where does one look to see what the Devs are working on? The only place I know of is the release notes on the launcher once something is finished. its been very quiet and im over anxious to see if they are going to fix the Caitians, in fact its made me a bit over zealous in my efforts to get something, anything done about them. ive been pacing in my cage lol. I seen Ashkrik posted about the tails being fixed in another thread, if you find something please share
where does one look to see what the Devs are working on? The only place I know of is the release notes on the launcher once something is finished. its been very quiet and im over anxious to see if they are going to fix the Caitians, in fact its made me a bit over zealous in my efforts to get something, anything done about them. ive been pacing in my cage lol. I seen Ashkrik posted about the tails being fixed in another thread, if you find something please share
I'd love to see everyone's Caitian or Feresan names.
I couldn't find anything on Caitian naming conventions, so I called mine M'Kellas. Although his fur is not dark (didn't like the way it looked on my monitor), he's named for the dark-furred Kellas cats, something of a former X-creature in Scotland. Formerly of the USS Cait Sidhe (notice I avoided the "sith" variant), he currently captains the USS Cheshire.
I just use Khajiit names, since I kind of 'imported' my Khajiit clan from Skyrim to STO, but I think every name will do as long as it's not evidently used already by some other races. It would be kinda weird if all races each had only single naming convention.
Has nothing about split with Ferasans and contradicts game a bit, since in game DOF assignments say something about them splitting and it was Caitians who ran away. Or am I missing something?
Has nothing about split with Ferasans and contradicts game a bit, since in game DOF assignments say something about them splitting and it was Caitians who ran away. Or am I missing something?
I think in game, they also mention them being genetically enhanced on purpose to be used as a more effective combat version of a Caitian, thats why I began "CatStars Origins" at a Caitian village trying to imagine how it all began by using his nemesis as the one who started it. But this is the age of "canon-what??" lol, so its what ever it needs to be to tell the story. ...enter JJ Abrams! :P
Has nothing about split with Ferasans and contradicts game a bit, since in game DOF assignments say something about them splitting and it was Caitians who ran away. Or am I missing something?
Remember that anything you find on the wikis that isn't from the novels with M'ress or from the TAS show is fan stuff.
First, bonus points for the use of Swahili. Its a beautiful language, and although it is a corruption of the actual word, I thought Roddenberry was very poetic for using the name Uhura. Nyota just made it doubly so.
I personally dabble in Gaelic for characters and ships. Scottish, if I can find it. Irish, if I cannot.
Second, I apologize, but as soon as I saw "M'Sarabi" I started laughing because I immediately heard a certain hated, duck-billed, Star Wars character saying the name. Terrible to think of it that way, but it was a good laugh.
First, bonus points for the use of Swahili. Its a beautiful language, and although it is a corruption of the actual word, I thought Roddenberry was very poetic for using the name Uhura. Nyota just made it doubly so.
I personally dabble in Gaelic for characters and ships. Scottish, if I can find it. Irish, if I cannot.
Second, I apologize, but as soon as I saw "M'Sarabi" I started laughing because I immediately heard a certain hated, duck-billed, Star Wars character saying the name. Terrible to think of it that way, but it was a good laugh.
My caitian's name is S'Ha. It was a bit of an alteration from the random name generator, since I was not familiar with caitian naming conventions and didn't want to be one of those people who named their character Mr. Litterbox or some other feline-related name.
It would be like me creating a human character and naming him Furious George or any of the other monkey names from the Rikti Monkey Fighting arena. Caitians being descended from cat-like creatures and humans being descended from ape-like creatures. But not actually cats any more than humans are apes. He typically becomes offended if someone treats him like a cat (if they give him milk or fish or yank his tail or try to pet him or whatever), since he's actually well-cultured and considers such behavior towards his race as extremely bigoted. Similarly he's not a fan of Geoff Tuffli listing Caitain doffs with the 'aggressive' trait since cats in real life are aggressive creatures. If he decided to make Cryptic Devs Online, he'd make all human doffs with tree-climbing traits and give them funny flavor text quotes revolving around bananas and tire swings.
