Awards are issued in recognition of honorable and distinguished achievements, often during ceremonies before an audience of their peers, friends, and family. These awards are accompanied by a medal or other decoration and may mean induction into a ceremonial organization. The physical medal or decoration is seldom worn on a duty uniform but is worn on dress uniforms.
Each award has a listed cost in Acclaim, and a condition which must have been met during the mission(s) relevant for the award: if the condition was not met, the character cannot purchase the award.
Christopher Pike Medal of Valor
A prestigious medal awarded to Starfleet officers in recognition of remarkable leadership, meritorious conduct, and acts of personal bravery, named for legendary Starfleet officer Christopher Pike. Prior to the 2260s, similar medals existed under different names.
COST: 4
CONDITIONS: The character must be an officer in a command or leadership position who led their crew in a succession of several difficult missions, and who faced personal danger on at least two of those missions.
BENEFIT: Once per mission, when the character uses the Direct task, they may treat their d20 as if it had rolled a 1.
Cochrane Medal of Excellence
The Cochrane Medal of Excellence is awarded by the Zefram Cochrane Institute for Advanced Theoretical Physics to Starfleet officers and cadets who perform outstanding feats in various fields of science and engineering.
COST: 3
CONDITIONS: The character must have significantly contributed to a field of scientific study or engineering, such as making and documenting an important discovery, or finding a solution to a long-standing problem.
BENEFIT: Select a single focus the character possesses, which must relate to the scientific or engineering field they earned the medal for. Once per mission, when the character spends a point of Determination on a task involving that focus, the character may select two benefits of spending a point of Determination instead of one.
Grankite Order of Tactics
The Grankite Order of Tactics is awarded to new members of the Grankite Order, a ceremonial order within Starfleet recognizing officers who demonstrate exceptional tactical acumen.
COST: 3
CONDITIONS: The character must have demonstrated exceptional skill and tactical thinking during combat or some other crisis, which directly contributed to the success of the mission or the survival of the ship and crew.
BENEFIT: Once per mission, when the character creates a trait that reflects or represents some strategy or tactic, they may automatically add a level of Potency to that trait.
Karagite Order of Heroism
The Karagite Order of Heroism is awarded to new members of the Karagite Order, a ceremonial order within Starfleet recognizing officers who demonstrate exceptional heroism in defense of the Federation and its people.
COST: 3
CONDITIONS: The character must have personally faced extreme danger and overwhelming odds in combat or a similar crisis, and both survived and succeeded in defending a Federation world or outpost from loss or destruction.
BENEFIT: Once per mission, when the character would suffer an Injury, the character may Avoid the Injury for free. Alternatively, once per mission, when the character’s ship would suffer one or more breaches, the character may spend 2 Momentum (Immediate) and suffer a complication to ignore one of those breaches. Only one of these benefits may apply in any given mission.
Legion of Honor
The Legion of Honor is a commendation given to Starfleet personnel who have acted in a way that exemplifies the best qualities of Starfleet.
COST: 4
CONDITIONS: None
BENEFIT: Once per mission, the character may perform one of the following: gain 2 bonus Momentum on a successful task (bonus Momentum may not be saved), or ignore a single complication suffered on a task (choose to do this before the gamemaster announces the complication’s effect).
Palm Leaf of (X) Peace Mission
Palm Leaves of this sort are commendations awarded to Starfleet officers who participate in successful peace missions, such as that to the planet Axanar in the 23rd century. In each case, the award includes the name of the peace mission.
COST: 3
CONDITIONS: The mission in which this award was earned must have involved securing peace between warring nations, or the signing of a peace treaty. All characters involved in the mission are eligible.
BENEFIT: Once per mission, when attempting a Persuade task to prevent violence, the character may automatically succeed at the task by spending Momentum equal to the task’s Difficulty.
Star Cross
The Star Cross is a medal awarded to Starfleet personnel for distinguished actions.
COST: 3
CONDITIONS: None
BENEFIT: Once per mission, before attempting a task that one of their focuses applies to, the character may choose to double their focus range. For that task, the character scores two successes for any die that rolls equal to or less than twice their department rating (for example, if the character has a department rating of 4, any die that rolls an 8 or lower scores two successes for that task).
Starfleet Citation for Conspicuous Gallantry
The Starfleet Citation for Conspicuous Gallantry is an award declaring an act of heroism by a Starfleet officer.
COST: 2
CONDITIONS: The character must have succeeded at a particularly heroic, risky, or daring action during the mission.
BENEFIT: Once per mission, when the character pays for an Immediate Momentum spend by adding Threat, they may roll 1d20. If the result is equal to or less than the character’s Daring, 1 Threat is immediately removed from the gamemaster’s pool.
Starfleet Decoration of Gallantry
The Starfleet Decoration of Gallantry is a medal awarded to Starfleet officers who show extreme bravery in the line of duty.
COST: 2
CONDITIONS: The character must have faced an extremely difficult or dangerous situation and triumphed despite the peril.
BENEFIT: Once per mission, whenever the character suffers an Injury, halve the Severity of that Injury before avoiding it.
Starfleet Medal of Honor
The Starfleet Medal of Honor is a medal for valor presented to Starfleet personnel who are deemed to have acted above and beyond the call of duty.
COST: 5
CONDITIONS: None. It is possible to earn this medal multiple times.
BENEFIT: Once per mission, the character may gain 2 bonus Momentum on a successful task (bonus Momentum may not be saved). If the character has earned this medal multiple times, this benefit may be used once per mission per Medal of Honor the character has earned, but no more than once per task.
Starfleet Surgeons’ Decoration
This is a special medal for valor awarded exclusively to Starfleet medical personnel for acts above and beyond the call of duty.
COST: 3
CONDITIONS: The character must be a Medical officer of some description, who acted above and beyond the call of duty in an attempt to save a patient or patients or otherwise alleviate some medical crisis.
BENEFIT: Once per mission, the character may reduce the Difficulty of a single Medical task by 2, to a minimum of 1.