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Cargo Bay

    Submitted by KaiserK on Fri, 11/06/2009 - 15:51

    ❖ Cargo Bay

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    Playable at: Any Nor - Docking Ring.

    Smuggling, Acquisition and Affiliation Non-Aligned Navigation personnel may report here (or download here in place of a normal card play; player draws no cards that turn). Once each turn, if a freighter, transport or Affiliation Ferengi ship's crew member completes a "cargo run" (brings a non-weapon Equipment card here from another facility), for each mission passed (except starting and ending locations) owner may draw a card or download a Gold-Pressed Latinum here. (Once per game per Equipment card title.)

    Characteristics: additional card draws.
    Requires: Affiliation Ferengi affiliation, Affiliation Non-Aligned "affiliation", Freighter Class, Transport.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    You begin a cargo run (as described on this site) when one or more of your personnel aboard a facility pick up one or more Equipment cards aboard that facility and carry them directly aboard your ship at the same location. You must announce the run and show your opponent which personnel and equipment are involved (but you do not have to specify now which personnel, equipment, or Cargo Bay you will use to complete it). When that ship arrives at a different facility any number of turns later, any of those same personnel who has been a member of the ship’s crew since the run was announced may carry any of those equipment cards directly to the Cargo Bay to complete the cargo run.

    You may not begin or complete a cargo run by beaming a crew member with equipment between universes with a Multidimensional Transport Device, or by beaming them aboard a ship with Invasive Transporters and then to Cargo Bay. You may not complete a cargo run begun by your opponent (e.g, if you take control of the ship with Neural Servo Device). Your ship can take any path from the starting facility to the ending facility, giving you credit for each mission passed (except starting and ending locations). You may count each mission only once per cargo run. See passing locations.

    While you may have multiple ships making cargo runs concurrently, a single ship’s crew can complete only one at a time, earning card draws or Latinum downloads for only one piece of equipment. To deliver any additional equipment, a crew must begin a new cargo run. See report.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

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

    		Cargo Bay

    This Card-Review article was written by Evan Lorentz and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Nov 6th, 1999.

    For over a year, players have been asking if Ops allows you to download Non-Aligned personnel to a Nor. Although the answer is still "no," there is now a site that does allow it. The Cargo Bay not only allows Non-Aligned personnel with Navigation to report there regardless of classification, it offers an Ops-like ability to download them there, in place of a card play and sacrificing a card draw. The potential for getting key skills for overcoming dilemmas is great. Need SECURITY? Go get Thomas Paris or Krozh. Short on SCIENCE? How about Galen or T’Shonra? Looking for MEDICAL? Look no farther than Vekor. In all, you have over a dozen different Non-Aligned personnel to choose from.

    The Cargo Bay isn't just for Non-Aligned personnel, however. Smuggling and Acquisition personnel of any affiliation, even one different from that of the station, have the same reporting and downloading capability there. Beyond convenient access to personnel you can use with many Rules of Acquisition, you also get an effective "backdoor" onto an opponent's station.

    All these possibilities, and that's still only part of the card. You can also make "cargo runs" to this site from other facilities, allowing you to draw extra cards or download Gold-Pressed Latinum for still more possibilities.

    Combos:

    • Cargo Bay + Primary Supply Depot + Karemman Vessel: Use the Karemman Vessel (a freighter) to quickly and easily run the cargo you seeded at your Supply Depot to a Cargo Bay for some quick card draws.
    • Cargo Bay + Gold-Pressed Latinum: After completing a cargo run, you can use some of your Latinum to buy the equipment for the next one.
    • Cargo Bay + D’Ghor OR Lupaza OR Zef’No: These are just some of the personnel who can be downloaded to a Nor, then walk down to the Docking sites and use their Computer Skill to allow your ships to dock there unrestricted.