Step 4 - Choose Ship Talent from Mission ProfileĮach mission profile provides a choice of four talents. For my Akira, its former mission was Tactical Operations, but after repairs and refits, is now taking on Crisis and Emergency Response. The Enterprise, whether under Captain Kirk or Captain Picard, was a Multirole Explorer while the Defiant's mission was Tactical Operations. There are a number to select from, representing the different missions Starfleet sends its ships out to perform. The scale also is the ship's resistance value and total number of talents it can start with. The Defiant has scale 3, the Excelsior scale 5, and the Galaxy scale 6. The Akira's scale is 5, a relative value of ship size. The Akira comes with three talents to start, Ablative Armour (also seen on the USS Defiant), Extensive Shuttlebays, and Rapid-Fire Torpedo Launcher. To this end, I'll take the Akira-class starship, a vessel designed to take on the Borg. I want the ship to reflect the underlying theme of people trying to adjust after a conflict. This places the ship in the Next Generation era. The year is 2379, a year after USS Voyager returns from the Delta Quadrant. The human element would be front and centre if this were a series. Some of the crew may be suffering from PTSD as a result of what they went through in the war. The core idea here is that some of the senior officers were on the front lines in the war and now have to try to return to Starfleet's traditional duty of exploration. To demonstrate, I'll use a concept that I've had in the back of my mind - a Starfleet crew after the Dominion War as seen on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The idea is that a Starfleet vessel can be customized to reflect what the players think is important in the campaign, from type of mission to the extras on board. One game that is doing this is Modiphius' Star Trek Adventures. During the process, I mentioned how newer games are allowing players to create or customize their characters' ship before play begins.

Last week, I went through creating a starship for Scum and Villainy.

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