 V1x Reshape the Quadrant
65 P1x We Need You Here
Objective
26 V1x Assign Support Personnel
51 V1x Study Divergent History
Site (6)
Site
2 V1x ❖ Cargo Bay
3 V1x Commander's Office
5 V1x Docking Ports
8 V1x ❖ Guest Quarters
11 V1x Ops
15 V1x Quark's Bar
Draw Deck (54)
Event
8 V2x A Better Alternative
7 V6x Life's Simple Pleasures
10 V2x Surprise Party
Incident
26 V1x I Miss This Office
Interrupt
62 VP4x Mutation
Personnel
Bajoran
33 V1x ❖ Anara
37 V1x ❖ Anneli
39 V1x ❖ Beyor
50 R1x Commander Leeta
50 U1x Els Renora
U1x ❖ Jabara
R1x Kai Opaka
U1x Lupaza
38 V2x ❖ Minister Rozahn
R1x Neela
R1x Pallra
153 VP1x The Intendant
U1x Varis Sul
P1x Vedek Dax
30 V1x Winn Adami
Bajoran/Cardassian
43 V1x Kira Meru
5 V1x Tora Ziyal
Bajoran/Ferengi
R1x Leeta
U1x Mardah
64 V1x Nizari
Bajoran/Non-Aligned
2 V1x Kasidy Yates
Cardassian
U1x Dejar
37 V1x ❖ Dorza
42 V1x Gilora Rejal
R1x Natima Lang
Ferengi/Non-Aligned
14 V1x Aluura
55 V1x Sarda
Non-Aligned
7 V1x Lela
46 V1x Vash (Life From Lifelessness)
Ship
Cardassian
R1x Groumall
U2x ❖ Military Freighter
Non-Aligned
52 V1x S.S. Xhosa
Site
7 V1x Garak's Tailor Shop
8 V1x ❖ Guest Quarters
13 V1x Ore Processing Unit
16 V1x Science Lab
18 V1x Security Office
Q-Tent Side Deck (11)
Equipment
C1x Bajoran Phaser
137 VP1x Kukalaka
Facility
Cardassian
162 VP1x ❖ Cardassian Outpost
Incident
C1x Dabo
Personnel
Bajoran
37 V1x ❖ Anneli
U1x ❖ Jabara
Cardassian
49 V1x ❖ Belva
59 C1x ❖ Dorza
C1x ❖ Ulani Belor
Non-Aligned
66 VP1x Morn
74 V1x ❖ Ty Kajada



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