I've been putting together some ideas for running a Star Trek series here, basing the game on a large space station on the edge of Federation Space. Colonists, treasure-seekers, scholars, rogues, ne'er-do-wells, spies, all gathering in a central location and dealing with unknown threats emerging from a spatial anomaly.

If that sounds an awful lot like Deep Space Nine, that's partly because I'm using the DS9 game by Last Unicorn as the basis. Instead of that station, though, I'm using Deep Space 4. It's parked right on the edge of the Neutral Zone, neighbors a sector notorious for space/time anomalies, and is the entry-point for Borg incursions into the Alpha Quadrant.

Romulan troublemakers on one side. Borg on another. And Strange Things From Outer Space on a third. If that's not enough to make you paranoid, how about the aftermath of the Dominion War? Disenfranchised Vorta, expatriated Jem'Hadar, Maquis rebels looking for a new home, Cardassian agents of a splintered order, Bajoran cultists of the pah-wraiths.

I plan on recruiting a handful of players, walking them through character-creation, then putting things on hold for a bit while I work out some early episodes. I have a larger plot in mind, but I don't plan on revealing it for a while.

For the ultimate in thread necromancy, here's a bump for a game that I had to put on hold for over a year. I had to make a couple changes, but it's time to reopen this game and see who's interested.

My last attempt at running this didn't work for some reason. Player posting rate dropped to zero just as I officially started it.

My wife has been begging me to revive this game. I've put in a lot of information about the setting -- the station itself, as well as its location in space. There's enough detail about the game mechanics to allow anyone to jump in and learn the system, so familiarity with LUGTrek is not required. (That and I'm happy to teach.)

I've purged everything from the last run -- characters and OOC threads and the like -- so it's a fresh start with brand new characters. Let's see if the third try's the charm!

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EDIT: Got nearly a dozen applicants, so I think that's enough. The Players Wanted flag is off, but I always leave my games open for lurkers. In fact, lurkers get first dibs if a spot opens up. I also sometimes recruit lurkers to play recurring NPCs.
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