Star Fleet Warlord Rules (Updated) - Play By E-Mail

already has integration capabilities. It could not further benefit by changing to that mission, so there would be no point to
doing so in any case.
4.16 Legendary Officers
Legendary officers are individuals who, due to some inherent skill or ability, truly excel at a particular job. Each
turn, you will locate one or more legendary officers for future use by your Corporation. This happens automatically and
with no effort or cost on your part. At the start of the game, you will be provided with one officer of each type (except
Captain) as part of your initial Corporation setup.
Officers are normally assigned to ships, although it is possible to place one on a site (see Chapter Seven).
Officers are picked up by ships using the GLOx or FLOx orders as described in Chapter Six. This will cost your
Corporation some people or food depending on which of the two orders you decide to use. The more expensive the ship,
the higher the cost - it's 20% of the base EP value of the ship, or 75% for a Legendary Captain.
Once a legendary officer is aboard a ship (or assigned to a site), he cannot be removed or transferred unless the
ship is scrapped or the site is unfortified or dropped (in any of these cases, he will return to the unallocated officer
stockpile to await reassignment). Therefore, you should use care in deciding where to send your valuable officers.
Officers aboard ships can be killed if the ship suffers serious internal damage. The chance of this happening in
any volley of internals is 25% for heavy damage and 75% for crippling damage. Lesser damage will not kill officers. Note
that a Legendary Doctor aboard the ship will keep officers alive at all times (until the ship is destroyed, of course).
There are eight legendary officers in the game. These are listed and described below, along with the effect they
have when placed on a ship. The letter that identifies the officer type is shown in parenthesis after the name. Some
suggestions on how to use the various officers are provide after their individual descriptions.
Ace Pilot (A)
These legendary pilots can use their fighters or PFs so well, it's like they were an extension of their own bodies!
This inherent skill can be passed on to other pilots on the ship. Therefore, the AF and DF of any fighters aboard are
increased by 1, and the AF and DF of PFs is increased by 3.
Obviously, the best place for an Ace Pilot is aboard a carrier or space control ship with a lot of fighters and/or PFs.
Marine Major (M)
The Major is a rarity among the Marines - an officer liked well enough to inspire loyalty but mean enough to
command respect. Any ship he is present on gains a 25% bonus to its AF when it attacks a site (this is in addition to any
similar troop transport or Gorn attack bonuses). Also, the AF and DF of any commandos aboard are increased by 1, and
commandos each add 1 to the damage they cause during a "first strike" attack.
You normally shouldn't bother with a Marine Major unless the ship carries commandos, which have the most to gain
from his abilities. Larger troop transports, such as the Gorn COM, are good choices.
Science Officer (S)
For a non-combat type, this is one of the most useful and demanded officers due to his skill with scanning
equipment. A Science Officer will turn any ship into a scout - that is, the ship may make scans as if it were an So variant
ship! What's more, if placed on a ship which is already a scout, that ship becomes a heavy scout for all purposes!
If placed on a heavy scout or crew-9 ship, a Science Officer adds an even more interesting ability, the proximity
scan. This scan will be performed automatically by the ship on each turn, with no effort or special orders required. The
proximity scan reports the terrain and number of uncloaked ships in every hex adjacent to the scanning ship. This is highly
useful for probing borders.
Use science officers when you can't get a "real" scout into the area you need to scan. The ability to make a scout into a
heavy scout is highly useful early in the game when you can't afford the time to make ship scans during your first
movements into new sectors (the heavy scout ability makes any terrain scan you perform provide a ship scan at the
same time).
Navigator (N)
Navigators are capable of finding safe ways through certain terrains, especially those in which a skilled ship pilot
can dodge or evade an object or field-this makes the ship immune to the effects of asteroids, dust and meteor swarms,
and halves damage from pulsars, old minefields and magnetic meteors. Navigators also make a ship immune to the
effects of weak space.
A Legendary Navigator also possesses the instinct to know when terrains ahead are deadly. For this reason any
ship with a Legendary Navigator is considered an exploration ship (E-variant), as described in the preceding section. For
reference, this means the ship will not enter terrains that will instantly destroy it with no damage roll required (e.g.,
supernovas, antimatter zones if the shields are down, gravity wells if the ship is already severely damaged, and so on).
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