Worse - confusing "behavior of secret police/intelligence agency toward perceived enemy" with "Romulan behavior toward everyone". If all Romulans acted at all times the way the Tal'Shiar act toward the Federation, Sela would never have been accepted into Imperial service, much less risen to the position shown in TNG (or the position of Empress in The Road to 2409), as she's half-human.
You'd have to watch the Reunification epsiodes (those with Spock), too. Because from what you write, I cannot help to conclude that you confuse "military officer behaviour towards the enemy" with "Romulan behavior towards everyone".
Worse - confusing "behavior of secret police/intelligence agency toward perceived enemy" with "Romulan behavior toward everyone". If all Romulans acted at all times the way the Tal'Shiar act toward the Federation, Sela would never have been accepted into Imperial service, much less risen to the position shown in TNG (or the position of Empress in The Road to 2409), as she's half-human.
Romulan Reunificationists are in no way representative of the public at large, I suggest you re-watch that two-parter. The reunificationists are an underground movement that follows Surak's teachings and essentially aspire to be Vulcans, where the majority of Romulans most certainly do not follow Surak's teachings or want to move to Vulcan. In the episode Sela's attempt to take over Vulcan was a few ships carrying 2000 Romulan commandos between them to stand in for the reunificationists that were supposedly fleeing to Vulcan. That doesn't exacly indicate a large slice of the Romulan population.
Sela was able to reach her position because she was the daughter of a high-ranking Romulan military commander.
At any rate, the Military has been the face of the Star Empire for the majority of the Romulan's appearance on the show. Even the Scientists and Politicians we meet in the shows are military or ex-military. And it is this same military that would make the most logical sense as a faction than some splinter faction based off a small underground movement. In much the same way that The Federation faction is Starfleet and not the Vulcan Science institute or the Maquis. it just makes little to no sense to have the Romulan faction running in the exact opposite direction than what they were consistently portrayed as on the shows.
Cryptic doesn't know how to make him go away.... They'd have to redo the whole Romulan story arc, and that's not gonna happen.
How so? Why couldn't they simply un-flag his discharge immunity at the completion of the last Romulan story mission? Any future replays of those arcs would have his input as usual, regardless of whether or not he's taking up an officer slot.
Tovan is a useful officer in the beginning and not bad on the ground at any point, but eventually he becomes a waste of space. I have no need or sympathy for an arrogant NPC I didn't even choose to take along.
Elisa Flores can be dismissed, the Voth can be dismissed, everyone else can be dismissed. But not Tovan, oh precious Tovan. Hey, Tovan. Report to the cargo bay airlock, there's an issue with the tertiary EPS conduits. No, you won't need an EV suit, it's perfectly safe. I promise.
Love him or hate him he's here to stay... Cryptic doesn't know how to make him go away.... They'd have to redo the whole Romulan story arc, and that's not gonna happen. He becomes much less intrusive once you complete the story arc.
You know that would be something awful to find out that the company that created this idiot can't find a way to get rid of him.
Cryptic: Don't create some monster you can't get rid of, really sad they would make a storyline not for the player yet for an npc which is a downright slap in the face of players.
Romulan Reunificationists are in no way representative of the public at large, I suggest you re-watch that two-parter. The reunificationists are an underground movement that follows Surak's teachings and essentially aspire to be Vulcans, where the majority of Romulans most certainly do not follow Surak's teachings or want to move to Vulcan. In the episode Sela's attempt to take over Vulcan was a few ships carrying 2000 Romulan commandos between them to stand in for the reunificationists that were supposedly fleeing to Vulcan. That doesn't exacly indicate a large slice of the Romulan population.
Sela was able to reach her position because she was the daughter of a high-ranking Romulan military commander.
At any rate, the Military has been the face of the Star Empire for the majority of the Romulan's appearance on the show. Even the Scientists and Politicians we meet in the shows are military or ex-military. And it is this same military that would make the most logical sense as a faction than some splinter faction based off a small underground movement. In much the same way that The Federation faction is Starfleet and not the Vulcan Science institute or the Maquis. it just makes little to no sense to have the Romulan faction running in the exact opposite direction than what they were consistently portrayed as on the shows.
