Docking Pads

Uncommon card from Deep Space Nine (1998)

Nor-Typ: Any Nor; Location: Docking Ring

"Any ship with no staffing requirements may report, dock (land) and undock (take off) here if ship is compatible with station's affiliation OR crew includes a V.I.P. OR player controlling ship has a Computer Skill personnel present at this site unopposed (just before undocking, that personnel may board ship). Player controlling station may, once per game, download Establish Landing Protocols. Capacity: 6 ships. Tractor Beam."

Strategy notes

'crosslinks' - Docking Pads

See in strategy area.

'downloading' - Docking Pads is the reason

'downloading' - possible downloads by using Docking Pads:

function: The game text of Docking Pads says that you can 'download' the following card (on table):

Establish Landing Protocols

Seeds or plays on table. Each of your ships which has no staffing requirements may use 1 RANGE to land or take off once each turn. (Captain's Order.)

'downloading' - Docking Pads is the target

Docking Pads could be downloaded by the following card:

Empok Nor

(Reason: download any number of different compatible Site cards when station first flipped (commandeer).
Location: to Empok Nor at alpha quadrant.)

Strategy article

Card Extra from Kathy McCracken (07/1998)

Rule notes

Official Runlings:

Errata:
This site is located on the Habitat Ring.

No other cards (such as Establish Landing Protocols) are needed to enable ships with no staffing requirements to land (dock) and take off (undock) at this site. The site itself allows the ship to land and take off. A ship docked at the Docking Pads site is both docked and landed, and is subject to the rules applying to landed ships.

While a docked ship is normally not affected when the facility is destroyed, a ship docked at Docking Pads is actually "aboard" the Nor and thus would be destroyed along with the facility and discarded.

Taken from: Rulebook Glossary (08/2002)