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scififan78
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I would like to broach the subject on the Romulan Republic Flagship. The Republic needs to have a ship that is on par with the Odyssey and Bortasq to represent their governments. There are many that are speculating/wanting this ship to be the Scimitar. I, however, do not think this would be such a good idea. I think the Flagship should be unique to the faction. By that, I mean Shinzon used the Scimitar to control the Romulan Fleet and planned to use it to annihilate Earth. The Romulan Star Empire employs the Scimitar as a tool of control and terrorism. Would the new Republic want a ship with that history to lead its fleet in a new era of freedom and cooperation? I think the new ship should be truly Republic. A marriage of Romulan and Reman design to signify a new beginning.
What say you fellow forum goers?
What say you fellow forum goers?
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Besides, the D'deridexes were used for years in the Empire's conflicts with its neighbours. The Republic don't hesitate to use them.
Yeah, I love the idea. Especially since Cryptic will probably deliver the Scimitar with a Thalaron weapon, but it won't happen. The Scimitar has too many fans.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
What of the resources they have been getting from the Federation and Empire? (Just playing devil's advocate here)
The flagships on the Fed and Kling side of things are large "do everything" ships with several universal slots.
Given the D'deridex was the Romulan "do everything" ship in the shows, I think something similar to it and the D'ridthau, just a bit larger and more advanced (maybe a bit streamlined) would be in order.
As a side note about the Scimitar; if Cryptic is consistent with flagship choice, Scimitar IS the logical choice if it ends up being a 3 ship pack in the C-store like the Odyssey for federation and the bortas for Klingon...
If it is going to be a real faction it should have its own flagship. Who's to say they didnt steal some Romulan Star empire design?:o
Let me chime in here , as we know obisek and the remans have allied themselves to the romulan republic now..where is the first place you meet obisek? the vault
Now what did the RSE do at the vault? build ships and whatever else
Now what if obisek came across blue prints for a dreadnaught while he and the remans were at the vault.
also the republic could easily start up the vault again to produce such a massive ship with the new found resources from the fed and klinks
I was thinking maybe blueprints that obisek found while at the vault....that would be more logical and probable.
Im thinking D'Tan on new romulus flying his new ship a scooter named the RRS Tree Hugger
That would be more his style and yeah i could picture obisek in a scimitar
I like this idea.
Maybe they don't only find blueprints (which still mean months to find out how to produce the suff) but perhaps a partially finished ship.
Just the hull would give them a headstart to get it up and running.
Of course it would still be unique or rare etc...;)
i like your idea Even better i like the half done ship concept after all there is a deactivated borg sphere at the vault and we only get to go only so far into such a massive structure what other secrets lye in wait in the depths of the vault.
As for their own flagship, I certainly see the logic behind the possible treasures to be found in the Vault. Perhaps a sleeker D'Deridex was being developed...
Thats why the concept of either finding blueprints or a half built ship at the vault is a good idea it can be a whole new design something cryptic can be creative with.
and the story of how it came to be would be easily told
You should probably start getting used to that then; the Scimitar has been stated will probably be a C-Store release at some point after launch.
And it's an extremely iconic ship, so - flagship or not - everyone and their mother will be flying one when it releases.
The way the last thing this game needed was going F2P according to some?
The way everyone is flying Jem'Hadar Dreadnoughts now?
Total IDIC fail
My choice for roms would be a ships with looks simular to D'deridex... I personally would not call the scimitar an iconic ship. When I think Romulans, I thinks hordes of D'deridex warbirds, not one scimitar which I personally only saw in 1 movie.
Besides if the scimitar would ever become playable I doubt the tholaron weapon wil be very powerful. It could never one-shot me... So it will be so badly nerfed before even available it would be a waste of money to even buy the damn thing.
It should resemble the iconic ships that came before, so should have a clear lineage relation to the D'D with swooping wings and curved lines, a beak shaped "head" and a feathered wing hull.
The main body should not be too big and swollen, Romulan ship design was heading toward slim and streamlined hulls.
http://franksavage918.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/probert_2011_march_r021.jpg
It is a design by the one and only Probert and comes from Star Trek: Ships of the Line 2011. This ship class appeared in one Star Trek novel as well as the I.R.W. Tomalak's Fist in Indistinguishable from Magic.
The Aventine and Titan came from calendar and novels as well, so it is possible if hard to get clearance from CBS.
Maybe it was under design for months or even the better part of a year. Who knows what else they were doing during the path to 2409.
That's assuming people would buy the ship purely on the fact that it had the Thalaron weapon and said weapon was hugely powerful.
In reality, people will buy it because of it's badassery factor.
I do have to agree that it looks badass...
That's just a DD turned sideways. Not that it looks bad, but I would prefer the Scimitar over that one. Now some of the Cryptic made LoR ships looks very good indeed, but none of them are fit to be the flagship imo.
The Scimitar is the biggest and most advanced ships the Romulans ever built AFAIK. It fits as a flagship.
The DD is iconic, but I'm not sure that ship should be a flagship.
Maybe use this instead : http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/File:Melfal.jpg
Set aside its awesome design and that is canon and most ppl wanna fly a canon ship, the new Cryptic's ships designs are not so good, really sry to say this. Apart from the valdore, the other ship models seems to be made in a hurry and without lack of inspiration. Here on forums i've seen lots of better models thrown around by players.
Another idea would be to make a variant of Hakeev's ship as new romulan flagship. Altho it seems, at least to me, that is a copy (or inspired by) Andromeda Ascendent, but with a Narada "skin", that ship would problly be a succes.
wweelll true heck even in a few of the fed missions the romulans are reverse engeneering borg tech and neros ship is a romulan mineing ship retro fitted with borg tech ssooo anything is possible.
As for a 'Dreadnought' counterpart to the Odyssey and Bortas, yeah, that's pretty much the Scimitar. Perhaps if the Federation get an Andorian Broadsider and the KDF get the Orion Warbarge(which I'd buy in a heartbeat, mind you) as secondary dreadnoughts, I'd be all for the Romulans getting a brand new non-Reman counterpart.