These Are the Voyages: Mission Compendium vol. 1 (STA)
Space, the Final Frontier
Your continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
These Are the Voyages: Mission Compendium Volume 1 presents eight ready-to-play missions for Star Trek Adventures. Within this book Gamemasters will find the means to test their Starfleet officers at the front line of Starfleet operations.
- "A World With a Bluer Sun:" Uncover the truth about an anomalous wormhole that has trapped an older Starfleet vessel.
- "Border Dispute:" Rescue a Federation science vessel, drifting dangerously inside the Romulan Neutral Zone, avoiding an escalation into war.
- "Entropy's Demise:" Investigate strange events on Carina VII, where a colony is rapidly disintegrating around its foundations.
- "Forests of the Night:" Explore a strange alien space station, containing a massive forest eco-system of its own.
- "Biological Clock:" Weigh up the dilemma of the Prime Directive with an intelligent species that originates outside the confines of normal space and time, subjugated by another civilization.
- "A Plague of Arias:" Foil plans to spread a long dead plague and uncover the truths of its origin.
- "That Which is Unknown:" Stop the theft of an experimental torpedo and pursue its thieves to expose their plot.
- "The Shepherd:" Respond to a distress signal from a mining colony in revolt and discover new life in its mines.
This book requires the Star Trek Adventures Core Rulebook to use.
A World With a Bluer Sun
Written by Marco Rafalá
Discovering the Atlantis
Stardate 1416.4: An automated distress call diverts the crew to an M-class planet in an uncharted star system that orbits an unstable wormhole. On the surface of the planet, the crew finds a crashed Romulan vessel and a shuttlepod from the NX class Starship Atlantis, which, according to history, was lost over 100 years ago during the Earth-Romulan War. Yet the pod's chronometer shows it landed only six years ago. When the wormhole inexplicably expands, the immense gravitational forces strain the players' ship's engines to the breaking point. As it attempts to leave orbit, the ship is caught by the anomaly. Sensors detect another vessel also trapped—the Atlantis, with 50 life signs aboard. The crew will be tested as different eras collide while the truth about the wormhole is uncovered.
Border Dispute
Written by Andrew Peregrine
Stardate 48326.3: The U.S.S. Nightingale, a Nova class Federation science vessel, accidentally crossed into the Romulan Neutral Zone. Moments after the mistake was discovered, a Romulan warbird decloaked and opened fire. The attack took out most of the Nightingale's engineering section and engineers. However, the Nightingale did manage to fire back and appears to have damaged the warbird. Both ships are now stuck in the Neutral Zone until they can affect repairs. Unfortunately, the Romulans are insisting they will take the Nightingale and her crew back to Romulus to stand trial for war crimes. But things are not as they seem. Can the players win a battle of wits with a Romulan captain and save the crew of the Nightingale, or will this encounter lead to war?
Entropy's Demise
Written by Anthony Jennings
Stardate Unknown: Situated near the Federation's border with the Romulan Empire, Carina VII is an idyllic world with lush forests, a pleasant climate, and abundant resources. Until recently, Morgan's Hope, the colony's capital, had thrived, but in the last year, strange events have been occurring: people residing on the planet have aged rapidly, structures that should have lasted for decades crumble in days, and crops that were planted in the morning mature overnight and are rotten before the next afternoon. Even more disturbing, the colonists are spreading rumors that Romulans have been sighted in the system. A Starfleet ship is dispatched to Carina VII to investigate the cause of the rapid aging.
Forests of the Night
Written by Darren Watts
Stardate 47439.5: The players' ship has been assigned to explore a new sector, which is filled with unusual numbers of ion storms. After weeks of cataloguing supernovae, quasars, and uninhabited systems, they pick up a strange metallic object on their sensors, and realize it must be an alien ship. It's spinning slowly, moving slower than light, and emitting a strange radiation that is similar to the types of ion storms that plague this sector. However, it does seem to contain indistinct life signs. The crew soon discovers the ship contains a massive forest, inhabited by strange alien lifeforms. The Player Characters will have to deal with ghostly lights, dangerous plants, and something moving in the shadows, stalking them through the terrifying terrain, in order to solve the mystery.
