Sebastian Opper is back — and this time he’s building the Federation.
Last week I posted his Romulan War Tactical Campaign Add-on, the admiral’s-chair companion to his Romulan War Campaign Guide. Sebastian’s been busy: he’s finished The Rise of the Federation Campaign Guide for Star Trek Adventures 2nd Edition, covering 2161–2166 — the first years of the United Federation of Planets.
Where the Romulan War guides were about surviving the war, this one is about what came after. How the Federation’s principles began to form. How the founding worlds — Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites, plus the Alpha Centauri Concordium, the Denobulans, and more — found unity in progress and acceptance of each other, and nearly broke apart before the paint dried.
The guide walks through the era’s major events: the founding in 2161, the Vertian Crisis, the Orion Syndicate’s schemes, the Babel Conference and the Rigelian question, the first presidential election, Archer becoming Starfleet Chief of Staff — and the Ware crisis, that “slightly evil” ancient repair station that evolves into something far bigger. Factions range from the Federation’s founders to Section 31, the Klingon Empire, and the Orion Syndicate.
Like his other guides, it’s packed with new species templates, new starships, new rules, new lore, lifepath and character support — and a campaign to play through it all.
It’s a free fan work, based on Christopher L. Bennett’s Rise of the Federation novels. Full PDF attached below.