[Danny]

Welcome to Fill in the Blank Season 3: Decipher!

Each week I'll post the collector’s information for one of the cards in the set’s card-list.

Contestants are free to create whatever card they see fit for that slot in the card-list, keeping in mind the surrounding cards. As the contest progresses, the card-list will become more and more defined, guiding the contestants’ choices.

The theme of our set is Decipher! You're free to interpret this how you want, but in my mind, I found myself going down one of two rabbitholes, those being...

• the secretive, possibly •Intelligence based path, or
• the keyword path (keyword's being the key to deciphering ciphers)

Not every card has to fit the theme, of course, but it’s something to keep in mind when coming up with entries.

Each week a poll will go up for the previous week's entries. Simply vote for one you like the most. In the event of a tie, I'll let a random result generator make the decision.

Last week's winner...

Congratulations to WeyounsLastClone and his Political Pressure for becoming the seventeenth card to enter the set.

Last week's entries to pick from for Card #17...

4 •Barclay Hologram, Inside Man
Hologram
•Acquisition •Anthropology •Diplomacy •Engineer •Intelligence •Programming •2 Treachery
Infiltrator. Thief. When you play this personnel, you may download up to two cards. Those cards must be Crime cards, Infiltration cards, or Borg Nanoprobes.
"In accordance with the seventy fourth Rule of Acquisition, Knowledge Equals Profit, I've enclosed the specifications you've requested. See you soon."
Integrity 2 Cunning 6 Strength 5

4 *Worf, Commanding The Enterprise

Klingon

Anthropology, Diplomacy, Honour, Leadership, Navigation, Officer

Commander: U.S.S. Enterprise-D When your Commander or Diplomacy personnel present is about to be killed by a dilemma, you may destroy your Assault or Maneuver event to prevent that.

“You fool. Did it not occur to you that the war would be over by now?”

Integrity: 7, Cunning: 6, Strength: 8

Notes:

Based on the TNG episode “The Emissary.” The other day I noticed Worf is one of only three long term TNG cast not to have a version who can command the Enterprise-D in Second Edition, so figured I'd fix that. (The others are Deanna Troi and Data, as I don't think Wesley or Pulaski really count.) His skill set is a mix of other Worf's skills, while with his attributes he gets a slight bump in Cunning (it was his plan after all,) but at the expense of a point of Integrity (because tricking a Klingon into not dying in glorious battle is not the most honourable thing to do in their eyes.)

Finally his ability saves his fellow Commanders or Klingon diplomats (such as K'Ehleyr,) by finding a peaceful solution instead of battle.

All the Best,

Mattgomery Scott.

(5) •Zek, Visionary
Ferengi
2 Acquisition Diplomacy Intelligence 2 Leadership
Grand Nagus.
Order- Stop your Acquisition Ferengi to shuffle a Slip of Gold-pressed Latinum into your deck.
" And the purpose of this conference is?"
"The future. And for Ferengi business interests, the future is already here."
I:5 C:7 S:2

I always thought the Ferengi "mechanic" should have been a crappy deck that gets better over time- like various deck-building card games. So here's my try, given how they are now...

And accompanying...

Slip of Gold-pressed Latinum
You cannot include this in your draw deck.
Order- Draw 2 cards.
Order- Shuffle a Strip of Gold-pressed Latinum into your deck.
"Respect is good. But latinum's better."

Strip of Gold-pressed Latinum
You cannot include this in your draw deck.
Order- Place a personnel from hand aboard your ship.
Order- Shuffle a Bar of Gold-pressed Latinum into your deck.
"It's so beautiful. Not to mention smooth to the touch."

Bar of Gold-pressed Latinum
You cannot include this in your draw deck.
Order- Place a ship from hand at your mission.
Order- Shuffle a Brick of Gold-pressed Latinum into your deck.
"I wonder who came up with the idea of suspending liquid latinum inside worthless bits of gold?"

Brick of Gold-pressed Latinum
You cannot include this in your draw deck.
Order- Place the top card(s) of your opponent's dilemma pile beneath each of your Acquisition missions. Remove this from the game.
"My greed has to be a shining light to everyone, a testament to the rewards of avarice."

(4) •Ishka, Business Woman
Ferengi
•2 Acquisition •Anthropology •Biology •Diplomacy •Honor •Leadership
When you play this personnel, she is cost -1 for each card beneath your Ferenginar.
When an opponent's card is about to destroy or prevent your Rule, you may return this personnel to hand to prevent that.
"Your father might have bought you your first copy of the Rules of Acquisition. But who helped you memorize them?"
Integrity 6 Cunning 7 Strength 3

(1) •Worf, Hand of Destiny
Klingon

•2 Honor •Law •Officer •Security
To play this personnel, kill one of your Chancellors. When you play this personnel, you may download a Chancellor. At the start of each of your turns, if you do not command a Chancellor, stop this personnel.
"A new day must dawn for our people. I am not the man to usher in that day. But there is a man here who can."
INT 8 CUN 5 STR 8

This week’s contest is...

Card #32!