Biological Clock
Written by Fred Love
Stardate 48214.73: The crew's vessel picks up unusual tetryon emissions from an unexplored planet known as Optera IV and investigating the tetryons will lead the crew to encounter giant insectoid creatures. The crew may dismiss the insectoids as unintelligent at first, but they'll quickly discover the tetryon emissions are actually a form of communication employed by the insectoids. The crew will have to decide how the Prime Directive applies as another warp capable species enters the situation.
Scan of Optera IV
Freeing an Opteran captive
Opteran
Opterans meet the ship in orbit
A Plague of Arias
Written by Alasdair Stuart
Stardate 48650.23: A Starfleet vessel is dispatched to Starbase Hephaestus, one of Starfleet Medical's primary research centers. They are to assist in the anniversary celebrations of Doctor Elizabeth Nostrum's work on Arcturus V curing the "Aria Plague." The station is a hive of activity and the station's commanding officer, Captain Jenner, needs all hands on deck to assist. A vessel, The Solid Bet, is undergoing repairs at Hephaestus. Tulana Vulko, the captain of The Solid Bet, has faked the damage her ship sustained. In reality, she's at Hephaestus because of what she and Jenner have in common — a terrible secret regarding the plague Jenner's grandmother, Doctor Nostrum, cured.
Starbase Hephaestus
Zachriel
That Which is Unknown
Written by Joe Rixman
Stardate 48635.1: A Starfleet vessel is on routine patrol when they receive orders to travel to the Takara system, where they will observe and provide security for the field testing of a new and improved high-yield quantum torpedo. They arrive and assist the head of the project, Dr. Ja'Brenn. The prototype is delivered to a derelict craft and activated, but before it can be tested, rogue Klingon birds of prey attack the ship, steal the prototype, and destroy the derelict ship before breaking off and fleeing toward Romulan space. Starfleet Command orders the Player Characters to track the Klingons and retrieve the torpedo before they enter the Neutral Zone and defuse a confrontation between the Takarans and Romulans.
Klingon bird-of-prey
Klingons
The Shepherd
Written by Oli Palmer
Stardate 48425.4: A Starfleet crew and their ship respond to a distress signal broadcasting from a colony on Stallas II and discover that the inhabitants are locked in conflict. The crew must rescue the civilians who sent the distress signal and get them to safety, while at the same time, investigate the cause of the revolt. The Player Characters must attempt to solve a mystery and find a way to protect the colony as well as preserve the life of a strange alien known as the Shepherd.
Arrival Center
Brawl
System Design
Nathan Dowdell
Line Development
Sam Webb
Writing
Marco Rafalá, Fred Love, Andrew Peregrine, Anthony Jennings, Darren Watts, Alasdair Stuart, Joe Rixman, Oli Palmer, and Jim Johnson
Editing
Scott Pearson, Sam Webb, Jim Johnson, and Richard L. Gale
Proofreading
Aric Wieder
Cover Artwork
Tobias Richter
Internal Artwork
Rodrigo Gonzalez, Tobais Richter, Connor Magill, Joseph Diaz, David Metlesits, Nick Greenwood, Joshua Calloway, Michele Frigo, Grzegorz Pedrycz, Wayne Miller
Art Direction
Sam Webb
Graphic Design
Matthew Comben
Layout
Michal E. Cross and Richard L. Gale
Produced by
Chris Birch
Publishing Assistant
Salwa Azar
Operations Manager
Garry Harper
Production Manager
Steve Daldry
Community Support
Lloyd Gyan
For CBS Studios
John van Citters, Marian Cordry, Veronica Hart, and Keith Lowenadler
