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Lumba

    Submitted by stccgfaq.com on Fri, 06/30/2000 - 20:00

    Lumba

    In a ploy to convince Nilva to support Grand Nagus Zek's reinstatement, Quark was altered to appear female.

    Ferengi Ferengi icon  Personnel Personnel
    Gender: male. Species: Ferengi.
    Classification: CIVILIAN
    Red Dot Acquisition   Red Dot Biology   Special Download Nilva.
    Red Dot Doubles first-listed skill of each ❖  Affiliation Ferengi male present. Red Dot May nullify gender-related dilemmas where present.
    INTEGRITY: 5  CUNNING: 8  STRENGTH: 2

    Characteristics: "Reshape the Quadrant"-related cards, Affiliation Ferengi affiliation, "Quark"-related personnel, Ferengi species.
    Requires: female-related dilemma, male-related dilemma, Affiliation Ferengi affiliation.

    Rule hint for this card

    This card has an clarification:

    This personnel is male (he just appears female). See skills - modifying.

    Taken form Glossary - Version 1.9.5.

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

    		Lumba
    List of mirror universe related cards for Lumba:
    - Mr. Quarkimage (11 R+ 90) from Mirror, Mirror Mirror, Mirror

    This Card-Review article was written by Neil Kirby and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Jun 30th, 2000.

    What a babe!!! Or is he/she? Well, Quarkimage certainly had several people fooled when he decided to go, um, undercover for Zek and a nice card is the result. At first sight Lumba has fewer skills than Quark, but Lumba's special skills boost him (I think I'll stick with "him") back into the very useful category.

    Lumba can enter play through the Guest Quartersimage or persona exchange with Quark (or his Son of Keldar manifestation). Acquisition is a standard requirement on a number of Ferengi missions, and allows him to keep his access to the Rules of Acquisition. (Especially the 47th - when was the last time you ran into a character with more skill dots than Quark?) Biology is ever useful for dealing with the ever popular Aphasia Deviceimage or Flaxian Assassinimage.

    Then he begins to get special. Lumba can nullify any gender-related dilemmas, which when you stop and think about Parallel Romanceimage is a good thing from the mental image perspective! In addition, neither he nor anyone in his party is going to get distracted by Love Interests.

    Doubling the first-listed skill on universal Ferengi males is rather more special. There are several such characters, and this boost moves them into the highly desirable category. Nowhere is this more true than two of the Ferengi mission specialists. Qolimage's newly doubled Exobiology will be a big boost for talking to Odo's "Cousin"image. Dr. Bortsimage becomes MEDICAL x2, which goes a long way towards that Aphasia Device. (Now where are we going to get the other Biology from? Can you guess, children?)

    And finally his most special skill, a special download of Nilvaimage (who, curiously enough, has that extra Biology). Nilva is a great character and, as a card-carrying FCA member, can be a recipient of Writ of Accountabilityimage. He's also universal, so unlike Bruntimage he's not going to end up on the wrong end of a Klingon Painstikimage. This should act as a further deterrent to all those Q-abusers still left out there!

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