We’re going to fill out the series of Canon Events that stretch from the first episode of Deep Space 9 to its last episode.

Canon Events 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: A Time To Stand (January 2374-March 2374)

This Canon Event Milestone is A Time To Stand, which will cover the stretch of time from the episodes of Deep Space Nine titled 6×01 “A Time To Stand” and 6×6 “Sacrifice of Angels”, where Operation Return leads to the reclamation of Deep Space Nine.

This stretch takes place after the Dominion and Cardassians capture Deep Space Nine, forcing the Federation to abandon the station…but not before setting self-replicating mines around the Bajoran wormhole. The Dominion is cut off from reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant, and to compensate they begin a plan to create Jem’Hadar Alphas. Morale is low, with even the Klingons doubting victory. The Canon Event ends when Operation Return concludes successfully.

Traits:

• No Dominion reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant
• low morale among Starfleet and Klingon forces
• ketracel-white shortage

Complication Range: +1 on all rolls in the Alpha Quadrant, including for Dominion-Cardassian forces

Reconfigurations: During this Canon Event, fortune favors the bold (as Sisko says).

At the start of the Canon Event, each Main Character may take an extra Bold (X) Talent on page 149 for the duration of the Canon Event. They may choose any Department, provided they don’t already have Bold already in that Department, and they cannot choose a Department where they have the Cautious (X) Talent.

Supporting Characters do not benefit from this advantage.