The point he was making is that there are a wide variety of attitudes seen in TNG era Romulans. Even more so when you watch Nemesis.
The point he was making is that there are a wide variety of attitudes seen in TNG era Romulans. Even more so when you watch Nemesis.
Yes, of course there is a rather wide array of attitudes, but the iconic Romulan-the kind of Romulan that set the tone for the Romulan Star Empire as a whole on the show-they were a wholly different breed than the ones that have suddenly surged to prominence in STO.
I don't have a problem with 'good guy' Romulans existing, after all we saw enough of them over the years to know they don't have a borg-hive mind. However, it does irritate me when they are suddenly retconned into being the face of the species when that was never the case, and what's more, pretending like the TNG/DS9 era Romulans that put them on the map were never really a thing to begin with and that deep down nearly all the Romulans have always been like Tovan Khev and co.
I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find Kazon Scientists or Klingon Farmers. I'm sure they'd exist somewhere-but they shouldn't be handled this way IMO. 'Good guys' has never really been the Romulan's shtick. They have been well established as the scheming. backstabbing, militaristic and xenophobic neighbors of the Federation. To set them up as otherwise seems....off.
The "unification" episodes just show you how loyal a Romulan like Pardek really can be. Never betraying his mission, or the real people of the Star Empire. An inspiration to the rest of us.
Donatra switched sides because she wanted to prevent Shinzon's genocide of humanity.
Admiral Jarok wanted to prevent a war and gave up his way of life for it.
You forget that her beef was with Genocide, not with conquest. Had Shinzon not been a raving lunatic Caligua stand in and had and/or been planning to launch a full-fledged invasion and conquest of the Federation instead of a half-baked scheme to take his personal flagship on a unsupported kamikaze run on their seat of government, who knows what would have happened.
In fact, the very first Romulan we ever saw on the screen thought about failing his mission intentionally because it could cause another long war if he didn't - but his loyalty prevented that.
I don't think its any small secret that the Romulans were completely rebooted for TNG in much the same way the Klingons were.
You are confusing the action of the servants of a brutal autocratic regime with "species character". Even humans would act just like the people you identify with Romulans if they lived in a similar regime. That does not define them, though.
You could say the same thing about Klingons, but I doubt people would identify a Klingon faction as 'genuine' if it consisted of a bunch of Klingon farmers adopting the teachings of Surak and leaving all that honor and glory nonsense behind. It's in their culture if not their blood. Similarly, Romulans aren't really very Romulan unless they are scheming, sneaky and backstabbing. Otherwise they are just what you have said-humans (with pointy ears).
The Romulan people are of course passionate (being a saner version of Vulcans), which will lead them to acts of great compassion as much as such of great anger. We see that in the Romulan story arc, and we see a militaristic, even imperialist approach to problems even with Tovan Khev - where any Federation officer would, for example, had made sure that the True Way would have been warned about the Solanae/Elachi attacks on their ships, Tovan recommended blowing the evidence up, so that the Romulan Republic has an edge with knowing about that incident. And the player of course personally executes Haakeev, where a Federation officer would have taken him into custody (had the Remans not shot the poor Iconian puppet in the fed version).
That whole arc pretty much served as a handfisted way of hammering into the heads of players how good the Republic was. Every one of the leads you get from the Tal Shiar contact on the Republic possibly acting underhanded pretty much ends up as 'The Republic/D'Tan would never do anything approaching morally questionable and the Tal Shiar are really, really evil'. On the whole it pretty much served to pretty much remove the possibility from players minds that the Republic were anything other than the 'White hats' in the story, and the Star Empire as anything other than the 'black hats'.
The people you think of as the "archetypical Romulan" are military officers, high-ranking politicians or spies first and Romulans second, because even individual Romulans are defined by what they do repeatedly.
I don't think you understand what 'archtypical' means. Almost every single Romulan we see has been defined by their relationship with either the military or Tal Shiar. As such the military really is the face of the Star Empire.
