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D?Gavama class Bird of Prey?

sfc#5932 sfc Member Posts: 992 Bug Hunter
edited February 2013 in Klingon Discussion
Q: (trygvar13) What happened to the D?Gavama class Bird of Prey? I have the screenshot of when it was released on TRIBBLE but it is still not available.

Dstahl: This ship was removed prior to our Free to Play launch and we expect it to return to the game later this year.

This was on TRIBBLE? What ship is that, and can I see the fore mentioned screenshot? I'm curious, as I found this on a non-canon wiki:

http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/D%27Gavama_class
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Meh....D'Gavama....K'Vort.....they all look like B'rel to me.

    Not impressed.
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  • sfc#5932 sfc Member Posts: 992 Bug Hunter
    edited February 2013
    shpoks wrote: »
    Meh....D'Gavama....K'Vort.....they all look like B'rel to me.

    Not impressed.
    That may just be the picture they used on the wiki. They do it all the time, using stock images.
  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    Pssh. Memory Beta lists so many apocryphal starship designs (Mostly from the FASA RPG) the devs and artists would go mad if they tried to implement them all. Fortunately, most of them are quite stupid. (There's even a Klingon battlecruiser/troop transport called Fat Man. I kid you not.)

    As for the D'Gavama, it's almost a hundred and fifty years old, it shares its K22 designation with the B'rel (it probably actually is nothing more than an earlier version of the B'rel) and it brings nothing to the table as far as unique abilities that would make for a good universal console.

    Thanks Cryptic, but you can leave this one on the back burner for as long as you like.
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  • hookan91hookan91 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    This was on TRIBBLE? What ship is that, and can I see the fore mentioned screenshot? I'm curious, as I found this on a non-canon wiki:

    http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/D%27Gavama_class

    I was also curious about that BoP, so i found this on Google.

    http://imageshack.us/f/143/dgvamavariant.jpg/
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    hookan91 wrote: »
    I was also curious about that BoP, so i found this on Google.

    http://imageshack.us/f/143/dgvamavariant.jpg/

    That I could get into.
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  • blitzy4blitzy4 Member Posts: 839 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    that used to be a low tier BoP skin, I still have one on one of my characters.
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    hookan91 wrote: »
    I was also curious about that BoP, so i found this on Google.

    http://imageshack.us/f/143/dgvamavariant.jpg/

    lol :D So I was right, just another B'rel...:rolleyes:
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  • blitzy4blitzy4 Member Posts: 839 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    it looks a bit better and the wing articulation is cool.
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  • mondoidmondoid Member Posts: 305 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    It's funny I just this: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Klingon-Bird---Prey/dp/145169590X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360995596&sr=1-3&keywords=klingon

    Written in 2012, it lists every detail about the Bird Of Prey ships as well as a English to Klingon mini dictionary and script.

    All BoP are commissioned by the various Houses and built to individual specifications, so very few ships are the same. The red bar on the B'rel is the cloaking emitter, there are two warp core on each ship, there are multiple types of torpedoes carried on the ship (Talon's Strike would be the standard one, Morath's Fist is a sensor probe/overloaded torp/one man escape pod, Eagle's Claw is like the Breen mine torp), the wings are actually flat warp nacelles, the basic ship has 7 decks with 36 crew but most of the ship is dedicated to cargo space. The B'rel is standard template for all BoP, the K'vort is just a scaled up version of it, they add extra decks and increase the size of the weapons if they want a bigger ship, Disruptors are compressed plasma bolts or beams taken from the warp core and have effective range of 52km at 19.5 to 3.7 megawatts.

    Yes, there are bathrooms on the ship, its Beq not bek, there 3 cooks one the ship (they don't "cook" they're butchers who use strong spices) the ships surgeon lives in the sickbay and is called "Haqwl" (bone mender). The Klingon Naval Academy is responsible for the principal design and mass production of ships in located on Dek'Go'Kor.

    Book quote " It is a misconception that Klingons have no interest in science; it's simply that they are interested the kind of science that can be used in combat".
  • mondoidmondoid Member Posts: 305 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    another fun fact, the KDF almost never retires any ship, they keep retrofitting them until they are blown up.
  • dma1986dma1986 Member Posts: 541 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    From the Ask Cryptic:
    Q: (trygvar13) What happened to the D?Gavama class Bird of Prey? I have the screenshot of when it was released on TRIBBLE but it is still not available.

    Dstahl: This ship was removed prior to our Free to Play launch and we expect it to return to the game later this year.

    Hopefully related to this, and we're getting levels 1-20 back... but probably not :cool:
    Q: (psycoticvulcan) Would it be possible to redo the KDF tutorial mission where you have to run around Qo?noS?

    Dstahl: Yes. We have someone working on changing the KDF tutorial right now. It is scheduled to be released in a future update.
  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,921 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    hookan91 wrote: »
    I was also curious about that BoP, so i found this on Google.

    http://imageshack.us/f/143/dgvamavariant.jpg/

    Would be sweet if the Elite BoP carrier pets look like that!
  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited February 2013
    It's simply the FASA interpretation of the ship we saw in Star Trek 3 so...it's the B'rel in this game just with a different name.
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