STA Mission Report 03 – Doomed To Repeat the Past

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Adventure Source: Living Campaign Adventure 02

Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/Star-Trek-Gaming/events/263895358/

Game Date: November 10 2019

Session Post: https://www.ob1knorrb.com/sta-episode-2-doomed-to-repeat-the-past/

Teaser: Starfleet has received a backchannel communique from the Klingon Empire requesting aid for a plague that had been thought dead for centuries. Starfleet has deployed the U.S.S. Kimura to the B’el’th paH star system to provide relief and bring what the Federation knows about the virus, its origins, and its cure.

Active Characters:

  • Captain T’Kor (Terry)
  • Ensign Wolfgang Ratzel (Terry)
  • Cmd. Xedrik (Trevor)
  • Lt. Kirkuurzhaav th’Zoarhi (Trevor)
  • Lt. Asha (Jaime)
  • Lt. Cmd Taemin Rahn (Garrett)
  • Lt. Cmd. Dihas Krevo (Madison)
  • Cmd. O’Nnyah (Raven)
  • Lt. Oqwadel (Raven)

Important NPCs:

  • Cmd. Natalie Sigmund, Star Fleet Medical/Star Fleet Intelligence
  • Lieutenant Colonel Morok – Captain of I.K.S. moH be’nal (K’t’inga battlecruiser)

Notable Information: The virus is clearly heavily modified from the original Augment virus. At first, analysis suggests Vulcan RNA strands, but further analysis and expertise shows that the RNA is Romulan in origin, and the method of splicing the RNA strands into the virus is something from the Romulan Star Empire.

Cmd. Natalie Sigmund classified all information about this incident as “Top Secret”

As things wrapped up on the planet, a visual only communication was received from Cmd. Natalie Sigmund from the U.S.S. Cass. The viewscreen switched to a view of outside U.S.S. Cass, showing a Romulan warbird adrift but still powered. The communication was cut off before she could say anything. The direction of the communication beam was determined, but they were unable to determine the distance, other than it was from within the Shackleton Expanse.

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STA Mission Report 02 – Decision Point

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Adventure Source: Living Campaign Adventure 01

Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/Star-Trek-Gaming/events/263895279/

Game Date: October 6 2019

Session Post: No Session Post

Teaser: The characters are part of a rescue mission to locate the S.S. Tesla, which crash-landed in a remote wilderness area of Orgun III. The planet is suffering from geological upheaval, as well as atmospheric electromagnetic interference, forcing an away team to take a shuttle to the surface to investigate.

Active Characters:

  • Ensign Wolfgang Ratzel (Terry)
  • Lt. Kirkuurzhaav th’Zoarhi (Trevor)
  • Lt. Asha (Jaime)
  • Lt. Cmd Taemin Rahn (Garrett)
  • Lt. Cmd. Dihas Krevo (Madison)
  • Lt. Oqwadel (Raven)

Important NPCs:

  • Captain Theema, Lormean Security
  • Chief Minister Toorel, Head of Lormean Government
  • Dr. Emmet Sherman, Lead Astrophysicist (Human)
  • Dr. Norma Grange, Physicist (Human)
  • Dr. Orimu Faz, Chemist and Xenobiologist (Trill)
  • Dr. Scia Lort, M.D., Biologist (Human)

Notable Information: Ancient technology was used to move Orgun III to it’s current location and maintain it’s stability. This is breaking down and the planet will break apart within the next year.

The Federation scientists were allowed to stay and assist the Lermean’s with their plan to evacuate to Orgun II.

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STA Mission Report 01 – The Tribble with Klingons

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Adventure Source: Homebrew by Brent

Meetup Link: https://www.meetup.com/Star-Trek-Gaming/events/263009082/

Game Date: September 8 2019

Session Post: No session post

Teaser: Admiral April Hebert is doing a Team Building exercise with the command crew in the Holodeck. They will participate in an incident related to Capt. James T. Kirk’s U.S.S. Enterprise so she can see how they work together as a team.

Active Characters:

  • Ensign Wolfgang Ratzel (Terry)
  • Lt. Kirkuurzhaav th’Zoarhi (Trevor)
  • Lt. Asha (Jaime)
  • Lt. Cmd Taemin Rahn (Garrett)
  • Lt. Cmd. Dihas Krevo (Madison)

Important NPCs:

  • Admiral April Hebert

Notable Information: The recreation was based on an event involving the Augment Virus.

