This is an expansion of the table that appears on page 125 on the Squadron Strike rulebook, done as a custom deck of cards. What these cards do is add complications to ships in space combat games, color coded by type. They can also be used for setting up initial conditions for RPG adventures, say with Star Trek Adventures. Some scenarios in Squadron Strike will tell you to draw cards from the deck before the scenario starts to show the impact of ships being on the tail end of long patrols, and they functionally act like random terrain in making scenarios more interesting. —description from the publisher