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By Mr.Sloan
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#496457
If there is Mona Lisa onboard a ship...

and its destroyed because the opponent attacks and destroys the ship.. but he does so because of mine Conundrum...

Who is the badguy?

I guess the owner of Conundrum...? So i lose -25 Mona Lisa points, because my seeding of Conundrum resulted in my opponent blowing up my ship...?

Or do we have to discuss about free will here? ;)
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By BCSWowbagger (James Heaney)
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#496459
Mona Lisa caused, I believe, 4.5 years of agonizing debate among the Rules Committee about free will, moral responsibility, and dilemma control.

Finally, it was clear that we were not on the cusp of solving one of the greatest problems in philosophy for a Star Trek card game, and we settled for a simpler ruling:
Mona Lisa: You are directly responsible for destroying this artifact if your non-dilemma card destroys it.
Under this ruling, the player who fired the shots that destroy Mona Lisa loses the points. Doesn't matter if you're under the influence of Conundrum or Saltah'na Clock or whatever. You fire the shots, you lose the points.

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