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purplegamerpurplegamer Member Posts: 1,015 Arc User
[Possible Spoilers?]

During the introduction cutscene for the new Featured Episode, pay close attention to ships on the right that are'escorting' your own. One of them looks conspicuously like the Perpetual design for the Excalibur-class, less lovingly known as the 'butt dragger.' This is the same ship which has been seen floating around STO space as a destroyed hulk, but now it appears to have been redesigned for actual use...

Perpetual's Excalibur Concept

EDIT - Here are a couple of screenshots:

STO Excalibur 1
STO Excalibur 2
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  • edgecrysgeredgecrysger Member Posts: 2,740 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Terrible design. Its like the original one but in "tiny mode". lol
  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    [Possible Spoilers?]

    During the introduction cutscene for the new Featured Episode, pay close attention to ships on the right that are'escorting' your own. One of them looks conspicuously like the Perpetual design for the Excalibur-class, less lovingly known as the 'butt dragger.' This is the same ship which has been seen floating around STO space as a destroyed hulk, but now it appears to have been redesigned for actual use...

    Perpetual's Excalibur Concept

    I wasn't able to grab a screenshot of the new Excalibur, so if someone reads this before jumping into the mission, please snatch a screenshot for us and post it here!

    Interesting indeed. I always liked that ship, it's a pitty it's not playable in STO yet.
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  • edgecrysgeredgecrysger Member Posts: 2,740 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    shpoks wrote: »
    Interesting indeed. I always liked that ship, it's a pitty it's not playable in STO yet.

    You mean the original design right? because that desing is "new".
  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    You mean the original design right? because that desing is "new".

    What do you mean? :confused: I was talking about the design made in the early ages of STO by Perpetual - the ship purplegamer linked in his post.
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    And people say the Avenger looks ugly. :rolleyes: The engineering hull and nacelles on that ridiculous thing aren't big enough for that saucer.
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  • purplegamerpurplegamer Member Posts: 1,015 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Just to be clear: Has anyone else been able to confirm this? It's possible I was only seeing things, but I could have sworn it looked like the Excalibur.
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    It looked like the Excalibur to me
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    And people say the Avenger looks ugly. :rolleyes:

    The Avenger is ugly. Compared to this one, it's even uglier. ;)
    starswordc wrote: »
    The engineering hull and nacelles on that ridiculous thing aren't big enough for that saucer.

    lolwut?? :P
    neoakiraii wrote: »
    It looked like the Excalibur to me

    Hopefully this could mean that it's possible that the ship is comming to the C-Store soon (TM).
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  • solochrissolochris Member Posts: 37 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    well i havent got into the new s9 bit yet, it want start on my comp. i looked at the picture you posted and all i can say is...dam someone backed into a moon at high warp and just decided to leave it like that? but seriously, im gonna say if that thing is in its either an escort or a science (looking at other ships im gonna say escort) as there is no way anyone would believe that mini was a cruiser. not the ugliest design i have ever seen (please dont ask about the ugliest one i have seen it took a very long time to remove the image from my brain last time)
  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    solochris wrote: »
    (please dont ask about the ugliest one i have seen it took a very long time to remove the image from my brain last time)

    Sorry about this then, you can send me your therapist's bill afterwards. :P

    Behold, the Galaxy Lego Ship! :eek:
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  • solochrissolochris Member Posts: 37 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    shpoks wrote: »
    Sorry about this then, you can send me your therapist's bill afterwards. :P

    Behold, the Galaxy Lego Ship! :eek:

    NOOOOOO WHY, WHY! lol actually i think it was a lego one just not the galaxy, i think it was a.... whats the science ship with the big football instead of a scaucer.
  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,921 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    shpoks wrote: »
    The Avenger is ugly. Compared to this one, it's even uglier. ;)



    lolwut?? :P



    Hopefully this could mean that it's possible that the ship is comming to the C-Store soon (TM).

    Nah...I think you drank a little to much blood wine...the butt dragger makes the Avenger look like a beauty queen! :P
  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    lianthelia wrote: »
    Nah...I think you drank a little to much blood wine...the butt dragger makes the Avenger look like a beauty queen! :P

    I agree. In list of known STO designs (Perpetual or Cryptic) the top two ugly ships to me are 1. Legoprise. and 2. Perpetual's Excalibur, it looks like they put the wrong saucer on it. it reminds me of a bobble-head doll since its saucer is way out of proportion to the rest of its body.
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    lianthelia wrote: »
    Nah...I think you drank a little to much blood wine...the butt dragger makes the Avenger look like a beauty queen! :P

    Butt Dagger Class should be the official name. :eek:
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    lianthelia wrote: »
    Nah...I think you drank a little to much blood wine...the butt dragger makes the Avenger look like a beauty queen! :P
    tenkari wrote: »
    I agree. In list of known STO designs (Perpetual or Cryptic) the top two ugly ships to me are 1. Legoprise. and 2. Perpetual's Excalibur, it looks like they put the wrong saucer on it. it reminds me of a bobble-head doll since its saucer is way out of proportion to the rest of its body.

    Eh, beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. ;) I personally think that Perpetual's Excalibur Class looks amazing.
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  • edgecrysgeredgecrysger Member Posts: 2,740 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    shpoks wrote: »
    What do you mean? :confused: I was talking about the design made in the early ages of STO by Perpetual - the ship purplegamer linked in his post.

