Unnatural Selection (US)

Overview card types: 16 11 5 5 15 2

Overview rarities: V 54

UCT-ID	Name	Rarity	Type	Affiliation
ST2E 29 V 1	Adopted Authority (first print)	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 2	Artificial Ability (first print)	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 3	Cadet Review	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 4	Challenging Revision	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 5	Identity Theft	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 6	Incorporeal Parasite	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 7	Inquest	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 8	Soul Searching	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 9	Staffing Shortage	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 10	Stone-cold Bluff	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 11	Terminal Resignation	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 12	The Needs of the Few	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 13	The Needs of the Many	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 14	Tormented Dreams	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 15	Upstaged	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 16	War Games	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 17	•Augmentation	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 18	Coordinated Larceny	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 19	•Display of Wealth	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 20	•Ill-gotten Gains	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 21	Indelicate Repairs	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 22	Organized Crime	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 23	Portent	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 24	Security Precautions	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 25	•Tactical Advantage	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 26	To Rule in Hell	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 27	Waken Superior Sleeper	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 28	Ambitious Intellect	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 29	Deleted Subroutines	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 30	Left with No Choice	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 31	Pooling Resources	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 32	Signs of Sentience	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 33	•Ariannus Passage, Loot Adrift Vessel	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 34	•B'omar Sovereignty, Traverse Restricted Space	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 35	•Ceti Alpha V, Forge Settlement	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 36	•Rigel X, Locate Mysterious Contact	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 37	•Torga IV, Strained Negotiations	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 38	Brian Evethers	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 39	•Dala, Con Artist	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 40	•Icheb, Genetic Weapon	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 41	•Joaquin, Superhuman Lieutenant	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 42	Kati	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 43	•Marla McGivers, Superior Woman	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 44	McPherson	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 45	Mobar	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 46	•One One, Efficiency Expert	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 47	Otto	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 48	•Sobi, Felicium Dealer	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 49	•T'Jon, Felicium Addict	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 50	•Udar, "Smike"	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 51	•Yuta, Last of Her Line	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 52	•Zero Zero, Efficiency Expert	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 53	•Combat Vessel, Heavily Armed	Virtual
ST2E 29 V 54	Translocation Raider	Virtual

Unnatural Selection: Full of Firsts

by Charlie Plaine, Chairman

16th August 2013

Unnatural Selection is an expansion of firsts, and today we're going to talk about many of those firsts as we discuss some of the cards you'll find in this fifty-four (54) card expansion releasing on Friday, August 16, 2013. Yes, you read that right. For the first time, we're releasing a Second Edition expansion with no build-up. The entire expansion is available to download, for free, right here and right now. Go check if you don't believe me, but come back when you're done. We still have a lot to talk about.

Are you back? Good. Okay, let's talk about this expansion. The Continuing Committee is proud to release Unnatural Selection, our twelfth standard virtual expansion for Second Edition. This expansion is available online and free at trekcc.org, and is legal for play in all formats one week from today on Friday, August 23rd, 2013. Unnatural Selection is an expansion all about making decisions and offering choices, including a new option for how to win the game. We're excited to release it and excited to see how it shakes things up for Second Edition.

Before we get into discussing the many firsts that are part of Unnatural Selection, let's address the big one we've already talked about. We've decided to release this expansion this way (without our traditional build up) to give players the most time possible to play with the cards ahead of the 2013 World Championship in October. This was something that was discussed both internally and publicly, and in the end we felt that the best decision was to get the cards out there. Players have just under two months to study and practice with the new cards before they will be used at Worlds, and we're eager to see what effect they have.

But this isn't going to become a regular thing, either. We aren't planning on using this "Drop and Go" release method again, and are working hard to make sure we're planning out our releases more carefully in the future. We feel that we can do a better job planning releases to coincide with major events so that we don't have such difficult timing conundrums in the future, especially now that we're planning out our expansions more in advance.

And don't worry! We'll still be bringing you lots of content include deck lists, articles, and card reviews over the next few weeks as we lead up to the World Championships. You'll just be getting the content in a bit of a reverse order - expansion first, articles second. But there will still be plenty to enjoy!