| My game against Justin went almost exactly according to plan. Justin, by bad luck, was running the Continuing Mission solver (with Merc Raiders) I had expected to see a lot of, and had built heavily against. My dilemma combos worked exceptionally well here: Caretaker's Guests and Fast Ship ensured that he fell prey to Linguistic Legerdemain where X = 4 (after I removed his only Non-Aligned away team member). At his next mission, Justin was ready for Crisis, leaving Gozar aboard his D'Kora, but my Murasaki Effect took care of that, killing Gozar with my casualties-heavy Tactics draw. Remat Detonator + Murasaki made it very tricky for him to get another Officer off the planet, and Crisis stopped him there until Murasaki expired. All told, this just slowed his people down too much.
Meanwhile, I raced through Insurrection, where Friendly Fire and Founder Secret couldn't stop Geordi and Co., and leapt over to Bajor on the double turn to attempt Alter Records. Here I did get bogged down by Medical Crisis for a couple turns, but eventually got Martinez through the random selection for the solve. After that, with City of B'Hala helping ruin Justin's combos, Characterize Neutrino Emissions was cake. Even if I had been threatened, I had used Space-Time Portal to return Injector Assembly One to hand, so Federation Flag: Recovered would have been perfectly viable. I made a couple missteps -- in particular, I built Terok Nor at a space mission and tried to Process Ore there, which Justin noticed was not legal -- but considered these errors minor and correctable.
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