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Fajo Collection Rules Supplement: Lore

    Submitted by Decipher-Games on Tue, 01/01/2008 - 00:00

    Lore

    Evil Soong-type android. Data's "elder brother."

    Non-aligned Non-Aligned icon  Personnel Personnel
    Gender: male. Species: Android.
    Command & Staffing abilitys: Command
    Icons (other): Nemesis (links, gold)
    Classification: CIVILIAN
    Restriction-Box: Does not work with Affiliation Federation affiliation.
    Red Dot ENGINEER   Red Dot Computer Skill   Red Dot Treachery x2  
    Red Dot SECURITY   Red Dot Transporter Skill   Red Dot Leadership  
    Red Dot Doubles all Rogue Borg and Crystalline Entities in play.
    INTEGRITY: 1  CUNNING: 13  STRENGTH: 12

    Characteristics: Soong-type android, "Continuing Mission"-related cards, Affiliation Non-Aligned "affiliation", Brothers and sisters, Android "species".
    Requires: Rogue Borg.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    When either player has this personnel is in play, the STRENGTH of every Rogue Borg Mercenaries in play is doubled, and all numerical features of all Crystalline Entity dilemmas seeded or encountered by either player are doubled (see dilemma resolution). Two Lores in play do not quadruple Rogue Borg and Crystalline Entities. However, Lore and Crosis may each double the STRENGTH of the same Rogue Borg. See Rogue Borg Mercenaries, cumulative.

    Lore’s nemesis is Dr. Soong, Data, and/or Data and Geordi (dualpersonnel card). See nemesis icon.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    		Lore

    This Card-Review article was written by openCards user Decipher-Games at Jan 1st, 2008.

    Quote from Fajo Collection Rules Supplement:

    This android has a new “nemesis” icon that defines a special adversarial relationship with Dr. Soong (see the entry for Dr. Soong above). The phrase “Doubles all Rogue Borg and Crystalline Entities in play” applies to both players’ cards and means that the STRENGTH of every Rogue Borg is doubled and every Crystalline Entity card functions as if it read as follows:

    Space mission: kills all life on ship unless SHIELDS>12 OR 2 Music aboard.
    Planet mission: kills entire Away Team unless 2 SCIENCE and 2 MEDICAL present.
    Discard dilemma.

    Because cards by default are not cumulative, if you and your opponent both have a Lore personnel card in play, they do not quadruple Rogue Borg and Crystalline Entities. However, if Crosis is in play, Lore doubles Rogue Borg after Crosis has had his own doubling effect (thus quadrupling that particular group of Rogue Borg). (As a clarification, the event card Lore Returns in the premiere set uses the name “Lore” in its game text. This is not a reference to the Lore personnel card but instead is a reference to the event card itself.)

    BEHIND THE SCENES:
    This truly evil android is the most CUNNING personnel ever in this game, and is the only one with three different personnel types: CIVILIAN, ENGINEER and SECURITY. We thought it fitting that Lore make his appearance in this collection, since we’re pretty sure Kivas Fajo would have an obsessive interest in acquiring this android (especially after he failed to keep Data). You may find it interesting that the restriction box and extra skills on this card caused its lore box to shrink and shrink, until we were tempted to have none at all… “no lore on Lore” we joked.