As all weapons come with their own benefits and drawbacks these changes are already balanced. Attacks: Very rarely a variant spaceframe will have a different list of standard weapons than its base spaceframe.When this happens, one standard Talent will be removed (but can be taken later) while another Talent will be added to the standard list. Talents: Some variants will have different standard Talents to their base spaceframes.These aspects of the ship design are not equal. The usual rules apply to the final values (including the maximum allowed value for a ship) and variants will never exchange a point from a System rating to increase a Department rating or vice versa. These will include an increase to some ratings and a corresponding decrease to others. Systems and Departments: Some variants will have adjustments to the base spaceframe’s Systems and/or its Departments.In some cases it may be a benefit (such as when swapping systems or technology with a related spaceframe) and in other cases it may be a hinderance (such as when a variant aspect causes unexpected problems). This covers any differences or unique aspects of the spaceframe compared to related ones. Traits: In addition to the standard Trait of Federation Starship, the spaceframe will have a Trait called Variant Design.In terms of game mechanics, the variant spaceframe is identical to the existing one except for the following considerations. However, it owes enough of its details to an original spaceframe design that the two are considered related and often upgrades and refit schemes are identical. What Is a Variant?Ī variant of a spaceframe is a separate design that went through its own engineering process and testing. There are original designs to get through but also a ton of variants of existing spaceframes. In particular the fan site Continuing Mission, which I help manage, has a ton of spaceframes from Star Trek Online but there are so many more. I am, of course, greatly aided in this by the Star Trek Adventures community. Today I’m embarking on an epic (potentially five-year) mission: to systematically write-up all the ships in Star Trek Online for your gaming table. It should come as no surprise that there is considerable overlap in fandom between Star Trek Online and Star Trek Adventures, so much so that Modiphius recently teamed up with Arc Games for a cross-promotion. In it you create a captain and gather together a crew to explore an open galaxy with many different missions and storylines. The MMORPG Star Trek Online is an extremely popular game for Star Trek fans and gamers alike.