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Docking Pads

    Docking Pads

    Site Site
    Playable at: Any Nor - Habitat Ring.

    Any ship with no staffing requirements may report, dock (land) and undock (take off) here if ship is compatible with station's affiliation OR crew includes a V.I.P. OR player controlling ship has a Computer Skill personnel present at this site unopposed (just before undocking, that personnel may board ship). Player controlling station may, once per game, download Establish Landing Protocols. Capacity: 6 ships. Tractor Beam.

    Characteristics: Tractor Beam.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an erratum:

    This site is located on the Habitat Ring (not Docking Ring). 

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

    This card has an clarification:

    No other cards (such as Establish Landing Protocols) are needed to enable ships with no staffing requirements to land (dock) and take off (undock) at this site. The site itself allows the ship to land and take off. A ship docked at the Docking Pads site is both docked and landed, and is subject to the rules applying to landed ships.

    While a docked ship is normally not affected when the facility is destroyed, a ship docked at Docking Pads is actually “aboard” the Nor and thus would be destroyed along with the facility and discarded.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

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

    Docking PadsDocking Pads (first version)

    This Card-Review article was written by Kathy McCracken and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Jul 11th, 1998.

    Since you need at least one docking site on a Nor to report any cards at all there, this one will be sufficient to enable your use of the other sites reporting and/or downloading capabilities. Although it only allows ships with no staffing requirements to report, that lets you get runabouts, shuttles, and scouts into action, which will be seeing a lot more use with the DS9 expansion. Although you need no special card to let those ships "land" (dock" and "take off" (undock) from the Docking Pads-that's a built-in capability of the site - you will need such a card to let them land on planets. Fortunately, Docking Pads lets you download one such card, Establish Landing Protocolsimage. Astute observers of DS9's layout may have noted that the stations docking pads are actually located on the Habitat Ring, not the Docking Ring as noted on the card. Accordingly, official errata declares the Docking Pads to belong in the Habitat Ring when you are playing sites.

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