A Romulan is a Vulcan with the strongest of emotions and the will to live with them, canalizing them through loyalty instead of philosphy. That is what defines them, not "backstabbing" or xenophobia, not even militarism.
Although there is plenty of backstabbing and militarism even on the side of the "good guys" in our Romulan story. Which you know if you have played it.
And yet almost all of them exhibit some combination of backstabbing, xenophobia, militarism, arrogance etc. These are traits which are much more widely exhibited and immediately recognizable. I'd say these traits define them much more than any others that take a back seat much of the time.
I get it. You want evil Romulans of the old ways. That wouldn't have worked in STO, the three factions need to cooperate against all the PVE enemies. How would you have implemented that?
He just want to play what was in the TV series. The thing that this product would not exist without. Just like some people want to play Starfleet. It is the exact same need right there. It is just that you don't mess with starfleet. Those big bucks would crumble.
This is how you do it when you can't provide something: You bow down to the fact you can't do it. And end it there. That's what this is really about: Honesty to the source. You cannot argue away the source, only try to twist it out of shape, but not endlessly.
As for the *real* alternative, they could have made another splinter "faction" that was not so mindnumbingly dumbed down to fit into the technical format of not being able to provide anything sensible, rational, or compelling, so very much out of touch with the mood of the shows. Something that doesn't scream Space Elves, and melt your brain down in the process. With antagonists that makes your 40ies comic book villains come out omni-dimensional in depth and scope. Provided we assume that a real Romulan faction blending into the established background, is so way out of their league that they could not have taken their time, and that all this hugging and kissing is mandatory. I don't think it must be. I think they rushed it. But whatever. Must follow those limitations to the very end, no matter how bad it looks!
So we can sit and listen to endless excuses about how great it was to receive nothing, just to get the toys, without any attachment or involvement included. Like we absolutely are doing now. But you know what, it doesn't help making the existing content any better. Even when making it better would not be so hard, for this is as far down you get, when talking about implementation of a quasi-fraction, just for the sake of launching these franchise based gadgets into space. At least they can do that, go for the shape of things.
That's where we are at. The empty figure of a Romulan, drawn in white. There is nothing inside. It can't be explained away. For it just lies there, the silhouette of a murdered concept.
Look, once and for all, to the people who are complaining that the Romulan Republic isn't acting like the Romulans from the shows: We know absolutely rhymes-with-duck all about the Romulans in the shows.
They were never developed to the same extent as the Klingons. All we ever saw of them were Tal Shiar (i.e. the Romulan equivalent of the SS), the odd naval officer, and some politicians who got thalaronned less than three minutes after their introduction. We saw absolutely zilch of ordinary Romulan civilians. It's a void in the setting that Cryptic has chosen to fill.
Get over it.
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Well, Romulus and Remus are dust. That is canon. They have to work with it. So, how should this be implemented?
Well, one thing is for sure, and we all agree on that: Without a forced Boff.
I must have watched other shows. That's fine, everybody's perception varies.
Hm. The story of the Romulan player character screams "Vengeance!" and "These abominations must die" and "we will fight for our new home".
Space Elves? Where?
Honestly.
Yes the removal of Tovan would be a great step in the right direction. I'm glad we agree.
The Tal Shiar of this game, they have been made so extreme they no longer appear believable. Feeding the entire population to aliens, that does not take me back to anything, apart from some B-movies out there.
( We're not talking about the same thing at any rate. Clearly.)
I don't see any Romulans from the TV series in STO, so any generic space faring race with pointy ears fits the bill. Especially when they are linked to popular culture and used in advertising, in exactly that image. Back it up with certain costume options and other "extended" features, and voila. You only have to be at the command center to see what is going on. So yeah. Space Elves in the place of something believable. Like Romulans. It is all in plain sight.
Look, once and for all, to the people who are complaining that the Romulan Republic isn't acting like the Romulans from the shows: We know absolutely rhymes-with-duck all about the Romulans in the shows.
