Star Trek Alliance: Infinite Frontier - New Civilizations

There is no such thing as stellae nullius, or no one’s stars. Every star could be someone’s sun, and from the beginning, the mission has been to seek out new life and new civilizations. This supplement expands the scope of the Exploration Phase mechanic in the Star Trek Alliance: Infinite Frontier campaign, allowing you to procedurally shape the region as you play, and populate it with various cultures to interact with.

Intended to serve more as a narrative tool than as a simulation of galactic politics, the system is simplistic and abstract by design. You will be expected to fill in a lot of the blanks yourself, using your own imagination. For example, if an area is inhabited by a hostile civilization, you may decide that they are isolationists, jealously guarding their territory, and that any enemy ships you face in combat during a Mission belong to that faction. This supplement provides only the broad strokes. The details are entirely up to you and your play group.

This supplement replaces the square Sector Grid from the core campaign with a hex-based Region Map. You will begin the game on the Deployment Sheet, and as you push outwards, you can extend the map using the blank Expansion Sheets. You may find it helpful to number each sheet, and note in the margins which edges link together.

Whenever the rules refer to the “region,” it means the current sheet only, not all of the potentially multiple sheets the players have thus far explored (Although, if you really want to…).

As in the core campaign, each cell on the sheet contains a point of interest that is determined by rolling one D6, which also determines which missions are available to play in that cell during the Mission Phase.

Outside of the Mission Phase, this supplement treats the Exploration Phase differently. The Exploration Phase is now broken down into the following steps:

This supplement adds three core resources that are used to trade with others, and develop the region:

Information encompasses everything related to facts and knowledge, including scientific data, technical expertise, military intelligence, etc. and is the primary tracker of your progress in the campaign. Gathering 30+ Information in a region allows you to move on to the next.

Materials encompasses all tangible resources such as technology, energy, food, minerals, export goods, etc. and allows you to build things such as outposts, or upgrade your ships (10 Materials = 1 XP).

Culture encompasses anything related to people and civilization, including art, philosophy, social status, political capital, or even simple manpower. It is a necessary requirement when attempting diplomacy.

You begin with 3 of each Resource, and must either complete Missions, establish outposts, or trade to earn more. You may keep your Resources when moving to a new region, but must still acquire 30+ Information there before you can progress.

Being a cooperative game, all players are treated as a single entity, sharing all progress and a single Resource pool.

An area’s inhabitants are determined by rolling one D6 and consulting the following table:

Each civilization has a Motive – the main driving force behind their culture that they strive towards as a people. Motives determine what the civilization values, what Resources they want, and what they’re willing to trade. Determine a civilization’s Motive by rolling one D12 and consulting the following table: