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HQ: Orbital Weapons Platform

HQ: Orbital Weapons Platform

Rare card from The Trouble with Tribbles (2000)

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Plays on any homeworld. Each time opponent initiates battle here against your ship or facility matching this homeworld's affiliation, just after it is targeted each of your Orbital Weapons Platforms here may "fire upon" an opposing ship present. Each ship fired upon is damaged = Tactic flipTactic flip for each Platform that targets it, and you may exclude that ship from that battle.

Special-icons: Referee [R]

  
   

Strategy notes

'crosslinks' - HQ: Orbital Weapons Platform

See Referee Referee icon cards, HQ cards in strategy area.

'downloading' - HQ: Orbital Weapons Platform is the target

HQ: Orbital Weapons Platform could be downloaded by the following cards:

Defend Homeworld

Timing - each turn  Frequency - once per game 

(Reason: download any HQ card (except Return Orb to Bajor).
Location: into play at any quadrant.
Further costs: discard Defend Homeworld.)

Q the Referee

Timing - suspends play  Frequency - no restriction 

(Reason: download any other Referee card.
Location: plays on table.
Further costs: discard Q the Referee.)

Saavik

Timing - suspends play  Frequency - once per game 

(Reason: Special Download any Referee card.
Location: plays on table.)

'for free' - HQ: Orbital Weapons Platform is the target

Cards you can use to play HQ: Orbital Weapons Platform for free:

The Great Link

Timing - each turn  Frequency - once per turn 

(Reason: play one HQ card for free.
Location: anywhere at The Great Link's location at gamma quadrant.)

Central Command

Timing - each turn  Frequency - once per turn 

(Reason: play one HQ card for free.
Location: anywhere at Central Command's location at alpha quadrant.)

Chamber of Ministers

Timing - each turn  Frequency - once per turn 

(Reason: play one HQ card for free.
Location: anywhere at Chamber of Ministers's location at alpha quadrant.)

Office of the President

Timing - each turn  Frequency - once per turn 

(Reason: play one HQ card for free.
Location: anywhere at Office of the President's location at alpha quadrant.)

Office of the Proconsul

Timing - each turn  Frequency - once per turn 

(Reason: play one HQ card for free.
Location: anywhere at Office of the Proconsul's location at alpha quadrant.)

The Great Hall

Timing - each turn  Frequency - once per turn 

(Reason: play one HQ card for free.
Location: anywhere at The Great Hall's location at alpha quadrant.)

Tower of Commerce

Timing - each turn  Frequency - once per turn 

(Reason: play one HQ card for free.
Location: anywhere at Tower of Commerce's location at alpha quadrant.)

Terran Rebellion HQ

Timing - each turn  Frequency - once per turn 

(Reason: play one HQ card for free.
Location: anywhere at Terran Rebellion HQ's location at mirror quadrant.)

Continuing Committee

Timing - each turn  Frequency - once per turn 

(Reason: play one HQ card for free.
Location: anywhere at Continuing Committee's location at alpha quadrant.)

Strategy article

Card Extra from Allen Gould (19/06/2000)

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Rule notes

Official Runlings:

This incident may "fire upon" a target even if you do not have damage markers to place on it (you may not apply rotation damage instead), and may still exclude the target from battle. It may "fire upon" an opposing ship that was not participating in the attack; that ship becomes involved in the battle (and is therefore "stopped" afterward).

Taken from: Rulebook Glossary (08/2002)

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