I decided to make him a Tactical Officer, but decided to make his backstory focused more on piloting than security officer stuff. Since in STO Caitians are well-known for their Carriers and Flight Deck Officers, I figured this would allow him to blend in well with established STO lore.
With his backstory focused mainly on a clan obligation (he had a brother who died in service of Starfleet and he volunteered to replace him), he signed up for a short commission and did not intend to serve in Starfleet beyond his initial contract he made with Starfleet. After serving two years in Starfleet he found himself climbing the ladder of promotion and found his talent at the conn. He was eventually assigned to the Steamrunner-class vessel Keogh as the Alpha-shift conn officer and during a routine interdiction patrol his ship was ambushed by three KDF birds-of-prey. While he was able to keep the ship together, most of the command crew was killed, elevating him to position of first officer. When the Keogh's distress signal was received, he and the surviving crew were rescued.
While his acting captain later died of his injuries sustained, he requested to oversee the Keogh's salvaging and eventual overhaul and recommissioning. His flag officer later insisted he take command of the vessel, which he reluctantly accepted.
Now Commander S'Ha has once again resumed interdiction duties near the Regulus Sector Block. His off-duty interests include the Earth instrument known as the Theremin, which he was introduced to by his comrade who perished in battle.
He's devoted to his ship and her crew, and is currently considering signing up for another tour of duty, although he does hope to return to the caitian homeworld to take up his father's musical instrument business when he retires, and given his exposure to other cultures in Starfleet he can use those experiences to perhaps import off-world instruments.
I'm working on a foundry series. If I ever finish fighting with the map editor, and if I ever overcome my laziness, it'll feature a caitian captain as part of a task force under the command of the player. Said caitian is skilled and competent, but as the comic relief he is constantly put upon: his bridge crew teases him by making cat comparisons (he insists he is not a cat), and other exasperating "cat" things happen to him. Oh yeah, and someone thought it would be funny to assign him to the USS Alpha Leonis.
It also has a Ferasan working for Klingon Intelligence. She wears a caitian-fur jacket.
I have a question for you guys, is the name Caitian pronounced (Cait-E-an) or (Kay-shan)? I've always pronounced it like the first, as in Caitian Picard, to play off of the Captain title.
I have a Ferasan character named P'ntac Xobrettil Elophctarcs. Chew on that name for a while.
And a female Ferasan named K'Neko. I have yet to create a Caitian character... I have one in mind who also happens to be a master chef at Caitian Cuisine (involving a lot of hot spicy dishes).
*sings* "I like Gammera! He's so neat!!! He is full of turtle meat!!!"
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I have a question for you guys, is the name Caitian pronounced (Cait-E-an) or (Kay-shan)? I've always pronounced it like the first, as in Caitian Picard, to play off of the Captain title.
I've been saying "Kay-shin" or "Kay-shun". As I learned from reading an ancient forum posting, this pronunciation is confirmed on the memory alpha "Talk:Caitian" page. That confirmation, which I shall include below, stems from Passage to Moauv, an audio story released on record. It is likely the closest thing you'll get to a canon pronunciation at the moment.
Just listened to "Passage to Moauv"... and you were right in your choice of pronunciation, Tim. It's "KAY-shin". Thanks for the idea and input. --Joseph T. Kirk 05:51, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Additionally, you can hear it for yourself on this YouTube video which the archived post also mentioned.
But its a big planet. Whose to say the folks across the globe speak with the same pronunciation?
It also has a Ferasan working for Klingon Intelligence. She wears a caitian-fur jacket.
That jacket was probably made by Feds.
