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Wow. As much as I hate to lose the Morale, I'm all for letting Ellen get sucked out an airlock. We're crippled. Our next jump needs to take us at least 2 distance for one fuel or we lose unless we happen to get lucky enough to find something to increase fuel.

We're also really close to jumping again. We NEED to scout the destination deck before we jump and bury anything that doesn't give us 2 distance for 1 fuel. I can Scout if someone XOs me. Though if Admiral Helo is a toaster, we're frakked anyway.

I'm really regretting saying we'd be okay with losing fuel on the Rescue Mission crisis. Yeesh.

BSG

I guess it depends on whether we want to take the Morale hit and chance the die roll. Because it's not guaranteed that we'd airlock Ellen, and we can't use SP to REDUCE the number. Doesn't look like anyone has Calculations, either, or we wouldn't have lost Ralph on the jump. If Ellen is a human with shitty decision-making skills, we lose more Morale. If Ellen is a skinjob, she gets the ability to scout the Destination deck for free on her next turn.

I think we need to remember that tanking the check isn't an automatic airlock for Ellen. It's 50-50, though, and those aren't bad odds.

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That's true. I forgot about the die roll. Still, I'm pretty convinced Ellen is a toaster after this. She frakked us hard. (Which I suppose shouldn't be surprising, considering.) And I think loss of Morale is the least of our worries at the moment. Getting to 8 distance without running out of fuel is.

I vote we tank the check and hope the die roll goes in our favor. Chances are good we're going to jump again before her next turn since the jump track is at 2 from the Destination.

If Ellen is a Cylon, that leaves only Admiral Helo or President Roslin as the other one. Which means, despite me not having a good feeling either way on which one it is, I think Gaeta should use his OPG to take the Admiralty on his turn.

Sorry, Helo. At this point we can't be sure about you.

Of course, I could be completely wrong, Ellen made a horrible mistake and Gaeta's actually the other Cylon, but I think we're frakked in that case regardless.

BSG

If Ellen is a skinjob, she gets the ability to scout the Destination deck for free on her next turn.

She does?

BSG

If she gets Executed, she ends up on the Ressurection Ship immediately, and on her next turn can move to the Human Fleet to scout the Destination deck.

I'd say Pegasus gave Cylons a big power boost.

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Oh, I see. Well, we'd have to survive a whole round before that'd be a problem.

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Amazing how you all assume that I'm against you, or an idiot - considering you have no idea what the OTHER card was. Or bothered asking my motivation for what I did.

Whatever. You're dead set on killing me, regardless. Hooray humanity!

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If she gets Executed, she ends up on the Ressurection Ship immediately, and on her next turn can move to the Human Fleet to scout the Destination deck.

This is true. It's not exactly free; a player has one action to spend on their turn, and scouting the Destination deck means forgoing Caprica or the Cylon Fleet (if they've shown up).

Recap of execution rules: the executed player loses all their cards. If they were human, lose 1 Morale, and they choose a new character. If they were a Cylon, they move to the Resurrection Ship but do not pick up a Super Crisis. (They don't get their reveal power either.)

I'd say Pegasus gave Cylons a big power boost.

It gave both sides a boost. For the humans, there are new skill cards with new options (witness Roslin's use of a Preventative Policy to save 1 Morale, and Gaeta's Major Victory to recover another 1 Morale), and the Pegasus locations. From what I've seen so far, victory rates for the two teams in Pegasus aren't noticeably different from the base game victory rates.

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Would you care to explain now, Ellen? For those of us who haven't decided what to do, yet.

I'm curious to hear Ellen's line of reasoning. I've not made up my mind yet.