Have you ever wanted to buy a new starship, console, or weapon, but you didn't have enough energy credits? I think that can be said for everyone who plays STO. In modern day, we have cruise ships that people pay to get on the boat and travel to different places. What of we incorporated this into STO. Instead of cruise ships, we have Star liners. You would purchase a Star liner from the Shipyard and you would choose a route to take. You could go from Vulcan to Andoria to Risa. Or from Earth to Regulus to the Briar Patch. The catch is, Star liners are massive. Some could be 3/4 of a kilometer long, so you would not be able to go faster than warp factor 3. At the end of your route, when you returned to Earth, you would receive a significant amount of energy credits. What makes it harder is that you might get attacked along the way by raiders. You would have to use your diplomatic skills or your combat skills. If you are an Ambassador, great, but if you a combatant, you will need support because a Star liner only has 3 weapon slots that are low-yield. But you can launch 5 peregrine class fighters and you have 1 Orion class Battle Support Ship (see next thread). The catch is, you only have 30 fighters for your trip, and you might run into many raiders. If you have too many attacks on your Star liner, you may lose energy credits at the end. Each Star liner has a Captain's Yacht that can be launched for a scientific scan of a planet. It might return with lots of data samples. Since there are families aboard your Star liner, you may have to do some counseling, which might become a skill in STO. Take a look at this Star liner-Oasis class.
Oasis Class Starliner
I appreciate ANY comments that you feel you want to share about this topic!
Watch out for my next post that will be discussing the Orion class battle support ship.
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I had another idea for Starliners. The Federation has an outreach program for civilizations in need. A starliner could carryout a relief effort on a planet to a greater extent than a regular starfleet ship could. Starliners would have at least 20 sickbays. There would be almost 5000 people on one. It would be good for planet-wide evacuations as well because of the amount of space. 4 or 5 starliners could evacuate a planet in a matter of days.
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michael206.
No problem!
But the design is very well done; definitely better than anything I could do.
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Thanks for your feedback President_Shinzon, I have designed a Starliner Captain uniform. I hope you like it.
Starliner Captain Uniform
haha cool. It's like a more refined Zapp Brannigan uniform.
Starliner Captain Uniform Upgrade
I will be upgrading the sketch of the Oasis class soon.
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On the other hand, i do like the diplomatic aspect. However, no star liners or anything.
If they put in something like a courier system, or where you get missions to deliver an ambassador, you will do it in your ship.
No need to pay you for it, you are a starfleet captain. They just give you orders, not bribe you.
Zapp Brannigan uniforms would be super awesome, but I think the canon cops would riot if we saw that. They might be able to be made if Cryptic let male toons wear skirts.
However, the design you came up with doesn't seem to work for me. This would, however.
Actually, it isn't mine. I just think it looks like it'd do really well in Star Trek.
Yeah, the C-3 would look good in STO.
And I would come up with my own designs, but I can barely draw my way out of a paper bag--I'm much better with story ideas and technical specs, as long as I have an existing universe and framework to work from.
Thanks for the tip, and I might give it a try sometime.
However, my statement of being much better with story ideas and technical specs, as long as I have an existing universe and framework to work from, still applies.
Oasis Class Starliner update