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The Kazon Collective

    Submitted by stccgfaq.com on Fri, 04/20/2001 - 20:00

    The Kazon Collective

    Incident Incident

    Seeds or plays on table. Your Kazon affiliation is immune to assimilation. Once each turn, if you have a Maje in play, you may report another Kazon of his sect for free. OR Plays on your Kazon Warship. Your Affiliation Kazon Personnel and Ship cards (except other Warships) may report aboard.

    Characteristics: play for free / report for free.
    Requires: Affiliation Kazon affiliation, Kazon-Hobii, Kazon-Mostral, Kazon-Nistrim, Kazon-Ogla, Kazon-Oglamar, Kazon-Pommar, Kazon-Relora, Maje, Kazon species.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an erratum:

    The option to cooperate with one other affiliation was removed (to reduce the power and dominance of the Delta Quadrant affiliations). Furthermore it's no longer possible to attempt Affiliation Non-Aligned missions.

    Game text before errata: "Seeds or plays on table. Your Kazon affiliation may mix with one additional affiliation (may be changed at any time), may attempt Affiliation Non-Aligned missions, and is immune to assimilation. Once each turn, if you have a Maje in play, you may report another Kazon of his sect for free. OR Plays on your Kazon Warship. Your Affiliation Kazon Personnel and Ship cards (except other Warships) may report aboard."

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

    Card logging info: Logged by openCards team at May 1st, 2009.
     

    		The Kazon CollectiveThe Kazon Collective (first version)

    This Card-Review article was written by Michel M. Albert and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Apr 20th, 2001.

    Yes, it's that other Delta Quadrant Collective! If you're a Kazon at heart, you'll certainly want to play with this incident for either of its four uses.

    Much like The Vidiian Sodalityimage, it'll allow the affiliation to join forces with any other except Borg, supplementing the Kazon's necessarily small number of missions (they are one of the newer kids on the block, after all) with those of their allies as well as any Non-Aligned missions on the spaceline. This will prove most useful if the Kazon ever reach the Alpha Quadrant where there are no specifically Kazon missions.

    If they do remain in the Delta Quadrant (most likely), they won't fall prey to the Borg. Not only do the Kazon have massively powerful ships, but The Kazon Collective makes them immune to assimilation as well. Borg Cutting Beamimage, Talon Drone, Intruder Alert!image, Assimilate Starshipimage/Assimilate Counterpartimage, Borg Servoimage (who cares if there are no Cyberneticists around?)... All cards that won't steal any personnel or ships away from you.

    And though the Kazon have lost their homeworld (another plus when facing the Borg), they can still use this incident as a kind of Headquarters to report personnel for free. This set alone features seven different Majes, but only a few will allow for reporting. The best is, of course, Culluhimage with more than a half-dozen personnel in his Nistrim sect, but Jabinimage or Razikimage (of the Kazon-Ogla) can allow a couple of highly-skilled personnel to report for free too (including each other).

    Finally, you can play the incident on a powerful Warship directly, turning it into a roving Outpost. Alpha Quadrant field trips won't cut the Kazon off from their brethren, and it'll certainly cut down on travel in any quadrant.

    Combos:

    • Kazon Outpostimage + The Kazon Collective: Don't waste a seed slot on the Collective. Download it from your deck at the start of the game.
    • The Kazon Collective x2 + Kazon Warshipimage: Free reports directly to your ship, and not-so-free reports of "russian doll" ships within ships.
    • The Kazon Collective + Culluh: Get all the guys you need for that Boarding Partyimage... for free!