They were never developed to the same extent as the Klingons. All we ever saw of them were Tal Shiar (i.e. the Romulan equivalent of the SS), the odd naval officer, and some politicians who got thalaronned less than three minutes after their introduction. We saw absolutely zilch of ordinary Romulan civilians. It's a void in the setting that Cryptic has chosen to fill.
Get over it.
This is not about plausibility, it is about not having to come up with it.
Does any of the Romulan Republic NPC's in STO have a problem with conquest? We don't know, because right now, the Republic is just not strong enough for conquest.
Edit: Or rather... the Dyson Sphere is being conquered,. And who has the lead?
I don't think that's really comparable to some of the RSE other attempts at conquest. They are part of a coalition after all, and the sphere's capture is equally beneficial to all involved. Omega particles are equally bad for anyone who uses warp travel.
By that standard, my fed captain is absolutely devious, because I got the KDF, Federation, Defari and Cardassians to fight the borg.
To me it is a secret. I don't see that anywhere. Of course their society and government evolved, and the individuals are different ones, but other than that?
Well, I guess I don't see many similarities. They are both very loyal to their government, but besides that? TOS rommies were faux Romans, while TNG forward Rommies are much different.
Besides, apart perhaps from the proconsul himself, there aren't any "reunificationists" in the Romulan Republic mentioned. And even D'Tan isn't one, otherwise he would have just emigrated to Vulcan.
I know, that's why I mentioned it. It makes sense for a species with warp travel to understand the principles of agriculture, after all. Yet somehow I imagine that if Cryptic advertised a Klingon faction and then released a faction in a similar theme to the Romulan Republic, Klingon fans might be a bit peeved. 'Klingon' carries a lot of connotations with it, such as Honor, savagery, battlelust, etc. Somehow some people seem to be missing the similar connotations that come with 'Romulan'.
They might as well be reunificationists, considering how willing they are to cozy up to the Feds and KDF. And D'Tan mentions reunification on one or more occasions, so yeah, I'd say he qualifies as a reunificationist.
Well, I must say that stealing supplies is of questionable morality, usually. And STO's Tal shiar isn't Romulan. It's Iconian.
Considering what the Tal Shiar accused them of, yeah. As far as that mission is concerned, the colony was genocided for being involved in RR humanitarian efforts. Heaven forbid the Romulan Republic actually do something that gives one pause to consider that their actions are anything except perfectly reasonable and nice.
I get it. You want evil Romulans of the old ways. That wouldn't have worked in STO, the three factions need to cooperate against all the PVE enemies. How would you have implemented that?
The Klingons are already in a war with the Federation, yet work together with them on all sorts of content. The Klingons torture, murder, assassinate and enslave their enemies. If the Klingons can act evil, why not the Romulans? If the KDF can be at war with the Federation and still work with them, why do the Romulans have to become Federation and KDF vassals? It absolutely could work in STO, because these 'issues' have already been dealt with the Klingons.
I think you should be able to dismiss him or make him inactive or something after you rescue his sister.
She just got through a harrowing ordeal and needs her brother. She is his only remaining relative, so they should have the opportunity to have some 'family time' together. He needs a break for the constant conflict, and some time taken off to rebuild his life with his sister would be good for him. I am certain D'tan could find them work in his administration or something planetside.
1) We have no control over him as Commander's of our own warbirds! Seriously, as a KDF affiliated Romulan (and I hate that only slightly less than being a squimish, sniveling snot nosed Federation affiliated Romulan) I get missions all the time to execute mutineers. Well, why am I getting all those missions? Could it be because I cannot control MY OWN FREAKING BRIDGE CREW?!?!?! Seriously, Tovan SHUT UP AND GET DOWN TO THE CARGO BAY TO COUNT MY STEM BOLTS! Why the FRAK does he get to kick my highly trained, extremely loyal, Executive Officer out of her seat and take over without getting shived by my personal Tal'Shiar security forces? (ie, my ground crew?)
2) He's all but useless most of the time. Fine, if he has to send me a missive, he can call me on the communicator.
