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Season 8 Dev Blog #16
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Content Designer Chris "mrodds" Dods shares details about the upcoming "Storming the Spire" event in this entry of the Season 8 News Dev Blog series.
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Yeah, an epic explosion that would destroy all of warp travel forever. Good idea.
As for the mission, it's pretty fun. I haven't gotten very good scores on it yet, but once we play it more and get it down, I'm sure scores will improve.
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meh... it's in the delta quadrant... as voyager proved... there's nothing useful over there. So it's a plan with no draw backs.
Also, maybe I've missed it, but has it been said exactly how all these massive starships are able to fly in an atmosphere? Or should I just hum the last few bars of the MST3K theme to myself?
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I guess you never watched the dyson episodes.
One molecule was enough to destroy warp travel in an entire sector. Do you know how many of them there are in the Solanae Sphere? That many would wipe out warp in most, if not all, of the galaxy if they were all to explode at once. Goodbye Star Trek lol.
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okay okay... we build one of 7 of 9's anti omega bubbles around the dyson sphere... THEN blow up the sun?
Seriously though.. looking forward to it :P Hope we get the dinosaur pets/mounts
If this is about traveling in atmosphere, yes I have seen it, but in that one, the Enterprise was in orbit around the star in the center of the sphere, it was not doing the space flight equivalent of skimming the ground. Even when entering and exiting the sphere where there could have been atmosphere, there was no evidence of the ship going through an atmosphere. This could have been lazy writers, or it could have been tech that kept the atmosphere away from the giant door. Personally, I'd go with the later as it stops all the air in the area from rushing out.
Here, we have starships bigger than the Enterprise hanging around in what I would guess to be at most the Stratosphere when before this, the largest ship that could get that close was Voyager. Eh, whatever.
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Yeah, the whole escape shuttle thing seems completely, certainly for the federation to be doing. Not sure whether Klingons kill those in escape shuttle either, is there much honour to be had there?
Their pilots are tribbles... all the honor you can have right there
But then they'd have the plot impetus to discover eezo...
Yeah you know where I'm going with that one.
Urgh. No, it wasn't. They aren't "Escape Shuttles", in the same sense as "Escape pods", they were "Escaping shuttles", carrying with them loot from the spire (Notably Omega particles). There is nothing 'non-combat' about them, unless you would also have an issue with blowing up pirate shuttles fleeing from a raided colony with their loot.
Hey Bran, how come this doesn't reward dilithium?
If the event doesn't reward dilithium no one has any reason to play it after they finish their reputation projects...
Shooting at shuttles carrying subspace-destroying Omega particles does seem contraindicated, though. They've been portrayed as somewhat volatile and the method of "destruction" isn't "kaboom".
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yeah they did it with a klingon bird of prey in star trek 4 the voyage home lol.
Keep in mind too that we're not flying in orbit of a planet either. There's an atmosphere yes... but there's not a whole lot gravity to cause our ships to crash into the sphere's surface. The Enterprise D had no trouble flying close to the Dyson Sphere's inner surface for this very reason.
In theory there would be a point between the sphere's inner surface and the star at which gravity from the sphere and the star would neutralize each other. So it would be possible to float over the exact same spot of the sphere without "falling down". This cannot happen inside the atmosphere though, since every molecule that passes this zero gravity level would be pulled into the star.
That been said I'm sure those starships have some kind of anti-gravity device that keeps them from falling down.
Actually a hollow sphere of matter doesn't exert any gravitational force on the interior (maths). The entire inner surface must be rigged with short range artificial gravity generators to prevent all the occupants and atmosphere from being pulled up and into the star.
As for the rest, I did forget about the Enterprise in TOS in earth's atmosphere. So I'll accept handwavium.
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Of course there is artificial gravity given there is an actual atmosphere on the inside. Otherwise the sphere would have to turn itself and only a small band along the equator would be habitable. But then why building a hollow sphere instead of a ringworld?
There's nothing like "short range gravity" though. The force of gravity always decrases with range according to Newton's law of universal gravitation.