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Fajo Collection Rules Supplement: Spot

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

    Spot

    Female cat who lives aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. Sometimes mistaken for a male. Finicky gourmet. Has refused over 74 different feline supplements.

    Neutral Neutral icon  Personnel Personnel
    Gender: female. Species: Cat.
    Classification: ANIMAL
    Red Dot Has 9 lives ("stoppt" when killed first 8 times). Red Dot * Once every turn may "pounce" to disable until end of turn any one personnel present (and herself).
    INTEGRITY: 4  CUNNING: 2  STRENGTH: -1

    Characteristics: "Continuing Mission"-related cards, Affiliation Neutral "affiliation", Cat, "U.S.S. Enterprise"-related personnel.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    This personnel’s STRENGTH is an undefined attribute. See ANIMAL.

    Whenever Spot is killed, if she has any lives remaining she immediately pops back to life at the same place, but is “stopped.” Any cards played on Spot are not nullified by her first eight deaths.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

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

    		Spot

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

    Quote from Fajo Collection Rules Supplement:

    This extremely independent cat does not recognize anyone (or any affiliation) as having authority over her, and thus she is Neutral. Although Neutral is not an affiliation, Neutral cards can work with any affiliation except Borg. Whenever Spot is not “pouncing,” her STRENGTH is undefined and thus treated as zero. Like other ANIMALs, she may not attempt missions alone or staff ships.
    Whenever Spot is killed (Pfssst!), if she has any lives remaining she immediately pops back to life at the same place (Meow!) but is “stopped.” Any cards played on Spot (e.g., Mask of Korgano, Brainwash) are not nullified by her first eight deaths. If Spot dies aboard an outpost or starship being destroyed (and she has any lives remaining), she comes back to life in the vacuum of space, only to suffocate and come back to life again over and over until her remaining lives are gone. Pfssst! Meow! Pfssst! Meow! Pfssst! Meow! …

    BEHIND THE SCENES:
    We originally debated whether Spot was Federation or Non-Aligned, until it dawned on us that we should consider what Spot thinks she is. And she definitely thinks herself the queen of her own little world. (Given what happened to Data’s shipmates, we chose not to argue with her.) Tom Braunlich’s original lore for Spot read “Has a pet Soong-type android named Lt. Commander Data.” Although we knew that cat people would understand this completely, we opted for lore that’s a little more canonical.