Submitted by stccgfaq.com on Mon, 01/11/1999 - 21:00
❖ Soto
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Empathy This Card-Review article was written by Kathy McCracken and was published first on "Decipher's Website (decipher.com)" at Jan 11th, 1999.
If there is a single skill that everyone has wanted to see on a universal Non-Aligned personnel, it has to be Empathy. Ever since Thought Fire
, Cardassian Trap
and Frame of Mind
appeared in Alternate Universe, every affiliation except the Federation has felt a little short of Empaths, having to rely chiefly on Maques
and Devinoni Ral
(with Major Rakal
for the Romulans), and giving up a Frame of Mind-ed personnel as permanently useless. The advent of the deadly Lethean Telepathic Attack
in DS9, with its requirement of 2 Empathy, just increased the problem. Now we have Soto, a universal Empath with the always-useful classification of SECURITY, as well as Treachery (the treacherous affiliations can always use more, and the honorable ones can find that the occasional Treachery has its uses). Not only will he make it easier to potentially cure a Frame of Mind, but he nullifies Lethean Telepathic Attack outright.
Combos:
- Soto x4: Pass a Security Precautions
, cure a Frame of Mind, nullify a Lethean Telepathic Attack, Undetected Beam-In
or Untrustworthy Associate
. - Soto + Altovar
: Besides providing a core of MEDICAL, SECURITY and 2 Empathy to your Away Team, they protect each other from a Hate Crime
and even from an Empathic Echo
.
