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Light Cruiser Refit - Merian Class

novapolaris#2925 novapolaris
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edited April 2015 in C-Store, ZEN, and Promotions
Seeing as Cryptic has gotten the rights to use Mark Rademaker's starship designs in Star Trek Online, his Merian class would make for an excellent refit, or even retrofit of the Miranda.

Hopefully they are still planning to incorporate more of his designs into the game than his Vesta and variants. I certainly would love to see more, like the Merian and Spirit classes.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I believe that They only obtained permission to use the Vesta Class ships.

    Unless I'm mistaken, They would have to renegotiate for anything else.
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  • novapolaris#2925 novapolaris
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    edited June 2013
    daveyny wrote: »
    I believe that They only obtained permission to use the Vesta Class ships.

    Unless I'm mistaken, They would have to renegotiate for anything else.

    Actually, according to Mark Rademaker's website, they obtained permission to use his designs in general. The problem is instead with Cryptic deciding whether or not to use his designs, at this point. If you need a quote, I can get it.
  • novapolaris#2925 novapolaris
    novapolaris#2925
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    edited June 2013
    I have a quote about the matter:
    Mark Rademaker wrote:
    Wednesday, February 1, 2012
    In other news:

    CBS in the shape of John van Citters gave me green light to get my starships in Star Trek Online.

    I'm preparing a list of questions and tech specs that I need to sent to Cryptic, see how and if we can shape this. To be continued. :)

    Posted by Mark at 22:15
    It can be found here: [link]

    It should be more than possible to get his other ships in the game now, with the only obstacle being the decision to use them as well as the time and effort necessary to make them.
  • tzandtzand Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    I would LOVE to see the Merian class in STO. It's one of my all-time favourite designs!
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    As the Merian is basically a re-skinned Miranda - it is essentially a Miranda-type with a pointy Saucer - I have a feeling we will not see it as a T5 or T6 ship. Bringing the Merian into the fold would just up the demand for T5/6 Miranda-types - and that would just up the screaming for an end-game Connie.
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited March 2015
    I would love to see the Merian replace the ShiKahr.
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  • davidwforddavidwford Member Posts: 1,836 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I would not mind seeing that ship design as part of a ship skin pack for the Miranda along with the Saratoga side mounted pods, the Soyuz parts, the Anton TOS parts, and the Lantree no rollbar option. After buying this pack, the much maligned Light Cruiser would have as many as 8 design options.
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