Launch Portal

Uncommon card from First Contact (1997)

Suspends play while you do any or all of the following: download Engage Shuttle Operations or Escape Pod; download (to one of your ships with Tractor Beam) one scout ship, shuttle or Borg sphere; and launch any or all of your carried ships (with crew). Discard doorway or place it atop Engage Shuttle Operations to protect event from nullification and extend its effect to scout ships.

Strategy notes

'crosslinks' - Launch Portal

See scout ships, scout ships, Borg spehre ships, shuttles in strategy area.

'downloading' - Launch Portal is the reason

Launch Portal can be used to download one card from a set of 23 possible cards (1x Event, 1x Interrupt, 21x Ship). See overview in strategy area.

Strategy article

Card Extra from Kathy McCracken (01/06/2000)

Rule notes

Official Runlings:

This doorway allows you to launch any carried shipss at the time you play the doorway, even without Engage Shuttle Operations in play. It may download Engage Shuttle Operations: Dominion. See card titles, characteristics. It does not allow you to break a quarantine.

When this doorway is played during a space mission attempt to launch some or all of the crew on a different ship, the ship with the larger crew must continue the mission attempt (owner's choice if tied), if possible.

Taken from: Rulebook Glossary (08/2002)