MBS Monthly Poll #10

[Ruckdog]

This month's poll is all about Star Trek Ascendancy! With the rich background of Star Trek to drawn on, what race/faction would you like to add to the game? In addition, let us know below what kinds of positive and negative unique abilities you think your faction of choice should have.

[voidstarsinger]

1 st vote yah ! Tholians it wound be nice to see these guys (?) get showing much under used faction bar star fleet battles) maybe they can use web to block warp movement ?

[Dakkar]

You left off Dominion. :-D

Also, I was unable to select "All of the Above" - truth being they need a mechanic for "mini-Factions". Rather than just being Warp-Cultures to hegemonize or conquer, make them full systems with a Starbase and ships already there. You can make First Contact, and exchange Trade agreements. This let's you "colonize", and gives access to their ships. But they build only their ships, and thse ships have a different Fleet card maybe to reflect different abilities. They also add new Science cards, tied to their science Node (Vulcan would have TWO).
If an enemy ever shows up in that system with MORE ships than you or the ally have there, the new race decides they're not being sufficiently defended, and switches to the new master.

[Landlubber]

I'm voting for the Pakleds.

Bonus: When any of your ships are in the same system as ships from a civilization with which you don't have a current trade agreement, roll 1D6. On a 5 or better, copy one technology from that civilization. Packled player can only hold one technology from another civilization at a time.

Restriction: At the beginning of the Packled player's turn, roll 1D6. On a 4 or better, the Packled player must relinquish the copied technology.

Or something like that. 

In all seriousness, I like Dale's idea about mini factions. I also hope that the Borg are playable as a faction.

[Ryjak]

I'm not a big enough Trekkie to answer this, but those all sound like minor factions; how many of them even have starships, and show up in more than one episode?

Might be better to make them independent "city-states" that don't expand, but they align themselves with whichever player has the most production, science, culture, etc over a certain minimum value... and of course, you can try to conquer them.  That's what the evil Federation always tries to do, right?

[voidstarsinger]

there is a card in this game that reads "if you are a Tholian" so they   had better have a tholian faction or im going to be miffed