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.
CANON EVENT MILESTONE: Emissary (May 2369-December 2370)
This Canon Event Milestone is Emissary, which will cover the stretch of time from the first episode of Deep Space Nine by the same name (1×01 “Emissary”), to episode 2×26 “The Jem’Hadar”, the final episode of season 2.
This stretch takes place from the time the Bajoran Wormhole/the Celestial Temple re-opens, thanks to Captain Benjamin Sisko. With Deep Space Nine established, protecting the wormhole, the Gamma Quadrant has suddenly become an exciting, new horizon for Alpha Quadrant powers to explore. During this time, the Dominion is but a whisper in the shadows, and not an overt threat. They will not be encountered until the end of the Canon Event, when the Jem’Hadar make their dramatic appearance. This Milestone deals with the quiet year-and-a-half before the Dominion makes their show of force.
Traits:
- only rumors and no encounters with the Dominion
- the Demilitarized Zone causes friction
- opportunity for trade and exploration in the Gamma Quadrant
Complication Range: +1 on all rolls where the Demilitarized Zone and its consequences (e.g., the Maquis) are involved.
Reconfigurations: During this Canon Event, trade and exploration in the Gamma Quadrant are in a Golden Age. All rolls involving trade, diplomacy, and exploration in the Gamma Quadrant are at -1 Difficulty.
In the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, however, only trade rolls have a -1 Difficulty thanks to the growing influence of the Ferengi Alliance in Quadrant affairs, using their expertise to ensure profits flow wherever there is trade. However, this boon does not come without a catch…all shady dealings in the Alpha Quadrant have a +1 to their Complication Range; +2 if it’s shady dealings with a Ferengi. (+3 if it’s Quark.)