Here is another 2E Canon Event Milestone!

These are events and repercussions in the established timeline that affect your crew. This often is an improvement or other change that affects your game during specific periods of time (or other timelines or alternate realities your campaign may end up in). You can activate these for use if you are in that timeframe.

One major change is that Canon Event (CE) Milestones have 3 components:

• Traits active during the CE; usually 3, and they are invoked when relevant
• Complication Range indicates what conditions result in a Complication Range increase
• Reconfigurations are special rules active for that period.

We will be updating past Timeline Milestones into Canon Event Milestones as well as adding new Canon Event Milestones.

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CANON EVENT: Khitomer Accords Broken (January 2372-July 2373)

This Canon Event spans the DS9 episodes “The Way of the Warrior” (49011.4) and “By Inferno’s Light” (50564.2).

It began when the Detapa Council took over the Cardassian Union at the beginning of 2372. Gowron was convinced that the Detapa Council had been infiltrated by Changelings, and plotted an invasion of Cardassian space to end the Changeling threat. The Federation discovered and condemned the invasion, but that caused Gowron to withdraw from the Khitomer Accords.

While that invasion force seized some colonies, the Klingons failed to take Cardassia Prime. They refused to give up the colonies and continued to raid Cardassian space. They also gave the Maquis cloaking devices so that they could further antagonize the Cardassians, and the Cardassians could no longer combat the Maquis.

The Detapa Council refused to go on the offensive, and relied on a defensive posture and the hope for diplomacy. They frequently asked the Federation for assistance. In mid-2373, Gul Dukat led the Cardassians to join the Dominion, and a Jem’Hadar fleet came from the Gamma Quadrant to raze the Klingon and Maquis forces. The Klingons only rejoin the Khitomer Accords to defend the Alpha and Beta Quadrants alongside the Federation.

Traits:

• Klingon-Federation tension
• Federation-Cardassian cooperation
• conflicting Maquis sentiments

Complication Range: +1 whenever the Maquis are involved.

Reconfigurations: At the start of the Canon Event, each player may create a new NPC their Main Character knows off-ship/off-station, who they think might quit Starfleet to join the Maquis (the Old Friend). At the start of each mission while the Canon Event is active, each player rolls 2d20. If they roll 15-20 on both dice, they have just heard that their Old Friend has quit Starfleet to join the Maquis. Allow them the chance to roleplay a flashback scene with the NPC, where the friend challenges one of their Values during a conversation about the Maquis, to test their sympathies. If it’s a good roleplaying scene, the GM may award the character an extra Determination usable at any point during that mission, which goes away after the mission.

After the Old Friend has joined the Maquis, the player will roll 1d20 at the start of each mission. Use the following chart to determine what happened to the Old Friend.

1-6: No news.

7-9: The Old Friend made encoded overtures to the character, in an attempt to recruit them to the cause..

10-12: The Old Friend made encoded overtures to the character, in an attempt to recruit them to the cause.

13-14: The Old Friend has risen in the ranks of the Maquis leadership.

15: The Old Friend turned out to be a Cardassian spy (with or without surgical alterations), who returned to Cardassia. No future rolls.

16: The Old Friend is revealed to have been undercover to infiltrate the Maquis, and has returned to normal duty. No future rolls.

17: The Old Friend was captured by the Federation. No future rolls. 

18: The Old Friend was captured by the Cardassians.  No future rolls.

19: The Old Friend was killed in a Cardassian attack.  No future rolls.

20: The Old Friend died heroically in a blaze of glory.  No future rolls.
If a No future rolls result is obtained, the character may roleplay their reaction to the news in a scene involving another player’s (or players’) Main Character. If it is a good roleplaying scene,  the GM may award the character an extra Determination usable at any point during that mission, which goes away after the mission.