Also on the note of boffs and lack thereof, why does it seem I only get a boff recruitment mission, for a romulan boff, once a month? Am I just unlucky here, or are they trying to force Toven Khev down my throat?
I get boff missions every 3-4 days, sometimes more frequently, on my Fed-Rihan gal.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
butcher suspect, "What'd you hit me with?"
Temperance Brennan, "A building"
We're not asking the devs to force you to get rid of Tovan ... but your comment in effect is like asking the devs to continue forcing us to keep Tovan.
You shoould have the option to keep Tovan and we should have the option to discharge him from our ships. His character should be OPTIONAL and not mandatory.
Nahh, I took it as he was trying to be funny, by showing a pic of Khev dressed like the Terminator.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
butcher suspect, "What'd you hit me with?"
Temperance Brennan, "A building"
I kind of feel bad that Toven lost his sister and is always asking about her on away missions. Perhaps.. he can be released from our bridge crew roster to pursue covert leads on his sister and check back with us from time to time if he needs a ship to come to his rescue. This should work, while continuing his own storyline journey.
What about Hiven? That guys a real piece of work, always talking about his fancy hair, instead of focusing on the mission.
Ahh.. Hiven. Must have forgotten him on some planet in a nebula somewhere. He can call me, if the need arises. Not going to call him...
D'Vex on the other hand, he is still there. You just can't get enough former T'liss engineers these days. Had hoped he could upgrade one to the T'varo standard. Guess it will take a little more than one engineer though. But he stays as a reminder of things forgotten.
Tovan s the in game version of ARC, like it or not you must have this, cannot change it or shut it up, there to annoy you and slowly deplete the game's quality of life.... FUN
The whole reason I wanted to play this game was so I could level up and purchase a Scimitar, but I simply can't do that if I have to see Tovan's annoying face every time I turn around. Please change it so that we can dismiss him after his story is done. He completely ruins the atmosphere for me, at least. I want to be able to customize my entire bridge crew, and he does not fit in. Are there any plans to fix this?
Thank you.
P.S. I don't have a problem spending money on games that I enjoy playing, as my Champions Online account will show, but I can't spend money on STO as long as I'm going to be stuck with an unwanted bridge officer.
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Romulan Reunificationists are in no way representative of the public at large, I suggest you re-watch that two-parter. The reunificationists are an underground movement that follows Surak's teachings and essentially aspire to be Vulcans, where the majority of Romulans most certainly do not follow Surak's teachings or want to move to Vulcan. In the episode Sela's attempt to take over Vulcan was a few ships carrying 2000 Romulan commandos between them to stand in for the reunificationists that were supposedly fleeing to Vulcan. That doesn't exacly indicate a large slice of the Romulan population.
Sela was able to reach her position because she was the daughter of a high-ranking Romulan military commander.
At any rate, the Military has been the face of the Star Empire for the majority of the Romulan's appearance on the show. Even the Scientists and Politicians we meet in the shows are military or ex-military. And it is this same military that would make the most logical sense as a faction than some splinter faction based off a small underground movement. In much the same way that The Federation faction is Starfleet and not the Vulcan Science institute or the Maquis. it just makes little to no sense to have the Romulan faction running in the exact opposite direction than what they were consistently portrayed as on the shows.
How so? Why couldn't they simply un-flag his discharge immunity at the completion of the last Romulan story mission? Any future replays of those arcs would have his input as usual, regardless of whether or not he's taking up an officer slot.
Tovan is a useful officer in the beginning and not bad on the ground at any point, but eventually he becomes a waste of space. I have no need or sympathy for an arrogant NPC I didn't even choose to take along.
Elisa Flores can be dismissed, the Voth can be dismissed, everyone else can be dismissed. But not Tovan, oh precious Tovan. Hey, Tovan. Report to the cargo bay airlock, there's an issue with the tertiary EPS conduits. No, you won't need an EV suit, it's perfectly safe. I promise.
You know that would be something awful to find out that the company that created this idiot can't find a way to get rid of him.
Cryptic: Don't create some monster you can't get rid of, really sad they would make a storyline not for the player yet for an npc which is a downright slap in the face of players.
