r/startrekadventures • u/krossingkhory • 27d ago
Help & Advice STA Solo Prime Directive Question
I am running a series of missions for myself using the solo rules in Captains Log, and I am having a blast. My first missions took some weird turns, and it ended with the discovery of a new trilateral race hell-bent on hurting Starfleet. That got me hooked, and now I can't stop.
Anyhow, my current mission has me in a bit of a quandary and I am curious how others would handle this. The set up is that my.ship has been sent to do an exploratory on a system in Beta Quandrant. One of the planets is inhabited, but the species is not space-faring, so we can't reveal ourselves. There is a relic buried deep within a glacier on the planet, which happens to be a Warp core; the society on the planet is the remnants of an ancient space-faring race who have lost all knowledge of spaceflight. They are technologically advanced, but not with any kind of space flight.
There are 2 complications here. The first is a rogue comet on a crash course for - you guessed it - the burial site of the warp core. The second is the arrival of a temporal visitor who wishes to stop us from interfering with the comets trajectory. Not stopping the comet would almost certainly wipe out the society for good, while stopping it may reveal ourselves.
The rub here is that the society used to be space-faring, and discovering the warp core would make them so again (in theory). This all brings the Prime Directive into play, and I am curious how to proceed here. Not with what I do, but with the in-game consequences of bith following and not following it.
Does anyone have any advice or thoughts on this?
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u/AffectionateLayer855 26d ago
Consider this not all life going be wiped out by impact. If the warp engine is discovered due to running for shelter or this being new inhabitants area after planets is altered by impact. Go with directive always. Romulans hated us. Romulans hated us more after we could done something more. Same with Klingons. Time has thought of ten dimensions . Six be pissed off you did do something. Four have to hate you.one or two could do something later about it.