What Brad Sees: Unity Edition

by Brad DeFruiter, Unity Assistant Designer

25th November 2011

The ninth Second Edition standard virtual expansion, code named Project Silver, is called Unity, and will be released Friday, December 23, 2011. We'll be back on Monday with a lot more information on this expansion (the twenty-fifth overall), but for now, read along as Brad DeFruiter tells you what he sees in Unity!

So, there I was, innocently reading the Unity card file when I came across a card - a mission to be precise. I loaded up my email and started to write Mr. Plaine a note asking if we had already done this mission. Wasn't it done in Strange New Worlds or Captain's Log - yeah, Captain's Log, it was done in Captain's Log, right? We did a personnel from that episode in Captain's Log, right?

Then I remembered that I had asked this question before. Many many times before, actually. I sheepishly closed my email and looked some more at the file. What is that? You want to know what else I saw? Well, let me tell you what I see in Unity:

• Not just one but two new keywords.
• A keyword *I* thought we would never see again.
• Cyrus and Felix fading away
• Ro and Geordi fading in
• Solok!
• A Bajoran word on a mission that probably won't have Bajorans attempt it.
• A race - NO! - two races we have not seen on Second Edition personnel before.
• A Tongo Player
• A card that makes all your missions Delta Quadrant missions
• Commodity, Commodity, Commodity, Commodity, Commodity, Commodity, Commodity, Commodity, Commodity, aaaannnd Commodity. We're not Commodities!
• Telescope. No, not that one.
• A temporal paradox for a mission
• Ministers
• Worf and Jadzia next to each another
• A Radiant Mender
• Red, Blue, and Gold uniforms all around a table
• Eddington!
• A new B'Elanna Torres
• Eleven different species
• " ... then draw an equal number of cards."
• New version of an existing ship
• Li Nalas! Well, it looks like Li at least
• TOS 1, Movies 2, TNG 11, DS9 20, VOY 18, Ent 2
• He's writing a novel

Speaking of writing a novel, I've written too much already but also not enough. So many exciting and great looking cards in this virtual expansion. But let me actually show you a card. A card I am happy to see. I have always had a soft spot in my heart for MACOs. And here is a guy that gives them some extra umpph. Let me show you Markus Forbes (Extraction Expert):