People, how can you not realize that this is not a ROMULAN ship but a HUMAN ship from an alternate dimension where the Humans created an organization called National Space Exploration Administration, the flagship of which is the NSEA Protector! Captained by none other than Commander Peter Taggart with his erstwhile crew of plucky Heroes.
I mean c'mon, Beryllium Core, 13 second Backstep, It's obvious that it's the Omega 13 device first seen on the NSEA Protector.
ok read the entire topic.....and I wanted to share something interesting that might be a reason for the time ships to be this way.
If you use search-fu you will find information on a possible star trek show in the future that takes place in the 30th century.
Among other things....it was talked about in its pitch information that the federation and other groups got to a point they didn't have the technology they used to have because they really didn't need it.
Thus a cloaking device wouldn't really be important to them from that standpoint.
The show pitch though also says that some new threat threatens the future group so they have to go out and re-establish links with all the differing groups to possibly fight this new threat.
Now since this game has a lot of stuff being looked at by CBS...and since CBS seams to want to make sure continuity is kept a specific way.....if this new show is thought to be the correct continuity of things to come....
Then these time ships would be exactly as they are.
Oh well this is all just my own idle speculation on this.
As I realized something was going to be different in the new star trek movies....when this game didn't have the organian peace treaty and instead had a war with the Klingons.
In fact I don't think the excalibians where met by the enterprise either in this game.
And I cant help but wonder about the Andromedans.....will these become some hidden group who show up and start turning would be player bridge crews in to geometric shapes on the ground?
I guess only time will tell.
Power without Perception is Spiritually useless and therefore of no true value.
Sadly i didnt see this thread earlier. But well i like the new rom time escort very much at least the looks of it. Only strange thing is that when its destroyed you get the animation for a sing core ship not the explosion of a warp core one.
Also i wonder if anyone found a way to use the manheim device skill without dying from it. Especially against borg or whatever the copies seem to hug as close to the explosion as possible so whenever i use the device in a not totally trivial its useless anyway like situation i almost always die because of it. Its really cool to suddenly implode with full health and shields.
Maybe that's the future result of being allied with Feds or KDF. The Rommies assimilate their allies' tech and throw away theirs...:P
This is.. unexpected, faction specific-wise. I would think that a technological specifc trait for each civilization, would continue to be improved upon as that said civilization continues to advance along it's timeline. Like water being wet, fire being hot, and policemen stopping at donut shops. Romulan ships should always employ a singularity core. It's a technological achievement of engineering which they take great pride in. Then.. I started pondering what would cause Cryptic to go in a different direction with providing a Romulan ship with an anti-matter warp core for a Temporal Ship. (*..still pondering while looking at the tremendously destructive force powering my warbird*).
Then an idea came to me and I checked with Wikipedia, and sure enough, there was the answer (sort'ov a really technical theory which seemed to be an answer).
Some theories, such as the theory of loop quantum gravity suggest that singularities may not exist. The idea is that due to quantum gravity effects, there is a minimum distance beyond which the force of gravity no longer continues to increase as the distance between the masses becomes shorter.
A Temporal Ship, by it's definition, operates (or has the unique ability to operate) outside of normal spacetime. A Romulan Singularity Core, being a blackhole, warps spacetime (to a tiny degree by it's very nature?) so the two would cancel out, being in close proximity to one another. A "spacetime" bending blackhole warpcore inside a ship which is designed to create another bending of spacetime by simulating the effects of a blackhole. This might be the reason why future Romulan engineers went with an anti-matter warp core so they could more effectively use their temporal technology, unhindered. This technology, being favored by poker player captains who likes the idea of rewinding the clock on a badly played hand. :-)
This is.. unexpected, faction specific-wise. I would think that a technological specifc trait for each civilization, would continue to be improved upon as that said civilization continues to advance along it's timeline. Like water being wet, fire being hot, and policemen stopping at donut shops. Romulan ships should always employ a singularity core. It's a technological achievement of engineering which they take great pride in. Then.. I started pondering what would cause Cryptic to go in a different direction with providing a Romulan ship with an anti-matter warp core for a Temporal Ship. (*..still pondering*).
