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 MILESTONE: Homefront (March-May 2372)

This Canon Event Milestone is Homefront, based on the events of the episode of the same name on Deep Space Nine, and its continuation, “Paradise Lost”. In those two episodes, after the Antwerp Conference on Earth between the Federation and the Romulans was bombed, Vice Admiral Leyton became convinced that the president was incapable of handling the growing Dominion threat. He planned a coup d’état against Federation President Jaresh-Inyo, hoping to implement extraordinary means to defeat the Changelings. Though it was treason, Leyton saw it instead as an act of patriotism, and many of his followers as well.

The Antwerp Conference incident was on Stardate 49170.65 (March 3, 2372), and his coup attempt failed around Stardate 49366.1 (May 14, 2372). During that time, Vice Admiral Leyton personally reassigned over four hundred officers, those who previously served under him at one time or another. They were all in key positions on Earth or commanding ships somewhere in Sector 001. He had another set of transfers as well, set for May 14th. His reassignment orders have repercussions throughout the Federation, placing people loyal to him in strategic posts and displacing others from their usual roles. This shuffling and conspiracy may affect your ship, station, and crew. Leyton also made it look like an invasion force was coming through the wormhole, and with Changeling infiltrations on Earth and elsewhere, paranoia is at an all-time-high throughout the Federation.

Immediately after the Antwerp incident, you may invoke the Canon Event Milestone Homefront to allow the following changes.

Traits:

•  Changeling paranoia
• reassignments in key Starfleet posts
• dissent among Federation citizens

Complication Range: +1 whenever trust is involved.

Reconfigurations: During this Canon Event, Leyton began re-assigning Starfleet personnel loyal to him to key roles in Sector 001, causing a ripple effect across the Federation where many posts are vacated, needing to be filled as his agents depart their normal roles. Likely these Leyton loyalists who leave their posts to join the conspiracy will be court-martialed and demoted, unlikely to return to their posts at the end of this arc.

Should you so wish, this allows you a perfect opportunity to change the command structure of your ship or station (or one they visit often), rotating out NPCs and putting in new ones. This also gives your crew a chance to promote a Supporting Character and place them in an advantageous role. While this entails losing a perhaps beloved Supporting Character, it will grant them a lasting advantage, as described below. They may decide as a group whether to turn down this promotion.

Allow the players to discuss their cast of active Supporting Characters, specifically those of Lieutenant rank or higher, and one who has made more than one appearance in the campaign. They may choose one among them who will gain a promotion of one rank and be re-assigned to a new bureaucratic post of some significant authority away from the players’ ship or station. There should be logic to their re-assignment, such as the right Divisions, right assignment for their rank, and they should have an exemplary record.

The Supporting Character becomes a Notable NPC (an Insider) under the control and design of the GM from then on, an extension of their existing stats while they were a Supporting Character.

While this may be a sad loss, they gain the following benefits, depending on where the Insider is re-assigned. Add a Ship/Station Trait (Insider at X) to signify a special insider at that branch X of Starfleet who has a fondness for the ship/station. It may be used to reduce Difficulty in Social Tasks, for example.

The branches available for Homefront are:

• Shipyard Operations: likely post is acting shipyard supervisor, or lead engineer.
• Starbase Operations: likely post is acting commander of a starbase, or other starbase senior staff.
• Starfleet Medical: likely post is instructor at Starfleet Medical Academy.
• Starfleet Corps of Engineers: likely post is commander of an SCE team.
• Starfleet Academy: likely post is instructor at Starfleet Academy.
• Starfleet Security: likely post is acting chief of security at a starbase.

This bonus does not expire at the end of the Canon Event, but goes away if the Insider is re-assigned, killed, or loses influence. If you wish to make it random, roll a d20 every six months. If it comes up as 1-6, the Insider has been re-assigned elsewhere and no longer provides the bonus.