I made once a quick foundry mission, when you got to free some Caitian and Ferasan prisoners, when you found out that some high ranking Starfleet goon (human of course) was making exclusive collection of jackets and boots with Caitian and Ferasan pelts. Most Feds thought it was pretty funny and they of course did nothing to stop that manufacture, Caitian government was too wussy and submissive to react, so it was up to some Ferasan captain from KDF to make diplomatic protest with torpedoes and disruptors
It worked and Federation council will soon get sent collection of nice human-leather jackets made from those that made those Caitian/Ferasan jackets in the first place, just to show them what we think of their ways.
Naw, she's just insane. Not representative of ferasans in general. Nobody likes her--not Klingon Intelligence, not the Klingon battle group she's assigned to oversee, and not other Ferasans.
Naw, she's just insane. Not representative of ferasans in general. Nobody likes her--not Klingon Intelligence, not the Klingon battle group she's assigned to oversee, and not other Ferasans.
I really do look forward to seeing a busy Utopian civilization of Cait, with exotic Defera type buildings and Renaissance clothed Caitians in a music and art infested city. Their wize men wearing fancy hooded robes with their ears poking through them, noblemen wearing fine jackets that have a cape and a diplomats sash draped across their chest. The females wearing full elegant gowns. Hair styles that have beads,locks,braids and tiebacks, assorted lengths and even colored tones, as in a lion has a khaki pelt, with a brown mane.
A new Rapier looking melee weapon for dueling, the higher the prestige the more elegant the design of their swords and outfits.
Temples and public buildings that show off their style of art and society, much like they did with Bajor, allowing a larger selection of reading material on their culture and myths. Arboretums instead of taverns. A forest to explore with markers for landmarks of historic importance, along with caves, springs and relics to find like at new Romulus. Maybe even a mystery to solve or social debate to resolve.
I can envision Cait to be something fantastic, a brightly decorated hangout that would bring back a highly polished look to this game, of refinement. As if something from Bach was playing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FdNlhZAYBE
I really do look forward to seeing a busy Utopian civilization of Cait, with exotic Defera type buildings and Renaissance clothed Caitians in a music and art infested city. Their wise men wearing fancy hooded robes with their ears poking through them, noblemen wearing fine jackets that have a cape and a diplomats sash draped across their chest. The females wearing full elegant gowns. Hair styles that have beads,locks,braids and tiebacks, assorted lengths and even colored tones, as in a lion has a khaki pelt, with a brown mane.
It's funny but I always thought of Cait as the same but with a strong scientific / engineering background, not a dirty industrial setting but highly advanced labs with aesthetic graceful buildings that sort of blend in together and their surroundings. A lot of the buildings connected by bridges. The only way I can really put it across is a sort of high tech Ewok village.
As for the sword I would personally go with a Samurai type purely for the form of art it is to make one.
I have also always pronounced it as 'Kay-shan' with an emphasis on the 'K'
No, I didnt mean a Industrial revolution era, or a primitive jungle theme. I picture Caitians more leaning towards science then engineering and their citys like the elves in LOTR. Even resembling elves but with out the snobbish haughtiness as Caitians are always depicted as pleasant and helpful to outsiders. Light on their feet and graceful like a fencer or kung fu practitioner who must be as fluid and light on their feet as a, well cat! But a Ferisan, I think would fit a Samurai better, angry and sturdy like a tank, passionately grunts their words to show dominance, uses the samurai sword as its a power weapon for dealing heavy damage. Maybe the klingon/Samurai style armor does fit a ferisan warrior culture.
Why do you call them Ferisans Catstar? Just curious.
Because im misspelling the name, merely accidental. Im so used to typing Caitians.. (i) and I type fast so i tend to messup often, especially in ingame chatting
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I'd love to see everyone's Caitian or Feresan names.
I couldn't find anything on Caitian naming conventions, so I called mine M'Kellas. Although his fur is not dark (didn't like the way it looked on my monitor), he's named for the dark-furred Kellas cats, something of a former X-creature in Scotland. Formerly of the USS Cait Sidhe (notice I avoided the "sith" variant), he currently captains the USS Cheshire.