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I don't have a problem with 'good guy' Romulans existing, after all we saw enough of them over the years to know they don't have a borg-hive mind. However, it does irritate me when they are suddenly retconned into being the face of the species when that was never the case, and what's more, pretending like the TNG/DS9 era Romulans that put them on the map were never really a thing to begin with and that deep down nearly all the Romulans have always been like Tovan Khev and co.
I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find Kazon Scientists or Klingon Farmers. I'm sure they'd exist somewhere-but they shouldn't be handled this way IMO. 'Good guys' has never really been the Romulan's shtick. They have been well established as the scheming. backstabbing, militaristic and xenophobic neighbors of the Federation. To set them up as otherwise seems....off.
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You forget that her beef was with Genocide, not with conquest. Had Shinzon not been a raving lunatic Caligua stand in and had and/or been planning to launch a full-fledged invasion and conquest of the Federation instead of a half-baked scheme to take his personal flagship on a unsupported kamikaze run on their seat of government, who knows what would have happened.
I don't think its any small secret that the Romulans were completely rebooted for TNG in much the same way the Klingons were.
You could say the same thing about Klingons, but I doubt people would identify a Klingon faction as 'genuine' if it consisted of a bunch of Klingon farmers adopting the teachings of Surak and leaving all that honor and glory nonsense behind. It's in their culture if not their blood. Similarly, Romulans aren't really very Romulan unless they are scheming, sneaky and backstabbing. Otherwise they are just what you have said-humans (with pointy ears).
That whole arc pretty much served as a handfisted way of hammering into the heads of players how good the Republic was. Every one of the leads you get from the Tal Shiar contact on the Republic possibly acting underhanded pretty much ends up as 'The Republic/D'Tan would never do anything approaching morally questionable and the Tal Shiar are really, really evil'. On the whole it pretty much served to pretty much remove the possibility from players minds that the Republic were anything other than the 'White hats' in the story, and the Star Empire as anything other than the 'black hats'.
I don't think you understand what 'archtypical' means. Almost every single Romulan we see has been defined by their relationship with either the military or Tal Shiar. As such the military really is the face of the Star Empire.
And yet almost all of them exhibit some combination of backstabbing, xenophobia, militarism, arrogance etc. These are traits which are much more widely exhibited and immediately recognizable. I'd say these traits define them much more than any others that take a back seat much of the time.
He just want to play what was in the TV series. The thing that this product would not exist without. Just like some people want to play Starfleet. It is the exact same need right there. It is just that you don't mess with starfleet. Those big bucks would crumble.
This is how you do it when you can't provide something: You bow down to the fact you can't do it. And end it there. That's what this is really about: Honesty to the source. You cannot argue away the source, only try to twist it out of shape, but not endlessly.
As for the *real* alternative, they could have made another splinter "faction" that was not so mindnumbingly dumbed down to fit into the technical format of not being able to provide anything sensible, rational, or compelling, so very much out of touch with the mood of the shows. Something that doesn't scream Space Elves, and melt your brain down in the process. With antagonists that makes your 40ies comic book villains come out omni-dimensional in depth and scope. Provided we assume that a real Romulan faction blending into the established background, is so way out of their league that they could not have taken their time, and that all this hugging and kissing is mandatory. I don't think it must be. I think they rushed it. But whatever. Must follow those limitations to the very end, no matter how bad it looks!
So we can sit and listen to endless excuses about how great it was to receive nothing, just to get the toys, without any attachment or involvement included. Like we absolutely are doing now. But you know what, it doesn't help making the existing content any better. Even when making it better would not be so hard, for this is as far down you get, when talking about implementation of a quasi-fraction, just for the sake of launching these franchise based gadgets into space. At least they can do that, go for the shape of things.
That's where we are at. The empty figure of a Romulan, drawn in white. There is nothing inside. It can't be explained away. For it just lies there, the silhouette of a murdered concept.
