Zapp Groening



Zapp Groening, Daring Idiot is a Human leader who can be hired by the player to lead fleets.

Hiring Zapp Groening requires a initial payment of 100 BC, and 2 BC per turn thereafter.

Unique Ship
This leader has a unique combat vessel, the USS Simpson, that they will use when deployed to the strategy map. The USS Simpson behaves like a normal leader transport except that it may also engage in space combat. The vessel uses Command Points like a normal ship of its class.

''Note: The ship is quite powerful for a unique ship, being a battleship equipped with 3x subspace artillery modules and a targeting computer. It is unshielded and unarmored, except for the forward quadrant, which is quite heavily armored.''

Political Liability -25
To say that Zapp Groening, Daring Idiot is poor at dealing with alien races is an extreme understatement. Having this leader on your payroll will damage your relations with every known species by -25.

Fire Leader +30%
Zapp Groening, Daring Idiot is exceptionally good at making things explode. Fleets commanded by this leader gain a 30% bonus to all weapon damage.

Lines
Flavour text on encounter:
 * We know nothing about them, their language, their customs, or what they look like. Ramming speed!

On being hired:
 * Good news, everyone! Our alien overlords have a new task for us: kill other aliens!

On being rejected:
 * Very well! First mate, inform the men that we can now kill these aliens whenever we see them.

On being fired:
 * Fire me? That's unpossible! I quit!

If the player is too poor:

Trivia
The characters traits are a reference to the "Futurama" character Zapp Brannigan, who is a similarly useless commander with similar looks. His last Name is a reference to the show's creator Matt Groening, his ship to his other popular show "The Simpsons".