http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_War
found this while crawling the web. fairly inclusive
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_War
found this while crawling the web. fairly inclusive
A fairly good synopsis.
Might print this off and give this to a couple of my players who are only casual Star Trek viewers and don't know the full story of the DW.
BTW: Does anyone else use the DW as one of those major life changing events in their character's lives (like WW2 was for people of a certain generation) or do you just use it as just a segment of their lives.
I ask because I occasionally drop in nightmares and stuff for my players of their encounters during the the war and was wondering if anyone else does anything similar.
Players are currently at the start of 2374 when things are about to go into full swing. They're ona border station between the Romulan and Federation Neutral Zone. suffice it to say, things have been interesting. more than one of the player characters have been having stress related nightmares....
Don't forget about Steve Long's excellent Dominion War Sourcebook, available here on trek-rpg.net. :)
http://trek-rpg.net/trek/core/DWS.zip
I defintely include DW veterans, but I also like my Trek a little gritty at times.Quote:
Originally posted by JonA
BTW: Does anyone else use the DW as one of those major life changing events in their character's lives (like WW2 was for people of a certain generation) or do you just use it as just a segment of their lives.
I ask because I occasionally drop in nightmares and stuff for my players of their encounters during the the war and was wondering if anyone else does anything similar.
Nearly every character in the campaign is a DW vet. Their experiences run the gamut from "I was still in the academy..." to "I got graduated early to fight" to "I was in the thick of it for the duration." We have a POW who spent 6 months as a 'guest' of the Cardies, a couople of Betazoids that lost family in the occupation.
I see it as a MAJOR life element for most: almost everyone with family in Starfleet or who are in know someone who died or came home injured or PTSD. It changed the politics of many who were in and created a generational gap: the brand new officers/crew missed the war, but still were affected by the intensity of their instructors who were trying to prep them for the fighting.
The young officers that find themsleves in the upper ranks early (28yo LCDRs and CDRs) are often tired of the fighting -- they got their ranks through attrition so there's a lot of unsurety, survivor angst, guilt -- and many are more militant than the older (Picard/Riker era) guys. The older ones long for the "remember when we were explorers" days; they might have seen the need for the shift toward militancy, but still want the lax 'paramilitary' days of pre-Borg, pre-Dominion.
Federation politics is now caught between the pacifists in Starfleet and the Council: especially races like the Deltans and the Grazerites, and the hawks: Andorians and humans, even the Betazoids in some camps. The whole culture of the Federation has changed & it's creating stress between war affected and non-affected worlds in the UFP.
Add to that the sudden emergence of machine intelligence with the Daystrom Inistitute cracking the secrets of the Ilia probe and Data, the Baku immortality thing, and the Romulan coup...it's a messy place in 2379.
At least in our campaign...