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                       Fed Think Tank Deck
                       From Christopher Swearingen
                       September 1996

                       I wanted to play a deck that really worked... but
                       I did not want bridge crew '95 because that is too
                       easy and too predictable. So I sat down with my
                       cards and created an interesting deck.

                       To begin with, I wanted strong characters. As it
                       turned out I polarized my deck with a lot of
                       engineers. And soon, the theme was born. And it
                       was very playable.

                        SEED CARDS                 DRAW DECK

                        Missions (6)               Personnel (12)

                        Study Nebula               Dathon
                        Investigate Sighting       Richard Galen
                        Explore Black Cluster      Rachel Garrett
                        Explore Dyson Sphere       Beverly Picard
                        Investigate Disappearance  Geordi La Forge
                        Investigate Roge Comet     Montgomery Scott
                                                   Exocomp
                        Dilemmas (12)              Morgan Bateson
                                                   Baran
                        Female's Love Interest     Jo'Bril
                        Armus x2                   Sito Jaxa
                        Alien Parasites            Jenna D'Sora
                        Matriarchal Society
                        Shaka                      Ships (3)
                        Barclay's Protomorphosis
                        Disease                    USS Nebula
                        Borg Ship                  USS Yamato
                        The Higher... the Fewer    USS Enterprise-C
                        Birth of Junior
                        Q                          Events (9)
                        Cytherians
                        Hunter Gangs               Yellow Alert
                                                   Static Warp Bubble
                                                   Traveller
                        Artifacts (2)              Kivas Fajo x2
 [Image]           [Image]                         Masaka Transformations [Image]
                        Cryosatellite              Goddess of Empathy
                        Tox Uthat                  Res-Q
                                                   Nutational Shields
                        Outposts (1)               Supernova

                        Federation                 Interrupts (8)

                        Other (1)                  Senior Staff Meeting
                                                   Brain Drain
                        AU Door                    Amanda Rogers x2
                                                   Kevin Uxbridge x2
                                                   Q2 x2
                                                   Countermanda
                                                   Temporal Rift
                                                   Scan x2

                       Dilemmas. Pick 14 of your own. I have certain
                       combos that I have found to be quite disasterous
                       to away teams and crew.

                       Seed the Cryosatellite and Tox under your outpost.
                       It helps to sneak them in as intentional dilemma
                       seeds under an opponent's mission that you can do
                       easily. Once the Tox is in hand, play some events
                       to get rid of any KUs that your opponent may have.
                       Play the Tox, Masaka your hand if you have to...
                       and then bip the opponent's outpost. If your
                       opponent has no ships, the game is (virtually)
                       over! You can even nuke your own outpost provided
                       you have a ship with an engineer on it. Res-Q it
                       back and build it else where.

                       My deck was based upon killing the opponent's
                       outpost. However, sometimes it just does not
                       happen. My missions are designed so that 3
                       missions and limited personnel can still win the
                       game. All space definately stretches the opponent
                       for seeds, making it easy to do missions.

                       Cautions.I had some problems getting personnel in
                       my hand w/o a Red Alert. I hate to admit it, but
                       this deck really should be played as a speed deck.
                       I just did not have the Red Alert to report
                       everyone. Swap out the Temporal Rift for the Red
                       Alert. You can report your people and then make
                       them smart with a Yellow Alert.

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