    I am talking about this ->

    http://i.imgur.com/wbxwNyk.jpg

    That is the original design. Or at least, the Excalibur design that i discovered 8 years ago.
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,966 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I am talking about this ->

    http://i.imgur.com/wbxwNyk.jpg

    That is the original design. Or at least, the Excalibur design that i discovered 8 years ago.
    Fairly sure that's a fan design, not something that was ever going to be official (not that it shouldn't be).
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I am talking about this ->

    http://i.imgur.com/wbxwNyk.jpg

    That is the original design. Or at least, the Excalibur design that i discovered 8 years ago.

    :eek: Now that's ugly!
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  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    shpoks wrote: »
    :eek: Now that's ugly!

    yes, and from what i remember statwise on it when i found it on memory beta (maybe?)... its like 5x the size of a sovereign class. fan designs rarely have any..... uniqueness? it's just a heavily modified sovereign that was enlarged.
    I am talking about this ->

    http://i.imgur.com/wbxwNyk.jpg

    That is the original design. Or at least, the Excalibur design that i discovered 8 years ago.

    that was a fan design. and in no way looks like the pic in the OP. the Sovereign class is the "mini me" version of the excalibur you linked to.
  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    tenkari wrote: »
    yes, and from what i remember statwise on it when i found it on memory beta (maybe?)... its like 5x the size of a sovereign class. fan designs rarely have any..... uniqueness? it's just a heavily modified sovereign that was enlarged.

    It certainly seems so.
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  • eldarion79eldarion79 Member Posts: 1,679 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I am talking about this ->

    http://i.imgur.com/wbxwNyk.jpg

    That is the original design. Or at least, the Excalibur design that i discovered 8 years ago.

    That is a fan design that came out around the Turn of the Century, I think made in a 3D modelling forum. Either way, it became popular with the play-by-email groups and one of them made a mod based on that design for Bridge Commander.

    I just hope the Perpetual design is put in the game, but not be called the Excalibur, maybe the Durandel.
  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I am talking about this ->

    http://i.imgur.com/wbxwNyk.jpg

    That is the original design. Or at least, the Excalibur design that i discovered 8 years ago.

    Trust me: The excalibur team will never allow that ship to become a part of STO... Especially since they are making their own game.
    Don't look silly... Don't call it the "Z-Store/Zen Store"...
    Let me put the rumors to rest: it's definitely still the C-Store (Cryptic Store) It just takes ZEN.
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  • edgecrysgeredgecrysger Member Posts: 2,740 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    eldarion79 wrote: »
    That is a fan design that came out around the Turn of the Century, I think made in a 3D modelling forum. Either way, it became popular with the play-by-email groups and one of them made a mod based on that design for Bridge Commander.

    I just hope the Perpetual design is put in the game, but not be called the Excalibur, maybe the Durandel.

    Wrong. I even found that design in Drex files ages ago, if i remember right when the NEMESIS movie or even before time. It is not a "fan" design, its the only excalibur design that exists since years and years ago. Period. lol.

    Even before bridge commander. So, if we are talking about the Excalibur, that will be it. If we are talking about other ship.. that i dunno.
  • purplegamerpurplegamer Member Posts: 1,015 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Stay on topic. Stay on topic.

    EDIT - OP updated with screens!
  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Stay on topic. Stay on topic.

    EDIT - OP updated with screens!

    Yeah, well I can't seem to get into the game for now, but I've seen the ship in another thread where another player posted a video of the instance because of a bug that showed his char instead of his ship.

    The ship on that video really does look like Perpetual's Excalibur as you assumed. I really hope this means it could be comming in the C-Store, I find the design rather uniqe and interesting.
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  • purplegamerpurplegamer Member Posts: 1,015 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    shpoks wrote: »
    Yeah, well I can't seem to get into the game for now, but I've seen the ship in another thread where another player posted a video of the instance because of a bug that showed his char instead of his ship.

    The ship on that video really does look like Perpetual's Excalibur as you assumed. I really hope this means it could be comming in the C-Store, I find the design rather uniqe and interesting.

    Definitely. That's where I pulled the screens from, too. I really hope we get a player version of the Excalibur; it's been a favorite of mine since Perpetual first released concept pictures.
  • talonxvtalonxv Member Posts: 4,257 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    [Possible Spoilers?]

    During the introduction cutscene for the new Featured Episode, pay close attention to ships on the right that are'escorting' your own. One of them looks conspicuously like the Perpetual design for the Excalibur-class, less lovingly known as the 'butt dragger.' This is the same ship which has been seen floating around STO space as a destroyed hulk, but now it appears to have been redesigned for actual use...

    Perpetual's Excalibur Concept

    EDIT - Here are a couple of screenshots. I'm convinced now that the Excalibur from Perpetual will be showing up soon~

    STO Excalibur 1
    STO Excalibur 2

    Already an Excalibur in game. It's skin for the tier 2 cruiser for the feds. This completely invalidates having this ship in game. Request invalid, please try again. BEEEEEP!!!
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  • purplegamerpurplegamer Member Posts: 1,015 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    talonxv wrote: »
    Already an Excalibur in game. It's skin for the tier 2 cruiser for the feds. This completely invalidates having this ship in game. Request invalid, please try again. BEEEEEP!!!

    Until Cryptic gives it a name, I'm going to call it what it was originally called in concept. :D
  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    talonxv wrote: »
    Already an Excalibur in game. It's skin for the tier 2 cruiser for the feds. This completely invalidates having this ship in game. Request invalid, please try again. BEEEEEP!!!

    LMAO!! :D

    You mean like there was an 'Avenger' before they made another ship and decided to call that one 'Avenger' retconning the name of the former into 'Sentinel'? :D
    BEEEEP!!! Try again! :P
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    T5 connnie people have been asking for a T5 Excalibur in game, If I were Cryptic i would rename this back to Excalibur , and rename the in game one. :D
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