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Heroes of the (Romulan) Empire
Frank Miller
3rd Place - Kansas City Grand Slam 2000
09/06/00

When the Trouble with Tribbles expansion came out, I couldn't wait to try to kill Kirk. I decided that the pleasure of assassinating him should not belong to the Klingons only, and knew that the Tal Shiar could hire some thugs to do the job. (See the note following the deck listing to learn exactly how it works.)

This deck won 4 out of 5 games at the 2000 Kansas City Grand Slam for a third place finish. Kirk was killed early in each one of those winning games.
- Frank Miller

SEED DECK
Missions Agricultural Assessment Cloaked Mission Compromised Mission Military Exercises Plunder Site Sarthong Plunder Other Seeds Q's Tent Space-Time Portal Storage Compartment Door Defend Homeworld Q the Referee x2 Sherman's Peak Hero of the Empire Continuing Committee Nor Romulan Outpost Assign Mission Specialists Spacedoor	Dilemmas Chula: The Dice Common Thief Crisis Drumhead Edo Probe Firestorm Hazardous Duty Hide and Seek Hippocratic Oath In the Pale Moonlight Maglock Navigational Hazards Punishment Box Q Gets the Point Scientific Method Tsiolkovsky Infection Unscientific Method Sites Cargo Bay Docking Pylons Guest Quarters Promenade Shops
DRAW DECK
Personnel Barry Waddle Captain Kirk Dr. Farek Galathon Galen Koval Lovok Mirok Narik Parthok Rax'Na R'Mal Ruwon Selveth Senator Vreenak Sirol Taibak Taris Taul Telak T'Rul Vakis Vekor Velal Yint Ships D'deridex Advanced Xepolite Freighter Equipment Romulan Disruptor Rifle x2	Doorways Alternate Universe Door Q's Tent x2 Temporal Vortex x2 Events Fair Play Mirror Image x2 The Big Picture Facilities Deep Space Station K-7 Incidents Access Denied Intruder Alert! It's Only a Game Obelisk of Masaka Panel Overload Q the Referee x2 Reactor Overload Scanner Interference Tribble Bomb Interrupts Oof! Palor Toff - Alien Trader Q2 x2 Scorched Hand The Wake of the Borg Objectives HQ: Secure Homeworld
SIDE DECKS
Tribbles 1 Tribble x7 10 Tribbles x4 100 Tribbles x3 1000 Tribbles x3 Trouble... In the Engine Room Trouble... On the Bridge	Q's Tent Altonian Brain Teaser Brunt D'deridex Advanced Dead End Examine Singularity Intermix Ratio Intruder Forcefield Medical Tricorder Operate Wormhole Relays Pattern Enhancers Regenerate Res-Q Tribble Bomb Writ of Accountability

how it works:
Kirk can usually be assassinated quickly and easily. By the time you've seeded everything, K-7 and Kirk will have been downloaded on the spaceline. The mission specialists to download are Narik and Dr. Farek.

On the first turn, close Spacedoor to download the Xepolite Freighter, staff it with the Mission Specialists,and start moving towards the Nor. Play a Tribble card on K-7. On the second turn, download Barry Waddle (a Non-aligned navigation personnel) in place of your card play at the Cargo Bay on the Nor. Pick up Barry Waddle with the Xepolite Freighter and head for Agricultural Assessment. Once there, you can discard a seeded Q the Referee to download Temporal Vortex (if it isn't already in your hand) to time travel to Sherman's Peak. The compatible Non-aligned Xepolite Freighter can dock with K-7, Barry Waddle can walk onto the station and then use his special download to plant a Tribble Bomb. I was usually able to kill Kirk in 4-5 turns with this deck. All of the missions have Klingon icons so that once the Hero of the Empire objective is complete, the point value of each of those missions is increased by 10, while your opponent's Alpha Quadrant missions are reduced by 10. It pays to alter history.

While you're trying to assassinate Kirk, the Romulans can start reporting and solving missions. I liked to discard Defend Homeworld to download Koval so that he could serve as a "moving outpost" for my Tal Shiar. Another nice feature in this deck is the use of Q the Referee to "recycle" Referee Icon cards -- there were very few things that this deck could not counter.