The cards we have on either side are #30, the Romulan-affiliated personnel Shinzon, New Power Rising, and #33, the Federation-affiliated ship U.S.S. Defiant, Imposing Warship. That means it's gotta be either:

• a personnel after (before Shinzon, New Power Rising)
• a personnel
• a ship
  a ship
• a ship
• a ship
• or a ship (before U.S.S. Defiant, Imposing Warship

Closing date: Saturday 15th August(ish - I'll see how the entries come in, and if an extension's required/requested, we'll take it from there).

Good luck!

Note: This'll be a 36 card set.

Decipher Card List

Number - Name - Type - Contestant - Week it won
1.
2. Cascade Failure (Dilemma) - WeyounsLastClone - 10
3.
4.
5. Political Pressure (Dilemma) - WeyounsLastClone - 17
6. Regional Dispute (Dilemma) - MattgomeryScott - 4
7.
8. Dataport (Equipment) - Naetor - 16
9. Encryption Codes (Equipment) - WeyounsLastClone - 2
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15. •Mouth of the Wormhole, Quark's Bar (Mission) - Naetor - 15
16.
17. •Rukani Sector, Commandeer Federation Vessel (Mission) - GooeyChewie - 6
18.
19. •Borg Queen, Unique (Personnel - Borg) - rferries - 8
20. •Data, Resisting Temptation (Personnel - Borg) - rferries - 14
21. •Eleven of Twenty-Three, Decryption Drone (Personnel - Borg) - MattgomeryScott - 1
22. Kanon Fodar (Personnel - Cardassian) - MattgomeryScott - 7
23. •Vornar, Loyal Glinn (Personnel - Cardassian) - Naetor - 14
24. •Alynna Nechayev, Persistent Projection (Personnel - Dominion) - WeyounsLastClone - 11
25. •Cal Hudson, Embittered Colonist (Personnel - Federation) - Danny - 5
26.
27. THE SUBJECT OF THIS WEEK'S VOTE
28.
29.
30. •Shinzon, New Power Rising (Personnel - Romulan) - Danny - 12
31.
32. IN CREATION THIS WEEK
33. •U.S.S. Defiant, Imposing Warship (Ship - Federation) - GooeyChewie - 3
34.
35.
36. •I.S.S. Defiant, Earth Warship (Ship - Starfleet) - Naetor - 9

[Naetor]

(5) Jem'Hadar Attack Squadron
Attack Ship
To play this ship, you must command an Attack Ship. When a damage card is about to be placed on an opponent's ship, choose a personnel at that mission to be killed (two if this mission). You may do this only once each turn.
"They're using some kind of phased polaron beam to penetrate our shields."
R:7 W:10 S:7

[rferries]

I want to note that this was another particularly difficult vote, they were all so good.

7 •Tactical Cube 138, Formidable

Cube
Your Drones at this mission may meet Intelligence, Law, and Officer requirements using Security.
"This is a class four tactical vessel, heavily armed. The central plexus is protected by multi-regenerative security grids. We'd be detected long before we could reach it."
Range 10 Weapons 12 Shields 11

Bonus, which may contain spoilers for PIC:

(Spoilers)

7 •The Artifact, Unquiet Graveyard

Cube
Artifact. (To play this card, you must have completed a mission requiring Acquisition, Anthropology, or Archaeology.) You may play this ship from your discard pile at your completed mission requiring Archaeology. When you play this ship, if you command Unicomplex take up to seven Drones from your discard pile and place them aboard this ship. Otherwise, flip this card.
"The cube, it seems to be… I would almost say it's regenerating."
Range 10 Weapons 12 Shields 11

Flip side (which can't be played first):

7 •The Artifact, Borg Reclamation Project

Cube
This ship counts as an Artifact. You may play Dissidents and non- Borg from your discard pile aboard this ship at cost -1. While your Hugh or Seven of Nine is aboard this ship, it is staffed.
"What you're doing is good, Hugh. There's no need for it to be perfect. After all these years, you're showing what the Borg are underneath. They're victims, not monsters."
Range 10 Weapons 12 Shields 11

Any faction can claim the Cube - the Drones aboard are in stasis and can be converted to ex-Borg, but if you aren't careful they'll simply awake as part of the Collective...

[MattgomeryScott]

2 Resistance Raider

Raider Class

While you command Bajor, you may play this ship to your Region: Bajor mission. While you command more than 5 personnel aboard this ship, it is Range -2. This ship is attributes +1 for each Bajoran Resistance personnel aboard (limit +3.)

"All right, let's see if we can get out of here without bouncing off any walls."

Range: 2, Weapons: 2, Shields: 2.

All the Best,

Mattgomery Scott.

[Danny]

(3) •"Chef", The Best in Starfleet
Human

•Anthropology •Biology •Science
Waiter. If you have played an Enterprise or Commander: Enterprise personnel this turn, you may play this personnel at cost -2. If this personnel is aboard your Enterprise, your personnel present are attributes +1.
"I heard the Captain had to call in a lot of favours to get him on board."
INT 5 CUN 6 STR 5

[WeyounsLastClone]

(6) Jem'Hadar Fighter

Attack Ship
When you play this ship, it is cost -2 for each Jem'Hadar Fighter you command.
While your Alpha is aboard this ship, modify its attributes by +1.
"I hope we won't have to repeat this lesson."
Range 7 Weapons 8 Shields 7