Space, the final frontier.
These are the voyages of the starship Yamato in its continuing mission,
to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations,
to boldly go where no one has gone before.
Taking the cue from Star
Trek: The Next Generation, I assumed that 1,000 Stardate units were equal
to one year. So, 41000-41999 is 2364 AD, 42000-42999 is 2365 AD and so
on. By dividing 1,000 units by 365 days I came up with the respective values:
1 hour = 0.1 unit
1 day = 2.7 units
1 week = 19.2 units
1 month = 83.3 units
I used the above values in my
campaign and they worked fine. Of course, one can round the values up or down
in order to facilitate things. One rounding that is useful is making one day
equal to 2.4 units.
The Ship
The ship used in my campaign
is the USS Yamato, NCC-71807, a Galaxy-class ship. We found
out later that that ship had been destroyed in the second season episode
"Contagion." So, we came up with
an explanation of what happened, taking into consideration the "official"
version. And, after "Contagion," we used the NCC-71807-A.
For technical
specifications, click on the ship.
The Player
Characters
This is a list of all
the characters (and their players) who have participated in the campaign
and had at least two appearances. The character's write-ups reflect how
they are now, just after "Reckoning,"
except for those who went on to the Highflyer campaign. Information
that has changed since the beginning of the campaign (like rank) will be
noted in the History section. Characters with a KIA
are dead.
These are the logs of
all the adventures that were run in the campaign with their respective
gamemasters, titles and stardates. A brief summary is included at the season
heading to serve as an introduction.
First
Season (2364 AD) After one year and a
half in operation, the USS Yamato, under the command of Captain
Mercedes Hernandez, receives new senior officers and an Admiral guest who
spends the following months interacting with the crew. Thoughout the following
months, they go through a lot of trouble. They resist a hijack with the
help of the Romulans, fight the servitors of an ancient civilization, travel
through an alternate universe and expose an alien conspiracy, losing one
of their own in the proccess.
Second
Season (2365 AD) The second tour of the
Yamato
crew is as hectic, if not more, as the first. Captain Hernandez is promoted
to the admiralty and leaves the ship under the command of former Executive
Officer, Captain Artur Figueiredo; the new exec is Commander Solkan. But
the change of command is just the beginning. Along the year they have to
babysit the heir of a planetary royalty, rescue a lost ship, arrest scientists,
make first contact with "visitors" from Andromeda and an insect race, play
the parts of gunslingers and witches, travel in time twice, cut a deal
with Ferengi strip miners and change the course of history with the help
of the Klingons.
Third
Season (2366 AD) The third tour of the
crew kept the tradition of non-stop adventure. During the course of the
year, the crew had to deal with a shapeshifting assassin, a plot to desestabilize
a diplomatic conference, Klingon and Starfleet rebels, a murder case, a
love affair, hostile creatures, another change of commanding officers,
a fugitive from the future and Romulans from the past, old Haklaxy rituals
and criminals from other dimensions as well as ours.
Fourth
Season (2367 AD) The fourth and last
chronicled tour of the Yamato starts with an attack from the Mirror
universe, goes on to a time travel and confrontation with the Old Ones,
a fight against a hostile race native to subspace and ends with the revelation
of Lieutenant JG Purovoke's family secret.
Interlude
(2368-2371 AD) After four years of
adventures together, the crewmembers of the USS Yamato go their
separate ways.
The
Movie (2371 AD)
The ancient threat of the Old
Ones to the Federation brings together the former officers of the USS Yamato.
Rules
Character
Generation
All players had
150 points to design their characters. They also received our version of
the Starfleet Package.
Starfleet Package 0
point
Area
Knowledge (Federation & Homeworld) at IQ; Beam Weapons (Phaser) at DX; Brawling
at DX; Computer Operation at IQ; First Aid at IQ; Freefall at DX; Languages
(Federation Standard & Native language) at IQ, plus 1 point to spend in
other languages; Savoir-Faire (Starfleet) at IQ; Survival (choose a terrain)
at IQ; Vacc Suit at IQ; plus 2 points to spend in other relevant skills.
Duty (Starfleet, 15 or less)
The Military Rank table
was modified too. Let's be serious: anyone who is not an officer has quite
a handicap in the campaign. O'Brien is an exception. :) So, characters
who start with an enlisted rank take the Military rank as disadvantage.
The only problem with this arrangement
is that high rank characters have less points to spend, which might unbalance
the game a little. We never really had this problem, but it might come up eventually.
Here is a list
of all the races we used during the campaign. Most of races' write-ups
were based on the supplements published by FASA
for its Star Trek Role Playing Game and our knowledge. Later, when
we had access to the GURPS
Star Trek and Final
Frontier rules mentioned above, we merged the two versions and created
a write-up more suitable to our playing style. Recently, I came to agree
with the author of GFF and redesigned most races so they fell in a more
reasonable point cost. Most of the races are familiar to those who know
both series, some appeared in the movies (mostly one scene each) and animated
series, and one of them, the Haklaxy, was created by me.
The races' write-ups
are organized as follow: name and point cost, attribute bonus/penalties,
advantages, disadvantages, quirks and skills.
Andorians
(30 points) - the blue-skinned, antennae-bearing warrior race (appeared
in ST:TOS and ST IV).
Arkenites
(44 points) - a highly intelligent and dextrous race evolved from aquatic
beings (appeared in ST IV).
Bajorans
(0 point) - the higly spiritual people who freed themselves from Cardassian
domination and now control Deep Space 9.
Zaranites
(4 points) - a militaristic race from a planet with a thin atmosphere,
it has a symbiosis with an insect species that allows them to liberate
stress.