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STA – Episode 7 – The Wandering Child

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Adventure number seven in my ongoing Star Trek Adventures campaign was “The Wandering Child”. This adventure is out of the old Task Force Games “Prime Adventures 1” journal/module. I ran this one years ago in my old FASA Star Trek campaign. It’s available as a PDF on DriveThru RPG.

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Star Trek Ship Minatures – Tugs

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My most recent miniatures project was doing up some Tugs for Star Trek. These came from several sources. Most of them are Lou Zocchi’s Gamescience Ptolomy Class Tugs that came out in the late 70’s early 80’s. These also came out as set part of a set for Federation Commander.

There are a couple that I have had for decades, they are darker than the ones from the Federation Commander set.

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Star Trek Characters – TOS Bridge Crew Miniatures

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Another set I did about a year ago was The Original Series Bridge Crew from Modiphius.

The miniatures have their usual great level of detail, but I will say that I don’t like the Scotty miniature all that much, just the pose on him doesn’t seem right. I don’t recall him doing a lot of running while talking into a communicator in the show.

As usual, some assembly is required, arms to be glued on, and then glue them to the bases. Krazy Glue or something similar works fine, just being careful not to glue your fingers to the miniatures.

I also found out today from a forum posting that the phaser arms for Kirk and Sulu were accidentally swapped in production, as well as the communicator arms for Kirk and Scott.

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Star Trek Characters – Impact Miniatures

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I will happily admit that I completely stole this character idea from a friend of mine. He had the idea to have an NPC Captain of a ship in a wheelchair and not able to personally go on many Away Missions. Now, when I originally went looking for a miniature for a character like this, I was thinking of a retired Admiral that I could use in a Battlestar Galactica RPG that I was planning to run, but never did. I still may run it someday.

However, I did find a miniature that I liked, and I bought two of them. It’s called “Rich Old Man in Wheelchair” from Impact Miniatures and is part of their “Urban Achievers” range. They have a fun line of Roller Derby and other sport miniatures as well.

I decided to paint one of the miniatures up as a Star Fleet Admiral or Captain in case I wanted to use the idea in my upcoming Campaign. At that point, I didn’t really know which idea or time period I was going to run in.

The wheels come as separate pieces and need to be glued on, but that is straight forward. Then a coating of primer.

I was painting him at the same time I was painting my set of Original Series mini’s from Modiphius, so here he is hanging out with Spock.

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Star Trek Characters – Hero Forge and Grym Forge

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I have bought and painted most of the miniatures that are available from Modiphius and other sources, but the Players in my Star Trek Adventures campaign have managed to come up with some characters that just don’t have a miniature available. Oqwadel, our female Aurelian Chief of Security is a good example of this. The Aurelian’s are described in the Alpha Quadrant Sourcebook.

After searching unsuccessfully for a miniature that would work, I decided to try and design one on Hero Forge. For those that aren’t familiar with it, it’s a website that allows you to design your own custom miniatures for 3D printing.

I spent some time playing around with the website, which is reasonably easy to figure out, and came up with two designs for Oqwadel that I liked, one with a skirt and one with pants.

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Star Trek Miniatures – Galaxy Gaming Gear

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Although I usually use the Modiphius miniatures and other similar miniatures for my regular Star Trek Adventures games, there is another style I really like and often use at Conventions and some one shot games.

These are the Sci Fi miniatures and Tiles from Galaxy Gaming Gear, a local company that has a unique style. Their main line is actually Fantasy Miniatures, and they do tokens as well. I’ve mentioned them in a few of my other postings, but I thought it would be nice to dedicate one just to them.

The first set of items I got from them was a set of the Ship Tiles, the Ship Decor, the Ship Doors, a Viewscreen, and a set of the Adventuring Party Crew.

I purchased and made use of these at the Calgary Comic Expo in 2019. Made for a great Wormhole for Deep Space Nine.

Flying around in a Runabout.

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Star Trek Characters – Romulan Miniatures

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Another set of miniatures that I painted last year was the Romulan Strike Team from Modiphius for the Star Trek Adventures Roleplaying Game.

This is a set of 10 miniatures, and as usual, they are highly detailed and require some assembly. I use Krazy Glue or some other cyanoacrylate glue on them and it works well. I only occasionally glue one of the miniatures to my fingers.

A few unassembled Romulans
Assembled Romulans on the box they came in.
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