Caitians
Taka, Brother of Kovu and Sarabi
M'Sarabi, sister of Kovu and Taka
Kovu, Brother of Taka and Sarabi
Ferasans
I'Zira, mother of the 3 siblings.
Scar, Father of the 3 siblings.
I'm sure you can guess what their names are from.
My reman is named Kivuli Kaimu, which is swahili for shadow agent. All of my names are usually swahili or related.
http://wiki.starbase118.net/wiki/index.php?title=Caitian
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=15272521#post15272521
Has nothing about split with Ferasans and contradicts game a bit, since in game DOF assignments say something about them splitting and it was Caitians who ran away. Or am I missing something?
I think in game, they also mention them being genetically enhanced on purpose to be used as a more effective combat version of a Caitian, thats why I began "CatStars Origins" at a Caitian village trying to imagine how it all began by using his nemesis as the one who started it. But this is the age of "canon-what??" lol, so its what ever it needs to be to tell the story. ...enter JJ Abrams! :P
Remember that anything you find on the wikis that isn't from the novels with M'ress or from the TAS show is fan stuff.
First, bonus points for the use of Swahili. Its a beautiful language, and although it is a corruption of the actual word, I thought Roddenberry was very poetic for using the name Uhura. Nyota just made it doubly so.
I personally dabble in Gaelic for characters and ships. Scottish, if I can find it. Irish, if I cannot.
Second, I apologize, but as soon as I saw "M'Sarabi" I started laughing because I immediately heard a certain hated, duck-billed, Star Wars character saying the name. Terrible to think of it that way, but it was a good laugh.
I do not understand what is funny.
Look in the mirror...
It would be like me creating a human character and naming him Furious George or any of the other monkey names from the Rikti Monkey Fighting arena. Caitians being descended from cat-like creatures and humans being descended from ape-like creatures. But not actually cats any more than humans are apes. He typically becomes offended if someone treats him like a cat (if they give him milk or fish or yank his tail or try to pet him or whatever), since he's actually well-cultured and considers such behavior towards his race as extremely bigoted. Similarly he's not a fan of Geoff Tuffli listing Caitain doffs with the 'aggressive' trait since cats in real life are aggressive creatures. If he decided to make Cryptic Devs Online, he'd make all human doffs with tree-climbing traits and give them funny flavor text quotes revolving around bananas and tire swings.
I decided to make him a Tactical Officer, but decided to make his backstory focused more on piloting than security officer stuff. Since in STO Caitians are well-known for their Carriers and Flight Deck Officers, I figured this would allow him to blend in well with established STO lore.
With his backstory focused mainly on a clan obligation (he had a brother who died in service of Starfleet and he volunteered to replace him), he signed up for a short commission and did not intend to serve in Starfleet beyond his initial contract he made with Starfleet. After serving two years in Starfleet he found himself climbing the ladder of promotion and found his talent at the conn. He was eventually assigned to the Steamrunner-class vessel Keogh as the Alpha-shift conn officer and during a routine interdiction patrol his ship was ambushed by three KDF birds-of-prey. While he was able to keep the ship together, most of the command crew was killed, elevating him to position of first officer. When the Keogh's distress signal was received, he and the surviving crew were rescued.
While his acting captain later died of his injuries sustained, he requested to oversee the Keogh's salvaging and eventual overhaul and recommissioning. His flag officer later insisted he take command of the vessel, which he reluctantly accepted.
Now Commander S'Ha has once again resumed interdiction duties near the Regulus Sector Block. His off-duty interests include the Earth instrument known as the Theremin, which he was introduced to by his comrade who perished in battle.
He's devoted to his ship and her crew, and is currently considering signing up for another tour of duty, although he does hope to return to the caitian homeworld to take up his father's musical instrument business when he retires, and given his exposure to other cultures in Starfleet he can use those experiences to perhaps import off-world instruments.
Corrupted to "MEE-sah-rah-bee."
