Season five
was another misc episode season. Two holodeck adventures, one of my
Romulan episodes, and three other episodes without rhyme or reason. A
bit of a breather after the Klingon season and before the second
Romulan season. Not the best season in the campaign -- I wasn't really
trying that hard. But season 6 and 7 will be better.
So I have this idea for the seventh season of my Star Trek campaign.
It's going to be against the Taurhai, a race on the other side of the
Romulan Empire opposite the Federation. The Taurhai are why the
Romulans didn't have any contact with the Federation for 80 years (this
is the Last Unicorn Games version of history). The Romulans almost lost
their war with the Taurhai, who are technologically advanced and very
good at what they do.
I'm thinking that the Dominion War starts now, just before the start of
Season 6. All (or most) of season 6 will involve operations against the
Romulans, towards the end helping a faction in the Senate that wants
peace with the Federation. Through the character's involvement, they'll
help get the Romulans into the Dominion War (much like their actions
helped end the Klingon civil war).
As part of the agreement where the Romulans join the Alliance, a
squadron of Federation ships, including the Discovery will be on loan
to the Romulan Empire, to help negotiate with the Taurhai (as there is
no official peace, just a tense stalemate in the war) and try to make
peace on behalf of the Romulans.
Here's the interesting part. Episode one starts out with the characters
in a prison, with no memory of what happened. The first episode will be
the characters trying to find out what the heck is going on, as the
last thing they remember is helping the Romulan peace faction. Maybe
episode two will continue that. Hopefully with the characters having
escaped and now trying to explore more of their new universe.
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Then there
will be an episode where we go back in time to when the Discovery first
went into Romulan territory. I'm thinking one episode to set up the
first meetings with the Taurhai, maybe another one where they captured.
In between another episode in the current time to build up the story.
Finally, if I time it right, the final episode where they end the
Romulan-Taurhai War, one way or the other. I'm thinking a big ship
battle, using Red Alert now that I have a factory set. The battle will
either be mid-season, recreating the battle where the
Federation-Romulan force was defeated by the Taurhai, or the final
battle of the war.
And so that will be season 7. Totally new episodes designed by yours
truly, so I'm not going to be running every week. Maybe every three or
four weeks which means I'm not carrying Game 2 by myself. I want it to
be more of a suspenseful season, more mystery and more unknown.
Something memorable, though I doubt I can pull it off right.
As a final note, I really want to tie this campaign in somehow with the
BattleTech campaign. Well, really I want to tie it in to the Stargates
that have been in the background of the BattleTech campaign and the Ars
Magica adventures I ran. Hmm, perhaps the Taurhai have a Stargate on
one of their worlds. I don't have to explain it, maybe it's just a
non-working relic. But it should be something of a signature object in
my games. Mostly because I do want to have the Stargates mean something
in a campaign way down the road.
Maybe the GURPS campaign. The Stargates can be more transmultiversal in
nature. That way characters can go from universe to universe. Just an
idea, who knows what will become of it in ten years.
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