Launch Portal ( First Contact)
Suspends play while you do any or all of the following: download Engage Shuttle Operations or Escape Pod; download (once per game) a scout ship, shuttle or Borg Sphere to your ship with Tractor Beam; and (except during a mission attempt) launch any or all of your carried ships with crew. Discard, or place on Engage Shuttle Operations to protect it from nullification and extend its effects to scout ships.
Requires: affiliation, Tractor Beam, Borg spheres, Scout, Shuttlecraft.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Resistance is Futile ( The Trouble with Tribbles)
Incident
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Plays on your completed Establish Gateway, Assimilate Planet, or Salvage Starship objective. Increases objective's points by 10 while your Borg is at that location. OR Plays on opponent's Q's Planet. The 40 additional points it requires are irrelevant to your Borg while your Borg is at that location. OR Seeds or plays on table. Your Borg may report directly to your Borg spheres.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species, Borg spheres.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
Sphere Encounter ( Enhanced First Contact)
Incident
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Seeds or plays on table. Each of your Borg spheres is RANGE +4. Also, whenever opponent initiates an attempt of one of your missions that you have scouted, you may report with crew to that location any number of Borg spheres (downloading spheres, personnel and equipment as desired); each may initiate battle (regardless of your current objective) or move away.
Characteristics: affiliation.
Requires: affiliation, Borg species, Borg spheres.
Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.