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They were never developed to the same extent as the Klingons. All we ever saw of them were Tal Shiar (i.e. the Romulan equivalent of the SS), the odd naval officer, and some politicians who got thalaronned less than three minutes after their introduction. We saw absolutely zilch of ordinary Romulan civilians. It's a void in the setting that Cryptic has chosen to fill.
Get over it.
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Yes the removal of Tovan would be a great step in the right direction. I'm glad we agree.
The Tal Shiar of this game, they have been made so extreme they no longer appear believable. Feeding the entire population to aliens, that does not take me back to anything, apart from some B-movies out there.
( We're not talking about the same thing at any rate. Clearly.)
I don't see any Romulans from the TV series in STO, so any generic space faring race with pointy ears fits the bill. Especially when they are linked to popular culture and used in advertising, in exactly that image. Back it up with certain costume options and other "extended" features, and voila. You only have to be at the command center to see what is going on. So yeah. Space Elves in the place of something believable. Like Romulans. It is all in plain sight.
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This is not about plausibility, it is about not having to come up with it.
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I don't think that's really comparable to some of the RSE other attempts at conquest. They are part of a coalition after all, and the sphere's capture is equally beneficial to all involved. Omega particles are equally bad for anyone who uses warp travel.
By that standard, my fed captain is absolutely devious, because I got the KDF, Federation, Defari and Cardassians to fight the borg.
Well, I guess I don't see many similarities. They are both very loyal to their government, but besides that? TOS rommies were faux Romans, while TNG forward Rommies are much different.
I know, that's why I mentioned it. It makes sense for a species with warp travel to understand the principles of agriculture, after all. Yet somehow I imagine that if Cryptic advertised a Klingon faction and then released a faction in a similar theme to the Romulan Republic, Klingon fans might be a bit peeved. 'Klingon' carries a lot of connotations with it, such as Honor, savagery, battlelust, etc. Somehow some people seem to be missing the similar connotations that come with 'Romulan'.
They might as well be reunificationists, considering how willing they are to cozy up to the Feds and KDF. And D'Tan mentions reunification on one or more occasions, so yeah, I'd say he qualifies as a reunificationist.
Considering what the Tal Shiar accused them of, yeah. As far as that mission is concerned, the colony was genocided for being involved in RR humanitarian efforts. Heaven forbid the Romulan Republic actually do something that gives one pause to consider that their actions are anything except perfectly reasonable and nice.
I don't think insinuating that others haven't played the Romulan storyline is either.
besides, you don't seem to have done much so far to demonstrate that the new Romulans are related to the iconic Romulans.
The Klingons are already in a war with the Federation, yet work together with them on all sorts of content. The Klingons torture, murder, assassinate and enslave their enemies. If the Klingons can act evil, why not the Romulans? If the KDF can be at war with the Federation and still work with them, why do the Romulans have to become Federation and KDF vassals? It absolutely could work in STO, because these 'issues' have already been dealt with the Klingons.
She just got through a harrowing ordeal and needs her brother. She is his only remaining relative, so they should have the opportunity to have some 'family time' together. He needs a break for the constant conflict, and some time taken off to rebuild his life with his sister would be good for him. I am certain D'tan could find them work in his administration or something planetside.
I get boff missions every 3-4 days, sometimes more frequently, on my Fed-Rihan gal.
butcher suspect, "What'd you hit me with?"
Temperance Brennan, "A building"
Nahh, I took it as he was trying to be funny, by showing a pic of Khev dressed like the Terminator.
butcher suspect, "What'd you hit me with?"
Temperance Brennan, "A building"
Ahh.. Hiven. Must have forgotten him on some planet in a nebula somewhere. He can call me, if the need arises. Not going to call him...
D'Vex on the other hand, he is still there. You just can't get enough former T'liss engineers these days. Had hoped he could upgrade one to the T'varo standard. Guess it will take a little more than one engineer though. But he stays as a reminder of things forgotten.
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Thank you.
P.S. I don't have a problem spending money on games that I enjoy playing, as my Champions Online account will show, but I can't spend money on STO as long as I'm going to be stuck with an unwanted bridge officer.