PantsOfTheTalShiar wrote: ↑Sat Mar 05, 2022 4:39 am
Yeah unfortunately I am leaning towards the "no" interpretation also. I should have thought to ask this either two weeks ago or not at all.
I guess follow up is does the personnel "compatible" refer to just the personnel or also the facility? In the past I had interpreted it as just the personnel needing to be compatible.
Thanks for the response, and at this point don't worry too much about these questions, because at this point it's too late for my deck to come together regardless.
BTW, while researching this, I noticed every mention of GTTT in the glossary is out of date (refers to returning personnel to hand) and the Start of Control note in the Rulebook uses Continuing Mission as an example, but CM specifically says that it grants the icons to cards even if not in play.
I don't know the answer to the OP, but I will say that yes, the person you download has to be compatible with the facility as well, because if they aren't, they go into house arrest, and you cannot voluntarily put someone in house arrest.
As for the original question, I would say yes, IMO. A treaty is a global effect granting compatibility, FTP is a local one, I don't see why global vs local should matter. Same as if I were to play
Planet of Galactic Peace on some mission. I had never heard of "Start of Control", went it read it, I don't see what that matters. That ruling doesn't say anything about compatibility.
In fact that ruling is kind of nonsense for the scenario it is even using as an example. It says as soon as you declare you are playing Calloway you immediately "start control" of her and she gains
so you can play her for free. That isn't even needed because CM already says "even if not in play". So she has
in my hand, my Q's tent, my draw deck, and anywhere else she might be whether i "declare i'm playing her" or not.
But back to the original point, if "Start of Control" is supposedly when I start looking around to see where I can play someone, and checking compatibility, then the text of FTP, just as the next of PoGP or any treaty, should be relevant to that check.
"Okay I'm playing Calloway now, I have this Fed person i am starting to control. She can enter play at my Fed outpost, because they are matching, or my Deep Space Nine because my Fed/Baj treaty's global gametext makes her compatible with the station, or my Ferengi Trading Post because that card's local gametext makes her compatible with the FTP itself, as well as the
Gowron and
Weyoun I already have there."
In summary if the text of a treaty makes two personnel compatible before the second one "hits the table" than FTP should as well.