Further corrupted to "Mesa rabi."
ANYWAYS...
I'm working on a foundry series. If I ever finish fighting with the map editor, and if I ever overcome my laziness, it'll feature a caitian captain as part of a task force under the command of the player. Said caitian is skilled and competent, but as the comic relief he is constantly put upon: his bridge crew teases him by making cat comparisons (he insists he is not a cat), and other exasperating "cat" things happen to him. Oh yeah, and someone thought it would be funny to assign him to the USS Alpha Leonis.
It also has a Ferasan working for Klingon Intelligence. She wears a caitian-fur jacket.
Guess it lost something in the telling. Sorry about that.
And a female Ferasan named K'Neko. I have yet to create a Caitian character... I have one in mind who also happens to be a master chef at Caitian Cuisine (involving a lot of hot spicy dishes).
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I've been saying "Kay-shin" or "Kay-shun". As I learned from reading an ancient forum posting, this pronunciation is confirmed on the memory alpha "Talk:Caitian" page. That confirmation, which I shall include below, stems from Passage to Moauv, an audio story released on record. It is likely the closest thing you'll get to a canon pronunciation at the moment.
Just listened to "Passage to Moauv"... and you were right in your choice of pronunciation, Tim. It's "KAY-shin". Thanks for the idea and input. --Joseph T. Kirk 05:51, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
Additionally, you can hear it for yourself on this YouTube video which the archived post also mentioned.
But its a big planet. Whose to say the folks across the globe speak with the same pronunciation?
I made once a quick foundry mission, when you got to free some Caitian and Ferasan prisoners, when you found out that some high ranking Starfleet goon (human of course) was making exclusive collection of jackets and boots with Caitian and Ferasan pelts. Most Feds thought it was pretty funny and they of course did nothing to stop that manufacture, Caitian government was too wussy and submissive to react, so it was up to some Ferasan captain from KDF to make diplomatic protest with torpedoes and disruptors
It worked and Federation council will soon get sent collection of nice human-leather jackets made from those that made those Caitian/Ferasan jackets in the first place, just to show them what we think of their ways.
I really do look forward to seeing a busy Utopian civilization of Cait, with exotic Defera type buildings and Renaissance clothed Caitians in a music and art infested city. Their wize men wearing fancy hooded robes with their ears poking through them, noblemen wearing fine jackets that have a cape and a diplomats sash draped across their chest. The females wearing full elegant gowns. Hair styles that have beads,locks,braids and tiebacks, assorted lengths and even colored tones, as in a lion has a khaki pelt, with a brown mane.
A new Rapier looking melee weapon for dueling, the higher the prestige the more elegant the design of their swords and outfits.
Temples and public buildings that show off their style of art and society, much like they did with Bajor, allowing a larger selection of reading material on their culture and myths. Arboretums instead of taverns. A forest to explore with markers for landmarks of historic importance, along with caves, springs and relics to find like at new Romulus. Maybe even a mystery to solve or social debate to resolve.
I can envision Cait to be something fantastic, a brightly decorated hangout that would bring back a highly polished look to this game, of refinement. As if something from Bach was playing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FdNlhZAYBE
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No, I didnt mean a Industrial revolution era, or a primitive jungle theme. I picture Caitians more leaning towards science then engineering and their citys like the elves in LOTR. Even resembling elves but with out the snobbish haughtiness as Caitians are always depicted as pleasant and helpful to outsiders. Light on their feet and graceful like a fencer or kung fu practitioner who must be as fluid and light on their feet as a, well cat! But a Ferisan, I think would fit a Samurai better, angry and sturdy like a tank, passionately grunts their words to show dominance, uses the samurai sword as its a power weapon for dealing heavy damage. Maybe the klingon/Samurai style armor does fit a ferisan warrior culture.
Because im misspelling the name, merely accidental. Im so used to typing Caitians.. (i) and I type fast so i tend to messup often, especially in ingame chatting