Then an idea came to me and I checked with Wikipedia, and sure enough, there was the answer (sort'ov a really technical theory which seemed to be an answer).
A Temporal Ship, by it's definition, operates (or has the unique ability to operate) outside of normal spacetime. A Romulan Singularity Core, being a blackhole, warps spacetime (to a tiny degree by it's very nature?) so the two would cancel out, being in close proximity to one another. A "spacetime" bending blackhole warpcore inside a ship which is designed to create another bending of spacetime by simulating the effects of a blackhole. This might be the reason why future Romulan engineers went with an anti-matter warp core so they could more effectively use their temporal technology, unhindered. This technology, being favored by poker player captains who likes the idea of rewinding the clock on a badly played hand. :-)
Now I think that this is more of a water is hot, fire is wet kind of effect. They have shown each race can get the same or similar results using different methods. Singularity cores warp space time? Instead of switching power systems to use the same temporal devices of the others. We make one that amplifies our native alteration effects. It may even be more efficient since we are doing it anyway.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
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I mean c'mon, Beryllium Core, 13 second Backstep, It's obvious that it's the Omega 13 device first seen on the NSEA Protector.
If you use search-fu you will find information on a possible star trek show in the future that takes place in the 30th century.
Among other things....it was talked about in its pitch information that the federation and other groups got to a point they didn't have the technology they used to have because they really didn't need it.
Thus a cloaking device wouldn't really be important to them from that standpoint.
The show pitch though also says that some new threat threatens the future group so they have to go out and re-establish links with all the differing groups to possibly fight this new threat.
Now since this game has a lot of stuff being looked at by CBS...and since CBS seams to want to make sure continuity is kept a specific way.....if this new show is thought to be the correct continuity of things to come....
Then these time ships would be exactly as they are.
Oh well this is all just my own idle speculation on this.
As I realized something was going to be different in the new star trek movies....when this game didn't have the organian peace treaty and instead had a war with the Klingons.
In fact I don't think the excalibians where met by the enterprise either in this game.
And I cant help but wonder about the Andromedans.....will these become some hidden group who show up and start turning would be player bridge crews in to geometric shapes on the ground?
I guess only time will tell.
Power without Perception is Spiritually useless and therefore of no true value.
=^_^=
My thoughts exactly,a complete waste of trait skills to use one...
Also i wonder if anyone found a way to use the manheim device skill without dying from it. Especially against borg or whatever the copies seem to hug as close to the explosion as possible so whenever i use the device in a not totally trivial its useless anyway like situation i almost always die because of it. Its really cool to suddenly implode with full health and shields.
This is.. unexpected, faction specific-wise. I would think that a technological specifc trait for each civilization, would continue to be improved upon as that said civilization continues to advance along it's timeline. Like water being wet, fire being hot, and policemen stopping at donut shops. Romulan ships should always employ a singularity core. It's a technological achievement of engineering which they take great pride in. Then.. I started pondering what would cause Cryptic to go in a different direction with providing a Romulan ship with an anti-matter warp core for a Temporal Ship. (*..still pondering while looking at the tremendously destructive force powering my warbird*).
Then an idea came to me and I checked with Wikipedia, and sure enough, there was the answer (sort'ov a really technical theory which seemed to be an answer).
A Temporal Ship, by it's definition, operates (or has the unique ability to operate) outside of normal spacetime. A Romulan Singularity Core, being a blackhole, warps spacetime (to a tiny degree by it's very nature?) so the two would cancel out, being in close proximity to one another. A "spacetime" bending blackhole warpcore inside a ship which is designed to create another bending of spacetime by simulating the effects of a blackhole. This might be the reason why future Romulan engineers went with an anti-matter warp core so they could more effectively use their temporal technology, unhindered. This technology, being favored by poker player captains who likes the idea of rewinding the clock on a badly played hand. :-)
Now I think that this is more of a water is hot, fire is wet kind of effect. They have shown each race can get the same or similar results using different methods. Singularity cores warp space time? Instead of switching power systems to use the same temporal devices of the others. We make one that amplifies our native alteration effects. It may even be more efficient since we are doing it anyway.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.