# Starship Avantika Session 0 This is the introductory session or the first hour of [[001_20220209 The Fate of the Stalwart]]. ### About the system - We'll be using rules from [[Fate Condensed]], with modified skills. - Aspects - Create an aspect: description - Game - Scene - Character - An aspect should be: - usable in a positive and negative way - interestingly worded - Invoking an aspect (+/-2) - Compelling an aspect (+/-2) - What to do with fate points - Invoke an aspect (to add or subtract to a roll) - Compel an aspect (they pay you a fate point if you accept) - Create a new aspect based on another aspect (when it's a _stretch_) - Fate dice - When you succeed by 3 or more, you get a boost - Boost - Temporary (one scene only) - Limited use - You don't need to name it until you use it (ex: _In My Sights, Distracted, Unstable Footing_) - Actions (things you can do) - Create an advantage (use a skill and get a free invoke) - If on an enemy, they can oppose you - Create a new aspect or change one - Fail: you don't create the aspect OR enemy gets the free invoke - Tie: you don't create the aspect but you do get a boost - Succeed: you create the aspect with one free invoke - Succeed with style: you create the aspect with two free invokes - Invoke an aspect - Use a skill - Concede a conflict - Compel an aspect - Setting: Star Trek - If you want to know more about the rules - https://youtu.be/70njl8wahRA - PDF of Fate Condensed ### Character Creation - Print the character sheet below ![[fate_character_sheet-starship_avantika.pdf]] - OR go to [Fate Character Sheet](https://fatecharactersheet.com), create a character, and apply the `Starship Avantika` template. - These are all aspects: High Concept, Trouble, Aspect, Stunts, Consequences - Today, create: - Name and pronouns - High Concept - Trouble - 2 Aspects - Skills ### Mister Roboto (Kyan) _Mister Roboto is the only living Mech Warrior in existence, after the Inner Sphere, a planet in the Outer Rim, exploded after a brutal war. Re scavenged far and wide, and built with his own hands his own Mech, using gadgets and thingamajigs he stole from various sources, earning him the wrath of various authorities. He is a tinkerer, a kleptomaniac, but most of all, a Mech Warrior._ - Inner Sphere is the name of the planet (but it's been destroyed) ![[gundam-unicorn-episode-7-full-frontal-2.png]] - Three modes - Collect - Conquer - Frolic ### Commander Oswald Barclay (Kuya) - Her name is Hauteclaire - Hides, sneaky ### Kahleia (Ate Kat) - Empath: Can feel others' emotions - Craves affection and understanding, shy and reserved - keep this nature hidden - Gets easily hurt - Lacks self-confidence; self-conscious - Appreciate nature and refinements of life - Kind and gentle to nature - Crudeness and vulgarity are repulsive to me - Particular about little things ### Elnubnubiey (Nico) - Notice me! - Wet suit - I'm so cute - Green - Iey: Go back to its planet and tell mamegoma to - Barclay: Ask Federation to put warnings around the sun and the species so that their harmony is not disrupted. The away team is very good for organics. Invite Hauteclaire - Kahleia: Log everything about the species and the planet. Singing virus - Mister Roboto: Stays behind on Stalwart to download everything. Leaves the crew to go to the almost planet ### [[Starship Avantika Board]] ### Skills From the skills below, choose: - One +3 skill - Two +2 skills - Two +1 skills The skills you don't choose are unmodified (+0). - **COMMAND:** Leading and inspiring allies, convincing and negotiating, intimidating. - **SECURITY:** Physically subduing an enemy, identifying tactical weaknesses, moving quickly, defending vs physical attacks. - **SCIENCE:** Using specialized technical knowledge outside of medicine, noticing details. - **HELM:** Navigating and flying a starship, navigating and keeping track of directions. - **ENGINEERING:** Making or modifying machinery or contraptions, using resourcefulness to create objects from scrap parts. - **COMMUNICATIONS:** Sending and receiving crypted and uncrypted information, understanding alien languages, defending against mental attacks. - **MEDICINE:** Using the tricorder in the field and the medical bay on the ship to heal your allies' wounds. ## The ship ### Create one aspect for your ship - Starfleet Examples: - Now You See Us, Now You Don't (cloaking technology) - Intrepid Class (Up to Warp 9.9) - Please State the Nature of Your Medical Emergency (EMH) - Our Databanks Bring All the Boys to the Yard (databanks all known races and planets on this quadrant) - We Know You're There (extra-long-range sensors) ### Why are you here? - Exploration - Undercover operation - Military reconnaissance - Establishing trade -