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    (3) • Miles O'Brien, Ill-Equipped Storyteller

    Bajoran Bajoran icon Personnel Personnel of Human species.
    Icons: Staff Deep Space Nine related card
    Red Dot Engineer   Red Dot Honor   Red Dot Physics  
    Red Dot Programming   Red Dot Transporters  
    While this personnel is equipped with an Orb, he is Integrity +2 and gains Anthropology.
    INTEGRITY: 7   CUNNING: 6   STRENGTH: 6

    "Once upon a time, there was a Dal'Rok. And it lives there... in the woods... and he hated the village and all of the villagers, and he wanted to see them destroyed."

    Characteristics: Bajoran affiliation, enhance your INTEGRITY (this card), Deep Space None Deep Space Nine related card related, enhance your skills (this card), personnel who has a cost of 3 or more, Human species.
    Requires: Orb.

    Card logging info: First edited by Telak at Oct 22nd, 2017. Please support openCards and validate game text of this card!
     

    Miles O'Brien, Ill-Equipped Storyteller

    This Card-Review article was written by Lucas Thompson and was published first on "The Continuing Committee (trekcc.org)" at Oct 13th, 2017.

    Early in the design process, Nathan pitched a cycle of new basic equipment. These cards were an extension of all those Premiere equipment like the Engineering PADD: all personnel present with one skill gain another skill. One of that cycle made it into the final product, but I'm not here to talk about that one.

    One equipment gave personnel Anthropology - this one appealed to me because I generally feel that there should be more ways to play around Accelerated Agingimage. The catch is that North American Continentals has just been won by a deck that would use such a card, and I felt it probably shouldn't have access to it. K'mtar/Guidance decks are good enough already, and don't really need a way to avoid a potential counter-dilemma.

    I counter-pitched a series of solutions that would make the equipment unappealing to Klingons. The ideas were things like making the dilemma an artifact, or limiting its effect to only Bajoran and Federation personnel. These "solutions" seemed clunky to both of us, and we let the idea rest for a while.

    Then, Nathan had the idea to reverse it - instead of an equipment that grants a skill to a personnel, how about a personnel that gains the skill from an equipment? He counter-counter-pitched Miles, mostly as you see him here. I thought it was perfect - I'd wanted a Bajoran Miles ever since I'd seen one in a design competition years ago. Interacting with equipment is a Miles thing anyways, and gives an anti-Accelerated Aging trick to an affiliation that has been struggling with it for a long time.

    by Lucas Thompson, Ambassador